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We would like to acknowledge the many years of contribution and service to the Company and Nortel Networks Limited by Messrs. Lynton
Ronald Wilson, L. Yves Fortier, Sherwood H. Smith, Jr., Mrs. Guylaine Saucier and the Honorable James Johnston Blanchard.
Mr. Wilson has been a director of the Company since March 7, 2000 and of Nortel Networks Limited since April 25, 1991 and non-
executive Chairman of the Board of the Company and of Nortel Networks Limited since February 2002. Mr. Wilson was executive Chairman
of the Board of the Company and of Nortel Networks Limited from November 2001 to February 2002. He was non-executive Chairman of the
Board of the Company and of Nortel Networks Limited from April 2001 to November 2001. Mr. Wilson was Chairman of the Board of
Directors of BCE Inc., a telecommunications company, from May 1998 to April 2000, serving in a non-executive capacity from January 1999.
He is Chairman of the Board of CAE Inc., a flight training, services and equipment company, and a director of DaimlerChrysler AG and
DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc.
Mr. Fortier has been a director of the Company since March 7, 2000 and Nortel Networks Limited since April 30, 1992. He also serves on
the pension fund policy committee of Nortel Networks Limited. He is a senior partner and Co-Chairman of the law firm of Ogilvy Renault.
Mr. Fortier was Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations from 1988 to 1992. Since 2001, he has been a Trustee of the International
Accounting Standards Committee Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Board of Alcan Inc., Governor (Chairman of the Board) of Hudson’s
Bay Company, and a director of NOVA Chemicals Corporation and Royal Bank of Canada.
Mr. Smith, having reached the age of retirement and the term limit under the Company’s corporate governance guidelines, will not be
standing again for re-election at the AGM. Mr. Smith has been a director of the Company since March 7, 2000 and of Nortel Networks Limited
since April 28, 1994. He serves on the audit committee and the joint leadership resources committee of the Company, and on the audit
committee, the joint leadership resources committee and the pension fund policy committee (Chairman) of Nortel Networks Limited.
Mr. Smith is Chairman Emeritus of the Board at CP&L. He is also a trustee of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Chairman of the
Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies and Vice-Chairman of the Research Triangle Foundation.
Mrs. Saucier has been a director of the Company since March 7, 2000 and of Nortel Networks Limited since May 1, 1997. Mrs. Saucier was
Chair of the Joint Committee on Corporate Governance, which was established by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, the
Canadian Venture Exchange, and the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2000 to review the state of corporate governance in Canada and make
recommendations thereon. She was also Chair of The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants from June 1999 to June 2000. Mrs. Saucier
was Chairman of the Board and a director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a public broadcaster, from April 1995 to December 2000.
She is also a director of Altran Technologies SA, AXA Assurances Inc., Bank of Montreal, Petro-Canada and Tembec Inc.
Mr. Blanchard has been a director of the Company since March 7, 2000 and of Nortel Networks Limited since May 1, 1997. Mr. Blanchard
has been a partner in the law firm of Piper Rudnick LLP (now DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary) since October 2002 and prior to October 2002
was a shareholder in the law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Chartered since April 1996. He was previously United
States Ambassador to Canada, Governor of the State of Michigan and a member of the United States House of Representatives. Mr. Blanchard
is also a director of Bennett Environmental, Inc., Brascan Corporation, Enbridge Inc., LDMI Communications, Inc. and Teknion Corporation.
Shareholders who wish to have the committee on directors of the board of directors of the Company consider the nomination of any person
for director should communicate with the Company’s corporate secretary at the Company’s principal executive offices at 8200 Dixie Road,
Suite 100, Brampton, Ontario, L5T 5P6.
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HARRY J. PEARCE
, 62, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States, was Chairman of the Board of Hughes
Electronics Corporation (now The DIRECTV Group, Inc.), a company engaged in digital television
entertainment, broadband satellite and network services as well as global video and data broadcasting, from
June 2001 to January 2004. He was a director and Vice-Chairman of General Motors Corporation from
January 1996 to June 2001. Mr. Pearce is also a director of Marriott International, Inc. and MDU Resources
Group, Inc.