| C.
William Pollard |
Chairman,
The ServiceMaster Company |
| Vernon
T. Squires |
Retired
Senior Vice President and General Counsel,
The ServiceMaster Company |
Lord
Griffiths
of Fforestfach |
Vice
Chairman,
Goldman Sachs International Ltd. |
| Carlos
H. Cantu |
Senior
Chairman, Retired President and Chief Executive Officer,
The ServiceMaster Company |
| Steven
S Reinemund |
President
and Chief Operating Officer,
PepsiCo, Inc. |
Bill
Pollard is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board
of Directors of The ServiceMaster Company. He joined the
Company in 1977 and has served not once but twice as its
Chief Executive Officer. His first term as CEO was for ten
years from 1983 to 1993 and his second term was from October
1999 to February of 2001. Bill also served as Chairman of
the Board of ServiceMaster from 1990 to April 2002.
During
his leadership of the Company, ServiceMaster was recognized
by Fortune magazine as the #1 service company among the
Fortune 500 and was included on its most admired companies.
The Wall Street Journal listed it as a "star of the
future" and the Financial Times recognized it as one
of the most respected companies in the world. During this
period, the Company achieved market leadership in each of
its markets and provided an average compounded annual total
return for its shareholders of 20%.
In
addition to his work at ServiceMaster, he serves as a director
of two other public companies: Herman Miller, Inc. and UnumProvident
Corporation and also serves as a director or trustee of
a number of educational, religious and not-for-profit organizations,
including Wheaton College, The Drucker Foundation, and The
Avodah Institute.
Bill
is a graduate of Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, and
he received a J.D. from Northwestern University School of
Law.
He
is the author of a best selling book, The Soul of the
Firm and also has written for or contributed to other
books and magazines including The Leader of the Future,
Leading People, Leading for Innovation and Organizing
for Results, "The Quest for the Entrepreneurial
Spirit," "The Leader Who Serves."
A
native of Chicago, Bill and his wife, Judy, have been married
for over 40 years. They have four adult children and twelve
grandchildren.
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