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Nicholas A. Bumbacco

President and CEO, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc.

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc.

Nicholas A. Bumbacco is president and chief executive officer of Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc. (RAI). He assumed this position in March 2009.

Bumbacco was previously president of RAI's R.J. Reynolds Global Products, Inc. (GPI). Prior to September 2007, he spent two years as president and chief executive officer of Lane, Limited, another RAI subsidiary.

Bumbacco has 19 years of U.S. and international tobacco experience with the British American Tobacco (BAT) group of companies and with RAI. He started his tobacco career as a field sales representative for Imperial Tobacco Ltd. in Canada and progressed through a number of managerial positions before moving to the United States in 1994 as the national sales manager, heading up Imperial Tobacco's international expansion.

In 1996, Bumbacco moved to Malaysia as the regional trade marketing director for BAT Malaysia. He returned to the United States in 1999 as the Minneapolis region director for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, and moved to B&W's headquarters as director of specialty markets in 2000. In 2001, Bumbacco was appointed director of sponsorship & HoReCa, overseeing the company's CART racing program and its consumer communication & entertainment programs. He became director of strategic account management in November of 2001 and held that position until March of 2004. In 2004, Bumbacco was promoted to vice president of trade marketing at Lane, Limited. He was promoted to president and chief executive officer of Lane in 2005 and assumed his previous position at GPI in 2007.

Bumbacco serves as the president and chairman of the board for the SFNTC Foundation and is the advisory council co-chair for the American Red Cross - Sante Fe. He also serves on Santa Fe's Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

Bumbacco is a native of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He holds a bachelor's of science degree in business management from Lake Superior State University in Michigan.

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  Michael A. Little

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  Bill Morachnick

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