Michele J. Hooper

Overview

Michele J. Hooper has served as our director since March 2, 2006. Ms. Hooper is a co-founder and Managing Partner of The Director's Council, a position she has held since 2003. Previously, Ms Hooper served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Voyager Expanded Learning, a developer and provider of learning programs and teacher training for public schools, from 1999 until 2000. Prior to that, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of Stadtlander Drug Company, Inc., a provider of disease-specific pharmaceutical care from 1998 until Stadtlander was acquired in 1999. Prior to joining Stadtlander, Ms. Hooper was Corporate Vice President, Caremark International Inc, a spinoff of Baxter International, and President of the International Business Group. Ms. Hooper began her career at Baxter and held positions of increasing responsibility before her appointment as Vice President, Corporate Planning. From 1988 to 1992, Ms. Hooper was President of Baxter Canada. Ms. Hooper also serves on the corporate Boards of Directors of PPG Industries, Inc., AstraZeneca PLC and UnitedHealth Group and chairs the Audit Committee for PPG. Ms. Hooper is a board member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and is President of NACD's Chicago Chapter. She was a commissioner on the 2004 NACD Blue Ribbon Commissions on governance. Ms. Hooper is a member of the OECD Advisory Panel on Boardroom Practices. She is a member of the Advisory board of American Telecare. Ms. Hooper is a Board member of the Center for Disease Control Foundation, and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. Ms. Hooper was recently appointed one of the first public board members of the Center for Audit Quality, an autonomous public policy organization dedicated to improving investor confidence in the audit process. Ms. Hooper earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.