Updated: Feb. 6, 2009

From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Noski served as senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of AT&T Corporation and was named vice chairman of AT&T's Board of Directors in February 2002. He retired from AT&T upon the completion of its restructuring in November 2002. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Noski served as Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation, and was a director from 2002 to 2005.

Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Noski was president, chief operating officer, and a member of the Board of Directors of Hughes Electronics Corporation, a publicly-traded subsidiary of General Motors Corporation in the satellite and wireless communications business. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Financial Executives International, and is a past member of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the FASB and the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Mr. Noski also serves as a director of the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County.

Mr. Noski joined the Microsoft Board on November 11, 2003. He also serves on the boards of directors of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., Automatic Data Processing, Inc. and Morgan Stanley.

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