Michael Gaither - Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Mike Gaither is Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of American Tire Distributors, Inc., and has served in that role since May 1999. He joined the Company in 1991 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Before joining the Company, Gaither provided legal services in private practice in Catawba County, North Carolina.

He has been intimately involved in the Company's evolution from a regional family-owned company to a nationwide enterprise focused on distribution and value-added services for independent tire dealers, helping the Company move through an intense period of acquisition, reorganization and re-emergence.

Gaither earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University and his J.D. degree from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He is a member of the North Carolina State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Gaither and his family make their home in Charlotte, North Carolina.