Lewis Cullman - General American Independent Director

Mr. Lewis B. Cullman is an Independent Director of General American Investors Company, Inc. In addition to his tenure since 1961 as a Director of the Company, Mr. Cullman was an investor and entrepreneur for over 50 years. Mr. Cullman formed the Incubation Group Limited, a closed end fund dedicated to buying securities unrecognized by banks and trust companies. Out of that list, emerged Orkin Exterminating Company, which became the first leveraged buyout, which he coengineered in the early 1960s. Also out of the Incubation Group Limited was Allied Graphic Arts a second leveraged buyout in the late 1960s. Those purchases were followed by the purchase of Keith Clark in the late 1970s, a desk calendar company which acquired AtAGlance and adopted its name and made it the largest manufacturer of calendars and appointments books in the United States until its sale to Mead Corporation in 1999. Cullman Ventures was formed to hold AtAGlance and Allied Graphic Arts, and authored his memoir, You Cant Take It With You The Art of Making and Giving Money, which describes the benefits of philanthropy, to which he was devoted throughout his life. Mr. Cullman is presently Chairman Emeritus of Chess in the Schools Honorary Trustee for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Honorary Trustee for the Museum of Modern Art Life Trustee of the New York Botanical Garden and a Trustee for The New York Public Library