Anthony Welters

Executive Vice President, UnitedHealth Group (a diversified health and well-being company), since December 2006, and President, Public and Senior Markets Group since September 2007, having been President and Chief Executive Officer of AmeriChoice Corporation, a UnitedHealth Group Company, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AmeriChoice Corporation and its predecessor companies since 1989; age 53. Mr. Welters has been a director of C. R. Bard since February 1999 and is a member of the Compensation Committee, Governance Committee, Science and Technology Committee and Regulatory Compliance Committee. Mr. Welters is a recipient of the prestigious Horatio Alger Award and serves as a director of the Horatio Alger Association. He is also a director of West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. and Qwest Communications International, Inc. and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.