Hillenbrand, Inc., Board of Directors

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About the Board

Ray J. Hillenbrand
Chairperson, Hillenbrand, Inc.
Chairperson of Nominating/Governance Committee

Mr. Hillenbrand has been chairperson of the board since Feb. 8, 2008. He previously served as a director of Hillenbrand Industries from 1970 until March 31, 2008, and as that company's chairman of the board from Jan. 17, 2001, until March 31, 2006. He is engaged in the management of personal and family investments. Mr. Hillenbrand was employed by and active for 19 years in the management of Hillenbrand Industries prior to his resignation as senior vice president and member of the office of the president in 1977. He is president of Dakota Charitable Foundation and serves as a member of the board of trustees of The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Mr. Hillenbrand is a cousin of both W August Hillenbrand and Thomas H. Johnson.

James A. Henderson
Vice Chairperson, Hillenbrand, Inc.
Chairperson of Management Development/Compensation Committee
Retired President, Chairman and CEO, Cummins Inc.

Mr. Henderson has served as a director of the company since March 31, 2008. He was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Cummins Inc. prior to his retirement in December 1999. Mr. Henderson is a director of Nanophase Technologies Corporation. He also currently serves as chairman of The Culver Educational Foundation board of trustees, was a member of the Princeton University board of trustees and served as chairman of the Executive Committee for the university. He has previously served as a director of AT&T Inc., International Paper Company, Rohm and Haas Company, and Ryerson, Inc.

Eduardo Menascé
Chairperson of Audit Committee
Retired President, ESG, Verizon Communications

Mr. Menascé has served as a director of the company since Feb. 8, 2008. He also is a director of Hill-Rom Holdings (formerly Hillenbrand Industries), having served on that board since 2004. Mr. Menascé is the retired president of the Enterprise Solutions Group for Verizon Communications, Inc., in New York. Prior to the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corporation, which created Verizon Communications, he was the chairman, president and chief executive officer of CTI MOVIL S.A. (Argentina), a business unit of GTE Corporation, from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Menascé has also held senior positions at CANTV in Venezuela and Wagner Lockheed and Alcatel in Brazil, and from 1981 to 1992 served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of GTE Lighting in France. Mr. Menascé currently serves on the boards of directors of Pitney Bowes Inc., a global provider of integrated mail and document management solutions; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a developer, publisher and seller of products in print and electronic media for educational, professional, scientific, technical, medical and consumer markets; and KeyCorp, one of the nation’s leading bank-based financial service companies.

Kenneth A. Camp
President and CEO of Hillenbrand, Inc.

Mr. Camp has served as a director and as president and chief executive officer of the company since Feb. 8, 2008. He previously served as president of Batesville Casket Company, Inc. from May 1, 2001, until June 16, 2008. He continues to serve as chairman and chief executive officer of Batesville Casket. Mr. Camp previously held various positions with Hillenbrand Industries since Oct. 8, 2001. He served as senior vice president from Oct. 1, 2006, until his resignation from Hillenbrand Industries March 31, 2008. He also has held various positions at Batesville Casket, including vice president/general manager of operations from 1995 to 2000; vice president of sales and service; vice president of marketing; and vice president of strategic planning. Mr. Camp also serves on the boards of the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI and the Funeral Service Foundation.

William J. Cernugel
Retired Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Alberto-Culver Company

Mr. Cernugel has served as a director of the company since March 31, 2008. He was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Alberto-Culver Company from May 2000 until his retirement in March 2007. Prior to that, he served in various other financial capacities for Alberto-Culver Company, including senior vice president of finance. Mr. Cernugel also serves on several not-for-profit boards. He is currently a board member and chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Mr. Cernugel is also a board member and secretary-treasurer of Gottlieb Memorial Foundation and until June 2008 was a board member of Gottlieb Health Resources, Inc. and chairman of its Audit and Finance Committee. He was on the board of directors and a member of the Audit Committee of the Illinois CPA Society from 2007 to 2009. Mr. Cernugel is a certified public accountant.

Edward B. Cloues II
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, K-Tron International

Mr. Cloues has served as a director of the company since April 2, 2010. He joined K-Tron International’s board of directors in 1985 and was named chairman and CEO in 1998. Prior to his time at K-Tron, Mr. Cloues was a senior partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, a global law firm, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and general business law counseling. He currently is chairman of the board of AMREP Corporation, serves on the boards of Penn Virginia Corporation and Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P., and has served on the boards of several other public and private companies.

