The Board is currently comprised of the following ten directors:
Irving W. Bailey, II
Mr. Bailey is senior advisor to Chrysalis Ventures, Inc., a private equity fund. Prior to his service as senior advisor, Mr. Bailey served as managing director of Chrysalis from 2001 to 2005 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Providian Corporation, an insurance and diversified financial services company from 1988 to 1997. Since 2004, Mr. Bailey has served as a director of Hospira, Inc. and AEGON N.V. and currently serves as AEGON’s vice chairman. Age 70.
David J. Barram
Mr. Barram is chairman of Mobibucks Corporation, a provider of an alternate payment system and electronic loyalty card and coupon system. Prior to his service as chairman, Mr. Barram served as Chief Executive Officer of Mobibucks from 2006 to 2007 and Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration, retired as of 2000. Mr. Barram also served as a director of Pope & Talbot, Inc. from 2001 to 2008 and NetIQ Corporation from 2002 to 2006. Age 67.
Stephen L. Baum
Mr. Baum is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Sempra Energy, a publicly held energy-services company, retired as of 2006. Mr. Baum served as Sempra’s chairman from 2005 to 2006, chairman and chief executive officer from 2000 to 2005, and president from 2000 to 2004. Mr. Baum has been a director of TransAlta Corporation since 2008 and formerly served as a director of Enterprise Products Partners in 2006 and senior advisor to Sky Fuel, Inc., a solar energy company, from 2007 to 2009. Age 70.
Erik Brynjolfsson
Dr. Brynjolfsson became a director of CSC in December 2010 and is the Schussel Family Professor at the MIT Sloan School. Dr. Brynjolfsson also serves as the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, since 2002, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, since 2006, and as the Chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review, since 2007. Dr. Brynjolfsson lectures worldwide on technology strategy, productivity and intangible assets. Dr. Brynjolfsson served as a director of CSK Corporation from 2006 to 2008. Age 49.
Rodney F. Chase
Mr. Chase has served as a member of the CSC Board of Directors since 2001. He is currently a non-executive chairman of Genel Energy LTD, an international oil and gas exploration company. He is also the former deputy group chief executive and managing director of BP plc, an oil and gas company, from 1992 to 2003. Mr. Chase served as deputy chairman of Tesco plc from 2002 to 2010 and as lead director of Nalco Company from 2005 to 2011 and as a director of Tesoro Corporation, since 2005. Age 68.
Judith R. Haberkorn
Ms. Haberkorn was the President of Consumer Sales and Service of Verizon Communications (formerly Bell Atlantic), a provider of broadband, wireline and wireless communications for business, government and consumers, from 1998 to 2000. Ms. Haberkorn also served as a director of Express Jet Holdings, Inc. from 2006 to 2010, Armstrong World Industries from 1997 to 2010, Enesco Group, Inc. from 1993 to 2007 and MCI from 2003 to 2006. Age 64.
Michael W. Laphen
Mr. Laphen has served as the Chairman, CEO and President of the Company since 2007. He previously served the Company in roles including President and Chief Operating Officer from 2003 to May 2007, Corporate Vice President from 2001 to 2003, and President of the European Group from 2000 to 2003. Age 61.
On February 7, 2012, CSC named Mike Lawrie President and CEO of the Company joining the company no later than March 31, 2012 and Rodney Chase Non-Executive Chairman effective concurrently with Lawrie’s start date as CEO. Read press release.
Mike Lawrie
Mr. Lawrie joined CSC’s Board of Directors on February 7, 2012. On February 7, 2012, CSC named Mr. Lawrie President and CEO of the Company to join the company no later than March 31, 2012. Mr. Lawrie has served as Chief Executive Officer of UK-based Misys plc, a leading global IT solutions provider to the financial services industry, since November 2006. Lawrie also served as the Executive Chairman of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc., an industry leader in electronic health record solutions, from October 2008 – August 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Lawrie was a general partner with ValueAct Capital, a San Francisco-based private investment firm, from 2005 – 2006. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Siebel Systems, Inc., the international software and solutions company, from 2004-2005. Previously, Mr. Lawrie spent 27 years with IBM where he held various leadership positions, including Senior Vice President and Group Executive, responsible for sales and distribution of all IBM products and services worldwide; General Manager for operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and General Manager of Industries for the Asia Pacific. Mr. Lawrie is the lead independent, non-executive Director of Juniper Networks, Inc., and is also a Trustee of Drexel University, Philadelphia. Mr. Lawrie holds a B.A in History from Ohio University and an M.B.A from Drexel University in Philadelphia. Age: 58.
F. Warren McFarlan
Dr. McFarlan has been a Professor at Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration since 1973 and currently, he is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. He was the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Baker Foundation Professor from 2004 to 2009, and Senior Associate Dean and Director of Harvard’s Asia-Pacific Initiative from 2000 to 2004. Since 2000, Dr. McFarlan has served as a director of Li & Fung Limited and from 2005 to 2009 as a director of thinkorswim Group Inc., formerly known as INVESTools Inc. Age 73.
Chong Sup Park
Dr. Park is the former Chairman and CEO of Maxtor Corporation, from 2004 to 2006, prior to its acquisition by Seagate Technology, a manufacturer and designer of hard disk drives. He also served as a director of Maxtor Corporation from 1994 to 2006 and has served as a director of Seagate Technology since 2006. Since 2008, Dr. Park has served as a director of Brooks Automation, Inc. Since 2007, he has served as a director of Ballard Power Systems Inc and formerly served as a director for Stats ChipPAC Ltd. from 2004 to 2007 and Smart Modular Technologies, Inc. from 2008 to 2010. Age 63.
Thomas H. Patrick
Mr. Patrick has been the Chairman, since 2004, of New Vernon Capital LLC, a private equity fund. He served as Executive Vice Chairman, Finance and Administration, from 2002 to 2003, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, from 2000 to 2002, of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., an investment banking and securities brokerage. Since 2000, Mr. Patrick has served as a director of Deere & Company. Since 1982, he has served as a director of Baldwin & Lyons, Inc., and formerly served as a director of Options Express from 2005 to 2006. Age 67.
Mike Laphen is our Chairman, President and CEO. The Board has determined that each of the remaining nine directors — Irving Bailey, David Barram, Stephen Baum, Erik Brynjolfsson, Rodney Chase, Warren McFarlan, Judith Haberkorn, Chong Sup Park and Thomas Patrick — are independent, for purposes of CSC's Corporate Governance Guidelines (PDF-57 KB).
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