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Sharps Compliance Corporation[SMED] - Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Director, Chairman, and CEO
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Dr. Burton J. Kunik
Dr. Kunik founded Sharps Compliance Inc., now a wholly owned subsidiary of Sharps Compliance Corp., in May 1994 and has served as a Director and its Chief Executive Officer since its inception. Since July 1998, he has also served as the Company’s Chairman of the Board.
Dr. Kunik has 24 years of experience as an endodontist and over 20 years of experience in the medical waste industry, including involvement in the successful start-up of three companies. He co-founded and spent five years with 3CI Complete Compliance Corporation which engages in medical waste services in the southern United States. Dr. Kunik previously served as the Chairman of the Medical Waste Institute in 1992 and on the board of the Environmental Industry Association. Dr. Kunik’s previous business experience also includes management roles in a number of industries, including real estate, oil and gas, cattle ranching and travel. Dr. Kunik earned both B.A. and D.D.S. degrees from the University of Texas.
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Landec Corporation[LNDC] - June 12, 2009
President, CEO and Chairman
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Gary T. Steele
Gary Steele is the President, CEO and Chairman of Landec Corporation, a publicly traded materials science company in Menlo Park, California since 1991. Landec Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and sells temperature-activated and other specialty polymer products for a variety of food, agricultural and licensed partner applications. Landec had revenues of over $235 million in fiscal year 2008 and the Company has been profitable since 2003.
Prior to his employment at Landec, Gary was President and CEO of Molecular Devices Corporation in Sunnyvale, California from 1985 to1991 and before that he was Vice President of Product Development at Genentech Corp., a biotechnology company in So. San Francisco, California from 1981 to1985. After graduation from Stanford University in 1975, Gary worked as Senior Manager at McKinsey & Co., a management consulting firm in San Francisco, California.
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Life Technologies Corporation[LIFE] - June 12, 2009
Chief Executive Officer
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Gregory T. Lucier
Gregory T. Lucier serves as Chief Executive Officer of Life Technologies and as Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors. Previously, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Invitrogen Corporation, which merged with Applied Biosystems in November 2008 to form Life Technologies. The Company is one of the largest providers of systems, biological reagents, and services, supplying scientists around the world in every way that life science technologies are applied. The company aims to improve the human condition by enabling basic research, accelerating drug discovery and development, and advancing scientific exploration in areas such as regenerative science, molecular diagnostics, agricultural and environmental research, and 21st century forensics. Mr. Lucier has leveraged his background in healthcare management to prepare the company to participate in and shape the new era of personalized medicine. Mr. Lucier serves on the BIO Board of Directors as well as on the board of the Burnham Institute of Medical Research. He is actively involved at San Diego State University as a distinguished lecturer. He received his B.S. in Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Pressure BioSciences, Inc.[PBIO] - June 1, 2009
President and CEO
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Richard T. Schumacher
The founder of our Company, has served as a director of Pressure BioSciences since the formation of its legacy business, Boston Biomedica, Inc., in 1978. He has served as CEO of Pressure BioSciencessince April 2004 and President since September, 2004. He previously served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Boston Biomedica from 1992 to February, 2003 and as President from 1986 to August 1999. Mr. Schumacher served as the Director of Infectious Disease Services for Clinical Sciences Laboratory, a New England-based medical reference laboratory, from 1986 to 1988. From 1972 to 1985, Mr. Schumacher was employed by the Center for Blood Research, a nonprofit medical research institute associated with Harvard Medical School. Mr. Schumacher recieved a BS in Zoology from the University of New Hampshire.
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Online Resources Corporation[ORCC] - April 15, 2009
Chairman and CEO
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Matthew P. Lawlor
Lawlor co-founded Virginia-based Online Resources in 1989, and has developed the firm into the nation’s largest outsourcer dedicated to online financial services. The company provides bank and biller clients with web and phone-based financial services, electronic payments and marketing services to drive consumer adoption. Online Resources is widely recognized for its innovation and as one of the fastest growing US technology companies.
