Mr. Joseph Gorman, Chairman of the Board

Joseph T. Gorman served as chairman and CEO of TRW Inc. from December 1988 through his retirement in January 2001. He had been TRW’s president and COO since 1985. Mr. Gorman is currently director of Alcoa Inc., the Procter and Gamble Company, National City Corporation, and Imperial Chemical Industries PLC. He was a trustee of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Foundation and the Committee for Economic Development, served on the Board of Directors of United Way Services and served as co-chairman of the Business Roundtable. He is also a member of the President’s Export Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, the President’s Advisory Group of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable’s Policy and Planning committees, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

A renowned business leader, Mr. Gorman serves on the boards of the U.S.-China Business Council and The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, and is a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He also served on the Council for Competitiveness as a co-industry vice chair and member of the executive committee. A past member of the U.S-Japan Business Council, Mr. Gorman received Japan’s 1994 Prime Minister’s Trade Award for his contributions to promoting improved U.S.-Japanese trade relations.

Mr. Gorman has a B.A. from Kent State University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. His numerous civic involvements include trustee of both the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Cleveland Playhouse, and member of the Business-Higher Education Forum, the Kent State University Foundation and the Yale Alumni Association.