Reliant FORM 10-K manual

JOHN A. MacNAUGHTON, C.M., 59, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has been nominated for election as a director of the Company and Nortel Networks Limited for the first time. Mr. MacNaughton has served since September 1999 as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a Crown Corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1997 to invest the assets of the Canada Pension Plan. He is due to retire from that position on January 14, 2005. Prior to September 1999, he served as President of Nesbitt Burns Inc., the investment banking arm of Bank of Montreal, from September 1994 to March 1999. Mr. MacNaughton is a Trustee of the University Health Network, an academic health science centre. He is a Governor of CCAF-FCVI Inc., a research and education foundation focused on governance, accountability, management and audit in the public sector.

THE HON. JOHN MANLEY, 55, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, was appointed as a director of the Company and Nortel Networks Limited on May 26, 2004. Mr. Manley has been a senior counsel at the law firm of McCarthy Tétrault LLP since May 2004. Mr. Manley was previously the Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from November 1988 to June 2004 and Chairman of the Ontario Power Generation Review Committee, which was responsible for reviewing the state of the energy system of Ontario, from December 2003 to March 2004. As a Member of Parliament, Mr. Manley also held various positions in the Canadian federal government, including Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from January 2002 to December 2003, Minister of Finance from June 2002 to December 2003, Chair of the Cabinet Committee on Public Security and Anti- Terrorism from October 2001 to December 2003, Minister of Foreign Affairs from October 2000 to January 2002 and Minister of Industry prior thereto.

RICHARD D. McCORMICK, 64, Denver, Colorado, United States, served as Chairman of US WEST, Inc., a telecommunications company, from June 1998 until his retirement in May 1999. He was chairman, president and chief executive officer of US WEST, Inc. from 1992 until 1998. He is also a director of HealthTrio Inc., United Technologies Corporation, Unocal Corporation and Wells Fargo and Company. From 1994 to 2003, Mr. McCormick was also a director of UAL Corporation, the parent holding company and sole shareholder of United Air Lines, Inc. On December 9, 2002, UAL Corporation, United Air Lines, Inc. and 26 direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of UAL Corporation filed voluntary petitions to reorganize their businesses under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.

WILLIAM ARTHUR OWENS, 64, Kirkland, Washington, United States, has been a director of the Company and of Nortel Networks Limited since February 28, 2002. Mr. Owens has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and of Nortel Networks Limited since April 2004. Mr. Owens was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Teledesic LLC, a satellite communications company, from December 2001 to April 2004, after having served as Vice Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer from August 1998 to December 2001. Mr. Owens was Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Science Applications International Corporation (or SAIC), a research and engineering firm representing the largest employee-owned high technology company in the United States, from March 1996 to August 1998, and served as SAIC’s President and Chief Operating Officer from December 1996 to August 1998 and Vice- President from March 1996 to December 1996. Prior to joining SAIC, Mr. Owens was Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the second-ranking military officer in the United States. As part of his role with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he had responsibility for the reorganization and restructuring of the armed forces in the post- Cold War era. Mr. Owens is also a director of DaimlerChrysler AG. Mr. Owens was the Chairman and founder of a private five-state wireless telecommunication venture. Mr. Owens was also a director of IFusion Com Corporation, a company involved in developing Internet services and systems, for approximately one year, his tenure ending in March 1997. On March 28, 1997, IFusion Com Corporation filed a voluntary petition to reorganize its businesses under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, United States.

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