Mark A. Garvey - executive vice president and chief financial officer

Mark Garvey is chief financial officer of Sara Lee Corporation.

Garvey joined Sara Lee Corporation in 1995 as senior manager of internal audit. He was named director of internal audit in 1997 and served as executive director of corporate development from 1999 to 2001. He was named vice president of internal audit in 2001 and a vice president of the corporation in 2002. Garvey became senior vice president of internal audit in 2005 and assumed the role of chief financial officer of Sara Lee International in 2006. Garvey became chief financial officer of Sara Lee North America in 2008 and was appointed responsible executive for Sara Lee’s Business Process Outsourcing initiative in 2009.

Before joining Sara Lee, Garvey held various international assignments as manager of audit and assurance services with Arthur Andersen in Dublin, Ireland and Chicago, Illinois.

Garvey is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.

He earned a bachelor of commerce degree from University College Dublin, Ireland and a master of business administration degree from Northwestern University in Chicago.

About Sara Lee Corporation
Sara Lee Corp. (NYSE: SLE) and it's leading portfolio of food and beverage brands, including Ball Park, Douwe Egberts, Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean, Pickwick Teas, Sara Lee and Senseo, generate nearly $8 billion in annual net sales from continuing operations and employ approximately 20,000 people worldwide.  In January, 2011, Sara Lee Corp. announced that it will divide the company into two pure -play publicly-traded companies, one focused on the international coffee and tea market and the other on North American meats.  For more information on the company, please visit www.saralee.com.