Phillip R. Cox, 61, is president and CEO of Cox Financial Corporation, Cincinnati, a financial services firm he founded in 1971. He was elected to Diebold's board of directors in 2005. In addition, he serves as a director on a variety of boards, including Cincinnati Bell, The Timken Company, and Touchstone Investments.

Cox is a graduate of Xavier University and holds a doctorate of letters degree from the College of Mount St. Joseph and Cincinnati Technical College. <... 

Richard L. Crandall, 65, serves as non-executive chairman of the Board, Novell, Inc., Waltham, Mass., as well as managing partner of Aspen Partners LLC, Aspen, Colo., a private equity firm. He was elected to Diebold’s board of directors in 1996. In addition, he is a director on a variety of boards, including Novell and the Dreman/Claymore Dividend and Income Fund.

Also, Crandall is chairman of the Enterprise Software Roundtable, Aspen, an organization which he founded in 19... 

Gale S. Fitzgerald, 58, is a founding partner of TranSpend, Inc., a privately-held firm focused on total spend optimization. She was elected to Diebold’s board of directors in 1999. Fitzgerald is also an independent director of Health Net, Inc., one of the nation’s largest managed health care companies, and Cross Country Healthcare, Inc.

Before founding TranSpend, Inc., Fitzgerald served as president and chief executive officer of QP Group, Inc. Prior to that, she was ch... 

Phillip B. Lassiter, 65, was elected to the Diebold board of directors in 1995. He served as chairman & CEO of Ambac Financial Group, New York, a financial guarantee insurance holding company from 1991 until his retirement in 2004.

Before Ambac, Lassiter spent 22 years at Citicorp, where he was the group executive in charge of North American Investment banking and insurance activities and a member of the policy committee.

Lassiter served as a Lieutenant in the ... 

John N. Lauer, 70, was appointed non-executive chairman of the board for Diebold, Incorporated in December 2005. He is former chairman, president and chief executive officer of Oglebay Norton Company, Cleveland, an aggregates and industrial minerals firm. He was elected to Diebold’s board of directors in 1992. Prior to Oglebay, Lauer served as president and chief operating officer of the B.F. Goodrich Company.

Lauer received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering fr... 

Eric J. Roorda, 58, serves as president of Procomp Agropecuária Ltda, São Paulo, Brazil. He was elected to Diebold’s board of directors in 2001.

Roorda is former chairman of the board and president of Procomp Amazônia Industria Eletronica, S.A., São Paulo, Brazil, which he founded along with three other colleagues in 1985. Prior to founding Procomp, Roorda held information technology positions at INPE, Celepar, Universidade Federal do Paraná and SID Informática.

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Thomas W. Swidarski, 49, is president and chief executive officer, of Diebold, Incorporated. He was elected to Diebold’s board of directors in 2005.

In his role as CEO, Swidarski has built and focused the Diebold leadership team and its employees on five key priorities: increasing customer loyalty; improving product and service quality; strengthening the company’s supply chain; enhancing communications and teamwork; and rebuilding long-term profitability. His charge is t... 

Henry D.G. Wallace, 63, was former group vice president and chief financial officer of the Ford Motor Company. He was elected to Diebold’s board of directors in 2003. In addition, he serves as director for Hayes Lemmerz International Inc, Ambac Financial Group, Inc; and Lear Corporation.

Prior to this, Wallace was group vice president for Ford’s operations in the Asia Pacific region, and he served as president and CEO of Mazda Motor Corporation in Japan. He has also held n... 

Alan J. Weber, 60, is the CEO of Weber Group LLC, an investment consulting firm. He was elected to Diebold’s board of directors in 2005.

Weber retired as chairman and chief executive officer of U.S. Trust Corporation and as a member of the executive committee of the Charles Schwab Corporation. In addition, he serves as a director of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

Prior to joining U.S. Trust in 2002, Weber was vice chairman and chief financial officer at Aetna...