Prior to founding Online Resources, Lawlor was founder and president of US Multitrade. The firm developed early-stage ventures, including RSA Security (secure tokens), Sales & Marketing Systems (early CRM) and Energy Fuels (pioneered hedging for ethanol).
From 1973 to 1980, Lawlor served as an executive with Chemical Bank (then the nation’s fifth largest bank). Lawlor started at the bank with a small team reporting to the CEO, where he supported the asset and liability management committee. He later managed a retail branch group in Manhattan and headed Chemical International Finance Ltd., which was then Chemical’s principal offshore equity and merchant banking affiliate.
Between his undergraduate and graduate school years, Lawlor worked with RCA Corporation. There he served as project engineer of recording systems for NASA’s Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS).
Lawlor is active in the technology and entrepreneurial communities. He was awarded two major US patents for financial technology. He served on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Funds Transfer Association, and founded the eFinancial Enablers Council, a senior executive roundtable of the major Internet banking and payments providers.
He is also active in public affairs, and served in 1980 for one year as a Presidential Exchange Executive in the White House OMB under Presidents Carter and Reagan.
Lawlor admits to being born as early as 1948. He is the son of a career Army officer, and lived through-out Asia in his youth. After graduating from New Trier High School (Illinois), Lawlor earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1973. During his schooling at Penn, Lawlor played varsity football and lacrosse, and is now active in youth athletics and swimming.
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QualitySystems, Inc.[QSII] - April 13, 2009
Chairman
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Sheldon Razin
Sheldon Razin (69) is the founder of Quality Systems, Inc. and has served as its Chairman of the Board since the Company’s incorporation in 1974 (inception 1973). He served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from 1974 until April 2000. Since its inception until April 2000, he has also served as the Company’s President, with the exception of the period from August 1990 to August 1991. Additionally, Razin served as Treasurer from the Company’s inception until October 1982. Prior to founding the Company, Razin held various technical and managerial positions with Rockwell International Corporation and was a founder of the Company’s predecessor, Quality Systems, a sole proprietorship engaged in the development of software for commercial and space applications and in management consulting work. Razin holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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First California Financial Group, Inc.[FCAL] - March 2, 2008
President, CEO & Director
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C. G. Kum
C. G. Kum was appointed President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of First California Bank, formerly known as Camarillo Community Bank, in September of 1999. Under his leadership, First California has emerged as a force of strength and stability in Southern California banking, having grown from two branches and total assets of $100 million in 1999 to 18 branches and more than $1.4 billion in total assets as of February 2009. With more than three decades of banking experience, Mr. Kum previously served in various credit, lending and management positions for banks in San Francisco, Denver and Southern California. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, received his M.B.A. from Pepperdine University and is a graduate of Stonier Graduate School of Banking. Currently a member of Government Relations Council of the American Bankers Association, Mr. Kum also served as President of the Board of Directors of Community Bankers of California from 2005 through 2006.
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Concur Technologies, Inc.[CNQR] - December 4, 2008
Chairman of the Board, and CEO
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Steve Singh
Steve Singh currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Singh has served as Chief Executive Officer since February 1996, and was appointed to Chairman of the Board of Directors in October 1999. Prior to joining Concur Technologies, Mr. Singh was General Manager of the Contact Management Division at Symantec Corporation.
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Amarin Corporation plc[AMRN] - November 20, 2008
CEO
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Thomas Lynch
Mr. Thomas Lynch joined Amarin in January 2000 as Chairman and Non-Executive Director and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2007. Between 1993 and 2004, Mr. Lynch was with Elan Corporation plc where he held a number of positions including Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice Chairman. Mr. Lynch spear-headed Elan’s transition from a drug delivery technology provider to a fully integrated pharmaceutical company, through a number of acquisitions, including Athena Neurosciences, Inc. The Athena acquisition brought Elan its programs in multiple sclerosis, autoimmune diseases and Alzheimer’s disease. Mr. Lynch was also a founder of the specialty pharmaceutical company, Warner Chilcott plc. Mr. Lynch is and has been a board member of a number of biotechnology and healthcare companies. Mr. Lynch was a partner in the international accounting firm of KPMG, where he specialized in the provision of international corporate financial services.
