David F. Sobey is Chair Emeritus of Sobeys Inc. He was Chief Executive Officer of Sobeys from 1982 until 1995. He became Chair of the Board in 1996 until his appointment as Chair Emeritus in 2001. Mr. Sobey was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in November 1995. He is former Chancellor of Saint Mary’s University, a member of the Advisory Board for the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University, and an honorary director of the Atlantic Salmon Federation and the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo. Mr. Sobey has been a director of Sobeys Inc. since 1998 and of earlier Sobeys companies beginning in 1958. Mr. Sobey did not serve as a director of any other reporting issuers during the period from 2006 to 2011.