EADS North America Completes Its Board of Directors; Influential EADS North America Board Represents Continued Commitment to Meeting U.S. Customer Requirements

Business Wire, Sept 22, 2003

largest tin-plate manufacturer in the U.S., and on the Board

of Hollinger International. He is a Director of the Brinson

Advisors family of funds and of the Deutsche Bank-Alex Brown

fund family. Prior to the formation of Diligence LLC, Mr. Burt

was a partner with McKinsey & Company, the global management

consulting firm. Mr. Burt served as the U.S. Chief Negotiator

in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with the Former

Soviet Union, U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1985-1989),

Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs

(1983-1985) and Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military

Affairs (1981-1983). Mr. Burt received his Bachelor of Arts

from Cornell University and a Master's in International

Relations from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts

University.

-- Dr. Thomas Enders is Executive Vice President, Member of the

Executive Committee, and Head of the Defense and Security

Systems Division of EADS. Prior to the formation of EADS in

July 2000, Dr. Enders served as Senior Vice President for

Corporate Development and Technology at DaimlerChrysler

Aerospace AG (DASA), one of the three EADS founding companies.

Dr. Enders served in the German military with the 1st Airborne

Division, reaching the rank of Major in the Reserves. From

1978-83, he studied economics, politics and history at the

University of Bonn and at the University of California, Los

Angeles (UCLA). While pursuing academic studies, he also

worked as an assistant in the German Bundestag and as a

research associate at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in St.

Augustin. In 1987, he was awarded his doctorate in politics.

-- Jean-Louis Gergorin is member of the EADS Executive Committee

and head of EADS Strategic Coordination. Prior to this

position, Gergorin was Group Managing Director and Deputy to

the CEO of Lagardere SCA. He joined the Lagardere group in

1984 as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Matra.

From 1993 to 1998, Gergorin was Executive Director of Matra

Hachette, Deputy to the Chairman for Strategic Coordination

and a member of the executive and strategic committee of the

Lagardere Group. Today, Gergorin is advisor to the French

Foreign Policy planning staff and lectures at l'Institut

d'Etudes Politiques (Institute for Political Science) in

Paris. He is a member of the executive committee of the

International Institute for Strategic Studies. Gergorin

studied in Paris at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole

Nationale d'Administration (ENA). He has been a research

fellow at the Rand Corporation and Harvard's Kennedy School of

Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also carried out

studies in senior management at the Naval Postgraduate School

in Monterey, California and is an alumnus of the executive

program of the Stanford Business School. Jean-louis Gergorin

is a "Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur" and an Aviation Week

Aerospace Laureate (1989).

-- Robert Liberatore is Senior Vice President of External Affairs

and Public Policy for DaimlerChrysler Corporation. Prior to

the merger of DaimlerBenz and Chrysler, he was Vice President