Verizon Communications Inc.

Ivan Seidenberg is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Verizon. Under Seidenberg's leadership, Verizon has become a premier network company, providing customers with the most advanced and innovative broadband experiences. Seidenberg was instrumental in forming Verizon through a number of mergers and acquisitions, including Bell Atlantic and NYNEX (1997), GTE (2000) and MCI (2006). He also helped create what is now Verizon Wireless in 1999 by bringing together the assets of Bell Atlantic Mobile, GTE Wireless and the U.S. properties of Vodafone AirTouch. Seidenberg has led Verizon since its inception, first as co-CEO in 2000, then as sole CEO since 2002 and chairman of the board since 2004. Verizon now operates an advanced global Internet backbone, a premier national wireless network and with the company's deployment of its high-speed, fiber-optic FiOS technology a next-generation broadband network. Verizon's leadership in network innovation has earned the company numerous citations and awards, including being named to the BusinessWeek 50, which represents the "best in class" from each sector of the S&P 500. Prior to the creation of Verizon, Seidenberg was chairman and CEO of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX. He began his communications career more than 40 years ago as a cable splicer's assistant and has held numerous operations and engineering assignments, including various leadership positions at NYNEX and Bell Atlantic. Seidenberg has a long-standing commitment to education and has made Verizon a leader in finding innovative ways to use communications technology to improve educational and literacy performance in the U.S. He also champions diversity both within and outside the company, and under his leadership Verizon's commitment to diversity has been widely recognized.

Carl E. Erhart is president - Southwest Region, for Verizon. He is responsible for Verizon's public policy, government, regulatory and external affairs matters for Verizon in the Southwest & Great Lakes Region, encompassing Texas, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Carl is a 25-year veteran of the telecommunications industry, having held positions at MCI, Contel, GTE and Verizon in accounting, finance, strategic planning, wireless, regulatory and governmental affairs. He assumed his current position in June 2008.Carl holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, Pa., and a master's in business administration from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He will continue to be located in Austin, Texas.

William R. Roberts was named Regional State President -- Verizon MD/DC in December 2007. He oversees all of the company's telephone operations in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Mr. Roberts began his career with The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland, now Verizon Maryland, in 1980 as a business office manager. He has held positions of increasing responsibility in operations, human resources, marketing, public affairs, and government relations. Mr. Roberts serves as a board member of the Baltimore Development Corporation; Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; Greater Baltimore Committee; Kennedy Krieger Institute; Medstar Health; and the National Aquarium in Baltimore. He also is on the board of trustees for Villa Julie College, and Morgan State University Board of Regents. Born and raised in Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Mr. Roberts graduated from Morgan State University and attended graduate school at Howard University and Eastern Michigan University. Mr. Roberts also has two honorary doctorate degrees - a Doctorate of Human Letters from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and a Doctorate of Public Service from the University of Maryland University College. Mr. Roberts is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society and has completed executive and leadership development programs at the University of Richmond (Va.)-Robins School of Business; the Institute for Public Service in Washington, D.C.; and at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, N.C.

Jack Plating is executive vice president and chief operating officer of Verizon Wireless, the premier wireless service provider with the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network and $49.3 billion in revenue in 2008. He oversees the company’s nationwide sales and customer service operations, product development and marketing. Before assuming his current position, Plating was the president of Verizon Wireless' South Area. Prior to that, Plating served as executive vice president and chief operating officer for Bell Atlantic Mobile, one of Verizon Wireless' predecessor companies, where he earlier had served as President of that company's New England and Upstate New York Region. Plating began his career in the telecommunications industry in 1975 as a sales executive and later district sales manager for Motorola Communications and Electronics. He held management positions at Digital Paging Systems and A+ Communications, and served as vice president at Metro Mobile CTS. Plating joined Bell Atlantic Mobile in 1991 and ran the company's Southeast Region covering North and South Carolina. Plating holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and marketing from the University of Arkansas.

