A former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Chairman of the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees since April 2004 (RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis); Senior Advisor to Benedetto, Gartland & Company, Inc. (an investment banking firm in New York) from October 1996 until December 2005.

Other directorships: AMR Corporation; Harman International Industries, Inc.; Kellogg Company; Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

President and Chief Executive Officer of Boart Longyear Limited, Salt Lake City, Utah (the world’s leading provider of drilling services, drilling equipment and performance tooling for mining and drilling companies), since April 2013; President and Chief Executive Officer of Newmont Mining Corporation, Greenwood Village, Colorado (an international gold production company) from 2007 until February 2013; President and Chief Financial Officer during 2006 and 2007; Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2005 until 2006; Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, AGL Resources, Atlanta, Georgia (a natural gas distribution, marketing and energy service company), from 2001 until 2005.

Other directorships: Xcel Energy.

Retired President and Chief Executive Officer of Agensys, Inc., (a Santa Monica, California-based biotechnology company developing monoclonal antibody therapeutics for cancer, a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma, Inc.), from 1996 until 2010.

Other directorships: Chevron Corp; Wells Fargo & Company.

Dan Sansone is the chief financial officer of Vulcan Materials Company and has been in that role since 2005. Mr. Sansone is also responsible for the marketing support services department and oversight of the business development and strategic planning functions.

Mr. Sansone joined Vulcan in 1988 and was the controller and then vice president of finance before becoming president of what is today known as the Southern & Gulf Coast Division in 1997. Prior to joining Vulcan, Mr. Sansone held several management positions, domestically and internationally, with FMC Corporation and Tenneco Automotive.

Mr. Sansone earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from John Carroll University and an M.B.A. from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Active in several community organizations, Mr. Sansone serves as Chair of the board for St. Vincent’s Health System and is a director for Innovation Depot, Vulcan Park and Museum, and Holy Family Cristo Rey High School. He is a graduate of both Leadership Birmingham and Leadership Alabama.

Michael R. Mills was elected Senior Vice President and General Counsel on November 1, 2012. He previously served from 2002-2012 in regional management roles as Senior Vice President – East Region, President of the former Southeast Division and Vice President and General Manager for Middle/West TN and KY. Michael joined Vulcan’s Legal Department in 1991 and was Associate General Counsel at the time he moved into regional management.

He is a graduate of Harvard University, the University of Alabama School of Law, and Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Ejaz Khan is the vice president, controller, and chief information officer of Vulcan Materials Company. Beginning in 1979 as a personnel systems specialist, Mr. Khan has held a number of positions in several of the Company’s divisions during his thirty years with Vulcan.

Mr. Khan has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree from Wharton School of Business.

David Donaldson is vice president of governmental and community relations for Vulcan Materials Company. Mr. Donaldson joined Vulcan in 1980 and has served in a variety of public and governmental affairs roles for the company, including service in its former Chemicals Division. He is responsible for the community and governmental relations initiatives of the corporation, as well as the company’s charitable giving and political action committee programs.

Mr. Donaldson is a graduate of the University of the South, with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and a master’s degree in Public and Private Management from Birmingham-Southern College.

Mr. Donaldson has served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy, Alabama Chapter, and is also on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Humanities Foundation, the Wildlife Habitat Council, The Road Information Program (TRIP), the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama, Executive Committee, the Alabama Governor’s School Board of Advisors, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Birmingham-Southern College Norton Board of Advisors. He is a graduate of Leadership Birmingham, where he served as president of the Members’ Council, and of Leadership Alabama.

Jerry Perkins is the corporate secretary and assistant general counsel for Vulcan Materials Company. Before joining Vulcan in 2002, Mr. Perkins worked as a certified public accountant (CPA) at a global accounting firm and was an attorney with Burr & Forman LLP in Birmingham, Alabama.

Mr. Perkins has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Alabama and received a law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law, where he was a senior editor of the Alabama Law Review.

Mr. Perkins is a board member of two nonprofit organizations, Alabama Appleseed and YouthServe, Inc.