Stephen M. Ward, Jr.

Overview

STEPHEN M. WARD, JR., age 53, has been a director of Carpenter since 2001, and is Chair of the Human Resources Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Ward is the retired President and Chief Executive Officer of Lenovo Corporation, the international PC company formed by the acquisition of IBM"s PC business by Lenovo of China. Prior to joining Lenovo, he was senior vice president and general manager of IBM"s Personal Systems Group, responsible for the Personal Computing Division, the Retail Store Solutions Division and the Printing Systems Division. In his 26-year career with IBM, Mr. Ward also served as IBM"s chief information officer and Vice President, Business Transformation, directing business process and information technology investments. Mr. Ward was also general manager of IBM"s Global Industrial Sector, responsible for the marketing, sales, and service of IBM e-business solutions. In the mid-1990"s, he served as Vice President, Information Technology and was later named General Manager, IBM ThinkPad, in the IBM Personal Computer Company. He first joined IBM in Tucson, Arizona as an engineer in the Storage Products Division. He held various management positions in manufacturing, production control and project development for disk drive, tape and optical storage projects and software development, and was also an assistant to the IBM chairman at company headquarters in Armonk, New York. He holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo. Mr. Ward is also a member of the Board of e2open, a maker of enterprise software, where he serves on the Audit Committee, and E-lnk, a maker of electronic paper displays.