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This excerpt taken from the EYE 10-K filed Feb 24, 2009. Independence Of the ten persons who served on the board of directors as of December 31, 2008, eight are neither current nor former employees, and we have determined that each of these eight non-employee directors (namely, Mr. Chavez, Ms. Dávila, Mr. Heinrich, Dr. Link, Mr. Morfit, Mr. Mussallem, Ms. Neff, and Mr. Rollans) is independent of management and free of any relationship that would interfere with the exercise of his or her independent judgment as a board of directors member. The basis for these determinations is that each of such non-employee directors meets the criteria for independence set forth under Item 9 in our Corporate Governance Guidelines. We have made inquiries of each of the non-employee board of directors members and have conducted such other inquiries as the Company deems necessary or advisable in order to ascertain whether such persons are independent. |
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