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David C. Swanson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
R.H. Donnelley Corporation

David C. Swanson has been Chief Executive Officer of R.H. Donnelley since May, 2002. He was elected to the Board in December, 2001 and served as Chairman from December, 2002 to January, 2006 and then was re-appointed Chairman once again in April 2006..

Swanson has held increasingly senior management positions over the past 20 years since he joined the Company in 1985 as an Account Executive. He was named Executive Vice President of Sales in 1995, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Proprietary Operations in 1997, and Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy in 1998 in conjunction with the company’s spin-off from Dun & Bradstreet as an independent public company. He became President of Donnelley Directory Services in 1999, and served as President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company from December 2000 until May 2002.


Swanson is the current Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Yellow Pages Association (YPA) and has served on the Board since December 2003.