Roy Bostock, Yahoo! chairman

Yahoo! director, nominee Mr. Bostock has served as chairman of the board since January 2008 and has been a member of the board of directors since May 2003. He has served as chairman of the board of Northwest Airlines Corp., the parent of Northwest Airlines Inc., since May 2007, as a principal of Sealedge Investments LLC, a diversified private investment company, since 2002 and as chairman of the board of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, a not-for-profit corporation creating advertising to reduce the use of illicit drugs in the United States, since October 2002. He also served as the chairman of the board of the Committee for Economic Development, a Washington-based public policy group, from 2002 to 2005.

Mr. Bostock served as chairman of the board of BCom3 Group Inc., a global advertising agency group (now part of Publicis Groupe SA), from January 2000 to mid 2001. From July 1990 to January 2000, Mr. Bostock served as chairman and chief executive officer of D'Arcy Masius Benton &  Bowles Inc., an advertising and marketing services firm, and its successor company, the MacManus Group Inc. Mr. Bostock also serves as a director of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Bostock holds a bachelor's degree from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. Source: Yahoo! SEC filing

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