• E TRADE FINANCIAL CORP Key Executives

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    Donald H. Layton, formerly a special advisor to the Company's Board of Directors, has been a director and Chairman of the Board of the Company since November 2007. He succeeded George A. Hayter who remains a director of the Company. Mr. Layton became Chief Executive Officer of the Company on March 2, 2008. He retired in 2004 after 29 years at JP Morgan Chase and its predecessors, serving most recently as Vice Chairman, and as a member of its three-person Office of the Chairman and its Executive Committee. Mr. Layton also serves as a director of Assured Guaranty Ltd, a leading provider of financial guaranty and credit enhancement products to investors, financial institutions and other participants in the global capital markets. He also is a Senior Advisor to The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's International Capital Markets Advisory Committee and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Committee for Economics. Mr. Layton received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University.
    Total Compensation: $ 5.08 M
    R. Jarrett Lilien has been the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company since 2003, and a director of the Company since November 2006. Mr. Lilien was also Acting Chief Executive Officer from November 28, 2007 to March 2, 2008 when Mr. Layton was appointed to that position. Mr. Lilien has broad responsibility for the tactical execution of all of the Company's global business strategies. Prior to joining the Company in 1999, Mr. Lilien spent ten years as the Chief Executive Officer of TIR (Holdings) Limited ("TIR"), which the Company acquired in August 1999. Prior to TIR, Mr. Lilien held positions at Paine Webber and Autranet, a division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. from 1984 through 1989. Mr. Lilien serves as a director of IL&FS Investsmart, Ltd., a diversified financial services institution in India in which the Company holds a significant investment. In connection with its investment, the Company holds the right to appoint two members to the Investsmart board of directors; Mr. Lilien is one of the Company's two appointees. Mr. Lilien holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Vermont. Mr. Lilien is not a member of any of the committees of the Board. Mr. Lilien has resigned from the Board and the Company with his resignation expected to be effective on or before May 16, 2008.
    Total Compensation: $ 1.88 M
    Robert J. Simmons is the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, a role he has held since January 2004. Mr. Simmons joined the Company in April 2001. Mr. Simmons held positions in corporate finance at public companies including Bank of America, Oracle Corporation and Iomega Corporation. He is co-author of an article addressing financial disclosure issues entitled, "Killing Trickle-Down Investor Relations with Technology." He has served as the Chairman of the Association for Financial Professionals. Mr. Simmons received a Bachelor of Science degree in international business from Brigham Young University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. On April 25, 2008, E*TRADE Financial Corporation (the "Company") announced that Robert J. Simmons, the Company"s Chief Financial Officer, will be departing on or before May 9, 2008.
    Russell S. Elmer - General Counsel
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    Russell S. Elmer is the General Counsel to and Corporate Secretary of the Company, a role he has held since 2001. He served as Assistant General Counsel to the Company before becoming an executive officer. Prior to joining the Company in 2000, he was a partner at the law firm of Gray Cary Ware and Freidenrich, LLP (currently known as DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary). Mr. Elmer holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science and international relations from Stanford University and a juris doctorate from the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. Russell S. Elmer will act as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary on an extended interim basis. Mr. Elmer previously served as the Company"s General Counsel for six years prior to resigning in June 2007.
    Matthew J. Audette - Executive VP
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    Mr. Audette, age 33, has served as the Company"s controller and executive vice president since July 2005 and has served in various other finance and accounting positions with the Company and its affiliates since 1999, including serving as chief financial officer of E*TRADE Bank since 2004. Matthew J. Audette will serve as acting Chief Financial Officer while the Company commences a search for a permanent chief financial officer.
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    Frederick W. Kanner has been a director of the Company since April 2008. Mr. Kanner is a partner of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, an international law firm headquartered in New York City, where he counsels corporations and boards of directors on merger and acquisition transactions, financings and matters of corporate governance. Mr. Kanner also serves as a member of the board of directors of National Benefit Life Insurance Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup, where he currently serves as a member of its audit, compensation and executive committees, and of The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Mr. Kanner earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
    Robert Druskin - Director
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    Robert Druskin has been a director of the Company since February 2008. Mr. Druskin is former Chief Operating Officer of Citigroup and was a member of its Office of the Chairman. He joined Smith Barney (now a division of Citigroup) in 1991 as Chief Administrative Officer, later taking on the role of head of Asset Management and the Futures Division before returning to the role of CAO. In 2000, Mr. Druskin became Chief Operations and Technology Officer for Citigroup. He later became the President and Chief Operating Officer, then CEO, of Citi Markets & Banking. In December 2006, he was named Chief Operating Officer of Citigroup. Mr. Druskin received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University.
