Gwendolyn Stewart King

Monsanto Co. engages in the provision of agricultural products to farmers. It provides other seed companies with genetic material and biotechnology traits for their seed brands. The company was founded by John F. Queeny in 1901 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Countrywide Financial Corp. provides mortgage banking services. It offers ancillary services such as home equity loans and homeowners insurance. The company was founded by Angelo R. Mozilo and David S. Loeb in 1969 and is headquartered in Simi Valley, CA.

Podium Prose provides speechwriting services. The private company is based in Washington.

National Association of Corporate Directors provides online and print information services to directors of public companies. It offers in-boardroom education, evaluation, governance reviews, board composition and succession planning, board recruitment, ongoing advisory, insights, and analytics services. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Pharmacia Corp. developed, manufactured and marketed pharmaceutical products. Prescription pharmaceuticals included general therapeutics, ophthalmology and hospital products including oncology and diversified therapeutics. It also operated in consumer health care, animal health, diagnostics and contract manufacturing and bulk pharmaceutical chemicals. The customers of the group were pharmacies, hospitals, chain warehouses, governments, physicians, wholesalers and other distributors. It was headquartered in Peapack, NJ.

PECO Energy Co. engages in the provision of utility services. It operates through the following segments: Pepco, DPL, and ACE. The Pepco segment consists of purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and the provision of electricity distribution and transmission in the in the District of Columbia and major portions of Prince George's County and Montgomery County in Maryland. The DPL segment comprises purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and the provision of electricity distribution and transmission services n portions of Maryland and Delaware. The Ace segment focuses in the purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and the provision of electricity transmission and distribution services in southern New Jersey. The company was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.