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This excerpt taken from the NFLX DEF 14A filed Apr 6, 2009.

THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT THE STOCKHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THE NOMINEES LISTED BELOW.

 

Nominee


   Age

  

Principal Occupation


Richard N. Barton

   41    Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Zillow, Inc.

Charles H. Giancarlo

   51    Managing Director, Silver Lake

 

Richard N. Barton has served as one of the Company’s directors since May 2002. In late 2004, Mr. Barton co-founded Zillow, Inc. where he is now Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Additionally, Mr. Barton is a Venture Partner with Benchmark Capital. Previously, Mr. Barton founded Expedia, Inc. in 1994 and was its President, Chief Executive Officer and director from November 1999 to March 2003. Mr. Barton was a director of InterActiveCorp from February 2003 until January 2005. Mr. Barton holds a B.S. in industrial engineering from Stanford University.

 

Charles H. Giancarlo has served as one of the Company’s directors since April 2007. Currently, Mr. Giancarlo is chairman of the board of directors of Avaya, a leading enterprise communications systems company. Mr. Giancarlo also is a Managing Director at Silver Lake, a private equity firm, where he has served since December 2007. Previously, Mr. Giancarlo held a variety of roles at Cisco Systems, Inc., a provider of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry from 1994 through 2007. Most recently, he was President of Cisco-Linksys, LLC, a position he held since June 2004 and Cisco’s Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, a position he held since July 2005. From July 2004 to July 2005, he was Chief Technology Officer. Prior to that, Mr. Giancarlo was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Product Development, from July 2001 to July 2004. He also served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Commercial Business Segment from May 1999 to July 2001, managing one of Cisco’s fastest growing business segments. In May 1997, he was appointed to establish Cisco’s Global Alliances and ran the division as Senior Vice President until May 1999. In his first Cisco role after joining the company through the acquisition of Kalpana, Inc., Mr. Giancarlo held the title of Vice

 

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President of Business Development, from December 1994 to May 1997. Mr. Giancarlo holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Brown University and the University of California at Berkeley, respectively, and an MBA from Harvard University.

 

This excerpt taken from the NFLX DEF 14A filed Apr 2, 2008.

THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT THE STOCKHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THE NOMINEES LISTED BELOW.

 

Nominee


   Age

  

Principal Occupation


Reed Hastings

   47    Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board, Netflix, Inc.

Jay C. Hoag

   49    General Partner, Technology Crossover Ventures

A. George (Skip) Battle

   64    Investor

 

Reed Hastings has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 1998 and our Chairman of the Board since inception. Mr. Hastings served as Chief Executive Officer of Pure Atria Software, a maker of software development tools, from its inception in October 1991 until it was acquired by Rational Software Corporation, in August 1997. Mr. Hastings holds an M.S.C.S. degree from Stanford University and a B.A. from Bowdoin College.

 

Jay C. Hoag has served as one of the Company’s directors since June 1999. Since June 1995, Mr. Hoag has been a General Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, a venture capital firm. Mr. Hoag serves on the board of directors of Tech Target, TheStreet.com and several private companies. Mr. Hoag holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Northwestern University.

 

A. George (Skip) Battle has served as one of the Company’s directors since June 2005. Mr. Battle was previously Executive Chairman of the Board of Ask Jeeves, Inc. which was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in July 2005. He was Chief Executive Officer of Ask Jeeves from 2000 to 2003. From 1968 until his retirement in 1995, Mr. Battle served in management roles at Arthur Andersen LLP and then Andersen Consulting LLP (now Accenture), where he became worldwide managing partner of market development and a member of the firm’s executive committee. Educated at Dartmouth College and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Mr. Battle

 

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currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Fair Isaac Corporation, a director of Advent Software, Inc. and Expedia, Inc., and a member of the board of the Masters Select family of mutual funds. He was previously a director of PeopleSoft, Inc. and of Barra, Inc.

 

This excerpt taken from the NFLX DEF 14A filed Mar 27, 2007.

THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT THE STOCKHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THE NOMINEES LISTED BELOW.

 

Nominee


   Age

  

Principal Occupation


Timothy M. Haley

   52    Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures

Michael N. Schuh

   63    Managing Member, Foundation Capital

Gregory S. Stanger

   42    Venture Partner, Technology Crossover Ventures

 

Timothy M. Haley has served as one of the Company’s directors since June 1998. Mr. Haley is a co-founder of Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm, and has been a Managing Director of the firm since October 1999. Mr. Haley has been a Managing Director of Institutional Venture Partners, a venture capital firm, since February 1998. From June 1986 to February 1998, Mr. Haley was the President of Haley Associates, an executive recruiting firm in the high technology industry. Mr. Haley currently serves on the board of directors of several private companies. Mr. Haley holds a B.A. from Santa Clara University.

 

Michael N. Schuh has served as one of the Company’s directors since February 1999. From August 1998 to the present, Mr. Schuh has served as a Managing Member of Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm. Prior to joining Foundation Capital, Mr. Schuh was a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsa Corporation, a supplier of productivity solutions for software development organizations from 1994 to 1998. Mr. Schuh serves on the board of directors of several private companies. Mr. Schuh holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Maryland.

 

Gregory S. Stanger has served as one of the Company’s directors since June 2005. Mr. Stanger has served as a venture partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, a venture capital firm, since June 2005 and was an executive in residence at TCV from December 2003 to June 2005. Mr. Stanger served as senior vice president, chief financial officer and director of Expedia, Inc. from February 2002 to September 2003 and as its chief financial officer from October 1999 to September 2003. Before joining Expedia, he served as senior director, corporate development of Microsoft Corporation and held other positions within Microsoft’s finance and

 

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corporate development departments since 1991. Mr. Stanger serves on the board of directors of Drugstore.com and of NexTag, Inc. Mr. Stanger received a B.A. from Williams College and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.

 

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