People: Sysco Corp (SYY)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Manuel Fernandez	66	2012	Executive Chairman of the Board
William DeLaney	57	2010	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Robert Kreidler	48	2009	Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Wayne Shurts	52	2012	Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
William Day	55	2010	Executive Vice President - Merchandising and Supply Chain
Michael Green	53	2011	Executive Vice President, Group President
James Hope	52	2010	Executive Vice President - Business Transformation
Larry Pulliam	56	2011	Executive Vice President, Group President
G. Mitchell Elmer	53	2008	Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, Controller
Russell Libby	46	2011	Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary
Paul Moskowitz	48	2012	Senior Vice President - Human Resources
Jacquelyn Ward	74	2012	Lead Independent Director
Jonathan Golden	75	1984	Director
John Cassaday	59	2004	Independent Director
Judith Craven	67	1996	Independent Director
Larry Glasscock	65	2010	Independent Director
Joseph Hafner	67	2003	Independent Director
Hans-Joachim Koerber	66	2008	Independent Director
Nancy Newcomb	67	2006	Independent Director
Richard Tilghman	72	2002	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Manuel Fernandez	Mr. Manuel A. Fernandez has been appointed as Executive Chairman of the Board of Sysco Corporation, effective April 17, 2012. Mr. Fernandez has served as Executive Chairman of Sysco since April 2012. Prior to his present positions, Mr. Fernandez was Chairman, President, and CEO of Gartner, Inc., a information technology research and consulting company and the Managing Director of SI Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on information technology and communications infrastructure companies that enable e-business. Mr. Fernandez also serves on the board of directors of Brunswick Corporation and Flowers Foods, Inc., and during the last five years was a director of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. and of its predecessor the Black & Decker Company. Mr. Fernandez earned a Bachelor’s Degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and completed post-graduate studies in solid state engineering.
William DeLaney	Mr. William J. DeLaney, III, is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Sysco Corporation. Mr. DeLaneybegan serving as Sysco’s Chief Executive Officer in March 2009. He assumed the additional title of President in March 2010. Mr. DeLaney began his Sysco career in 1987 as Assistant Treasurer at the company’s corporate headquarters. He was promoted to Treasurer in 1991, and in 1993 he was named a Vice President of the company, continuing in those responsibilities until 1994. Mr. DeLaney joined Sysco Food Services of Syracuse in 1996 as chief financial officer, progressed to senior vice president in 1998 and executive vice president in 2002. In 2004, Mr. DeLaney was appointed president and chief executive officer of Sysco Food Services of Charlotte. He held that position until December 2006, when he was named Sysco’s Senior Vice President of Financial Reporting. Effective July 1, 2007, Mr. DeLaney was promoted to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and continued to serve in such position following his promotion to CEO until October 2009.
Robert Kreidler	Mr. Robert Chris Kreidler is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Sysco Corporation, since October 2009. Prior to joining Sysco, Mr. Kreidler served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of C&S Wholesale Grocers, a privately-held food wholesaler, from February 2007 through March 2009. Between June 1996 and February 2007, he held various senior roles with Yum! Brands, Inc., which includes the worldwide operations of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. His last position with Yum! Brands was Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Treasurer from December 2003 to February 2007.
Wayne Shurts	Mr. Wayne R. Shurts has been appointed as Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of Sysco Corporation, effective 03 October 2012. Prior to joining Sysco, Shurts was executive vice president and chief information officer at SUPERVALU Inc., the grocery and supply-chain company. Previously, Shurts was the global chief information officer at Cadbury PLC (formerly Cadbury Schweppes) and held positions of increased technology responsibility at Nabisco.
William Day	Mr. William B. Day is Executive Vice President - Merchandising and Supply Chain of Sysco Corporation, since July 2010. He served as Senior Vice President — Merchandising and Supply Chain from July 2009 to July 2010. He began his Sysco career in 1983 as a staff accountant at Sysco’s Memphis, Tennessee subsidiary. Between 1984 and 1987 he divided his time between Sysco’s corporate headquarters and Sysco’s Atlanta subsidiary, where he served as the Chief Financial Officer. In 1987 Mr. Day officially moved to Sysco’s corporate headquarters in Houston where he served in a variety of roles until 1999, when he was promoted to Assistant Controller. Mr. Day started Sysco’s RDC project in 2000, was named Vice President, Supply Chain Management in 2003 and was promoted to Senior Vice President, Supply Chain in July 2007.
