Medtronic, Inc. Board of Directors
RICHARD H. ANDERSON
Chief Executive Officer, Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Director since 2002
Mr. Anderson has been Chief Executive Officer of Delta Air Lines, Inc. since September 2007. He was Executive Vice President of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated and President, Commercial Services Group, of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated from December 2006 to September 2007, Executive Vice President of UnitedHealth Group from November 2004 until December 2004. Mr. Anderson was Chief Executive Officer of Northwest Airlines Corporation from February 2001 to October 2004. Mr. Anderson serves on the Board of Cargill, Inc. and Delta Air Lines.
DAVID L. CALHOUN
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Nielsen Company
Director since 2007
Mr. Calhoun was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Nielsen Company on August 23, 2006. Prior to joining The Nielson Company, Mr. Calhoun served as Vice Chairman of General Electric Company and President & Chief Executive Officer, GE Infrastructure. Before that, Mr. Calhoun served as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Aircraft Engines; President and Chief Executive Officer of Employers Reinsurance Corporation; President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Lighting; President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Transportation Systems; and Chief Executive Officer of GE Transportation. Mr. Calhoun is also a director of The Boeing Company.
Class III Director
Term expires 2010
VICTOR J. DZAU, M.D.
Chancellor for Health Affairs Duke University
President and CEO, Duke University Health System
Director since 2008
Dr. Dzau has served as Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Duke University Health System since July 2004. From July 1996 until September 2004, he was the Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Department of Medicine, Physician in Chief and Director of Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is the previous Chairman of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cardiovascular Disease Advisory Committee and served on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the NIH. Dr. Dzau is a member of the Institute of Medicine. He currently serves as a director of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Duke University Health System, PepsiCo, Inc. and Genzyme Corporation.
WILLIAM A. HAWKINS
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Director since 2007
Mr. Hawkins has been a director of Medtronic since March 2007 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since August 2008. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic since August 2007, and prior to that he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Medtronic from May 2004 to August 2007. He served as Senior Vice President and President, Medtronic Vascular, from January 2002 to May 2004. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Novoste Corporation from 1998 to 2002. Mr. Hawkins serves on the board of visitors for the Duke University School of Engineering and the board of directors for the Guthrie Theater and the University of Minnesota Foundation.
SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON, Ph.D.
President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Director since 2002
Dr. Jackson has been President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since July 1999. She was Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from July 1995 to July 1999, and Professor of Physics at Rutgers University and consultant to AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1991 to 1995. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Philosophical Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of The American Physical Society. She is a trustee of the Brookings Institution, a Life Trustee of M.I.T. and a member of the Counsel on Foreign Relations. She is also a director of the NYSE Euronext, Federal Express Corporation, Marathon Oil Corporation, Public Service Enterprise Group, and International Business Machines Corporation.
JAMES T. LENEHAN
Financial Consultant and Retired Vice Chairman and President of Johnson & Johnson
Director since 2007
Mr. Lenehan served as President of Johnson & Johnson from 2002 until June 2004 and retired after 28 years of service; Vice Chairman of Johnson & Johnson from August 2000 until June 2004; Worldwide Chairman of Johnson and Johnson's Medical Devices and Diagnostics Group from 1999 until he became Vice Chairman of the Board; and was previously Worldwide Chairman, Consumer Pharmaceuticals & Professional Group. Mr. Lenehan has been a financial consultant since October 2004. Mr. Lenehan is a director of Blacklight Power, Inc., Talecris Biotherapeutics Inc. and Aton Pharma Inc.
Class III Director
Term expires 2010
DENISE M. O'LEARY
Private Venture Capital Investor
Director since 2000
Ms. O'Leary has been a private venture capital investor in a variety of early stage companies since 1996. Ms. O'Leary is a director of US Airways Group, Inc. and Calpine Corporation. She is a director of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford Hospitals and Clinics, where she was chair of the board also from 2000 through 2005, and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. She was a member of the Stanford University Board of Trustees from 1996 through 2006, where she chaired the Committee of the Medical Center for that period.
KENDALL J. POWELL
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, General Mills
Director since 2007
Mr. Powell has been Chairman of General Mills since May 2008 and Chief Executive Officer of General Mills since September 2007. Prior to that he was President and Chief Operating Officer and he has been a director of General Mills, Inc. since June 2006; Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Retail from May 2005 to June 2006; Executive Vice President of General Mills from August 2004 to May 2005. From September 1999 to August 2004, Mr. Powell was Chief Executive Officer of Cereal Partners Worldwide a joint venture of General Mills, Inc. and the Nestle Corporation. Mr. Powell joined General Mills in 1979. Mr. Powell also serves on the boards of Cereal Partners Worldwide, the Twin Cities United Way, the Minnesota Historical Society and the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation.
Class III Director
Term expires 2010
ROBERT C. POZEN
Chairman, MFS Investment Management
Director since 2004
Mr. Pozen has been Chairman of MFS Investment Management and a director of MFS Mutual Funds since February 2004 and previously was Secretary of Economic Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 2003; Mr. Pozen was also John Olin Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, 2002 to 2003; Vice Chairman of Fidelity Investments from June 2000 to December 2001 and President of Fidelity Management & Research from April 1997 to December 2001. From August 2007 to August 2008, he was also the chairman of the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting and since 2008 is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.
JEAN-PIERRE ROSSO
Chairman, World Economic Forum USA
Director since 1998
Mr. Rosso has been Chairman of World Economic Forum USA since April 2006. Mr. Rosso served as Chairman of CNH Global N.V. from November 1999 until his retirement in May 2004; was Chief Executive Officer of CNH Global N.V. from November 1999 to November 2000; and was Chief Executive Officer of Case Corporation from April 1994 to November 1999 and Chairman from March 1996 to November 1996. He is also a director of Bombardier, Inc. and Eurazeo.
JACK W. SCHULER
Co-Founder, Crabtree Partners
Director since 1990
Mr. Schuler has been a director of Stericycle, Inc. since March 1990; President and Chief Operating Officer of Abbott Laboratories from January 1987 to August 1989; and a director of that company from April 1985 to August 1989. Mr. Schuler is a director of Quidel Corporation and a co-founder of Crabtree Partners.