Blythe J McGarvie

She retired from teaching and research in the accounting and management unit at Harvard Business School. Previously, she served as CEO and founder of Leadership for International Finance LLC, an advisory firm offering consuling services and providing leadership seminars. She was EVP and CFO of BIC Group, a publicly traded consumer goods company. Leadership for International Finance, LLC. Ms. McGarvie has been President of Leadership for International Finance, LLC, a firm focusing on improving clients' financial positions and providing leadership seminars for corporate and academic groups, since January 2003. Her firm specializes in providing global perspectives to U.S. and multinational companies, primarily in the consumer goods, financial services and knowledge-based industries. From 1999 through the end of 2002, Ms. McGarvie was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at BIC Group, a leading manufacturer of convenient disposable products. Ms. McGarvie served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hannaford Bros. Co., a food retailer, from 1994 to 1999. Ms. McGarvie is currently a director of Accenture Ltd., The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. and Viacom, Inc.