| Corporate Governance
 | R. Richard Fontaine
Executive Chairman of the Board and Director
R. Richard Fontaine is GameStop Corporation’s Executive Chairman of the Board and a Director. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and its predecessor entities from 1996 until 2008. Fontaine was elected Chairman of the Board in June 2000. Prior to 1996, he held various executive and management positions with B. Dalton Booksellers, Software Etc., Michaels Stores Inc. and Ingram Distribution. |  | | Daniel A. DeMatteo
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Daniel A. DeMatteo is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of GameStop. He was the company's Vice-Chairman and Chief Operating Officer from June 2000 until August 2008. He previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer for GameStop and its predecessor entities beginning in 1996. DeMatteo has served in executive and management positions with Software Etc. and B. Dalton Booksellers. | | | David W. Carlson
Executive Vice President of Finance and Assistant Secretary
David W. Carlson holds the post of Executive Vice President of Finance and Assistant Secretary of GameStop Corporation. He served as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GameStop’s predecessor entities from November 1996 to June 2002. Carlson has held management positions within Barnes & Noble and the public accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick. Mr. Carlson recently announced that he will retire on March 1, 2010. | | | J. Paul Raines
Chief Operating Officer
Prior to joining GameStop, Raines spent eight years with Home Depot in various management positions in retail operations, including serving as EVP for U.S. Stores and President of the Southern Division of the Atlanta-based company. Raines was responsible for more than 2,000 stores and $70 billion in sales activity. He also has extensive international expertise covering Latin America, Asia and Europe. Prior to Home Depot, he spent four years in global sourcing for L.L. Bean and 10 years with Kurt Salmon Associates in their consumer products group.
| | | Catherine R. Smith
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Mrs. Smith recently joined the senior management team as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. She most recently served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Dallas-based Centex Corporation. Smith has also served as CFO of Kennametal, Inc., a global supplier of tooling, engineering components and advanced materials; Bell Systems, a business segment of Textron; and the Intelligence and Information Systems Business of Raytheon Company. In addition, Smith currently serves on the Board of Directors for Dick's Sporting Goods. | |
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| R. Richard Fontaine
Executive Chairman of the Board and Director
R. Richard Fontaine is GameStop Corporation’s Executive Chairman of the Board and a Director. He served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company and its predecessor entities from 1996 to 2008. Fontaine was elected Chairman of the Board in June 2000. He is also a member of the Executive Committee. Prior to 1996, he held various executive and management positions with B. Dalton Booksellers, Software Etc., Michaels Stores Inc. and Ingram Distribution. | | | Leonard Riggio
Director
Leonard Riggio is a Director and a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Riggio was the Chairman of the Board of GameStop, Inc. since its acquisition by Barnes & Noble in June 2000 and of Babbage’s Etc. since he formed it in November 1996 until the completion of our common stock offering in February 2002. Mr. Riggio has been Chairman of the Board and a principal stockholder of Barnes & Noble since its inception in 1986 and served as Chief Executive Officer from its inception in 1986 until February 2002. In addition, Mr. Riggio has been Chairman of the Board of Barnes & Noble.com since its inception in February 1997. Since 1965, Mr. Riggio has been Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and the principal stockholder of Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc., one of the largest operators of college bookstores in the country. Since 1985, Mr. Riggio has been Chairman of the Board and a principal beneficial owner of MBS Textbook Exchange, Inc., one of the nation's largest wholesalers of college textbooks. | | | Michael N. Rosen
Director
Michael N. Rosen is a director. Mr. Rosen has served as a director for us or our predecessor companies since October 1999. Mr. Rosen is also a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Rosen has been a partner at Bryan cave LLP, counsel to the Company, since their July 2002 combination with Robinson Silverman. Prior to that, Mr. Rosen was Chairman of Robinson Silverman.
