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Bennett Stewart, the chairman and chief executive officer of EVA Dimensions LLC, and chairman and chief investment officer of EVA Advisers LLC, is a widely acknowledged expert in business valuation and performance measurement. Prior to forming EVA Advisers and EVA Dimensions in 2006, he was a co-founder of Stern Stewart & Co., a global consulting firm. He was a senior executive of Chase Financial Policy, the financial advisory arm of the Chase Manhattan Bank, before starting Stern Stewart in 1982. Mr. Stewart was the principal creator of EVA in the early 1980s, and in the 1990's he continuously developed and refined the EVA framework while overseeing major consulting projects with hundreds of companies around the world. Over the last six years he also was the principal architect of the PRVit stock ranking system and EVAntage, a comprehensive file of EVA and related metrics covering the Russell 3000 companies. He also is an accomplished author, public speaker and consultant in the fields of accounting for value, value-based performance management and incentive plans that foster an ownership culture. He is the author of The Quest for Value (Harper Business, 1991), the definitive guide to EVA, and numerous articles in publications such as the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal and the Journal of Corporate Finance1. Mr. Stewart received his BS in electrical engineering from Princeton University and his MBA in finance and economics from the University of Chicago. He serves as chairman of the Alumni Advisory Council for Princeton's Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, and as a director of ITC Holding Company, the public parent of the nation's largest independent electric transmission and distribution company. 1Articles include "How to Fix Accounting - Measure and Reward Economic Profit" (appearing in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Spring 2003), which was summarized in a Wall Street Journal editorial "Why Smart Managers Do Dumb Things," published June, 2003, and "The Investors Guide to EVA and PRVit," a comprehensive explanation of the PRVit model, published in 2004. Mr. Stewart has written three articles for the Harvard Business Review: "Remaking the Public Corporation from Within" (July/August, 1990), "Pension Roulette" (June, 2003), and "Champions of Profitable Growth" (July/August 2004). His recent articles on incentive compensation include "How to Structure Incentive Plans That Work" (published by Stern Stewart), "Create Value by Sharing the Wealth" (Shareholder Value, January 2003), "Consider All Options for Options" (Chief Executive, August/September 2003), "Where Jeff Immelt's New Incentive Plan Misses the Mark" (Corporate Board Member, March/April 2004), "It's the Metrics that Matter," (Directorship, Fall/Winter, 2004), and "The Real Reasons Enron Failed" (Morgan Stanley Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Summer 2006). | 