Merrill has two writedowns, possibly has a third coming, ousts the CEO

Who's on this board that actually watches out for shareholders?

Carol T. Christ
President, Smith College; former executive vice chancellor and provost, University of California, Berkeley. 63 years old; Director of Merrill Lynch since 2007.

Armando M. Codina
President and Chief Executive Officer, Flagler Development Group; Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of Florida International University, 58 years old; Director of Merrill Lynch since 2005. Has been on a number of boards, including Home Depot, American Airlines, General Motors, and Burger King.

Virgis W. Colbert
Retired Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations for Miller Brewing Company; 65 years old; Director of Merrill Lynch since 2006. Also on the board of Sara Lee.

Alberto Cribiore
Managing Partner and founder of Brera Capital Partners, a global private equity investment firm; former Co-President of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc.; 59 years old; Director of Merrill Lynch since 2003.

John D. Finnegan
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Chubb Corporation, a property and casualty insurance company; former Executive Vice President of General Motors Corporation, and Chairman and President of General Motors Acceptance Corporation, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation; 56 years old; Director of Merrill Lynch since 2004.

Judith Mayhew Jonas
Member of the U.K. government's Commission for Equality and Human Rights; former Provost of Kings College, Cambridge; former Special Adviser to the Chairman, Clifford Chance, Solicitors; former Vice Chair of the London Development Agency; 57 years old; Director of Merrill Lynch since 2006.

Aulana L. Peters
Retired Partner in the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; former Member, Public Oversight Board of AICPA; former Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; 63 years old; Director of Merrill Lynch since 1994. Also on a number of boards, including 3M, Deere, and Northrop Grumman.

Joseph W. Prueher
U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 1999 to 2001; Consulting Professor to the Stanford-Harvard Preventive Defense Project; U.S. Navy Admiral (Ret.), Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Pacific Command from 1996 to 1999; 62 years old; Director of Merrill Lynch since 2001. Also on a number of boards, including Fluor, Emerson, and Dyncorp.

Ann N. Reese
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Adoption Policy, a not-for-profit corporation; former Principal, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a private equity investment firm; former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ITT Corporation, a hotel and leisure company; 52 years old; Director of Merrill Lynch since 2004. Also on a number of boards, including CBS, Sears, Xerox, and Jones Apparel.

Charles O. Rossotti
Senior Advisor to The Carlyle Group, a private global investment firm; former Commissioner of Internal Revenue at the Internal Revenue Service; former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of American Management Systems, an international business and information technology consulting firm; 64 years old; Director of Merrill Lynch since 2004.