| | | Daniel A. DeMatteo
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Daniel A. DeMatteo is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of GameStop. He was the company's Vice-Chairman and Chief Operating Officer from June 2000 to August 2008. He previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer for GameStop and its predecessor entities beginning in 1996. DeMatteo has served in executive and management positions with Software Etc. and B. Dalton Booksellers. | | | Stephanie Shern
Director
Stephanie M. Shern is a Director and Chair of the Audit Committee. Mrs. Shern formed Shern Associates LLC in February 2002 to provide business advisory and board services, primarily to publicly-held companies. From May 2001 until February 2002, Mrs. Shern served as Senior Vice President and Global Managing Director of Retail and Consumer Products for Kurt Salmon Associates. From 1995 until April 2001, Mrs. Shern was the Vice Chair and Global Director of Retail and Consumer Products for Ernst & Young LLP and a member of Ernst & Young's Management Committee. Mrs. Shern is currently a director and Chair of the Audit Committee of The Scotts/Miracle Gro Company, a director, Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the compensation Committee of Embarq Corporation, and a director and member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees of Royal Ahold.
| | | Edward Volkwein
Director
Edward A. Volkwein is a Director and a member of the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Volkwein is President and Chief Marketing Officer of Hydro-Photon, Inc., a water purification technology company. Prior to joining Hydro-Photon, Mr. Volkwein was Senior Vice President Global Advertising & Promotion for Philips Consumer Electronics from November 1994 through October 2002. Prior to joining Philips, Mr. Volkwein was Senior Vice President of Marketing for Sega of America, where he was instrumental in developing Sega into a major video game brand. Mr. Volkwein has also held senior executive positions with Funk & Wagnalls and Prince Manufacturing. | | | Gerald Szczepanski
Director
Szczepanski is a director, Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Mr. Szczepanski is the co-founder, and since 1994, has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gadzooks, Inc., a publicly traded, specialty retailer of casual clothing and accessories for teenagers. | | | Stanley ("Mickey") Steinberg
Director
Formerly a Director of Electronics Boutique, Mr. Steinberg is a Senior Advisor to the mergers and acquisitions firm of Navigant Capital Advisors, LLC. Previously he held executive management positions with Sony Retail Entertainment and Walt Disney Imagineering. Mr. Steinberg is a member of the board of Reckson Associates Realty Corp. and of two privately held companies, AMC, Inc., the owner and manager of the America's Mart Atlanta Tradeshow center, and ECL Group, an apartment development, construction and management company. | | | Jerome L. Davis
Director
Mr. Davis is a director and a member of the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Davis is Chief Executive Officer of Jerome L. Davis & associates, LLC, a consulting firm focusing on executive leadership, coaching and training. Mr. Davis is former Global Vice President, Service Excellence at Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Mr. Davis joined EDS as President of its Business Process Management unit for the Americas and was named Chief Client Executive Officer in 2002. Prior to EDS, he was President and Executive Officer for Maytag Commercial Solutions, having started with Maytag Corporation in 1998 as Senior Vice President, Sales for Maytag Appliances. Mr. Davis also held executive and general management leadership positions with Frito-Lay, Inc., a division of PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble Company. Mr. Davis is currently a director and Chair of the Finance and Enterprise Risks Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of Apogee Enterprises, Inc., where he has been a director since 2004.
| | | Steven R. Koonin
Director
Mr. Koonin is a Director. Mr. Koonin is the President of Turner Entertainment Networks, a position
He has held since October 2006. Mr. Koonin joined the Turner Entertainment Group in February 200 and served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the TNT and TBS networks until October 2006, where he was responsible for the rebranding of both networks and the development of some of the most successful series and mini-series in cable television history. Prior to February 2000, Mr. Koonin spent 14 years with The Coca-Cola Company, serving most recently as Vice President of Consumer Marketing. Mr. Koonin is also a director of the Georgia Aquarium and the Fox Theatre.
| | | Larry S. Zilavy
Director
Mr. Lawrence S. Zilavy is a Director and member of the Audit Committee. Mr. Zilavy has served a director since October 2005. Mr. Zilavy is Senior Vice President of Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, Inc. Mr. Zilavy was Executive Vice President, Corporate Finance and Strategic Planning for Barnes & Noble from May 2003 until November 2004 and was Chief Financial Officer of Barnes & Noble from June 2002 through April 2003. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of IBJ Whitehall Bank and Trust Company, where he worked since 1992. Mr. Zilavy is also a director of Barnes & Noble, a director of The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., a director of the non-profit Community Resource Exchange and a trustee of St. Francis College in New York City.
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