FACUNDO L. BACARDI has been Chairman of the Board of the Company since 2005 and a director since 1993.

Mr. Bacardi is the managing director of Apache Capital LLC, an investment company based in Coral Gables, Florida that invests in a broad diversified class of public and private assets.

Mr. Bacardi also serves on the board of trustees for Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company, the largest direct seller of life insurance in the United States, the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Miami Branch, the board of trustees of Emory University, and the advisory board of Noro-Moseley Partners, the largest venture capital firm in the Southeastern United States. Mr. Bacardi also serves as the executive director of the Facundo and Amalia Bacardi Foundation. Other memberships include the Georgia Bar Association.

Mr. Bacardi received a B.S.B.A. in Finance from American University and a J.D. degree from Emory University Law School.

SÉAMUS McBRIDE, was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective September 1, 2008 and was elected a Director by the Board on September 11, 2008.

Mr. McBride has over 30 years of global management experience in the consumer goods industry including marketing, commercial operations and systems.

Throughout his 23-year career with Colgate Palmolive Company, Mr. McBride held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility in North America, Europe and Asia. At Colgate, Mr. McBride was most recently Executive Vice President and President, North America and Worldwide Commercial Effectiveness, leading Colgate’s business operations in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico and directing Colgate’s global commercial effectiveness program. Mr. McBride also spent four years as marketing director for beer producer, Bass Plc.

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