WorldatWork Elects 2007 Board of Directors

WorldatWork has elected its 2007 board of directors to guide the association through its next year of operations.

Margaret Maggie Gagliardi, CCP, Senior Vice President of Global Compensation and Benefits for the American Express Company, will serve as chairman in 2007. Gagliardi succeeds Mike Davis, VP of HR for US Retail and Corporate for General Mills, Inc, as chair.

ìI am looking forward to working with such an impressive pool of talent and being able to draw from the expertise of such world class companies to direct and guide WorldatWork,î said Anne Ruddy, president of WorldatWork.

The following executives were elected by WorldatWork members to the full Board of Directors for a term of one year beginning in January 2007:

Chair: Margaret Maggie Gagliardi, CCP, Senior Vice President of Global Compensation and Benefits for the American Express Company

Vice Chair: Tracy J. O. Kofski, CCP, Vice President, Total Compensation, Target Corporation

Secretary/Treasurer: Sara R. McAuley, CCP, Vice President, Human Resources, Standard and Poor’s

John Boudreau, Ph.D., Professor and Research Director, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business and Center for Effective Organizations

Jenny Machak, CCP, General Director, Global Compensation, General Motors

Leslie M. Stevens, CCP, CEBS, Director of Compensation, Starbucks

Laura Thanasse, CCP, CBP, GRP, CHRP, Vice President, Compensation Strategy, Sun Life Financial Inc.

Leslie Thornton, Division Vice President, Nordstrom Inc.

David Smith, CCP, Managing Director, Compensation and Benefits, AGL Resources

Desiree Isabelle Klein-Wagner, GRP, Vice President, Total Rewards, BP plc.

David Ayre, CCP, Senior Vice President, Compensation and Benefits, PepsiCo

Jeff Chambers, Vice President, Human Resources, SAS

Mark Wainger, Senior Vice President, Global Compensation and Benefits, Time Warner Inc.

Karen Ickes, Senior Vice President, Human Resource Services, Wendy’s International

James Otieno, Vice President, Executive Compensation and Services, Hewlett Packard