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Below is a summary of our committee structure and membership information. To read more about any of the committees, click on committee names in the chart below.
Chairperson Chairperson Committee Member Member Financial Expert Financial Expert
   Lead Director Lead Independent Director
 Audit and Finance CommitteeCompensation and Leadership CommitteeExecutive CommitteeNominating and Governance CommitteeTransactions Committee
Richard Dalzell  
Richard Dalzell
Former Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer


Mr. Richard Dalzell was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Amazon.com, Inc., an online retailer, until his retirement in 2007. Previously, Mr. Dalzell served in numerous other positions at Amazon.com, Inc., including Senior Vice President of Worldwide Architecture and Platform Software and Chief Information Officer from 2001 to 2007, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer from 2000 to 2001 and Vice President and Chief Information Officer from 1997 to 200... 

  Committee Member    
Alberto Ibargüen 
Alberto Ibargüen
President and Chief Executive Officer
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation


Mr. Alberto Ibargüen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, a private, independent foundation dedicated to the promotion of quality journalism, advancing media innovation and the arts. Before joining the Foundation in 2005, Mr. Ibargüen served in various positions at Knight-Ridder, Inc. from 1995 to 2005, as Chairman & Publisher of The Miami Herald (1998) and as Vice President of International Operations, The Miami Herald and Publishe... 

Committee Member    Committee Member  
Hugh F. Johnston Financial Expert
Hugh F. Johnston
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo


Mr. Hugh Johnston has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo since 2010. In his current role, he is responsible for providing strategic financial leadership; ensuring PepsiCo's capital structure, financial systems and controls; and forecasting models that will support the company's growth and expansion. As a member of the executive leadership team, Johnston also builds financial infrastructure, oversees risk management, and upholds PepsiCo's fina... 

Chairperson   Committee Member   
Dawn Lepore 
Dawn Lepore
Former CEO and Chairman of the Board of drugstore.com, Inc


Ms. Dawn Lepore is the former Interim Chief Executive Officer at Prosper Marketplace, Inc., a peer-to-peer lending marketplace. She served as Interim CEO from 2012 to January 2013. Formerly, she was CEO and Chairman of the Board of drugstore.com, inc., a leading online retailer of health, beauty, and wellness products, which she led from 2004 until its sale to Walgreens in 2011. Prior to joining drugstore.com, Ms. Lepore held leadership positions at The Charles Schwab Company, an invest... 

Committee Member     Committee Member
Patricia Mitchell 
Patricia Mitchell
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Paley Center for Media


Ms. Patricia Mitchell has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Paley Center for Media, a global non-profit cultural institution, since 2006. Before that, Ms. Mitchell was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Public Broadcasting Service, a non-profit public broadcasting television service, from 2000 to 2006. For more than two decades, Ms. Mitchell was a journalist and producer, serving as reporter, anchor, talk show host, producer and executive for three broadca... 

   Committee Member Chairperson  
Fredric Reynolds Financial Expert Lead Director
Fredric Reynolds
Retired Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer


Mr. Fredric Reynolds was with CBS Corporation, a media company, and its predecessor companies from 1994 until he retired in August 2009. Mr. Reynolds was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CBS Corporation from 2005 to 2009. He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Viacom Television Stations Group of Viacom Inc., and President of the CBS Television Stations Division of CBS, Inc. Before that, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financ... 

   Chairperson Committee Member Chairperson
James Stengel  
James Stengel
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Jim Stengel Company, LLC


Mr. James Stengel has been President and Chief Executive Officer of The Jim Stengel Company, LLC, a marketing think tank and consulting firm, since 2008. Mr. Stengel is also currently an adjunct marketing professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Mr. Stengel worked at The Procter & Gamble Company, a global consumer products company, from 1983 to 2008, holding a variety of positions including Global Marketing Officer from 2001 to 2008. Mr. Stengel serves on the board of director... 

  Chairperson Committee Member