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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION. Not applicable. PART III ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE. Information regarding our directors and certain corporate governance and other matters appearing under the captions "Information About the Board of Directors and Corporate Governance Matters," "Proposal 1—Election of Directors," "Audit Committee" and "Additional Information—Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance" in the 2012 proxy statement is incorporated herein by reference. The names and ages of our executive officers as of January 31, 2012, the positions they held on that date and the year they first became an executive officer are: Name Stephen P. MacMillan Lonny J. Carpenter Curtis E. Hall Curt R. Hartman Tony M. McKinney Katherine A. Owen Michael W. Rude Timothy J. Scannell Kevin A. Lobo Ramesh Subrahmanian Age 48 50 55 48 42 41 50 47 46 50 Position Director, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer Group President, Global Quality and Operations Vice President and General Counsel Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer Vice President, Strategy and Investor Relations Vice President, Human Resources Group President, MedSurg and Spine Group President, Orthopaedics Group President, International On February 8, 2012 Mr. MacMillan resigned and Mr. Hartman was named Interim Chief Executive Officer. Each of our executive officers named above was elected by our Board of Directors to serve in the office indicated until the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the annual meeting of shareholders in 2012 and until a successor is chosen and qualified or until their resignation or removal. Each of our executive officers has held the position above or has served Stryker in various executive or administrative capacities for at least five years, except for Ms. Owen, Mr. Lobo and Mr. Subrahmanian. Prior to joining Stryker in February 2007, Ms. Owen served as a medical technology analyst at Merrill Lynch for the previous eight years. Mr. Lobo, prior to joining Stryker in April 2011, held a variety of senior level leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson for the previous nine years, the most recent being Worldwide President of Ethicon Endo-Surgery. Mr. Subrahmanian, prior to joining Stryker in September 2011, held a variety of senior level leadership roles with Merck & Co. Inc., for the previous five years, most recently as Senior Vice President & President, Asia Pacific for Merck & Co. Inc. The Corporate Governance Guidelines adopted by our Board of Directors, as well as the charters of each of the Audit Committee, the Finance Committee, the Governance and Nominating Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Code of Ethics applicable to the principal executive officer, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer or controller or persons performing similar functions are available, free of charge, under the "Investors—Corporate Governance" section of our website at www.stryker.com. Print copies of such documents are available, free of charge, upon written request sent to the Secretary of Stryker Corporation at 2825 Airview Boulevard, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49002. ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION. Information regarding the compensation of our management appearing under the captions "Compensation Discussion and Analysis," "Compensation Committee Report," "Executive Compensation" and "Compensation of Directors" in the 2012 proxy statement is incorporated herein by reference. ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS. The information under the caption "Stock Ownership" in the 2012 proxy statement is incorporated herein by reference. 42 First Became an Executive Officer 2003 2006 2004 2003 2008 2007 2000 2005 2011 2011