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    Daryl G. Brewster has been a director of the Company since October 2004. Mr. Brewster is the former Chief Executive Officer of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc., a position he held from March 2006 through January 2008. Prior to that time, Mr. Brewster was Group Vice President and President, Snacks and Cereal, of Kraft Foods, Inc., beginning with Nabisco (which was acquired by Kraft in 2000) in February 1996. Prior to joining Nabisco, he served as Managing Director, Campbell's Grocery Products Ltd. - UK; Vice-President, Campbell's Global Strategy and International Marketing and Business Director, Campbell's U.S. Soup. Mr. Brewster received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mr. Brewster is not standing for re-election.
    George A. Hayter - Director
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    George A. Hayter has been a director of the Company since December 1995 and was Chairman of the Board from 2003 until late 2007. Mr. Hayter has been a partner of George Hayter Associates, a consulting firm, since 1990, providing guidance to emerging stock exchanges. From 1976 to 1990, he served with the London Stock Exchange, with responsibility for information and trading systems. He received a Master of Arts degree in natural sciences from Queens' College, Cambridge, England.
    Lewis E. Randall - Director
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    Lewis E. Randall has been a director of the Company since 1982. Mr. Randall is a private investor with significant prior management and director experience in the technology industry. He has served as a director of the Cato Institute in Washington, DC since 2002. Mr. Randall received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University.
    Michael K. Parks - Director
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    Michael K. Parks has been a director of the Company since April 2003. Mr. Parks is a Managing Director, Leveraged Finance Group, of Trust Company of the West. From 1993 to 2000, he held various executive level positions at Aurora National Life Assurance Company ("Aurora"), a privately owned life insurance company, holding the positions of Chief Executive Officer, president and Chief Investment Officer from 1996 to 2000. From 1981 to 1992, he held various positions at Salomon Brothers Inc., including the position of Director, Financial Buyers/Leveraged Finance from 1990 to 1992. Mr. Parks also serves as a director of Aurora and El Paso Electric Company, a generator and distributor of electricity to areas in west Texas and southern New Mexico, where he currently serves as a member of its audit committee. Mr. Parks received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College.
    Stephen H. Willard, JD - Vice Chairman/Director
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    Stephen H. Willard has been a director of the Company since April 2005. Mr. Willard is the Chief Executive Officer of Flamel Technologies S.A. ("Flamel Technologies"), a biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Willard previously served as Associate Director of Resolutions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, where he was responsible for management and resolution of troubled banks with assets in excess of $1 billion. He has also worked as an investment banker and as an attorney in private practice. Mr. Willard serves on the board of directors of Flamel Technologies. From June 2000 until joining the Company's Board, Mr. Willard served as an independent member of the board of directors of ETB Holdings, Inc. and E*TRADE Bank. Mr. Willard received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School.
    Donna L. Weaver - Director
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    Donna L. Weaver has been a director of the Company since April 2003. Ms. Weaver is the Chairman of MxSecure, Inc., an internet based healthcare technology company. Ms. Weaver has served as a director on several boards, including Hancock Fabrics, Inc., where she currently serves as a member of its audit committee, its compensation committee and is Chairman of its corporate governance and nominating committee. Ms. Weaver is a Certified Management Accountant currently with an "inactive" status. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arizona and a Master of Science and Management degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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    C. Cathleen Raffaeli has been a director of the Company since April 2003 and Lead Independent Director since March 2008. Ms. Raffaeli is President and Managing Director of Hamilton White Group, LLC, an investment and advisory group providing strategic partnering, business development, and sales and marketing strategy to companies in financial services growth markets and education sectors. From 2004 through 2006, Ms. Raffaeli was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Cardean Learning Group, a privately held company that develops and delivers innovative online education using advances in cognitive science and technology. Prior to 2004, she was a Managing Partner of Hamilton White Group, LLC, the position to which she returned in 2006. Ms. Raffaeli serves as a Washington appointed, public interest Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. She is also a Director of American Home Mortgage Holdings, Inc. Ms. Raffaeli received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Baltimore and a Master of Business Administration degree from New York University.
    Ronald D. Fisher - Director
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    Ronald D. Fisher has been a director of the Company since October 2000. Mr. Fisher is Vice-Chairman of SOFTBANK Holdings, Inc. ("SOFTBANK"), where he oversees all of SOFTBANK's activities outside of Asia, and a managing partner of SOFTBANK Capital. He joined SOFTBANK in October of 1995. Mr. Fisher serves as a director of SOFTBANK Corporation, Japan and GSI Commerce, a publicly-traded developer and operator of e-commerce businesses. Mr. Fisher received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University.
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    Total Compensation: $ 11.88 M