Mr. Christopher D. O'Leary is an Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer - International of General Mills, Inc., June 2006. Mr. O’Leary joined General Mills in 1997 as Vice President, Corporate Growth. He was elected a Senior Vice President in 1999 and President of the Meals division in 2001. Mr. O’Leary was named to his present position in 2006. Prior to joining General Mills, he spent 17 years at PepsiCo, Inc., last serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Hostess Frito-Lay business in Canada. Mr. O’Leary is a director of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.

Mr. Michael Lee Davis is Senior Vice President - Global Human Resources of General Mills Inc. Mr. Davis joined General Mills in 1996 as Vice President, Compensation and Benefits, after spending 15 years in consulting with Towers Perrin. In 2002, his role was expanded to include staffing activities, and in 2005, he became Vice President, Human Resources for the U.S. Retail and Corporate groups. He was named to current position in January 2008.

Mr. John R. Church is Senior Vice President - Supply Chain of General Mills Inc., since April 1, 2008. Mr. Church joined General Mills in 1988 as a Product Developer in the Big G cereals division and held positions before becoming Vice President, Engineering in 2003. In 2005, role was expanded to include development of the company’s strategy for the global sourcing of raw materials and manufacturing capabilities. He was named Vice President, Supply Chain Operations in 2007 and to his present position in April 2008.

Mr. Peter C. Erickson is Senior Vice President - Innovation, Technology and Quality of General Mills Inc. Mr. Erickson joined General Mills in 1994 as part of the Colombo yogurt acquisition. He has held various positions in Research & Development and became Vice President, Innovation, Technology and Quality in 2003. He was named to his present position in 2006.

Ms. Kimberly A. Nelson is Senior Vice President - External Relations of General Mills Inc., and President of General Mills Foundation, subsidiary of General Mills Inc. Ms. Nelson joined General Mills in 1988 and has held marketing leadership roles in the Big G, Snacks and Meals divisions. She was elected Vice President, President, Snacks in 2004, Senior Vice President, President, Snacks in May 2008, and Senior Vice President, External Relations in September 2010. She was named President of the General Mills Foundation in May 2011.

Mr. Shawn P. O'Grady is Senior Vice President, President - Sales and Channel Development of General Mills, Inc. Mr. O’Grady joined General Mills in 1990 and has held positions across the Snacks, Meals and Big G cereal divisions. Most noteworthy was his work on Wheaties, which he led during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He was promoted to vice president in 1998, and concurrent with the General Mills acquisition of The Pillsbury Company in 2001, took the helm of the Refrigerated Baked Goods business. Late in 2004, O’Grady joined General Mills’ Consumer Foods Sales division, progressing to his most recent role as president of the Sales division with responsibility for all grocery customers. Prior to joining General Mills, he worked two years as a chemical engineer for Air Products and Chemicals in Allentown, Pa. He holds bachelor's degree, chemical engineering from Notre Dame and MBA in 1990 from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Jerald A. Young is Vice President, Controller of General Mills Inc., since August 15, 2011. Mr. Young joined General Mills in 1992 and held several finance roles within the Pillsbury division before he was appointed Vice President of Finance for the Bakeries and Foodservice Division in 2000. Mr. Young was appointed Vice President Internal Audit in 2005 and Vice President, Supply Chain in June 2008. He was named to his present position in August 2011.

Mr. Raymond V. Gilmartin is Lead Independent Director of General Mills Inc. He is the retired Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Company, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, and served in that capacity from 1994 to 2005. He served as Special Advisor to the Executive Committee of the Board of Merck from 2005 to 2006. He previously served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Becton Dickinson and Company, a medical technology company. Mr. Gilmartin was a Professor at Harvard Business School from 2006 to June 2012 and currently serves as an Executive-in-Residence. Mr. Gilmartin is a director of Microsoft Corporation.

Mr. Bradbury H. Anderson is Independent Director of General Mills Inc. He served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Best Buy Co., Inc., an electronics retailer, from 2002 until his retirement in 2010. He was also Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy from 2002 until his retirement from that position in 2009. Mr. Anderson joined Best Buy in 1973. Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer, he served as Executive Vice President from 1986 to 1991 and President and Chief Operating Officer from 1991 to 2002. He is a director of Waste Management, Inc.

Mr. R. Kerry Clark is Independent Director of General Mills Inc., since May 2009. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cardinal Health, Inc., a provider of health care products and services,until his retirement in 2009. Mr. Clark joined Cardinal Health in 2006 as President and Chief Executive Officer and became Chairman in 2007. Prior to that, he had held various positions at The Procter & Gamble Company, a consumer products company, since 1974, including President of P&G Asia; President, Global Market Development and Business Operations; and from 2004 to 2006, Vice Chairman of the Board. He is a director of Textron, Inc., Avnet, Inc., and Bausch & Lomb, Incorporated, and he was a director of Cardinal Health, Inc., from 2006 to 2009.

