Barry Diller

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IAC/InterActiveCorp

Elected to the Board September 14, 2000.

Barry Diller is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp. IAC engages worldwide in the business of interactivity via the Internet, the television and the telephone. IAC's goal is to be the world's largest and most profitable interactive commerce company by pursuing a multi-brand strategy through its operating businesses. IAC consists of IAC Travel, a division of the company that encompasses Expedia, Inc., Interval International, TV Travel Shop, Hotels.com and Hotwire.com. The other operating businesses of IAC include HSN, Ticketmaster, which oversees Evite and ReserveAmerica; Match.com, which oversees uDate.com; Entertainment Publications; Citysearch; Precision Response Corporation; and LendingTree.

Since December 1992, beginning with QVC, Mr. Diller has served as chief executive for a number of predecessor companies engaged in media and interactivity prior to the formation of IAC.

From October 1984 to April 1992, Mr. Diller served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox, Inc. and was responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company in addition to Fox's motion picture operations.

Before joining Fox, Mr. Diller served for ten years as the Chairman and Chief Executive of Paramount Pictures Corporation. In March 1983, in addition to Paramount, Mr. Diller became President of the conglomerate's newly formed Entertainment and Communications Group, which included Simon & Schuster, Inc., Madison Square Garden Corporation and SEGA Enterprises, Inc. Prior to joining Paramount, Mr. Diller served as Vice President of Prime Time Television for ABC Entertainment.

Mr. Diller was born in San Francisco and raised in Beverly Hills. He serves on the boards of The Washington Post Company and the Coca-Cola Company. He is also a trustee of New York University and serves on the Executive Board for the Medical Sciences at UCLA, in addition to the boards of Conservation International, Channel 13/WNET, and the Board of Councilors for the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California.

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