Michael Green	Mr. Michael W. Green has been appointed as Executive Vice President and Group President of Sysco Corporation, since October 2011. Prior to this promotion, Mr. Green served as Executive Vice President, Foodservice Operations, with expanded responsibilities over all of Sysco’s U.S. Broadline Foodservice Operations beginning in July 2010. Mr. Green began his Sysco career in 1991 as a member of the Management Development Program and was named Sysco Chicago’s Vice President of Marketing later that year. In 1992, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Marketing and Merchandising, and then to Executive Vice President, of Sysco’s Chicago operating company. In 1994, Mr. Green became the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sysco Food Services of Detroit. He was promoted in 2004 to Senior Vice President of Operations for Sysco’s Midwest Region. In January 2008, Mr. Green was promoted to Executive Vice President of Northeast and North Central U.S. Foodservice Operations, a position he held until his promotion to his current title.
James Hope	Mr. James D. Hope is Executive Vice President - Business Transformation of Sysco Corporation, since January 2010. He served as Senior Vice President, Business Transformation, from 2008 to 2010. Mr. Hope started his career at Sysco’s corporate headquarters as a financial analyst in 1987 where he served in various financial management roles. He transferred to Sysco Food Services of Kansas City, Inc. in 1993 as Chief Financial Officer, where he was named President and Chief Executive Officer in 2000. Mr. Hope served as Group President, Demand, in the company’s Strategic Group from 2005 until 2007. He was promoted in 2007 to Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, a position he held until 2008. Mr. Hope currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Restaurant Association Education Foundation.
Larry Pulliam	Mr. Larry G. Pulliam is Executive Vice President, Group President of Sysco Corp., since October 2011. Prior to this promotion, Mr. Pulliam was Executive Vice President, Foodservice Operations from July 2009 to October 2011. Mr. Pulliam began his foodservice career in 1975 with a regional foodservice company in Fort Worth, Texas. He served in a variety of areas for that company, from warehouse operations to information services, before joining Sysco’s corporate office in 1987. Mr. Pulliam was named Vice President of Operations for Sysco’s Los Angeles operation in 1991, and in 1995 he transferred to the Baltimore subsidiary to serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He returned to Sysco’s corporate office in 1997 as Vice President and Chief Information Officer, a position he held until he was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer of Sysco Food Services of Houston, LP in 2000. Mr. Pulliam then returned to Sysco’s corporate office as Senior Vice President, Merchandising Services in 2002 and served in that role until 2005, when he was promoted to Executive Vice President, Merchandising Services. From 2005 to July 2009, he served as Executive Vice President, Global Sourcing and Supply Chain.
G. Mitchell Elmer	Mr. G. Mitchell Elmer is Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller of Sysco Corporation. Mr. Elmer was promoted to Senior Vice President and Controller in November 2008 after serving as Vice President and Controller from 2000 to November 2008 and assumed the added responsibility of Chief Accounting Officer in July 2005. Mr. Elmer began his Sysco career in 1989 as a staff auditor in operations review at Sysco’s corporate office in Houston. In 1991 he transferred to Sysco’s Virginia subsidiary as Director of Finance, and the following year he was named Vice President of Finance and Administration. Mr. Elmer was appointed Vice President of Finance for Sysco’s Louisville, Kentucky operation in 1995 and progressed to Senior Vice President of Marketing, Merchandising and Finance at that company in 1997. In 2000 he returned to Sysco’s corporate office to serve as Vice President and Controller.
Russell Libby	Mr. Russell T. Libby has been appointed as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Sysco Corporation, since November 1, 2011. From 1997 through September 2007, Mr. Libby worked for the North America unit of COFRA Holding A.G., a Swiss international conglomerate, in various positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in service as President of COFRA North America and Vice President, Legal for Good Energies, Inc., an affiliated investment advisor. He joined Sysco in October 2007 as Assistant Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions and Real Estate and was promoted to Vice President and Assistant General Counsel in July 2009, and was promoted to Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in December 2010.
Paul Moskowitz	Mr. Paul Moskowitz is Senior Vice President - Human Resources of Sysco Corporation. Prior to joining Sysco, Mr. Moskowitz served as Chief Human Resources Officer of Dean Foods Company, a dairy processing company from 2007 until 2011. Between 1996 and 2004, he held various senior roles with Yum! Brands. His last position with Yum! Brands was Chief People Officer at Pizza Hut from 2004 to 2007.