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LHC Group[LHCG] - November 6, 2008
Chairman and CEO
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Keith G. Myers
In fourteen short years, Keith Myers has provided the vision and leadership needed to take a small rural home health agency and turn it into what is now known as LHC Group, a regional home nursing and post acute health care services company with more than 5000 employees, providing both home based and facility services through 231 locations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Maryland, and Alabama.
In 1999, Mr. Myers was granted Certified Home/Hospice Care Executive (CHCE) credentials by the National Association for Home Care which placed him among the first to receive this recognition. In recent years, he has also received such honors as being named Business Executive of the Year by the Louisiana Rural Health Association in 1999 and has been an active participant in the Home Health Top 100 since 2002. He has participated in the preparation of white papers and presentations to members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in Washington D.C., specifically related to health care reimbursement methodologies and the correlation between various reimbursement methods and the resulting level of clinical outcomes and overall quality of service received by beneficiaries.
In June of 2003, Mr. Myers received the Regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award for outstanding performance in the field of Healthcare Services and was officially inducted as a Lifetime member of The National Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame in November of 2003. The National Entrepreneur Of The Year Award program is sponsored nationally by USA Today, CNN, The Nasdaq Stock Market, and the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The Entrepreneur of the Year awards program annually honors the most successful and entrepreneurial business leaders across the country who have demonstrated excellence in areas such as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Previous National Entrepreneur of the Year award winners have included Michael Dell of Dell Computer Corporation and Howard Schultz of Starbucks Coffee.
Prior to entering the healthcare industry, Mr. Myers served as President and General Manager of a seafood company, which he and his father founded in 1980. The company began operations as a small single site food processing facility with less than ten employees, and after bringing in partners to provide needed capital for growth and expansion, he continued to provide the hands on day to day oversight necessary to grow from one single facility, into an international food processing, procurement, and distribution company with contract packaging operations and multiple production sites in the U.S., Latin America and Asia, serving as a direct supplier of Sysco, Kraft, and other national retail and institutional food distributors, and indirectly servicing national accounts such as Pillsbury and General Mills.
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icad inc.[ICAD] - October 20, 2008
President and CEO
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Kenneth Ferry
Kenneth Ferry has served as a Director and the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer since May 2006. He has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare technology field, with more than 10 years experience in senior management positions. Prior to joining the Company, from October 2003 to May 2006, Mr. Ferry was Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Global Patient Monitoring business for Philips Medical Systems, the market leader in the medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring systems industry. In this role he was responsible for Research & Development, Marketing, Business Development, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, Quality and Regulatory, Finance and Human Resources. From September 2001 to October 2003, Mr. Ferry served as Senior Vice President for Philips Medical Systems Division. From 1983 to 2001, Mr. Ferry served in a number of management positions with Hewlett Packard Co. and Agilent Technologies, Inc.
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American Caresource Holdings, Inc.[ANCI] - October 9, 2008
President and CEO
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David Boone
Mr. Boone joined American CareSource as Chief Financial Officer in June 2005 and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in December of 2005. From 2001 to 2005, he was Senior Vice President of Finance for Belo Corporation, a NYSE-listed media company. From 2000 to 2001, he was Vice President of Corporate Development for Safeway Corporation. In addition, Mr. Boone has served in executive positions with Intira Corporation, PepsiCo, Kraft General Foods and CIGNA HealthPlan, and has served as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Boone received a B.S. in Accountancy from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Boone also serves on the Board of Directors of the North Texas Kidney Foundation.
