Ameriprise turns down government money - they ran the company well enough not to need it

James M. Cracchiolo
Mr. Cracchiolo has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ameriprise Financial since September 2005, when the company, American Express Financial Advisors, completed its spin-off from American Express.
Mr. Cracchiolo served as Group President, American Express Global Financial Services 2000-2005 and as President and Chief Executive Officer of American Express' Travel Related Services International from May 1998 through July 2003. Mr. Cracchiolo joined American Express Company in 1982.
In addition, Mr. Cracchiolo is a member of the Business Roundtable, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Minnesota Business Partnership and the American Council of Life Insurers. He also serves on the Board of Advisors to the March of Dimes Foundation.


Warren D. Knowlton
Mr. Knowlton is the chief executive officer and a board member of Graham Packaging Company, L.P., a leading international supplier of plastic food and beverage containers.
Until mid-2006, Mr. Knowlton was the chief executive officer and board member of The Morgan Crucible Company plc, a U.K.-based building materials company with global operations.
Prior to joining The Morgan Crucible Company plc, he held senior leadership positions with Pilkington plc and Owens Corning in both the United States and international markets.
Mr. Knowlton has been a director of the Smith & Nephew plc board since 2000, serving as chairman of the global medical technology company's audit committee since 2001.


W. Walker Lewis
Mr. Lewis is chairman of Devon Value Advisers, a financial consulting and investment banking firm, which he founded in 1997. Previously, he served as a managing director of Kidder Peabody, where he was a member of the firm's management committee.
From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Lewis was president of Avon Products Inc., North America, and a member of the Office of the Chairman of Avon Incorporated.
From 1993 to 1997 Mr. Lewis was a senior adviser at Dillon Reed.


Siri S. Marshall
Ms. Marshall serves as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, and chief governance and compliance officer at General Mills, Inc. She also managed General Mills' tax function from 1994 to 1999 and its Corporate Affairs group from 1999 to 2005.
Prior to joining General Mills in 1994, Ms. Marshall was senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Avon Products, Inc.
Ms. Marshall also is a director of Equifax, Inc., the Yale Center for the Study of Corporate Law, the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, and a trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the General Mills Foundation.
She has served as a director of NovaCare, Inc., Jafra Cosmetics International and Snack Ventures Europe, and as a member of The New York Stock Exchange Legal Advisory Committee and the Bank of America Midwest Advisory Council.


Jeffrey Noddle
Mr. Noddle is chairman and chief executive officer of Minnesota-based SUPERVALU INC., the third-largest grocery retail company and a leading food distributor in the United States. He has held this position since 2002. Prior to his present position, he held a number of leadership positions across SUPERVALU's retail and supply chain operations, including president and chief operating officer, corporate executive vice president and president and chief operating officer of SUPERVALU's supply chain company, and corporate vice president of merchandising.
In addition to his role as chairman of the SUPERVALU board of directors, Mr. Noddle serves on a number of industry and corporate boards. He is currently chairman of the board of directors of The Food Marketing Institute and serves as a member of the boards of directors of Donaldson Company, Inc., The Food Industry Center at the University of Minnesota, the Independent Grocers Alliance, Inc. and the Academy of Food Marketing at Saint Joseph's University.
Mr. Noddle is also active in Minneapolis civic affairs, currently serving on the Greater Twin Cities United Way board of directors and executive committee, the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management's board of overseers and as a member of the executive committee of the Minnesota Business Partnership and The Business Council.


H. Jay Sarles
Mr. Sarles is retired, having most recently served as vice chairman of Bank of America Corporation. Prior to that, he served as vice chairman and chief administrative officer of FleetBoston Financial with responsibility for administrative functions, technology and operations, treasury services, corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions.
During his 37 years at Fleet, Mr. Sarles oversaw virtually all of Fleet's businesses at one time or another, including, most recently, the company's wholesale banking businesses. These included commercial finance, real estate finance, capital markets, global services, industry banking, middle market and large corporate lending, small business services and investment banking businesses.
He also is a member of the boards of directors of AvalonBay Communities, Inc., Carlyle Capital Corporation Limited, Dental Service of Massachusetts, Inc., DentaQuest Ventures, Inc., MBNA Europe Bank Limited, an indirect subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation. Mr. Sarles also is a trustee of Mount Holyoke College.


Robert F. Sharpe, Jr.
Mr. Sharpe has been executive vice president - Legal and External Affairs, at ConAgra Foods, Inc. since 2005.
From 2002 until joining ConAgra, he was a partner at the Brunswick Group LLC, an international financial public relations firm. He served as senior vice president - Public Affairs, secretary and general counsel for PepsiCo, Inc. from 1998 to 2002. Previously, Mr. Sharpe was senior vice president and general counsel for RJR Nabisco, Inc.
Mr. Sharpe is also an executive advisor to Starvest Partners, a business-to-business technology venture capital fund, and a former member of the boards of Pepsi Bottling Group and Pepsi Americas.


William H. Turner
Mr. Turner is dean of the College of Business at Stony Brook University. Previously, he was senior partner at Summus Limited.
He was president and chief executive officer of PNC Bank, New Jersey from 1997 to 2000 and chairman of PNC Bank, N.A., New Jersey and Northeast Region, from 2000 until his retirement in 2002. Before joining PNC, Mr. Turner was president and co-chief executive officer at Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. and vice chairman of Chemical Banking Corporation, which merged with The Chase Manhattan Corporation in 1995.
He also is a member of the boards of directors of Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., Standard Motor Products, Inc., Volt Information Sciences, Inc. and New Jersey Resources, Inc.