Joseph J. Plumeri - Mr. Plumeri age 63 joined the Board on February 8 2001. He is our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining the Group Mr. Plumeri spent 32 years as an executive with Citigroup Inc. and its predecessors most recently overseeing the 450 North American retail branches of Citigroup's Citibank unit. Before that Mr. Plumeri served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup's Primerica Financial Services from 1995
to 1999. In 1994 Mr. Plumeri was appointed Vice Chairman of Citigroup's predecessor Travelers Group Inc. In 1993 Mr. Plumeri became the President of a predecessor of Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney unit after overseeing the merger of Smith Barney and Shearson and serving as the President and Managing Partner of Shearson since 1990. He is also a board member of a number of organizations including The Board of Visitors of the College of William & Mary and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and a Trustee for the Granum Value Fund. |