Mark C. DeLuzio
President, Lean Horizons Consulting

Mr. DeLuzio has served as a director of the company since March 31, 2008. He is president and chief executive officer of Lean Horizons Consulting, LLC, a global management consulting business he founded in 2001. Prior to that, he served as vice president, Danaher Business Systems, for Danaher Corporation. Mr. DeLuzio serves as an advisory board member for Central Connecticut State University’s School of Engineering and Technology and the School of Business.

W August Hillenbrand
CEO, Hillenbrand Capital Partners

Mr. Hillenbrand has served as a director of the company since Feb. 8, 2008. He also is a director of Hill-Rom Holdings (formerly Hillenbrand Industries), having served on that board since 1972. He served as that company’s chief executive officer from 1989 until 2000 and as president from 1981 until 1999. Prior to his retirement in December 2000, Hillenbrand Industries had employed Mr. Hillenbrand throughout his business career. He is a board member of the Ocean Reef Medical Center and of the Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation. Mr. Hillenbrand is the chief executive officer of Hillenbrand Capital Partners, an unaffiliated family investment partnership. He is a cousin of Ray J. Hillenbrand.

Thomas H. Johnson
Chairman, Johnson Consulting Group

Mr. Johnson has served as a director of the company since March 31, 2008. He founded and currently serves as chairman of Johnson Consulting Group, a consulting firm focused on the death care industry. Prior to that, he founded and served as chairman of Prime Succession. He served in a variety of other capacities in the death care profession, including as an executive of Batesville Casket. Mr. Johnson is the sole owner of Johnson Investment Group, LLC, which owns and operates two funeral homes in the Phoenix, Ariz., vicinity. He is also a 25 percent owner, and the managing member, of Fire and Stone Group, LLC, which owns and operates a funeral home in Batesville, Ind. Mr. Johnson currently serves on the boards of Funeral Service Foundation and Great Western Life Insurance. He is a cousin of Ray J. Hillenbrand.

F. Joseph Loughrey
Retired President and Chief Operating Officer, Cummins Inc.

Mr. Loughrey has served as a director of the company since Feb. 11, 2009. On April 1, 2009, he retired from Cummins Inc. after serving in a variety of roles for 35 years, most recently as vice chairman of the board of directors and as the company's president and chief operating officer. Mr. Loughrey serves on a number of boards, including as chairman for Conexus Indiana, chairman for Energy System Network and as a member of the boards of Sauer-Danfoss, AB SKF, Vanguard Group, Lumina Foundation for Education and the Columbus Community Education Coalition.

Neil S. Novich
Former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ryerson, Inc.

Mr. Novich has served as a director of the company since Feb. 24, 2010. He is the former chairman, president and chief executive officer of Ryerson, Inc., a global metals distributor and fabricator. Mr. Novich joined Ryerson is 1994 as chief operating officer, was named president and CEO in 1995, then added chairman to his title in 1999. He remained chairman and CEO until 2007, when the company was sold. Prior to his time at Ryerson, Mr. Novich spent 13 years as a partner with Bain & Company, an international management consulting firm. He serves on the boards of Analog Devices, Inc., and W.W. Grainger, Inc., where he chairs the Compensation Committee. Mr. Novich is also a trustee of both the Field Museum of National History and of Children’s Home & Aid in Chicago and is a member of the Visiting Committee to the Physical Sciences Division of the University of Chicago..

Stuart A. Taylor II
Chief Executive Officer, The Taylor Group LLC

Mr. Taylor has served as a director of the company since Sept. 26, 2008. He is the chief executive officer of The Taylor Group LLC in Chicago, a private equity firm focused on creating and acquiring businesses in partnership with women and minority entrepreneurs. Mr. Taylor has previously held positions as senior managing director at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., and managing director and head of CIBC World Market’s Global Automotive Group and Capital Goods Group. He also served as managing director of the Automotive Industry Group at Bankers Trust following a 10-year position at Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated in corporate finance. Mr. Taylor has been a member of the board of directors for Ball Corporation since 1999, where he currently serves as chairman of the Human Resources Committee.