Richard Sarnoff

Overview

Richard Sarnoff, 47, has served as a director of our company since 1998. Since 2000, Mr. Sarnoff has been President of Corporate Development Group for Random House, Inc. and in 2002 was elected to the Supervisory Board of Random House's parent company, Bertelsman AG. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Sarnoff was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Random House. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Sarnoff served as Chief Financial Officer of Bantam Doubleday Dell, a consumer book publisher, and from 1995 to 1998, he was Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Bantam Doubleday Dell. Mr. Sarnoff is also a director of Audible, Inc., a company that provides spoken audio content, and a member of several not-for-profit boards, including the Center for Communications, the Bronx Lab School and the American Association of Publishers. Mr. Sarnoff received a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Sarnoff was initially elected to our Board of Directors in accordance with the terms of our stockholders' agreement which provided that, prior to our initial public offering, Random House was entitled to have one representative serve on our Board of Directors.