Global Environmental Management Initiative

One Thomas Circle, NW, Tenth Floor, Washington, DC 20005

Phone (202) 296-7449 Fax (202) 296-7442

For Immediate Release For More Information Contact:

January 4, 2005 Amy Goldman, GEMI: (202) 296-7449

GEMI Announces 2005 Board of Directors

Washington, DC – The Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) today announced its Board of Directors for 2005. The members of the Board of Directors are elected by the 42 members of GEMI that represent 16 business sectors.

“I am pleased to announce that GEMI’s membership has elected its leadership team for 2005,” said Elizabeth Girardi Schoen, Senior Director, EHS Strategic Partnerships & Planning, Corporate EH&S, Pfizer Inc, GEMI’s Chair Emeritus. “The new Board of Directors includes corporate leaders that are dedicated to finding ways that ‘business can help business’ achieve environmental, health and safety excellence and corporate citizenship while providing value to the GEMI membership,” Girardi Schoen continued.

The new GEMI Board includes:

• Chair: Robert (Robin) Tollett, HSE Program Manager, The Procter & Gamble Company

• Vice Chair: Mitch Jackson, Managing Director, Corporate & International Environmental Programs, FedEx

• Finance Chair: Vivian Pai, Finance Chair, Executive Director, Worldwide Environmental Affairs, Johnson & Johnson

• Tools Chair: Stan Christian, Corporate Director, Safety and Environment, Motorola, Inc.

• Membership Chair: Carl Wirdak, Director, Environmental Affairs, Occidental Petroleum Corporation

• Communication and Marketing Chair: Tim Mohin, Director of Sustainable Development, Intel Corporation

• Benchmarking Chair: Robert Accarino, Director, Environmental Affairs, Abbott Laboratories

• Senior Advisory Council Chair: Jim Hendricks, Vice President, Environmental, Health and Safety Policies, Duke Energy.

Mr. Tollett, GEMI’s new Chair stated, “I am pleased and honored to be selected as GEMI’s Chair for 2005 and look forward to working with this fine Board and the membership as we make progress toward the vision and mission of GEMI.” He continued, “GEMI continues to address issues that create value for the membership and tools that are freely shared around the world and I welcome the opportunity to work with the membership to expand the breadth and quality of the tools that GEMI will be producing in 2005.”

For more information about GEMI please visit GEMI’s web site at www.gemi.org.