People: The Washington Post Co (WPO.N)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Donald Graham

67 1993 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer

Hal Jones

60 2009 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President - Finance

Veronica Dillon

63 2008 Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary

Ann McDaniel

57 2008 Senior Vice President - Human Resources

Gerald Rosberg

66 2008 Senior Vice President - Planning and Development

Wallace Cooney

50 2008 Vice President - Finance, Chief Accounting Officer

Christopher Davis

48 2011 Lead Independent Director

Katharine Weymouth

46 2010 Director

Lee Bollinger

66 2007 Independent Director

Barry Diller

71 2000 Independent Director

Thomas Gayner

51 2007 Independent Director

David Goldberg

45 2012 Independent Director

Anne Mulcahy

60 2008 Independent Director

Ronald Olson

72 2003 Independent Director

Larry Thompson

67 2011 Independent Director

G. Richard Wagoner

60 2010 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

Donald Graham

Mr. Donald E. Graham is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of The Washington Post Company. Mr. Graham served as President of the Company between May 1991 and September 1993. Mr. Graham has been a Director of Facebook, Inc. since December 2008, where he is Chairman of the Governance Committee and serves on the Compensation Committee. Mr. Graham is a Trustee of the Federal City Council, the College Success Foundation, the Philip L. Graham Fund, the Summit Fund of Washington and KIPP-DC. He serves as Chairman of the Board and as a Director of the DC College Access Program. As a result of his substantial and long-standing shareholdings in the Company and his tenure in various executive roles at the Company, Mr. Graham provides a unique perspective to the Board about the strategic and operational opportunities and challenges, economic and industry trends, and competitive and financial positioning of the Company and its businesses, as well as the Company’s historic role in journalistic enterprise and the promotion of the core values of freedom of the press and journalistic integrity. Mr. Graham is an uncle of the Publisher of The Washington Post and Chief Executive of Washington Post Media, Katharine Weymouth, who also serves as a member of the Board.

Hal Jones

Mr. Hal S. Jones is Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President - Finance of The Washington Post Company. He became Chief Financial Officer of the Company in January 2009 and Senior Vice President–Finance of the Company in November 2008. He had most recently been Chief Executive Officer of Kaplan Professional, responsible for Kaplan’s professional businesses in financial services, real estate, technology and engineering in the U.S. and the U.K. Mr. Jones has spent 22 years at the Company and Kaplan, serving in a variety of senior management positions with a focus on finance, auditing and accounting.

Veronica Dillon

Ms. Veronica Dillon is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of The Washington Post Co. She became a Senior Vice President of the Company in June 2008 and Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Company in January 2007. Ms. Dillon began her career with the Company in January 1991 as corporate counsel at Kaplan, Inc. She was subsequently named General Counsel at Kaplan in June 1995 and then served as Kaplan’s Chief Administrative Officer beginning in December 2003.

Ann McDaniel

Ms. Ann L. McDaniel is Senior Vice President - Human Resources of The Washington Post Company, since June 2008. She was formerly Vice President–Human Resources of the Company since September 2001. She served as Managing Director of Newsweek, Inc., from January 2008 until the sale of Newsweek magazine in September 2010. Ms. McDaniel had previously served as Senior Director of Human Resources of the Company since January 2001 and before that held various editorial positions at Newsweek.

Gerald Rosberg

Mr. Gerald M. Rosberg is Senior Vice President - Planning and Development of The Washington Post Company. He was formerly Vice President–Planning and Development of the Company since February 1999. He had previously served as Vice President–Affiliates at the Post, a position he assumed in November 1997. Mr. Rosberg joined the Company in January 1996 as the Post’s Director of Affiliate Relations.

Wallace Cooney

Mr. Wallace R. Cooney is Vice President - Finance, Chief Accounting Officer of The Washington Post Company, since June 11, 2008. Mr. Cooney joined the Company in 2001 as Controller and prior to that had been with Gannett Co., Inc. and Price Waterhouse LLP.

Christopher Davis

Mr. Christopher C. Davis is Lead Independent Director of The Washington Post Co. He has served as Chairman of Davis Selected Advisers, Inc., an investment counseling firm since 1998. He has served as a Director of the Company since January 2006 and is a member of the Audit, Finance and Executive Committees of the Board. Mr. Davis became lead Director in May 2011. Mr. Davis is also a Director and officer of a number of mutual funds advised by Davis Selected Advisers, L.P., as well as other entities controlled by Davis Selected Advisers, L.P. Mr. Davis is a Director of the Hudson Highland Land Trust and a Trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund.