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Cytrx Corporation[CYTR] - September 23, 2008
Director, President and CEO
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Steven Kriegsman
Steven A. Kriegsman has been a Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of CytRx Corporation (Nasdaq: CYTR) since July 2002. He also serves as a Director of RXi Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: RXII) and Chairman of its Compensation Committee. Mr. Kriegsman also serves as a Director of Hythiam, Inc (Nasdaq: HYTM) and Chairman of its Audit Committee. He previously served as a Director and Chairman of Global Genomics from June 2000 until its merger with CytRx Corporation in July 2002. Mr. Kriegsman is the Chairman of the Board and Founder of Kriegsman Capital Group LLC, a financial advisory firm specializing in the development of alternative sources of equity capital for emerging growth companies in the healthcare industry. Mr. Kriegsman has a B.S. degree with honors from New York University in accounting and completed the Executive Program in Mergers and Acquisitions at New York University, The Management Institute. Mr. Kriegsman was formerly a Certified Public Accountant with KPMG in New York City. From June 2003 until February 2008, he served as a Director, and he is the former Chairman of the Audit Committee of Bradley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In February 2006, Mr. Kriegsman received the Corporate Philanthropist of the Year Award from the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the ALS Association and in October 2006, he received the Lou Gehrig Memorial Corporate Award from the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Mr. Kriegsman has been active in various charitable organizations including the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the ALS Association, the Los Angeles Venture Association, the Southern California Biomedical Council, and the Palisades-Malibu YMCA.
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Hana Biosciences, Inc.[HNAB] - September 18, 2008
President and Chief Executive Officer
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Steven Deitcher, M.D.
Steven R. Deitcher, MD, was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors for Hana Biosciences in August 2007. Dr. Deitcher originally joined Hana as Executive Vice President of Development and Chief Medical Officer in May 2007. From 2004 until he joined Hana, Dr. Deitcher served as Vice President, Chief Medical Scientist at Nuvelo where he was responsible for clinical development and medical affairs. Dr. Deitcher has more than 15 years of experience as a practicing physician in hematology, medical oncology and vascular medicine. Dr. Deitcher was formerly the head of the section of hematology and coagulation medicine in the department of hematology/oncology and director of research in the department of vascular medicine at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. While at The Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Deitcher was hematology medical director for the Network for Oncology Communication and Research. Prior to that, he spent four years at The University of Tennessee in positions including associate chairman, department of medicine; director, combined pediatric and adult thrombosis clinic; and director, special coagulation laboratory. Dr. Deitcher earned his B.S. and M.D. in the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University Medical School. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital and completed his fellowship training in hematology and medical oncology at New England Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Deitcher is a member of several medical societies, including The American Society of Hematology, American Society of Clinical Oncology and the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis, and is a fellow of the Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology. He has published more than 185 journal papers, abstracts and book chapters and has made more than 35 scientific conference presentations. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Current Hematology Reports.
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Semtech Corp.[SMTC] - September 5, 2008
President and CEO
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Mohan Maheswaran
Mohan Maheswaran joined Semtech as President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2006. Prior to joining the company, Mohan held the position of Executive Vice President and General Manager at Intersil Corporation. He joined Intersil Corporation through its acquisition of Elantec Semiconductor Inc. in 2002. Mohan has worked for high technology startups such as Allayer Communications which was acquired by Broadcom aswell as multi-national corporations such as IBM Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard and Nortel Communications. Mohan has over 25 years experience in the electronics industry and has an electronic engineering degree from Surrey University in the UK and an MBA from Henley Management College in the UK. Since Mohan Maheswaran took the helm in 2006, he has transformed Semtech’s culture into a customer-oriented, high-growth culture with visions for a “New Semtech.” He has placed great emphasis on a new strategy toward profitable growth, new market focus and dramatically improved execution. He has taken the first steps to transforming Semtech into a value driven, global company and a leader among industry peers. Semtech’s resulting business performance has been extraordinary, achieving record annual revenues in Fiscal Year 2008 of $285M and achieving record quarterly revenues for the last four consecutive quarters and accelerating earnings growth at a much faster rate than revenues.
