Ms. Peterson is a partner in a private equity firm headquartered in the north suburbs of Chicago. PPL Group and its affiliates make long-term equity investments, as well as monetize assets and make loans to non-bankable mid-sized companies. She also serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the group.

Alice Peterson Prior to joining PPL in October 2012, Ms. Peterson was the President Partner, PPL Group and CEO of Syrus Global, which she founded in 2002 (risk

PH: 312-375-4936 management and compliance services). Syrus was acquired in 2009 by SAI Global, a public company, where Ms. Peterson continued to work [email protected] through the summer of 2012. Previously, Ms. Peterson held the position of President of RIM Finance, a wholly owned US subsidiary of Research in Motion, Ltd in 2002.

Ms. Peterson served as the VP and Treasurer of , Roebuck and Co. from 1993 through 1999, during which tenure she financed nearly $50 billion in consumer credit card receivables annually through asset securitization transactions and other public financial markets. She was pivotal in structuring the company’s Sears and asset-backed securities, driving a number of innovations in the marketplace.

Ms. Peterson also served in a variety of roles in retail operations and staff positions at Sears over her ten-year career there. She started and ran the Sears Online business from 1998 through 2000, setting up supply chain systems, procuring technology platforms, establishing customer service and marketing areas, and coordinating merchandising.

As Treasurer of Sears, she also took a leadership role in M&A and divestiture activities during the mid-1990s. She was a key player in Sears’ IPOs and spin-offs of and Dean Witter Discover, and in the sales of Coldwell Banker and . Prior to Sears, Ms. Peterson was an Assistant Treasurer at Kraft from 1988 to 1989 (when Philip Morris acquired the company). She was the Director of Capital Markets at PepsiCo at the company’s headquarters in Purchase, NY and held other staff positions there from 1984 through 1988. She worked at Harris Corporation from 1981 through 1984.

Ms. Peterson has served on public company boards of directors since 1996: 360 Communications (acquired by Alltel), Fleming Companies, and Hanesbrands. She currently serves on the board of Williams Partners, L.P., a publicly traded master limited partnership with market cap in excess of $20B.

Ms. Peterson holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University (1981) and an undergraduate degree from the University of Louisville (1979).