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Robert W. Pittman
Director since 2003
Mr. Pittman, age 51, was appointed as a Director by EA's Board of Directors eÅective November 1, 2003.
Mr. Pittman has been a member of and an investor in, respectively, Pilot Group Manager LLC and Pilot
Group LP, a private investment Ñrm, since April 2003. Mr. Pittman was formerly Chief Operating OÇcer of
AOL Time Warner, Inc. from May 2002 to July 2002. He also served as Co-Chief Operating OÇcer of AOL
Time Warner from January 2001 to May 2002, and, earlier, as President and Chief Operating OÇcer of
America Online, Inc. from February 1998 to January 2001. Mr. Pittman serves on the Board of Directors of
Cendant Corporation and the boards of numerous charitable organizations.
Lawrence F. Probst III
Director since 1991
Mr. Probst, age 55, has been employed by EA since 1984. He has served as Chairman of the Board since July
1994, and Chief Executive OÇcer since May 1991. Previously Mr. Probst served as President from 1991 until
1998 and Senior Vice President of EA Distribution from 1987 to 1991.
Linda J. Srere
Director since 2001
Ms. Srere, age 49, is currently a marketing and advertising consultant. Previously, Ms. Srere was President of
Young & Rubicam Advertising. Since 1994, Ms. Srere held many positions with Young & Rubicam Inc.
(""Y&R''), including Vice Chairman and Chief Client OÇcer, Executive Vice President and Director of
Business Development, Group Managing Director, and in 1997, was named Chief Executive OÇcer of Y&R's
New York oÇce, becoming the Ñrst female CEO in the company's 75-year history. Ms. Srere also serves on
the Board of Directors of aQuantive, Inc., a digital marketing services and technology company, and Universal
Technical Institute, Inc., a technical education provider.
BOARD, BOARD MEETINGS, AND COMMITTEES
Our Board of Directors currently consists of ten Directors. Immediately upon Mr. Byron's retirement at the
commencement of the 2005 Annual Meeting, however, the authorized number of Directors will be reduced to
nine. The Board has determined that all of our current Directors, other than Mr. Probst, are ""independent'' as
that term is used in the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules.
The Board meets on a Ñxed schedule four times each year and also occasionally holds special meetings and
acts by written consent. At each regularly scheduled meeting, the independent members of the Board meet in
executive session separately without management present. A Lead Director, elected by the independent
Directors and serving a two-year term, is responsible for chairing executive sessions of the Board and other
meetings of the Board in the absence of the Chairman of the Board, serving as a liaison between the Chairman
of the Board and the other independent Directors, and overseeing the Board's stockholder communication
policies and procedures (including, under appropriate circumstances, meeting with stockholders). Our Lead
Director may also call meetings of the independent Directors. Our current Lead Director is Linda Srere, who
has been elected to serve in this capacity until our 2006 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
The Board currently has three committees, each of which operates under a charter approved by the Board: the
Audit Committee; the Compensation Committee; and the Nominating and Governance Committee. The
Board of Directors amended and restated the Audit Committee's charter in February 2003, and adopted the
charters of the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee in February and
May 2003, respectively. Copies of the charters of each Committee may be found in the Investor Relations
portion of our website at http://investor.ea.com. In accordance with the charters for each, and with current
regulatory requirements, all members of these Committees are independent Directors. During Ñscal 2005,
each Director (other than Mr. Paul, who had not yet become a Director) participated in at least 75% of all
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