People: Ecolab Inc (ECL.N)

Ms. Mary M. VanDeWeghe has been appointed as Independent Director of Ecolab Inc., effective December 1, 2011. She has been an executive with Lockheed Martin and J.P. Morgan, and since August 2009 she has served on the faculty of the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business as professor of the practice of finance. She was Senior Vice President of Finance, responsible for Corporate Treasury, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investor Relations, Corporate and Competitive Financial Analysis and Investment Management, for Lockheed Martin from 2006 to 2009. From 1996 to 2006, she was CEO and President of Forte Consulting Inc., consulting on mergers, acquisitions, capital structure, corporate governance and other financial and management strategies to enhance shareholder value. During that time period, she also served as executive in residence and finance professor at the University of Maryland Smith School of Business She began her career in 1983 at J.P. Morgan, where she held a variety of positions in corporate finance, capital markets and general management and rose to the rank of Managing Director. Ms. VanDeWeghe has a B.A. in economics from Smith College and an MBA in finance from Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. She is a member of the board of directors of Brown Advisory, an investment management company.