DANA G. MEAD was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tenneco from 1994 until his retirement late in 1999. He has been profiled in Business Week, the New York Times, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the Chicago Tribune. In his role as chairman of two politically influential associations of business executives, the Business Roundtable (1998-99) and the National Association of Manufacturers (1995-96), he also has been a guest on many news programs, including CNN's Moneyline and CNBC's Power Lunch. A retired Army colonel with a doctorate in political science and economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mead was appointed to a White House Fellowship in 1970.

THOMAS C. HAYES, a former award-winning New York Times economics correspondent who worked with Mead as an executive at Tenneco, is a consultant on leadership communications based in Wilton, Conn.

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