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[Picture of  Jocelyn  Carter-Miller] Jocelyn Carter-Miller
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Jocelyn Carter-Miller is Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Office Depot, Inc., where she is responsible for the marketing efforts across its retail, contract, catalog, and e-commerce businesses. She oversees all the strategic, operational, and financial aspects of the Company's multi-channel marketing programs, advertising, direct mail, and other special marketing initiatives.

Before joining Office Depot, Carter-Miller spent nine years with Motorola, Inc., most recently as Corporate Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, with overall responsibility for corporate positioning and marketing activities across Motorola's over $30 billion revenue base and its many diverse business units. As CMO she created a new Motorola brand position and promise, consolidated advertising agencies and launched the Intelligence Everywhere campaign, and developed high performance marketing organizations and processes. In her previous Motorola roles of Vice President-Latin American and Caribbean Operations and Director of European, Middle East and African Operations for the International Networks Division. Jocelyn headed international wireless data/paging communications operations for Motorola-creating profitable opportunities through strategic alliances, value-added applications and new product and service launches.

Prior to her career at Motorola, Jocelyn served as Vice President, Marketing and Product Development for Mattel, where she broke new ground driving record sales of Barbie and other toys using integrated marketing programs focused on product, entertainment, promotion, and licensing.

Jocelyn has a MBA degree from the University of Chicago and a BS degree from the University of Illinois in Accounting and is a CPA. She serves on the Board of Directors of both public and non-profit organizations.

Jocelyn has co-authored with Melissa Giovagnoli the book Networlding: Building Relationships and Opportunities for Success, published by Jossey-Bass Publishers. She is married to Edward Miller, founder and executive director of Teched-Ventures (an educational development firm), and has two daughters; Alexis age 17 years and Kimberly age 11.


[Picture of  Monica   Luechtefeld] Monica Luechtefeld
Executive Vice President, E-Commerce

Monica Luechtefeld is currently Executive Vice President of E-Commerce for Office Depot. She is responsible for driving Office Depot's leadership in electronic commerce, including identifying and facilitating the development of customer driven technologies, with an emphasis on Internet retailing and e-Procurement Solutions.

Ms. Luechtefeld joined Office Depot in 1993 and was appointed General Manager of the Southern California Region. In this role she was responsible for sales, warehouse, distribution and operations throughout Southern California and Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1996, she was promoted to Vice President of Contract Marketing and Sales Administration where she was responsible for the creation of Office Depot's business-to-business Internet Commerce site. Subsequently, Ms. Luechtefeld was promoted to Senior Vice President of E-Commerce and in August 2000 was named Executive Vice President of E-Commerce.

Under her leadership, the Company has become the second largest e-retailer in the world behind Amazon.com (Fortune Magazine, February 19, 2001). Office Depot's award-winning Web site has received numerous accolades since its initial launch; including its inventive Internet use, both as a sales and business tool. Recently Office Depot was named among the 50 most Internet-savvy U.S. companies in 2001 by Smart Business magazine. The Company was also one of three companies to earn CIO Magazine's coveted annual Enterprise Value Award for successfully transforming its business operations through technology. In 2001, the Company anticipates online sales of more than $1.5 billion.

Moreover, Ms. Luechtefeld is committed to lending her expertise with peers, she has been responsible for developing open standards for business-to-business Internet Commerce and as such was President of the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) Consortium. She is also an Advisory Panel Member to CommerceNet. She is a Member on FAU's InternetCoast Institute Board.

Ms. Luechtefeld also serves as an advisory board member for Internet Retailer Magazine and President Strategies by providing comment and insight on emerging trends as it relates to e-procurement and e-commerce strategy and execution.

Most recently, she was profiled in Businessweek's "e.biz 25" in 2001 and regularly speaks at E-Commerce industry conferences.

In 2001, she was given an award by the Business Women's Network for demonstrating her ability and insight in breaking business barriers that have enabled Office Depot to surpass competitors in the E-Commerce arena.

Ms. Luechtefeld is a graduate of Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles, California and holds a B.S. in Biological Sciences-Chemistry. She is a Los Angeles native, who currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida. In her spare time, Ms. Luechtefeld enjoys snow skiing, snorkeling and reading.


[Picture of  Patricia   Morrison] Patricia Morrison
Chief Information Officer

Patricia Morrison joined Office Depot in January 2002. As Chief Information Officer, Patricia is responsible for directing, overseeing and managing Office Depot’s global information systems, including its highly successful global e-commerce platform. Prior to joining Office Depot, Patricia was Chief Information Officer with the Quaker Oats Company, with responsibility for all of the company’s information systems. Prior to her position at Quaker Oats, she was Chief Information Officer for General Electric’s $6 billion subsidiary, GE Industrial Systems.


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[Picture of  Pilar Bosch] Pilar L. Bosch
Vice President of Legal - Real Estate, Inc.

Pilar L. Bosch is Vice President of Legal- Real Estate for Office Depot, Inc., where she oversees a team of lawyers, lease administration personnel, paralegals and support staff who handle the acquisition, disposition and administration of the company's 1000-plus locations in the United States and Canada, as well as other real-estate related initiatives. Pilar joined Office Depot in 1992 as an attorney in the Real Estate Department. Prior to her career at Office Depot, she practiced law in the areas of real estate, finance and international business in Boston and New York.

Cuban-born, Pilar holds a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a JD from Boston College Law School. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Rutgers University. She is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and is certified as an Authorized House Counsel for the State of Florida. She is a member of the American Bar and the Inter-American Bar Associations. She is a member of The National Association for Female Executives and the International Council of Shopping Centers. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Education Fund for the Tri-county area of South Florida. She is a lecturer at the Law Conference of the ICSC and at the Annual Conference of the National Retail Tenants Association.

Ms. Bosch is involved in tutoring and mentoring programs at Office Depot and in her community. She is an Advocate with the Office Depot Diversity Council and is committed to the education and development of women and Hispanic professionals.

Pilar lives in Miami, Florida. She is married to Manuel Solaun, a senior engineer with Corzo, Castella, Carballo Thompson and Salman, PA, a Miami based firm, and has a son Daniel (the "coolest 10-year old") and two step-daughters, Judi and Heidi, both engineers with the Florida Department of Transportation. Her sister Adriana is a film maker with WGBH in Boston, MA. Her brother Isidro is a Professor of Biology at the State University of New York and her brother Art retired from Office Depot and lives in Miami.