DEREK V. SMITH ChoicePoint Derek Smith is chairman and chief executive officer of ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS), the company was formed by the spin-off of the Insurance Services Group from Equifax as an independent, publicly-traded company. Smith is a former executive vice president of Equifax, responsible as group executive for the Insurance Services Group. As senior vice president and chief financial officer of Equifax (1991-1992), he led the implementation of a new corporate financial strategy including a 150 million dollar Dutch auction repurchase of Equifax stock. He also served previously as corporate vice president and treasurer with overall financial and corporate development accountability for the 600 million dollar acquisition of Telecredit, Inc. Smith was also executive vice president of Equifax Credit Services and was responsible for a 34-state national credit reporting expansion initiative which included a landmark joint partnership with a major competitor, Computer Sciences Corporation. His other corporate assignments included president, Equifax Marketing Services, vice president and executive assistant to the chief executive officer, and staff vice president, finance. He joined Equifax in 1981 as an assistant vice president. Smith is a former member of the Equifax board of directors and serves on the board of Zoo Atlanta and the Society of International Business Fellows. He presently serves on the board of directors of ChoicePoint and Metris Companies as well as the board of governors of The Golf Club of Georgia and the board of trustees of The Educational Foundation, Georgia State University. Smith is an honor graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a degree in computer science and holds a masters degree in business management from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is pursuing a doctorate researching the impact of technological innovation on consumer buying behavior of financial services products. Smith, a native of Sayville, New York, lives with his wife and daughter in Roswell, an Atlanta suburb.