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Board Profile

Jon P. Diamond

Director of the Company since 1997. President and Chief Operating Officer of Safe Auto Insurance Company since 1996 and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from 1993 to 1996. Vice President of Schottenstein Stores Corporation ("SSC") from 1987 to 1993. Member of the Board of Directors of RVI.

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Michael G. Jesselson

Independent Director
Director of the Company since 1997. President of Jesselson Capital Corporation. Member of the Board of Directors of a number of nonprofit institutions.

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Alan T. Kane

Independent Director
Director of the Company since 2007. Dean of the School of Business and Technology at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) since 2005. Professor of Retailing at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business from 1997 to 2006. Before joining the faculty at Columbia, Mr. Kane spent 28 years in the retailing industry with Federated Department Stores, The May Company, Grossman’s Inc. and a privately held retailer. Mr. Kane is a member of the Board of Directors of Circuit City Stores Inc.

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Roger S. Markfield

Director of the Company since 1999. Vice Chairman from 2003 to 2007 and President from 1995 to February 2006. Co-Chief Executive Officer from 2002 to 2003. Chief Merchandising Officer of the Company from 1995 to 2002 and Executive Vice President of Merchandising from 1993 to 1995. President of Corporate Buying - Men’s for R.H. Macy & Co. from 1979 to 1992 and from 1969 to 1976. Senior Vice President of Merchandising and Marketing for Gap Stores, Inc. from 1976 to 1979. Member of the Board of Directors of DSW, Inc.

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Cary D. McMillan

Independent Director
Director of the Company since 2007. Chief Executive Officer of True Partners Consulting, LLC, a professional services firm providing tax and other financial services, since December 2005. From October 2001 to April 2004, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Sara Lee Branded Apparel. Mr. McMillan served as Executive Vice President and on the Board of Directors of Sara Lee Corporation, a branded consumer packaged goods company, from January 2000 to April 2004. From November 1999 to December 2001, he served as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Sara Lee Corporation. He also serves on the Board of Directors of McDonald’s Corporation and Hewitt Associates, Inc.

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James V. O'Donnell

Director of the Company since 2000. Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 2003. Co-Chief Executive Officer from 2002 to 2003 and Chief Operating Officer from 2000 to 2002. Director of Merchant Banking at Colmen Capital Advisors, Inc. from 1997 to 2000. Chief Operating Officer at The Gap Inc., from 1989 to 1992, and member of the Board of Directors from 1987 to 1992. Also held various executive positions at The Gap Inc. since 1980.

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Janice E. Page

Independent Director
Director of the Company since 2004. Prior to retirement in 1997, spent twenty-seven years in the retail industry, holding numerous merchandising, marketing and operating positions with Sears Roebuck & Company, including Group Vice President from 1992 to 1997. Member of the Board of Directors of R.G. Barry Corporation.

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J. Thomas Presby

Independent Director
Director of the Company since 2005. Prior to retirement in 2002, spent thirty years as a partner at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu serving in many roles in the United States and abroad, including Global Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte & Touche, Europe. Member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee Chair of Tiffany & Co., First Solar, Inc., World Fuel Services, Inc., TurboChef Technologies, Inc. and AMVESCAP Plc. (The Board has determined that Mr. Presby’s simultaneous service on six audit committees will not impair his ability to effectively serve on the Company’s Audit Committee).

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Jay L. Schottenstein

Chairman of the Company since 1992. Chief Executive Officer of the Company from 1992 to 2002. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SSC since 1992. Chairman of RVI since 1992 and Chief Executive Officer from 1991 through 1997.

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Gerald E. Wedren

Independent Director
Director of the Company since 1997. President of Craig Capital Co. since 1973. President of G.E.W. from 1981 to 1988. Member of the Board of Directors of Advanced Technology Communications, Inc. and Westaff, Inc.

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