James A. Cannavino

Director at 1-800-FLOWERS.COM

James A. Cannavino has been a Director of the company since June 2007. Mr. Cannavino served as Chairman of the Board of Direct Insite from 2000 through 2011 and was Chief Executive Officer from December 2002 until May 2011. He continues to serve as a director. Direct Insite is a global provider of financial supply chain automation across procure-to-pay and order-to cash business processes. From September 1997 through April 2000, he was elected non-executive Chairman of Softworks, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Direct Insite, formerly Computer Concepts), which went public and was later sold to EMC. Mr. Cannavino was also the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cybersafe, Inc., a company specializing in network security. Prior to Cybersafe, Mr. Cannavino was President and Chief Operating Officer of Perot Systems Corporation; he was elected to serve as Chief Executive Officer through July 1997. Mr. Cannavino retired from IBM in 1995, a career that spanned 30 years, where he was Senior IBM Company Vice President for Strategy and Business Development. Mr. Cannavino is an emeritus member the Board of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Mr. Cannavino is one of the founding members and is the immediate past Chairman of The International Center for Missing and Exploited Children Retired. He is a past chairman of the Board of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York and continues to serve on the board and the executive committee.

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