Jacquelyn Ward	Ms. Jacquelyn M. Ward is Lead Independent Director of Sysco Corporation. She is Independent Director since September 2001. Ms. Ward attended Georgia State College for Women and the University of Georgia Extension Center, where she majored in psychology and mathematics. She later attended the London School of Business and was awarded a Doctor of Laws from Mercer University. Early in her career, Ms. Ward held programming, engineering, marketing and management positions with UNIVAC (a division of Sperry Corporation), General Electric Company and J.P. Stevens Company. Ms. Ward then founded, was elected chairman, president and chief executive officer, and had over 30 years of experience with Computer Generation Incorporated (CGI), a provider of software/hardware solutions to the telecommunications and general industry with operations in the U.S., England and much of Europe, Australia, South Africa, Mexico and Latin America. In addition, projects undertaken by CGI for governmental and private entities provided unique experience for Ms. Ward in developing and implementing supply chain inventory control systems, fraud detection systems and software/hardware to handle generalized and specific accounting functions. Ms. Ward has gained knowledge of the foodservice industry through her membership on the Board of Directors of Flowers Foods, Inc., one of the producers and marketers of bakery products in the U.S., as well as developing systems for related food clients, such as Edwards Baking Company and Eastern Food Services. She also has public company board experience as a current or former member of numerous Boards of Directors where she served in various leadership positions, including lead director, presiding director and the chairman of various committees. With respect to Flowers Foods, Ms. Ward currently serves as the Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation and Executive Committees.
Jonathan Golden	Mr. Jonathan Golden is Director of Sysco Corporation, since February 1984. Mr. Golden is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He also has served as an adjunct professor at Emory Law School in Atlanta for nine years. Mr. Golden has developed an knowledge of Sysco’s business through his service as a director of the company since 1984 and through Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, a firm that has served as legal advisor to the company on numerous transactions. Mr. Golden has served as Chairman of that firm for approximately eleven years. He personally has a long history of representing participants in the food industry, including manufacturers, distributors and food industry trade associations. Mr. Golden has gained further experience regarding the distribution and supply chain of foodservice companies as a member of the Board of Directors of a privately-held food manufacturer that is the leader in the frozen food industry and sells to foodservice customers, particularly in-store bakeries and retail marketplaces. In addition to his legal and regulatory experience and focus on corporate responsibility, Mr. Golden has developed a knowledge of other public company Board practices through his past service on the Boards of The Profit Recovery Group International, Inc., Intermedics, Inc., Automatic Service Company and Butler Shoe Corp.
John Cassaday	Mr. John M. Cassaday is Independent Director of Sysco Corporation, since November 2004. Mr. Cassaday earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario and a Master of Business Administration Degree with honors from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Prior to his current position as the founding President and CEO of Corus Entertainment Inc., a Canadian leader in radio and specialty television, Mr. Cassaday served as President and CEO of CTV Television Network Ltd. Mr. Cassaday’s career prior to broadcasting included executive positions in a number of packaged goods companies including RJR-Macdonald, Inc., General Foods Corporation and Campbell Soup Company, where he gained food processing and food safety experience while advancing through positions in sales, marketing, and strategic planning in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. His career at Campbell’s culminated in service as President of Campbell Soup Company’s operations in Canada and the United Kingdom. Mr. Cassaday gained additional foodservice experience through his service as a director of Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada’s food distributor, and of J.M. Schnieder. In addition, Mr. Cassaday’s service on the Board of Directors of Manulife Financial Corporation. Mr. Cassaday has received many business, industry and charitable honors, including designation as the most distinguished alumni of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management in 1998, receipt of the Gold Medal from the Association of Canadian Advertisers in 2004 (which recognizes individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of marketing communications in Canada) and induction in the Marketing Hall of Legends of Canada in 2006.
