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Jeffrey L. Harmening is president and chief executive officer of General Mills, having taken over from Ken Powell in June 2017. He served as Chief Operating Officer of General Mills, Inc. since July 1, 2016 until May 31, 2017.

Scott L. Thompson has served as Chairman of Tempur Sealy International’s Board of Directors and as its President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2015. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. until it was purchased by Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. in 2012. Prior to serving as CEO and President, Mr. Thompson was a Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Dollar Thrifty. Prior to joining Dollar Thrifty in 2008, Mr. Thompson was a consultant to private equity firms, and was a founder of Group 1 Automotive, Inc., a NYSE and Fortune 500 company, serving as its Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Thompson presently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. Mr. Thompson earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, and began his career with a national accounting firm. Mr. Thompson brings extensive financial, operational and entrepreneurial experience to the Board in his roles as an executive officer and director of publicly traded companies.

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Miguel Patricio is the Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Heinz Company. Prior to Kraft Heinz, Miguel spent 20+ years at Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), where he served as part of the Executive Leadership team in various positions, driving organic growth and industry-leading margins. Miguel was the Global Chief Marketing Officer at AB InBev from 2012-2018. In this role, he developed and implemented a strategic playbook for global brands Corona, Budweiser and Stella Artois, accelerating organic sales growth which represented more than one-third of AB InBev’s organic growth and accounted for more than 20 percent of AB InBev’s 2018 year-end global revenues. Prior to that, he was AB InBev’s President of Asia Pacific from 2008 to 2012 and President of North America from 2006 to 2008. Before his career at AB InBev, Miguel held a variety of leadership positions at other global consumer packaged goods companies including Philip Morris, The Coca-Cola Company and Johnson & Johnson. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Fundacao Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.

Michael Stubblefield is our President and CEO, a position he has held since May 2014. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Stubblefield served as a Senior Expert for Chemicals Practice of McKinsey & Company from 2013 to 2014. Prior to this role, Mr. Stubblefield held a variety of roles at Celanese Corporation from 1994 to 2012, including Vice President and General Manager, Advanced Engineered Materials and Chief Marketing Officer. Mr. Stubblefield earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Utah, as well as an MBA from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

David J. Rintoul earned an associate’s degree in mechanical engineering technology from Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology in his native Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in 1979. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., in 1983 and received a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame in 2006. Mr. Rintoul brought nearly 30 years of steel industry experience with him when he joined U. S. Steel in July 2007 as general manager – Granite City Works in Granite City, Ill. He began his steelmaking career in 1979 in plate and strip rolling and finishing operations at Algoma Steel Corporation in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and rose through increasingly responsible assignments to the position of superintendent. In 1993, he joined Rouge Steel Corporation in Dearborn, Mich., as superintendent – cold mill. Mr. Rintoul moved to Acme Steel Company in Riverdale, Ill., in 1995 as manager – hot strip mill at the company’s Compact Strip Plant. He became general manager – Compact Strip Plant in 1997 and general manager – steel manufacturing in 1999, a position he held until he was named vice president – operations at North Star BlueScope Steel in 2001. In 2005, he became vice president – operations at BlueScope’s Butler Manufacturing Company in Kansas City, Mo., a position he held until he joined U. S. Steel, as general manager of Granite City Works. Mr. Rintoul advanced to general manager – Great Lakes Works in 2008 with responsibility for day-to-day operations at U. S. Steel’s second largest integrated operation in the United States, which has an annual raw steelmaking capability of 3.8 million net tons and is located in Ecorse and River Rouge, Mich. In 2009, he was appointed president – U. S. Steel Canada Inc., adding management oversight for all U. S. Steel Canada operations to his existing responsibilities at Great Lakes Works. In 2011, Mr. Rintoul was elected vice president – European operations and president – U. S. Steel Košice and oversaw U. S. Steel Košice in the Slovak Republic. He also had responsibility for U. S. Steel Serbia in the Republic of Serbia until it was sold to the Serbian government in January 2012. In 2013, Mr. Rintoul returned to North America to fill the newly created post of vice president – innovation and continuous improvement and was responsible for leading the company’s worldwide continuous improvement efforts as well as fostering greater levels of innovation companywide. He was appointed senior vice president – tubular business in 2014 with executive responsibility for U. S. Steel Tubular Products, including operations and sales, energy services, and tubular business development activities.