Michael L. Davis Vice President, Compensation, Benefits & Staffing General Mills Mr. Davis is Vice President, Compensation, Benefits & Staffing for General Mills, Inc. He is responsible for the company’s overall compensation and benefit strategy and design, and for the administration of these programs. He is also Vice Chairman of the Board of WorldatWork, and the Chairman of the Board of the National Business Group on Health. Prior to joining General Mills, Mr. Davis worked for fifteen years as a compensation consultant with Towers Perrin, ultimately as the firm’s worldwide practice leader for executive compensation, and was a well-known national-level executive compensation consultant. Mr. Davis has served on four National Association of Corporate Director Blue Ribbon Commissions on the Compensation Committee, Director and CEO Performance Evaluation, Director Compensation, and Director Professionalism. A frequent speaker and author on executive and director compensation and benefits issues, he has been interviewed or quoted in Fortune, Business Week, Newsweek, Time, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on compensation and benefit matters, and has lectured on these topics at Harvard, University of Chicago, Columbia, Dartmouth, University of Southern California and Cornell business schools. Mr. Davis has B.S. degrees from Purdue University in Industrial Management as well as Computer Science, and an M.B.A. in accounting and finance from the University of Chicago. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.