John F. Killian is executive vice president and chief financial officer for Verizon Communications, responsible for the company’s finance and strategic planning efforts. Killian, who was appointed to the position effective March 1, 2009, previously served as president of Verizon Business, which provides advanced network solutions to large-business and government customers. He has also held many other top financial and operations positions at Verizon since beginning his telecommunications career 30 years ago. In 1995, he was appointed president and chief executive officer of NYNEX CableComms Limited, one of the largest telecommunications, information services and entertainment companies in the United Kingdom. He then served as group president-international telecommunications for Bell Atlantic before becoming the corporation’s vice president for investor relations. Following the Bell Atlantic/GTE merger that formed Verizon in 2000, Killian was appointed senior vice president-customer operations. He later served as senior vice president and controller for Verizon, and as senior vice president and chief financial offer for Verizon’s Domestic Telecom group. Killian began his career as a certified public accountant after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, from Providence College in 1977. He also received a master’s degree from Bentley College. Killian serves on the Board of Directors at ConEdison Inc. and is a trustee on the boards of Providence College and the National Urban League.

Richard J. Lynch is executive vice president and chief technology officer for Verizon Communications. In this role he is responsible for technology direction and network planning for all the Verizon business units. Prior to assuming his current position in July 2007, Lynch had been the executive vice president and chief technical officer for Verizon Wireless since its formation in 2000, and before that, had held the same position at Bell Atlantic Mobile since 1990. In those positions he was responsible for network technology selection and planning as well as network operations. Under Lynch, the Verizon Wireless network attained the distinction of quality and reliability which has formed the basis for the very well known “Can you hear me now?” advertising campaign. Lynch has been at the forefront of wireless data solutions, starting with Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) in 1995 when he led Bell Atlantic Mobile’s build of one of the largest CDPD networks in the country. In 2004, Lynch again led the industry with the decision to widely deploy EV-DO, in the first true wireless broadband service widely provided to the public in the US. Lynch was also responsible for the decision to deploy CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), which still remains the basis for the Verizon Wireless high-quality voice network. Building on these and other key technology decisions, Lynch has supported the introduction of key innovative products and services into the marketplace. Lynch is a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has served on the executive board of the CDMA Development Group (CDG) and as a member of the Federal Communications Commission Technical Advisory Committee. For his leadership in the early years of wireless data, Lynch was honored with the President’s Award by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA). He has earned patents for advances in the area of wireless technology. He is a frequent guest lecturer in academia and industry on technology and its business implications. Lynch began his career in 1972 with New England Telephone and has held a variety of positions in planning, operations, and engineering there and in Bell of Pennsylvania. Lynch is a graduate of Lowell Technological Institute (now University of Massachusetts) where he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering. He has also completed post graduate work at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.

Shaygan Kheradpir, Ph.D., is executive vice president and chief information officer for Verizon Communications. He is responsible for the information technology initiatives of all Verizon’s business units. Prior to assuming his present responsibilities effective Jan. 1, 2007, Kheradpir was senior vice president and chief information officer for Verizon Telecom, with oversight of all information technology initiatives for the company’s wireline communications unit. Kheradpir led technology development and innovation for key Verizon initiatives, including developing and implementing the systems supporting the rollout of Verizon’s all-fiber network and the FiOS broadband voice and TV services provided over that network. Kheradpir began his communications career with GTE in 1987. In 1994 he became vice president – GTE Labs, where he directed the company’s Software Systems Lab, and later directed the information technology initiatives for the company’s enterprise and eBusiness units. Kheradpir is a member of the Cornell University Council, as well as a member of the Cornell University Engineering College Council. He is also on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Greater New York. In 2007 CIO Magazine named Kheradpir a distinguished member of the CIO Hall of Fame, for significant contributions to business and society through leadership in the development, management and use of information technology. Kheradpir is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, and the National Academy of Engineers selected him as one of the nation’s 85 outstanding young engineers in 1996. From 1992 to 1994, he was an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at Northeastern University. Kheradpir has written more than 20 journal papers and holds several U.S. patents. Kheradpir earned a bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University.