Katharine Weymouth

Ms. Katharine Weymouth is Director of The Washington Post Company, since September 23, 2010. She is Chief Executive Officer of Washington Post Media, a unit of the Company that includes The Washington Post, Express and El Tiempo Latino, and Publisher of The Washington Post. She was named to both positions in February 2008. Ms. Weymouth became a Director of the Company in September 2010 and she currently serves on the Finance Committee of the Board. She joined the Company in 1996 as Assistant General Counsel of The Washington Post and has held various positions over the past sixteen years. Ms. Weymouth has held several positions within The Washington Post’s advertising department, including Director of the department’s jobs unit, Director of Advertising Sales and Vice President of Advertising. She also served as Associate Counsel of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, then the online publishing subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. She serves as a Director of The Associated Press and NewsRight.

Lee Bollinger

Mr. Lee C. Bollinger is Independent Director of The Washington Post Company., since May 10, 2007. He has served as the 19th President of Columbia University since June 2002. Prior to becoming President of Columbia University, where he also serves as a member of the Law School faculty, Mr. Bollinger served as President of the University of Michigan for five years and as Dean of the University of Michigan Law School for seven years. He is a Trustee of the Kresge Foundation and was Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York until December 2012. Mr. Bollinger is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards, most notably for his national in defending affirmative action, for his service in higher education and for his scholarship and leadership in defense of freedom of speech and press. He has served as a Director of the Company since May 2007 and is a member of the Compensation Committee of the Board. Mr. Bollinger’s experience in higher education and at a variety of educational institutions facing differing challenges and opportunities is of particular relevance to the Company’s higher education business segment and other education-related initiatives, but also reflects his commitment to principles — notably freedom of speech and press — that are the foundation of the Company’s businesses.

Barry Diller

Mr. Barry Diller is Independent Director of The Washington Post Company. He has served as Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp, an interactive commerce company, since December 2010; Chairman and Senior Executive of Expedia, Inc., an online travel company, since August 2005; and Chairman and Senior Executive of TripAdvisor, Inc., an online travel site, since December 2011. He has served as a Director of the Company since September 2000 and is a member of the Finance, Executive and Compensation Committees of the Board. Prior to his service at IAC/InterActiveCorp (and its predecessor companies), which commenced in August 1995, Mr. Diller was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of QVC, Inc. from December 1992 through December 1994. From October 1984 to April 1992, Mr. Diller served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Fox, Inc. and was responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company, in addition to Fox’s motion picture operations. Prior to joining Fox, Inc., he served for ten years as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures Corporation. Mr. Diller previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp (and its predecessor companies) from August 1995 through December 1, 2010. Mr. Diller also previously served as the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. from August 2008 through January 2010 and as non-executive Chairman of the Board of Live Nation Entertainment from January 2010 through October 2010 and remained a member of the Board of Live Nation Entertainment through January 2011. He is President and a Director of The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation, and a Director of The Coca-Cola Company and The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company LLC. He also is a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University, a member of the Board of Councilors of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Thomas Gayner

Mr. Thomas S. Gayner is Independent Director of The Washington Post Company. He has served as President and Chief Investment Officer of Markel Corporation, a publicly traded financial holding company headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia, since May 2010. Mr. Gayner has served as a Director of the Company since January 2007 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Finance Committee. Since 1990, he has served as President of Markel Gayner Asset Management; he served as a Director of Markel Corporation from 1998 to 2003. Previously, he was a certified public accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and a Vice President of Davenport & Company of Virginia. Mr. Gayner serves on the Board of Directors of Colfax Corporation, The Davis Series Mutual Funds and the Community Foundation of Richmond.