Dr. Paul Danos, Ph.D., is Independent Director of General Mills Inc. He has been Dean and Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College since 1995. Prior to that, Mr. Danos held academic positions at the University of Michigan from 1974 to 1995, the University of Texas from 1971 to 1974 and the University of New Orleans from 1970 to 1971. He is a director of B.J.’s Wholesale Club, Inc.

Mr. William T. Esrey is Independent Director of General Mills Inc. He is Chairman of the Board of Spectra Energy Corp., a provider of natural gas infrastructure, and Chairman Emeritus of Sprint Nextel Corporation, a telecommunications company. Mr. Esrey served as Chairman of the Board for Sprint from 1990 to 2003 and Chief Executive Officer from 1985 to 2003.From 2003 until its sale in 2004, Mr. Esrey served as Chairman of Japan Telecom, one of the leaders in the telecommunications industry in Japan.

Ms. Judith Richards Hope is Independent Director of General Mills Inc. She has been Distinguished Visitor from Practice and Professor of Law since 2005 and was an Adjunct Professor from 2002 to 2003 at Georgetown University Law Center. Ms.Hope was a partner at the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker from 1981 until 2003 and a Senior Advisor to the Paul, Hastings firm from 2004 to 2005. Ms. Hope is a director of Union Pacific Corporation.

Ms. Heidi G. Miller is Independent Director of General Mills Inc. She served as President of JPMorgan International, a division of global financial services firm JPMorgan Chase & Co., from 2010 until her retirement in January 2012. She served as Executive Vice President, ceo, Treasury & Security Services, of JPMorgan Chase from 2004 to 2010. From 2002 to 2004, Ms. Miller served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Bank One Corporation. Previously, she had been Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup Inc. Ms. Miller is a director of The Progressive Corporation.

Ms. Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg is Independent Director of General Mills Inc. She is the founder and has been since 1987 the President and Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Investment Group, an investment advisory firm. From 1976 to 1987, she served in various capacities within the Pension Investment Division of the World Bank, including as its Chief Investment Officer from 1981 to 1987. Prior to joining the World Bank, she served as an independent consultant in the fields of economics and finance, a lecturer at the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Venezuela and as treasurer of the C.A. Luz Electricia de Venezuela in Caracas. Ms. Ochoa-Brillembourg is a director of McGraw-Hill Companies and Cementos Pacasmayo SAA.

Mr. Stephen A. Odland is Independent Director of General Mills Inc. He is an Adjunct Professor in the College of Business and Management at Lynn University. Mr. Odland served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Office Depot, Inc.,an office merchandise retailer, from 2005 until 2010. From 2001 to 2005, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AutoZone, Inc., an auto parts retailer. Prior to that, he served as an executive with Ahold USA, an international food retailer, from 1998 to 2000, and as President of the Foodservice Division of Sara Lee Bakery from 1997 to 1998. He was employed by The Quaker Oats Company from 1981 to 1996.

Mr. Michael D. Rose is Independent Director of General Mills Inc. He served as Chairman of the Board of First Horizon National Corporation, a banking and financial services company, and its subsidiary, First Tennessee Bank National Association, from 2007 until his retirement in January 2012. Since 1998, Mr. Rose has been a private investor and Chairman of Midaro Investments, Inc., a privately held investment firm. He served as Chairman of the Board of Gaylord Entertainment Company from 2001 to 2005. Mr. Rose is also a director of Darden Restaurants, Inc. and Gaylord Entertainment Company.

Mr. Robert L. Ryan is Independent Director of General Mills Inc. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Medtronic, Inc., a medical technology company, from 1993 until his retirement in 2005. Mr. Ryan was Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer of Union Texas Petroleum Corp. from 1984 to 1993, Controller from 1983 to 1984 and Treasurer from 1982 to 1983. Prior to 1982, Mr. Ryan was Vice President at Citibank and was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Mr. Ryan is a director of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.and Citigroup Inc. He was a director of UnitedHealth Group from 1996 to 2008, and of Hewlett-Packard Company from 2004 to 2011.

Ms. Dorothy A. Terrell is Independent Director of General Mills Inc. She is the Managing Partner of FirstCap Advisors, a venture capital and advisory services firm that she founded in 2010.She was a limited partner of First Light Capital, a venture capital firm, from 2003 until 2010. Ms. Terrell served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a non-profit organization focused on inner city business development, from 2005 until 2007, and as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, and President, Platform & Services Group, of NMS Communications, a producer of hardware and software component products for telecommunications applications, from 1998 until 2002. She served in various executive management capacities at Sun Microsystems, Inc. from 1991 to 1997 and Digital Equipment Corporation from 1976 to 1991. Ms. Terrell is a director of Herman Miller, Inc.

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