Judith Craven	Dr. Judith B. Craven, M.D., is Independent Director of Sysco Corporation, since July 1996. Dr. Craven earned a B.S. degree in Biology and English from Bowling Green State University, then completed premedical requirements at Texas Southern University before earning a Doctor of Medicine from Baylor College of Medicine and a Master of Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health. She also completed the Harvard University Program for Senior Managers in Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. She gained a distinctive understanding of the foodservice industry after serving as Director of Public Health for the City of Houston from 1980 through 1983, which included responsibility for the regulation of all foodservice establishments in the City of Houston, including an emphasis on food safety and food handling. Following this appointment, Dr. Craven served as Dean of the University of Texas School of Allied Health Sciences from 1983 to 1992. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Luby’s, Inc., which operates almost 100 restaurants and provides food services to select hospital and other medical institutions in Texas. Dr. Craven served as Vice President for Multicultural Affairs for the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston from 1987 to 1992, and served as Chair of the Committee on Diversity for the University of Texas Board of Regents for six years. Under Dr. Craven’s leadership as president for six years, The United Way of The Texas Gulf Coast won the first National Award for diversity from the United Way of America. She has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Compaq Corporation and the Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Dr. Craven has received numerous awards and honors, including the NAACP VIP Award for Community Service, Houston’s Thirty Most Influential Black Women Award and induction into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame in 1989.
Larry Glasscock	Mr. Larry C. Glasscock is Independent Director of Sysco Corporation, since September 17, 2010. Mr. Glasscock attended Cleveland State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He later studied at the School of International Banking, participated in the American Bankers Association Conference of Executive Officers, and completed the Commercial Bank Management Program at Columbia University. Mr. Glasscock has developed leadership and corporate strategy experience through over 30 years of business experience, including former service as President and CEO of WellPoint, Inc., COO of CareFirst, Inc., President and CEO of Group Hospitalization and Medical Services, Inc., President and COO of First American Bank, N.A., and President and CEO of Essex Holdings, Inc. During his tenure at WellPoint, Inc., he played a role in transforming the company from a regional health insurer into a national healthcare leader and championed company efforts to improve quality and customer service. Throughout his career, Mr. Glasscock has developed experience in the completion and integration of mergers, utilization of technology to improve productivity and customer service, and team building and human capital development. Mr. Glasscock also has considerable financial experience, as he has supervised the chief financial officers of corporations. Earlier in his career he served as a bank officer lending to corporations and supervised assessments of companies’ creditworthiness. Mr. Glasscock also has experience as a public company director and as a member of various committees related to important board functions, including audit, finance, governance and compensation.
Joseph Hafner	Mr. Joseph A. Hafner, Jr., is Independent Director of Sysco Corporation, since November 2003. Mr. Hafner attended Dartmouth College, where he graduated cum laude, then earned a master of business administration degree with high distinction from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. After graduation, Mr. Hafner served for two years in the Latin American Internship Program of Cornell University and the Ford Foundation in Lima, Peru, followed by two years with the Arthur Andersen & Co. accounting firm in Houston. In 1972, Mr. Hafner began his career with Riviana Foods, Inc. in Guatemala City as Controller of Riviana’s Central American Division. For over 30 years, Mr. Hafner worked in positions of increasing authority for Riviana, a company that processed, marketed and distributed rice products in the U.S. and Europe, as well as other food products in Central America and Europe. Mr. Hafner continued his international exposure through the oversight of Riviana’s rice operations in South Africa and Australia. His career culminated in his service as President and CEO of Riviana for over 20 years, providing him with experience in the areas of leadership, corporate strategy and development, the foodservice industry, distribution and supply chains, finance and accounting and international operations. In addition, Mr. Hafner is a member of the American Institute of Certified Professional Accountants.
Hans-Joachim Koerber	Dr. Hans-Joachim Koerber is Independent Director of Sysco Corporation, since January 2008. Dr. Koerber earned a degree as a Master Brewer in Brewing Technology and a Ph.D. in Business Management from the Technical University of Berlin. Dr. Koerber began his career in the beverage industry, including management positions in which he was responsible for finance and accounting, information technology, purchasing and personnel. He first became involved with the company that would eventually become METRO when he joined the predecessor company’s cash-and-carry, self-service wholesale company in charge of finance and accounting, controlling, logistics and information technology. When METRO AG was formed in 1996, Dr. Koerber became part of the METRO management board. His responsibilities included corporate development, corporate communications and investor relations and he became chairman and chief executive officer in 1999. Dr. Koerber introduced a new management style, streamlined the company to focus on four of the original 16 business divisions in order to remain competitive and achieve profitability, adopted international accounting standards and rapidly developed METRO’s international presence, including hands-on experience in expanding METRO into Eastern Europe and Asia, including China and India. These efforts helped make METRO Germany’s retailer, operating wholesale cash & carry stores, supermarkets, hypermarkets, department stores and consumer electronics shops throughout the world. Throughout his career, Dr. Koerber developed experience and qualifications in the areas of leadership, corporate strategy and development, the foodservice industry, distribution and supply chains, marketing and risk management.
