Keith V. Mabee is vice chairman of Dix & Eaton one of the largest employee-owned public relations and investor
relations firms in the U.S. Keith is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and its Board. He joined Dix & Eaton
as senior executive vice president in April 1997 and was promoted to president 18 months later. He was named vice
chairman in 2008.

Drawing on more than 30 years of experience in the United States and overseas, Keith leads the firm’s Transaction Communications practice, oversees the delivery of client service, supervises a number of major corporate accounts and provides senior-level strategic counsel to senior management teams and boards of directors. He has extensive experience in a wide range of industries, including handling complex shareholder activism, divestiture, IPO, and merger and acquisition actions; dealing with crisis communications from national product recalls to major plant closures; launching change management programs to support strategic initiatives; and conceiving and implementing strategic communications underpinning corporate restructuring, global branding, business development, legislative and regulatory initiatives, takeover defenses, proxy solicitations, debt and equity offerings, management reorganizations, and product and service launches.

Previously, Keith served as vice president – corporate relations for Figgie International, Inc., where he was responsible for human resources and administration, corporate communications, government affairs and investor relations. Before joining Figgie International in 1993, he served as vice president - communications at Industrial Indemnity, a $1 billion San Francisco-based Xerox Financial Services Company. Previously, he was senior vice president, corporate communications, government affairs and investor relations with AMFAC, Inc., a former San Francisco Fortune 50 diversified services company. Keith has also served as a communications specialist with International Paper Company in New York, and as a public affairs officer for NATO and the U.S. Army in Europe and the Pacific. He was a senior lecturer in the Queensland University of Technology’s College of Management in Australia and served as an organizational effectiveness consultant in Australasia.

Keith received a master’s degree in business administration from Pepperdine University, a master’s degree in sociology from Wayne State University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University. He is a former president of the San Francisco chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute, and previously served as an officer and director of NIRI’s national board and as chairman of NIRI’s Senior Roundtable. He is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America and served on PRSA’s Board of Ethics and Professional Standards. He currently serves on the Ohio Savings Bank Advisory Board of Directors and advises the engineering faculty visiting committee at Cleveland State University. Keith also served as a trustee and lecturer for the San Francisco Academy, a postgraduate executive development program in communications, and as a trustee and board vice chair for the $6 billion Ohio Tuition Trust Authority. He is a frequent national speaker on shareholder activism, strategic communications, investor relations and corporate governance.

Aaron Hoffman joined Corn Products International in 2010 as Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. He is responsible for all of the company’s external communication efforts. Prior to joining Corn Products, he spent 11 years at Sara Lee holding positions of increasing responsibility and most recently was Vice President, Investor Relations. Aaron has also held investor relations and corporate communications positions for GATX Corporation, Tenneco and CFC International.

Aaron holds an MS degree from Northwestern University in marketing communications and a BA degree in history from Indiana University.

Katharine Kenny joined CarMax at the corporate headquarters in Richmond, Virginia, as Assistant Vice President, Investor Relations in October 2006. In April of 2009, she was promoted to Vice President, Investor Relations.

Previously, she served in similar positions at Massey Energy Company, also headquartered in Richmond, Virginia (2001-2006) and at Ruddick Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina (1997 – 2001). She began her career in investor relations in 1993 with Pillowtex Corporation in Dallas, Texas.

Katharine is a graduate of Kenyon College and received her MBA from Cleveland State University in 1983. She is a member of the Richmond Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), serving as President from September 2004 through May 2007. She is a member of the NIRI Senior Roundtable and the Conference Board’s Global Council of Investor Relations Executives.