Randal S. Milch is executive vice president and general counsel of Verizon. He leads the company’s legal, regulatory and security groups. From 2006 until being named to his current position in October 2008, Milch served as the senior vice president and general counsel of Verizon Business, responsible for all legal services and external affairs support for the company’s global enterprise carrier. Before that, Milch served as the senior vice president and general counsel of Verizon's domestic telecom business. He was appointed to the latter position in 2000, upon the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE. Before the merger, Milch was associate general counsel at Bell Atlantic with oversight of state regulatory matters in New York and New England. Milch was responsible for all state legal aspects of gaining long-distance authority in New York, the first such authority for a Bell company in the nation. Milch also supervised the state regulatory litigation, including litigation arising under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, across Bell Atlantic's northern seven states. Previously, Milch served as vice president, general counsel and secretary of Bell Atlantic-Maryland, Inc. He began his telecommunications career as counsel to the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland in 1993. Prior to his role with Bell Atlantic, Milch was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine. Milch's practice centered on complex federal litigation and international arbitration. Milch began his legal career as a clerk to Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., Chief Judge Emeritus of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Milch holds a J.D. from New York University Law School and a B.A. from Yale University.

Marianne Drost is senior vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary for Verizon, responsible for the corporate secretary function and for the following legal functions: strategic transactions, securities and finance, SEC reporting and disclosure and corporate governance. She has played a key role in developing Verizon's corporate governance policies and in the legal aspects of major strategic transactions including the acquisition of MCI and the disposition of Verizon's Latin American and Caribbean properties. Drost was formerly vice president-deputy general counsel and corporate secretary for GTE. In that role, Drost was responsible for the practice groups providing legal advice on international and domestic strategic transactions, finance, securities law, public affairs, real estate, leasing, investment management, insurance and commercial transactions. In addition, she was responsible for supporting the requirements of GTE's Board of Directors and for corporate governance and shareholder operations. Drost joined the GTE Legal Department in 1977. She left GTE to become a senior attorney in the Legal Department of Cheesebrough-Pond's Inc. in 1984, returning to GTE in 1985 as corporate secretary. She was named to the additional position of vice president and associate general counsel in 1991. Prior to joining GTE, she was associated with the Hartford, Conn. law firm of Ritter, Tapper and Totten. Drost is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Connecticut College in New London and received her doctor of jurisprudence degree with honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law. She is a former director and past president of the Fairfield-Westchester Chapter of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries and a past director of Literacy Volunteers of America. She is also a member of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, the American Bar Association and the Westchester-Fairfield Corporate Counsel Association.

As senior vice president-human resources, Bob Toohey is responsible for developing and implementing global HR policies, strategies, programs and tools that keep the work force engaged, focused and energized, and motivate achievement of the business unit’s strategic objectives. The policies and programs include employee development, training, staffing, compensation and benefits, employee relations, diversity and human resources compliance. From 2001 to 2006, Toohey was vice president of Total Rewards for Verizon, responsible for the establishment of corporate long-range objectives, policy and governance, and design, implementation and financial stewardship of the Verizon Total Rewards Program, including base compensation, incentive plans, pension and executive compensation and benefits. Toohey began his career at GTE and for 17 years held various roles in both Finance and Human Resources Compensation and Benefits. His most recent role there was as director of executive compensation, where he served on the GTE/Bell Atlantic merger integration team. Prior to that, Toohey was vice president, compensation, benefits and HR technology at Genuity. Toohey is a member of the American Benefits Council Board of Directors and serves as chairman of the Retirement and Investment Policy Committee.

Prior to joining Verizon, Hinman was chief executive officer of Allied Security Trust (AST), a Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based trust formed by several high-technology companies to obtain cost-effective patent licenses. He was CEO during the startup phase of the trust, formed in 2007, and before that he spent more than 20 years in senior executive positions in the field of intellectual property at large operating companies, including IBM and Westinghouse. Hinman holds Bachelor of Science degrees in business, marketing and economics from University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