Nancy Newcomb	Ms. Nancy S. Newcomb is Independent Director of Sysco Corporation, since February 2006. Ms. Newcomb is a graduate of Connecticut College and received a Master’s Degree in Economics from Boston University. She also graduated from Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development. Ms. Newcomb’s 35-year career with Citigroup, a international financial services company, and its predecessors Citicorp and Citibank, provided her with experience in the areas of leadership, corporate strategy and development, finance, risk management and international operations. Ms. Newcomb developed risk management experience throughout her career, including holding the position of Citigroup’s Senior Corporate Officer of Risk Management for the last six years of her career. In the area of Finance and International Operations, Ms. Newcomb served as Citigroup’s Principal Financial Officer, responsible for liquidity, funding and capital management. She has had international experience as head of worldwide treasury operations in over 100 countries, and co-head of Citigroup’s global, multinational customer business.
Richard Tilghman	Mr. Richard G. Tilghman is Independent Director of Sysco Corporation, since November 2002. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and serving in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant, Mr. Tilghman enjoyed a 34-year banking career, including service as Vice Chairman and Director of Suntrust Banks, as well as the former Chairman and CEO of Crestar Financial Corporation, a bank holding company for fifteen years. His career provided him with experience and experience in the areas of leadership, corporate strategy and development, finance, banking, accounting and risk management. Mr. Tilghman’s experience also includes approximately 20 years of service on the Board of Directors of Chesapeake Corporation, which was then a supplier of cartons, labels, leaflets, and specialty plastic packaging, with manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe and the U.S. at that time.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Manuel Fernandez	5,773,460
William DeLaney	8,834,680
Robert Kreidler	2,540,640
Wayne Shurts	--
William Day	--
Michael Green	4,163,180
James Hope	2,107,910
Larry Pulliam	4,557,460
G. Mitchell Elmer	--
Russell Libby	--
Paul Moskowitz	--
Jacquelyn Ward	--
Jonathan Golden	--
John Cassaday	--
Judith Craven	--
Larry Glasscock	--
Joseph Hafner	--
Hans-Joachim Koerber	--
Nancy Newcomb	--
Richard Tilghman	--

As Of 29 Jun 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Manuel Fernandez	0	0
William DeLaney	10,164	5,488
Robert Kreidler	0	0
Wayne Shurts	0	0
William Day	0	0
Michael Green	41,768	198,526
James Hope	7,607	34,459
Larry Pulliam	337,000	1,448,060
G. Mitchell Elmer	0	0
Russell Libby	0	0
Paul Moskowitz	0	0
Jacquelyn Ward	0	0
Jonathan Golden	0	0
John Cassaday	0	0
Judith Craven	0	0
Larry Glasscock	0	0
Joseph Hafner	0	0
Hans-Joachim Koerber	0	0
Nancy Newcomb	0	0
Richard Tilghman	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
KREIDLER ROBERT C	80,697	$35.04
DAY WILLIAM B	528	$24.99
DAY WILLIAM B	13,000	$33.39
KREIDLER ROBERT C	32,697	$24.38
BENE THOMAS	28,465	$0.00
KREIDLER ROBERT C	48,000	$27.44
DAY WILLIAM B	13,528	$35.11
HOPE JAMES D	32,000	$33.39
HOPE JAMES D	42,000	$34.41
FERNANDEZ MANUEL A	6,624	$34.63
CRAVEN JUDITH B	355	$35.17
NEWCOMB NANCY S	355	$35.17
WARD JACQUELYN M	177	$35.17
KOERBER HANS JOACHIM	355	$35.17
CASSADAY JOHN M	177	$35.17
WARD JACQUELYN M	2,273	$35.17
CRAVEN JUDITH B	177	$35.17
GOLDEN JONATHAN	177	$35.17
TILGHMAN RICHARD GRANVILLE	177	$35.17
GLASSCOCK LARRY C	177	$35.17
NEWCOMB NANCY S	177	$35.17
CASSADAY JOHN M	355	$35.17
GOLDEN JONATHAN	355	$35.17
KOERBER HANS JOACHIM	177	$35.17
TILGHMAN RICHARD GRANVILLE	355	$35.17

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