Robert R McMaster

ROBERT R. McMASTER has been a director of Carpenter since 2007 and is a member of Carpenter's Audit/Finance Committee. Mr. McMaster held various positions at KPMG from May 1970 to June 1997, including Ohio Valley Area Managing Partner. He served from 1992 to 1997 as a member of KPMG's Management Committee. From June 1997 to February 2005, Mr. McMaster was chairman and chief executive officer of Westward Communications, and president and chief executive officer of its successor company, ASP Westward Holdings, publishers of community newspapers in Texas, Arkansas, and Colorado. He is also a director of Sally Beauty Holdings Inc. (chairman, Audit Committee; member, Finance Committee), a public company listed on the NYSE, and Minimally Invasive Devices, LLC. He also is a former board member of American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. and Dominion Homes Inc. He is active in a wide variety of community affairs organizations in the Columbus, Ohio, region. He received his B.S. magna cum laude, in accounting from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1970, and is the recipient of the Haskins & Sells Foundation Award for excellence in accounting.