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William E. Klitgaard
Corporate Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer


As Chief Financial Officer, William Klitgaard has overall responsibility for finance and corporate development activities.

Mr. Klitgaard has extensive experience in the areas of corporate treasury management and strategic planning. He joined Covance as Corporate Treasurer in 1996, managed strategic planning and corporate development activities in 1999, and appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2000. He joined Covance from KENETECH Corporation, a provider of products and services to the electric utility industry, where he served as Corporate Treasurer. Prior to that, he was an executive with Consolidated Freightways, where for more than a decade he was responsible for treasury and strategic planning activities.

Mr. Klitgaard holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Sloan School of Business.
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