EVELYN V. FOLLIT
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
RadioShack Corporation

Evelyn Follit is a Senior Vice President and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at RadioShack Corporation. Her primary responsibility is to ensure that RadioShack's business is enabled and supported by a world-class technology services organization. She oversaw the implementation of RadioShack's Online Strategy of connecting RadioShack stores to the company's network and launched RadioShack's Web site. Follit joined RadioShack in 1997 as Vice President and CIO.

Before joining RadioShack, she served as ACNielsen's Vice President – Operations/Engineering, and Dun & Bradstreet's global planning and technology leader. Follit also has worked for ITT in various European telephony operations, process improvement and organization planning assignments, and for IBM in both technology implementation and financial and product planning positions.

In 2000, Follit became a board member of publicly traded Catalina Marketing Corporation, which provides strategic, targeted, marketing solutions for consumer goods companies and retailers. She currently chairs Catalina's Audit Committee and is a member of Catalina's Finance Committee. In 2002, she became chairwoman of the National Retail Federation's (NRF) CIO Council. NRF is the world's largest retail trade association. Also in 2002, Follit joined the Advisory Board of the Center for Values Based Leadership. The center's objective is to facilitate the integration of values into an organization's culture.

Follit is a member of the International Board of Trustees at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, where she was instrumental in obtaining RadioShack partner product contributions to establish TCU's state-of-the-art "RadioShack eBusiness Laboratory." She is a member of the Hewlett-Packard Cross Industries Board of Advisors and Microsoft's Retail Client Advisory Board. She is a member of RadioShack's Corporate Citizenship Council, which oversees the company's charitable activities.

In 1999, "Retail Technology" magazine recognized Follit as one of the top 10 CIOs in retailing. "Information Week" designated her as one of the top 10 CIOs across America and ranked RadioShack's I/T organization ("RSTS") at No. 39 in the top 500.

In 2000, "RISNEWS" named RSTS in 4th place in the retail industry for exemplifying the fusion of technology and business strategy, and "Computerworld" ranked RSTS as 28th in terms of overall I/T performance. In 2001, "RISNEWS" ranked RadioShack 3rd of the Top 50 retailers for successfully fusing its use of technology with the business's strategy. In both 2000 and 2001, "Computerworld" ranked RSTS as one of the top 100 I/T places to work.

In 2001, "Computerworld" chose Follit as one of the 100 Premier IT Leaders in the country, and "Retail Info Systems News" recognized Follit as one of the "25 Most Influential People in Retail for 2001." In 2002, Follit received the "Executive Technology" magazine/Compaq Computer award for CIO/IT Leadership and Innovation.

In 2002, Follit was honored as one of the pioneering women in technology by the American Friends of the Jerusalem College of Technology on behalf of the Women's School of Engineering (New York City).

Follit has a master of business administration in finance and information systems and a bachelor of arts in mathematics. She has completed Executive Planning and Technology programs at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and MIT's Sloan School.

November 2002