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NetSol Technologies, Inc.[NTWK] - June 24, 2008
Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO
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Najeeb Ghauri
Najeeb Ghauri was elected Chief Executive Officer in October 2006, continuing his responsibilities as Chairman of the Board of Directors of NetSol Technologies, Inc., to which he was appointed in February 2003. He was also the interim CFO from June 2002 to July 2005. Mr. Ghauri was the founder of the parent company, NetSol Technologies, Inc. (formerly Mirage Holdings, Inc.). He became the President and CEO of NetSol Technologies, Inc. in April 1997, and held that title until August 2001. Mr. Ghauri was very instrumental in the completion of the IPO in 1998 and responsible for restructuring the company's business model into that of an IT company in 1997-1998. He also spearheaded the successful listing of NetSol to NASDAQ Small Cap in December 1999 as well as the first U.S. dual listing on the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX) in June 2008.
Prior to launching NetSol in the U.S., Mr. Ghauri had over 15 years of combined marketing and management experience with Fortune 500 companies such as Unilever and Atlantic Richfield Corporation (ARCO). He received his bachelor's degree from Eastern Illinois University, and earned an MBA in marketing from the Drucker School of Management at The Claremont Graduate School. In 2001, Mr. Ghauri was a nominee for the Ernst & Young 'Entrepreneur of the Year' award in California. Mr. Ghauri is a founding member of USPBC (US-Pakistan American Business Council) and was elected as its Vice Chairman in spring of 2006. Mr. Ghauri has lived in the U. S. since 1977 and became a U.S. citizen in 1990.
Mr. Ghauri is very active in various educational non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide. He is a founding board member of the National Human Development Fund of Pakistan. He is a board member of the newly created U.S. Pakistan Business Council in Washington, D.C. (a U.S. Chamber of Commerce body), and is also on the board of M4 International, Inc., a California-based executive consulting firm.
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Molex Incorporated[MOLX] - June 3, 2008
Vice Chairman and CEO
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Martin P. Slark
Martin P. Slark, 53, was appointed Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Molex Incorporated on July 1, 2005. He had served as President and Chief Operating Officer since July 1, 2001. Prior to this position Mr. Slark was Executive Vice President of Molex Incorporated from 1999 to 2001; President of the Americas Region from 1994 to1999; and President of the Far East South Region from 1988 to 1994. He became a Director of the company in 2000.
He began his career with Molex in 1976 and has worked for the company in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. He was responsible for starting the Molex entities in Hong Kong, China, India, South Africa, Malaysia and Thailand.
Mr. Slark completed his undergraduate studies in Electronic Engineering at Bracknell College, England (1976). He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies (with distinction) from Portsmouth University (1981) and a MBA (with distinction) from the University of East London (1992). He is on the Board of the Hub Group, Inc. and is Vice Chairman and Treasurer of the Landmark School, which serves students with language-based learning disabilities. He is a Companion of the British Institute of Management, and a member of the University of Chicago Advisory Council on the Graduate School of Business. He is also a member of the World Presidents’ Organization, The Chicago Economic Club and the Management Development Institute of Singapore.
In 2003, Mr. Slark was honored with a Public Service Medal by the government of Singapore. This National award recognizes distinguished international friends who have contributed to Singapore’s development in business, industry, technology and science. Mr. Slark was honored for having played an instrumental role in expanding Molex’s operations in Singapore as well as boosting Singapore’s efforts to develop its Electronics and Precision Engineering Industries. In 2004 Mr. Slark was awarded a Doctorate in Business Administration (Hon Causa) by the University of East London.
Mr. Slark is married and has two children. An avid runner, he has completed 13 marathons including Chicago, Boston and Hong Kong. He also regularly competes in 5K and 10K races.