David Russell is vice president - external affairs for Verizon Communications. Russell is responsible for directing all external communications, charitable contributions, community involvement and economic development activities by Verizon in the Southwest Region, which includes Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Russell held various public affairs management positions before being named a director with Verizon’s national Telephone Operations group. Russell later served as national media spokesman for telephone operations and assumed his current duties in the year 2000. Before joining Verizon, Russell was a daily newspaper editor and is an active member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the International Association of Business Communicators and the Texas Public Relations Association. He also is past-president of the Press Club of Dallas. Russell is Chairman of the Texas Independent College Foundation and President of the North Texas Business for Culture and the Arts. He serves on the executive committee of the Texas Association of Business and is co-chairman of the Advisory Council for the College of Education at the University of North Texas. He is past chairman of the North Texas Commission, the Texas Business and Education Coalition, the Texas Education Reform Caucus and the Keller Chamber of Commerce. He serves on the board of directors for the Texas Telephone Association Foundation, the Dallas County Community College District Foundation, the Salvation Army of Dallas County, the Press Club Foundation, the Greater Irving/Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce, the North Texas Commission and is a member of the Dallas Citizens Council. Russell received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Arkansas. He is pursuing an MBA degree at the University of Dallas.

Emilio Gonzalez is vice president - strategic alliances for Verizon Communications. Gonzalez joined Verizon in 2003 as director of strategic alliances. He has served as lead federal lobbyist for Hispanic-American members of Congress, managed key aspects of Hispanic, education and Asian-American affairs, and directed national advocacy campaigns in key policy areas impacting telecommunications. Prior to joining Verizon, Gonzalez was a senior advisor with a Washington, D.C., government relations firm, Mickey Ibarra & Associates, where he developed Hispanic marketing campaigns and political strategy. He also served as a senior associate at another Washington-based government relations firm, Cartwright & Riley. Before that, he held positions at the U.S. departments of Education and Commerce and the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment. He worked extensively on the federal government’s programs on educational technology, the e-rate and global information society initiatives.

Martha Delehanty is vice president – human resources for Verizon Wireless. She is responsible for all human resources strategies and programs, including employee relations, compensation and benefits, training and development, staffing, diversity and human resources compliance. Delehanty joined Verizon Wireless in 2000 serving as executive director – employee relations. In this role, she oversaw Verizon Wireless’ employee workplace programs and policies, including all human resources communications, for 65,000 employees. Previously, Delehanty was a field director for GTE Wireless. She joined GTE in 1991 and held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility and authority with the company’s products, directories, telephone operations and wireless groups in the East and Midwest. Delehanty holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Mount Holyoke College and a master’s degree in business from the University of Texas at Austin.

William B. Petersen is Vice President and Associate General Counsel for state regulatory matters in the eastern United States. Prior to his current position, Mr. Petersen served as president of Verizon Pennsylvania. He has also previously served as Verizon’s general counsel for the Mid-Atlantic North Region. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Before joining Verizon, Mr. Petersen was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and also worked in private practice. Mr. Petersen serves on the boards of the Independence Visitor Center Corporation, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and WHYY.

David Fish leads media relations activities at the federal level for Verizon Communications, Inc., serving as company spokesman on national-level policy issues.

Mr. Rodriguez has 23 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He has been involved in the development, selection, and deployment of network-based services such as ISDN and ADSL. In the early 1990s, he managed the technology development of ISDN services, and led the effort to offer uniform customer services across disparate vendor platforms. He worked with Bellcore and other telecommunications carriers to develop the National ISDN standards, helping to drive down the prices of customer equipment and creating the early data onramps to the Internet.He devoted two years to improving processes and negotiating agreements with Competitive Local Exchange Carriers. He used that experience as a key member in creating Verizon’s Data Local Exchange Carrier subsidiary. There he had product management and revenue assurance responsibilities working with large ISP customers on their Wholesale DSL services. Recently, his attention has turned to making web-based services more ubiquitous in business and consumer markets. Over the last two years, he has led the team responsible for Verizon’s retail messaging product line. Mr. Rodriguez holds a B.E. in electrical engineering from Manhattan College, M.S. in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University, and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Prior to joining Verizon, Kamal worked at The Johns Hopkins University where she managed health portfolios in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe and worked as a liaison between the public and private sectors to improve health care service delivery. Prior to that, Kamal was with Lutheran World Relief where she developed and implemented the organization's strategic planning process. She has also worked extensively in Asia and Africa on social development and policy issues with bilateral and multilateral organizations such as the Canadian Development Agency, the Swiss Development Corporation and the World Bank. Kamal is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. She also earned master's degrees in business administration and public policy from The Johns Hopkins University.

