Investor Relations
Board of Directors
Scott N. Greenberg
Scott N. Greenberg has been chief executive officer since April 2005 and was
the president of the company from 2001 until February 2006. He was chief financial
officer from 1989 until December 2005, executive vice president from 1998 to 2001,
vice president from 1985 to 1998, and has held various other positions since joining
the company in 1981. From 1999 to 2008, he was a director of GSE Systems, Inc. (GSE)—a
global provider of real-time simulation and training solutions which is a former
majority-owned subsidiary of the company that was spun off in 2005. Mr. Greenberg
has also been a director of National Patent Development Corporation (NPDC), a holding
company with interests in optical plastics, paint and hardware distribution services,
since 2004, when NPDC, formerly a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, was spun
off. Mr. Greenberg was also chief financial officer of NPDC from 2004 until August
2007. Mr. Greenberg has served on our board of directors since 1987.
Harvey P. Eisen
Harvey
P. Eisen has been the chairman of the board since April 2005. He has been
chairman and managing member of Bedford Oak Advisors, LLC since 1998. Prior to that,
Mr. Eisen served as senior vice president of Travelers, Inc. and of Primerica prior
to its merger with Travelers in 1993. Mr. Eisen has over thirty years of asset management
experience. Mr. Eisen is a trustee of the University of Missouri Business School,
where he established the first accredited course on the Warren Buffet Principles
of Investing, and of Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Eisen has also been a director
of NPDC since August 2004 and became chairman of the board of NPDC in May 2007.
Mr. Eisen has served on our board of directors since 2002.
Daniel M. Friedberg
Daniel
M. Friedberg has been president and chief executive officer of Sagard Capital
Partners Management Corporation, the investment manager of Sagard Capital Partners,
LP, since its founding in 2005. Since 2005, he has also been a vice president and
officer of Power Corporation of Canada, a diversified international management holding
company. Prior to that, he was a Partner at Bain & Company. Mr. Friedberg joined
Bain & Company in 1987 in the London office, and was a founder of the Toronto
office in 1989 and the New York office in 2000. Mr. Friedberg also serves as a director
of X-Rite, Incorporated.
Marshall S. Geller
Marshall
S. Geller is founder and senior managing director of St. Cloud Capital, a
Los Angeles based private equity fund formed in December 2001. He has spent more
than 40 years in corporate finance and investment banking, including 21 years as
a senior managing partner of Bear, Stearns & Co. with oversight of all operations
in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Hong Kong, and the Far East. Mr. Geller
is currently a director on the boards of 1st Century Bancshares, Inc.; National
Holdings Corporation; California Pizza Kitchen, Inc.; and Guidance Software, Inc.
and is on the board of governors of Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. Mr.
Geller also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Business
& Economics at California State University, Los Angeles, and on the Little Hoover
Commission, an independent California state oversight agency. Mr. Geller has served
on our board of directors since 2002.
Sue W. Kelly
Sue W.
Kelly is currently president and chief executive officer of Kelly Consulting
LLC, an investment and consulting firm. From 1995 to January 2007 she was a member
of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 19th Congressional District
of New York. While in Congress she served on the board of visitors of the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point and on the House Financial Services Committee, among other
assignments. Prior to becoming a congresswoman, she worked in a variety of positions
in business and education. Ms. Kelly currently serves as a director of Magna Carta
Companies, Inc. and has served on our board of directors since December 2007.
Richard C. Pfenniger
Richard C. Pfenniger, Jr. is the chairman of the board, president and chief
executive officer of Continucare Corporation, a provider of primary care physician
services. Mr. Pfenniger was appointed president and chief executive officer of Continucare
in October 2003 after having served as a member of the board of Continucare since
March 2002 and as chairman since September 2002. Mr. Pfenniger was the chief executive
officer and vice chairman of Whitman Education Group, Inc., a provider of career-oriented
higher education, from 1997 until June 2003. From 1994 to 1997 Mr. Pfenniger served
as the chief operating officer of IVAX Corporation, and from 1989 to 1994 he served
as the senior vice president-legal affairs and general counsel of IVAX corporation,
a multi-national pharmaceutical company. Mr. Pfenniger currently serves as a director
of Safestitch Medical, Inc. and Opko Health, Inc. Mr. Pfenniger has served on our
board of directors since 2005.
A. Marvin Strait
A. Marvin
Strait presently practices as a certified public accountant under the name
A. Marvin Strait, CPA. He has practiced in the field of public accountancy in Colorado
for over 40 years. He presently serves as a member of the board of trustees of the
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Foundation, the Sam S. Bloom Foundation, The Penrose-St.
Francis Health Foundation and Pikes Peak Educational Foundation. He also presently
serves as a member of the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee
of Sturm Financial Group, Inc. and Continucare Corporation, and on the community
advisory panel of American National Bank. Mr. Strait previously served as the chairman
of the board of directors of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
(AICPA), as president of the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants and
the Colorado State Board of Accountancy, and serves as a permanent member of the
AICPA governing council. Mr. Strait has served on our board of directors since December
2007.
Gene A. Washington
Gene A. Washington was the director of football operations with the National
Football League (NFL) in New York from 1994 until his retirement in March 2009.
He previously served as a professional sportscaster and as assistant athletic director
for Stanford University prior to joining the NFL. Mr. Washington has served on numerous
corporate and civic boards, and currently serves as a director for several NYSE-listed
companies including dELiA*s, Goodrich Petroleum Corporation and the former New York
Bancorp, Inc. Mr. Washington has served on our board of directors since December
2007.
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