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Philip M. Carpenter III has served as a director since 2002 and is a Managing Director of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. and a Partner of Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, LLC, an affiliate of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. and of the controlling shareholder of New York & Company, which he joined in August 2002. Previously, Mr. Carpenter was a Principal with Brockway Moran & Partners, Inc., a private equity investment firm with whom he was employed from 1998 to 2002. Prior to that, he was with the private equity investment firm Trivest, Inc. and the investment banking department of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. Mr. Carpenter is currently a director of Multi Packaging Solutions, Inc. Mr. Carpenter holds a B.S. in Accounting from the State University of New York at Binghamton. | 