Joe B. Long is Director of Corporate Communications and manages the external affairs of Verizon in the Parkersburg and Beckley areas. He is also responsible for the Verizon Foundation in West Virginia. Before joining Verizon in 1982, Joe was a newspaper editor and reporter, and worked briefly in the coal industry. He is a 1974 graduate of the School of Journalism at West Virginia University, where he is the professional adviser to public relations students and an adjunct professor. He is a nationally accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America, a past president of the West Virginia Chapter of PRSA and in 1996 was named the Outstanding Public Relations Practitioner of the Year. He also co-chairs the local chapter's accreditation program. He serves as an advisory board member for the West Virginia State University Extension Service, and is a member of the Edison Junior High School Partnership in Education. He was appointed in 2007 to the Wood County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC).

Catherine Webster is senior vice president and treasurer for Verizon, responsible for corporate-wide financing activities, cash management and pension and insurance activities, a position she has held since Nov. 1, 2005. Prior to her current position, Webster was senior vice president-Investor Relations, the corporation’s primary liaison with the investment community and Verizon’s shareholders. She also served as vice president - Finance, responsible for all financial matters for both the Enterprise Solutions and Wholesale Markets business units. Previously Webster was vice president - Finance for Verizon’s Network Services and Wholesale Markets organizations. She has held a number of leadership positions in the Finance organization, including key positions in Financial Analysis and Planning at the Corporate level and at the telecom business. Webster began her career in 1978 at Bell Atlantic-New Jersey (formerly New Jersey Bell) where she has held a number of financial positions in internal auditing, security, financial operations, corporate books and regulatory accounting. In 1993 she was named director of Financial Planning & Analysis for Telecom/Network. In May 1996, she was appointed to assistant vice president - Financial Planning for Bell Atlantic’s Corporate Finance group. Webster earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from New Jersey City University. She began her career with a large public accountant firm and became a certified public accountant.

John W. Snow is chairman, president and chief executive officer of the CSX Corporation. Before joining CSX, Mr. Snow was a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, visiting professor of economics at the University of Virginia, administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and deputy undersecretary for the U.S. Department of Transportation. He is on the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia Darden School Foundation and is chairman of the Business Roundtable and a member of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform and the Executive Committee of the Business Council.

Chairman of the Board since 1993. CEO of the Corporation since 1994 and President from 1991 to January 2009. Chairman of the Bank since 1993 and CEO since 1989. President of the Bank from 1985 to 2004. Chairman and CEO of Popular North America, Inc. and other direct and indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Corporation. Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since January 2008. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Fundación Banco Popular, Inc. since 1982. Chairman and Director of Banco Popular Foundation, Inc. since 2005. Member of the Board of Directors of Verizon Communications, Inc. since 1995.

Mr. Lane, 58, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Deere & Company, an equipment manufacturer. Mr. Lane has been a Director since 2004. He is also a director of General Electric Company.

Sandra O. Moose has been a Director of AES since April 2004. Dr. Moose is President of Strategic Advisory Services and previously was a Senior Vice President of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). She joined BCG in 1968, was a Director since 1975, and a Senior Vice President through 2003. She managed BCG's New York Office from 1988 1998 and was appointed Chair of the East Coast. Dr. Moose received her PhD and MA in economics from Harvard University and BA summa cum laude in economics from Wheaton College. Dr. Moose serves on the Boards of Directors of Verizon Communications, Rohm and Haas Company, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and IXIS Advisor Funds and Loomis Sayles Funds where she is Chairperson of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Moose serves on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Special Committee of the Board (and will serve on the newly formed Finance and Investment Committee). The Board has determined that Dr. Moose meets the standards of independence established by the NYSE and the Sarbanes Oxley Act.