Richard Kuersteiner

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Richard Kuersteiner

Richard Kuersteiner was a member of the Franklin Templeton Investments legal department in San Mateo, California from 1990 until May 2012. Mr. Kuersteiner has a strong interest in good corporate governance practices and is a long-standing member of the Stanford Institutional Investors Forum. At Franklin he served as Associate General Counsel from 2007 until May 2012 and in various other capacities, including Director of Restructuring and Managing Corporate Counsel. For many years he also was an officer of virtually all of the Franklin, Templeton and Mutual Series funds. In February 2010 when R H Donnelley Corporation emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy as Dex One Corporation, he joined its Board of Directors and is currently a member of the Audit and Finance Committee, the Compensation and Benefits Committee and Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee. Additionally, Mr. Kuersteiner is a director of each of the nine wholly-owned Dex One subsidiaries.