Management Director

Robert E. Harrison
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
Director since May 2005
Committees: Executive

Mr. Harrison has served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President since August 16, 2007, and Chief Executive Officer and President from January 2007, and he served as President and Chief Operating Officer from the merger of DIMON Incorporated and Standard Commercial Corporation in May 2005 through December 2006.  Previously served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Standard Commercial Corporation from August 1996 and as its Chairman from August 2003. 

Mr. Harrison joined Standard in July 1995 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and served in the latter position until April 1998.  Prior to joining Standard, he was employed by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco International for 17 years, including a number of positions in the Far East.

Independent Directors

C. Richard Green, Jr.
Director since August 2003
Committees: Audit and Executive

Non-Executive Director of ITC Limited, a company in India engaged in operating hotels, agricultural exports, and manufacturing cigarettes and paperboard, since July 1999. Regional Director of British American Tobacco from January 1999 through April 2002.

John M. Hines
Director since April 1995
Committees: Governance and Nominating; Finance

Private investor and consultant since 1996. Director of Glen Raven, Inc., a private textile manufacturing company, from May 2001. Consultant to DIMON from July 1996 through June 1998. Executive Vice President of DIMON from April 1995 to June 1996.

Other Directorships
Glen Raven Inc., a private company.

Nigel G. Howard
Director since May 2005
Committees: Executive Compensation

Retired Deputy Chief Executive, The Morgan Crucible Company plc, a designer, developer and supplier of products made from carbon, ceramic, and magnetic materials. Deputy Chairman Assam Carbon Products, Ltd., India .

Other Directorships
Non-Executive Chairman, Zotefoams plc

Mark W. Kehaya
Director since May 2005
Committees: Finance (Chair)

Partner at Meriturn Partners, LLC, an investment firm specializing in restructurings and turnarounds of middle-market companies, since January 2002. President, CEO and COO of Eturn Communications, Inc. from November 2000 through October 2001. Employed by Standard Commercial Corporation beginning in April 1993, serving variously as Assistant to the President, Finance Director of the Tobacco Division, Vice President – Planning, and as Chief Executive Officer of Standard's tobacco processing facility in St. Petersburg , Russia , until March 2000.

Other Directorships
Chairman of the Board, Dunn Paper, Inc.; Johnston Textiles, Inc.


Joseph L. Lanier, Jr.
Director since April 1995
Committees: Governance and Nominating (Chair); Compensation

Chairman of the Board of Dan River, Inc., a textile manufacturer, from November 1989 through August 2006, and Chief Executive Officer of Dan River, Inc., from November 1989 through February 2005. Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of DIMON from May 1999 through February 2003.

Other Directorships
Flowers Foods, Inc.; Torchmark Corporation.

B. Clyde Preslar
Director since May 2005
Committees: Audit (Chair)

Private consultant since December 2006.  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Cott Corporation from August 2005 through December 2006.  Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Lance, Inc. from February 2002 through August 2005, and Secretary of Lance from April 1996 through August 2005.  Prior thereto, Director of Financial Services with Black & Decker Corporation.

Other Directorships
Forward Air Corporation

Norman A. Scher
Director since April 1995
Committees: Executive Compensation (Chair)

Vice Chairman of the Board of Tredegar Corporation, a manufacturer of plastic films and aluminum extrusions, since March 2006.  President and Chief Executive Officer of Tredegar from September 2001 through February 2006. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Tredegar from July 1989 through September 2001.

Other Directorships
Tredegar Corporation.

William S. Sheridan
Director since May 2005
Committees: Executive (Chair); Governance and Nominating

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Sotheby's, an auctioneer of fine arts and antiques, since 1996.  Prior thereto, Mr. Sheridan was a partner at the accounting and consulting firm of Deloitte & Touche.

Martin R. Wade, III
Director since February 2001
Committees: Audit; Finance

President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadcaster, Inc. (formerly International Microcomputer Software, Inc.), an internet entertainment network, since September 2006, and Chief Executive Officer of International Microcomputer Software Inc. from September 2001.   Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Creative Development Corporation (DC2) from May 2001 through August 2001. Director and Executive Vice President of DC2 from June 2000 through April 2001. Managing Director of Prudential Securities, Inc., from May 1998 through June 2000.

Other Directorships
Advaxis, Inc.; Broadcaster Inc.; Command Security Corporation; Nexmed, Inc.