Molex Incorporated
Molex Incorporated (NASDAQ: MOLX, MOLXA) is a 69-year-old global manufacturer of electronic, electrical and fiber optic interconnection products and systems, switches and application tooling. Based in Lisle, Illinois, U.S.A., the company operates 59 plants in 19 countries, employs over 33,000 people worldwide and had revenues of $3.3 billion in its fiscal year ended June 30, 2007.
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Watson Wyatt Worldwide[WW] - May 29, 2008
President, Chairman and CEO
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John J. Haley
John J. Haley is President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a global human resources and financial management consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Haley joined Watson Wyatt in 1977 and became the consulting actuary to several of Watson Wyatt's largest clients. In 1992, he was named to the Board of Directors and named CEO in 1998.
Mr. Haley is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries. He is a Trustee of The Actuarial Foundation. He holds an A.B. in mathematics from Rutgers College, and received a Fellowship for two years of study at the Graduate School of Mathematics at Yale University.
Mr. Haley also serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S.-China Business Council, MAXIMUS and Hudson Highland.
Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Watson Wyatt is the trusted business partner to the world's leading organizations on people and financial issues. The firm's global services include: managing the cost and effectiveness of employee benefit programs; developing attraction, retention and reward strategies; advising pension plan sponsors and other institutions on optimal investment strategies; providing strategic and financial advice to insurance and financial services companies; and delivering related technology, outsourcing and data services. Watson Wyatt has 7,000 associates in 32 countries and is located on the Web at www.watsonwyatt.com.
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U.S. Energy Corp.[USEG] - May 14, 2008
Chairman and CEO
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Keith G. Larsen
Keith G. Larsen is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of U.S. Energy Corp. He is a former director of the Brunton Company and former CEO and director of Rocky Mountain Gas, Inc. Mr. Larsen is a former director and founding member of Pinnacle Gas Resources, a public coalbed methane company founded by Credit Suisse First Boston.
U.S. Energy Corp
U.S. Energy Corp. is a diversified natural resource company with interests in molybdenum, oil and gas, gold, and real estate. While the Company primarily invests in the natural resource sector, it is also broadening its business interests to include cash flow generating investments driven by surging growth created by energy and mining activity in the intermountain west region of the United States.
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Cavium Networks [CAVM] - May 5, 2008
President and CEO
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Syed Ali
Syed B. Ali is one of our founders and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors since the inception of the company in 2000. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Ali was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Malleable Technologies, a communication chip company of which he was a founding management team member. Malleable Technologies was acquired by PMC Sierra, a communication IC company in 2000. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Ali was an Executive Director at Samsung Electronics where he started the Flash memory and CPU businesses and put together the business plans that drove sales in each line to over a $100M in less than two years. Prior to that, he had various positions at Wafer Scale Integration, a division of SGS-Thompson, Tandem Computer, and American Microsystems. He received a BSEE from Osmania University, in Hyderabad, India and an MSEE from the University of Michigan.
Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM) is a provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications, storage and security applications. We refer to our products as enabling intelligent processing because they allow customers to develop networking equipment that is application-aware and content-aware and securely processes voice, video and data traffic at high speeds. Our products are used in a broad array of networking, communications, storage, wireless and security equipment, including routers, switches, content-aware switches, UTM and other security appliances, application-aware gateways, voice/video/data, or triple-play, gateways, wireless local area network, or WLAN, and 3G access and aggregation devices, storage networking equipment, servers and intelligent network interface cards. Cavium Networks' products consists of integrated, software compatible security and Multicore MIPS64 processors ranging in performance from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps.
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Orion Energy Systems, Inc.[OESX] - April 24, 2008
President and CEO
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Neal Verfuerth
Neal Verfuerth has been the driving force of the company he helped found in 1996. Under his leadership, Orion Energy Systems has grown into a company with more than 200 employees and annual sales of well over $50 million, to thousands of customers that include 78 of the Fortune 500.