David Goldberg

Mr. David B. Goldberg is Independent Director of The Washington Post Co., since September 13, 2012. He has served as Chief Executive Officer of SurveyMonkey, an online survey company, since April 2009. He was elected a Director of the Company in September 2012 and is a member of the Finance Committee. Mr. Goldberg founded LAUNCH Media, Inc. in 1994, a company dedicated to delivering music and music-related content online, and he led the company through its acquisition by Yahoo! in 2001. Following the sale, Mr. Goldberg served as Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Music until 2007. From 2007 until he joined SurveyMonkey in 2009, Mr. Goldberg served as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Benchmark Capital, where he evaluated investment opportunities for the firm and advised portfolio companies. Earlier in his career, Mr. Goldberg was Director of Marketing Strategy and New Business Development at Capitol Records. He currently serves on the board of directors of several private companies, including ancestry.com and Dashbox. Mr. Goldberg is also a trustee of the New Schools Venture Fund, an Oakland, California non-profit helping to build high-quality education organizations.

Anne Mulcahy

Mrs. Anne M. Mulcahy is Independent Director of The Washington Post Co. She served as Chairman of the Board of Xerox Corporation from 2002 until 2010 and served as Chief Executive Officer from 2001 through June 2009. From May 2000 through July 2001, she was President and Chief Operating Officer of Xerox. Mrs. Mulcahy has served as a Director of the Company since January 2008. She is Chairman of the Compensation Committee and also serves on the Executive Committee. Mrs. Mulcahy began her Xerox career as a field sales representative and assumed positions with increasing responsibility in sales and senior management. She was Vice President for Human Resources before becoming Chief Staff Officer and later Corporate Senior Vice President. She is a Director of Target Corporation, Johnson & Johnson and the non-profit organization Save the Children, where she serves as Board Chairman. Mrs. Mulcahy was a Director of Citigroup, Inc. until May 2010. As a result of the various leadership roles in which she has served at Xerox Corporation, Mrs. Mulcahy has experience in the core management skills relevant to a global branded organization, including matters relating to strategic oversight and execution.

Ronald Olson

Mr. Ronald L. Olson is Independent Director of Washington Post Co. He has been a partner since 1970 in the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, which is one of several law firms that were retained by a subsidiary of the Company in 2012 and which may again be retained in 2013. He has served as a Director of the Company since September 2003 and serves on the Executive Committee. Mr. Olson is a Director of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Edison International and City National Corporation, and is a Trustee of Western Asset Funds. He is a Director and serves on the Audit Committee of the non-profit RAND Corporation and is a Director of a number of other non-profit organizations, including the California Institute of Technology, the Mayo Clinic and ProPublica.

Larry Thompson

Mr. Larry D. Thompson is Independent Director of Washington Post Co., since June 9, 2011. He has served as Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of PepsiCo, Inc., a global food and beverage company, since June 2012. From October 2004 to May 2011, when he retired from the position, Mr. Thompson served as a Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of PepsiCo, Inc. Mr. Thompson has served as a Director of the Company since June 2011 and is a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Thompson serves as a Trustee of The Brookings Institution and as a Director of the National Center for State Courts and various Franklin, Templeton and Mutual Series Funds, and is Honorary Chairman of the Georgia Justice Project. His government career included serving in the U.S. Department of Justice as Deputy Attorney General and the Department’s National Security Coordination Council. In 2002, President George W. Bush named Mr. Thompson to head the Corporate Fraud Task Force. Previously, Mr. Thompson had been a partner in the Atlanta law firm of King & Spalding, where he practiced in the antitrust and litigation departments. He served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia and was later appointed Independent Counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban Development Investigation by the Special Panel of the U.S. Circuit Court Judges appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court. He is an elected Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers.

G. Richard Wagoner

Mr. G. Richard Wagoner, Jr., is Independent Director of The Washington Post Company. He is retired from General Motors Corporation (“GM”) in August 2009 after a 32-year career. He has served as a Director of the Company since June 2010 and is a member of the Audit Committee. Mr. Wagoner served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GM from May 2003 through March 2009 and had been President and Chief Executive Officer since June 2000. Other positions he held at GM include Executive Vice President and President of North American Operations, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Worldwide Purchasing, and President and Managing Director of General Motors do Brasil. On June 1, 2009, GM and its affiliates filed voluntary petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, seeking relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Mr. Wagoner was not an Executive Officer or Director of GM at the time of that filing. Mr. Wagoner is a member of the Board of Directors of Aleris International, Inc. and Rivian Automotive. In addition, he is a member of the Global Advisory Board of AEA Investors and he advises a number of start-up and early-stage ventures. Mr. Wagoner is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Duke University and a member of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business Advisory Board. He is a member of the Mayor of Shanghai, China’s International Business Leaders Advisory Council.

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