Richard L. Keyser has been a Director of the Company and Principal Life since 2002. Mr. Keyser has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of W.W. Grainger Inc. an industrial distributor of products used by businesses to maintain repair and operate their facilities since 1997. Mr. Keyser is a director of two other public companies: W. W. Grainger Inc. and Rohm and Haas Company a global specialty materials company. He is a director of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare - Research Institute and the National Merit Scholarship Foundation. He is a trustee for the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum of Natural History. He is an Advisor for the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management University of Wisconsin Madison the Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University and the Division of the Physical Sciences University of Chicago. |