Corporate Governance

Board of Directors

The board of directors of Sears Holdings Corporation has eight members. The members will serve until the next Annual Stockholders Meeting.

Sears Holdings Corporation's directors are as follows:

William C. Crowley has served as an Executive Vice President of the Company since March 2005 and as our Chief Administrative Officer since September 2005. He also served as our Chief Financial Officer from March 2005 to September 2006 and as interim Chief Financial Officer from January 2007 to October 2007. Mr. Crowley has served as Chairman of the Board of Sears Canada, Inc. since December 2006 and as a director of Sears Canada since March 2005. Prior to the Merger, Mr. Crowley served as Senior Vice President, Finance of Kmart, and had served as an officer of Kmart since 2003. Mr. Crowley is also the President and Chief Operating Officer of ESL Investments, Inc., a private investment firm, and has served in that capacity since 1999. He is a director of AutoNation, Inc.

Edward S. Lampert, Chairman of our Board of Directors, is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ESL Investments, Inc., which he founded in April 1988.

Steven T. Mnuchin is Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Dune Capital Management LP, a private investment firm, and has served in that capacity since September 2004. Previously, Mr. Mnuchin served as CEO of SFM Capital Management LP (an investment adviser) from 2003 to 2004 and as Vice Chairman of ESL Investments, Inc. during 2003. Prior to joining ESL, Mr. Mnuchin spent 17 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Mr. Mnuchin is a trustee of the Whitney Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Board, Riverdale Country School and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Richard C. Perry co-founded private investment management firm Perry Capital LLC in 1988. Prior to 1988, Mr. Perry worked in a number of capacities at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He also was an adjunct associate professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Mr. Perry also serves on the boards of Endurance Specialty Holdings, Ltd, Capital Business Credit LLC and MedGroup Inversiones S.L. He is a member of the boards of trustees of the Allen Stevenson School, Milton Academy, Facing History and Ourselves, Harlem Children’s Zone and the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Perry also serves on the Undergraduate Executive Board of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Ann N. Reese co-founded the Center for Adoption Policy Studies in New York in 2001 and serves as its Executive Director. Prior to co-founding the Center, Ms. Reese served as a Principal with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a private equity investment firm, in 1999 and 2000. From 1995 to 1998, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ITT Corp., a hotel and gaming company. Ms. Reese is a director of Xerox Corporation, Jones Apparel Group, Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

Kevin B. Rollins is a senior adviser on global investment strategies in the technology sector to TPG Capital, L.P. (formerly Texas Pacific Group), a private investment firm. He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors and President and Chief Executive Officer of Dell, Inc. through January 2007, after which he served as an advisor to Dell until his retirement in May 2007. Along with his duties as CEO of Dell, Mr. Rollins was a member of the company’s Board of Directors, through January 2007. During his 11 year career with Dell, Mr. Rollins also served as Vice Chairman and as the head of Dell Americas. Prior to his time at Dell, Mr. Rollins worked at Bain & Company, most recently serving as a director and partner. Mr. Rollins also serves on the board of Avaya Inc., a provider of business communications applications, systems and services, and is a member of the President’s Leadership Council and the Marriott School National Advisory Council at Brigham Young University, where he founded and continues to sponsor the Rollins Center for E-Commerce.

Emily Scott is a founding partner and director of Plum TV, LLC, a television station network operating in select resort markets. Ms. Scott served as a director until December 2006, Chairman of the Board of Directors of J. Crew from 1997 to 2003 and had previously served as Vice Chairman and other roles since the company founding in 1983.

Thomas J. Tisch has served as the Managing Partner of Four Partners, a private investment firm, since 1992. He is the Chancellor of Brown University and also a trustee of the Manhattan Institute and New York University Medical Center.