Member, Timken Board of Directors

John M. Timken, Jr., 60, is a private investor who has been a successful entrepreneur for many years.  He has served on the Board of Directors since 1986.  A sample of Mr. Timken’s ventures includes involvement in the cable television business and establishing one of the largest commercial mushroom farms in North America.  He has also been associated with, and an investor in, among others, a trucking concern, a plastic injection molding business and a chain of ophthalmic laboratories.  He is currently a director of a flexible packaging business of which he was one of the founders.  Mr. Timken uses his substantial financial acumen and varied business background to bring a candid and challenging approach to interaction with the Company’s management and independent auditors.  Mr. Timken is also a substantial long-term shareholder of the Company.  Mr. Timken’s term expires in 2012.