He has created many patented products, principally the Illuminator lighting fixture platform, Apollo Solar Light Pipe, InteLite Controls, and other energy-saving technologies. Verfuerth has also developed innovative, proprietary sales and financing programs for Orion's energy efficient products and services.
Neal Verfuerth's accomplishments as a business leader and technology innovator have been recently recognized by the Alliance to Save Energy, National Society of Professional Engineers, Inc. 500, Ernst & Young, and many others.
Orion Energy Systems, Inc.
Orion Energy Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: OESX) is a leading power technology enterprise that designs, manufactures and implements energy management systems, consisting primarily of high-performance, energy efficient lighting systems and controls and related services, for commercial and industrial customers without compromising their quantity or quality of light. Orion has deployed its energy management systems in 3,300 facilities across North America. Since 2001, Orion technology has displaced over 303 megawatts, enough electricity to power more than 250,000 homes per year, saving customers $304 million, and reducing indirect CO2 emissions by 3.8 million tons. For more information, visit www.oriones.com.
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Clean Diesel Technologies[CDTI] - April 17, 2008
President and Chairman of the Board
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Dr. Bernhard Steiner
Dr. Bernhard Steiner was appointed Chairman of the Board of Clean Diesel and elected a director in September 2004. In January 2006 Dr. Steiner was also appointed to the position of President.
Steiner was Executive Director of Sales and Marketing at Sweden-based Wayfinder Systems AB, which has launched server-based navigation systems for mobile phones and has become the market leader in the field. From 1999 through March 2003, Steiner served in varying positions with Motorola, Inc. beginning as Director, Strategic Marketing and New Business Development for the Integrated Electronics Systems Sector, working with four business groups: automotive, telematics, energy systems and computer platforms. Within one year Steiner was promoted to Director, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, and then to General Manager Global Solutions, for the company's personal communication sector, where he created and grew a team of more than 200 professionals to enter into the hardware services and application business. From 1994 through 1998, Steiner held the position of Group Managing Director at London-based NXT PLC, where he was involved in strategic planning including M&A and technical developments to ensure the Group's continued growth and profitability. He also served as Chairman and CEO of Huntingdon, UK-based Mission Electronics and Leeds and UK-based Wharfedale International Limited under NXT PLC, where he restructured the companies to integrate them into the company and make them profitable.
Steiner received his Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. He speaks several languages, including German, Italian, French and English, and resides in Mainz-Kostheim in Germany.
Clean Diesel Technologies
Clean Diesel Technologies (NASDAQ: CDTI) is a cleantech company providing sustainable solutions to reduce emissions, increase energy efficiency and lower the carbon intensity of on- and off-road engine applications. Clean Diesel's patented technologies and products allow manufacturers and operators to comply with increasingly strict regulatory emissions and air quality standards, while also improving fuel economy and power. The Company's solutions, which are in commercial use worldwide, significantly reduce emissions formed by the combustion of fossil fuels and biofuels, including particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. Clean Diesel solutions also reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a key greenhouse gas associated with global climate change.
Clean Diesel develops and manages intellectual property from original concept to full-scale commercial deployment. Its offerings include ARIS® Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR); the patented combination of SCR and Exhaust Gas Recirculation; hydrocarbon injection for emissions control applications; Platinum Plus® Fuel-Borne Catalyst (FBC); the Purifier™ family of particulate filter systems; and its Wire Mesh Filter particulate filter technologies. The Company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. A wholly owned subsidiary, Clean Diesel International, LLC, is based in London, England. For more information, please visit www.cdti.com.
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Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc.[OCLS] - April 16, 2008
Hojabr Alimi, President and CEO
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Hojabr Alimi
Hojabr Alimi, one of our founders, has served as our chief executive officer, president and director since 1999 and was appointed as chairman of the board of directors in June 2006. Prior to co-founding our company with his spouse in 1999, Mr. Alimi was a corporate microbiologist for Arterial Vascular Engineering. Mr. Alimi received a B.A. in biology from Sonoma State University.
Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc.
Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacture and marketing of a family of products intended to help prevent and treat infection in acute and chronic wounds. Oculus’ platform technology, called Microcyn®, is a non-irritating shelf-stable solution containing oxychlorine compounds that is designed to treat a wide range of pathogens, including antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria (including MRSA), as well as viruses, fungi and spores.
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Gateway Financial Holdings, Inc.[GBTS] - April 4, 2008
D. Ben Berry, President,Chairman and CEO
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D. Ben Berry
Mr. Berry founded Gateway Financial Holdings, Inc. in 1998. He is a native of Hertford, North Carolina. He attended Chowan College, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Banking, and a Graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University. Mr. Berry began his banking career in 1977 as a management trainee with Peoples Bank & Trust Company (now RBC Centura) in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. While at Centura, Mr. Berry held a number of management positions in various cities throughout eastern North Carolina. He served as Regional Executive for Centura Bank covering northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia before leaving in March of 1998 to form Gateway Bank.
Mr. Berry currently serves on the American Bankers Association Government Relations Council and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Bankers Association. He has previously served as a member of the Community Bankers Council of the American Bankers Association and serves on numerous local civic boards.
Gateway Financial Holdings, Inc.
Gateway Financial Holdings, Inc. is the parent company for Gateway Bank and Trust, which first opened its doors for business in 1998 with one office and 12 employees in northeastern North Carolina. Since that time, the holding company has grown to $1.9 billion in assets and more than 400 employees, through the Bank and its subsidiaries: The Bank of Richmond (a division of Gateway Bank and Trust), Gateway Insurance Services, Gateway Investment Services, Gateway Bank Mortgage, and Gateway Title Agency. With 35 financial centers across eastern North Carolina and Virginia, Gateway Financial is among the fastest growing bank holding companies in the nation.
Mr. Berry currently serves on the American Bankers Association Government Relations Council and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Bankers Association. He has previously served as a member of the Community Bankers Council of the American Bankers Association and serves on numerous local civic boards.
Financial Centers:
Twenty in Virginia: Virginia Beach (7), Richmond (6), Chesapeake (3), Emporia (2), Suffolk and Norfolk; and Fifteen in North Carolina: Chapel Hill, Elizabeth City (3), Edenton, Kitty Hawk (2), Raleigh (3), Moyock, Nags Head, Plymouth, Roper, and Wilmington.
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AspenBio Pharma, Inc.[APPY] - April 2, 2008
Richard G. Donnelly, President,Director and CEO
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Richard G. Donnelly
Richard G. Donnelly was elected President, Chief Executive Officer and as a director, in January 2005. From September 1999 to December 2004, Mr. Donnelly served in senior marketing positions with Heska Corporation, including most recently as Senior Director of Marketing. From January 1993 to September 1999, Mr. Donnelly served as Director of Marketing for the Fort Dodge division of Wyeth Inc., (American Home Products). Mr. Donnelly holds a three-year diploma in Animal Science from St. Lawrence College.
AspenBio Pharma, Inc.
AspenBio Pharma, Inc. (the "Company" or "AspenBio" also we, us or our) is an emerging medical biotechnology company engaged in the discovery, research, development, manufacture, and licensing or marketing of novel drugs and diagnostics for human and animal healthcare. Founded in August 2000, as a Colorado corporation and headquartered in Castle Rock, Colorado, we leverage our proprietary knowledge and technology towards the development of novel patented or patentable products we believe have substantial market potential. Using our proprietary protein purifying methods and other proteomic technologies, we discovered several blood markers that appear to correlate with appendicitis in humans. We are currently engaged in the development and testing of our two first-generation blood-based human diagnostic tests designed to rapidly help screen or rule out appendicitis in patients complaining of abdominal pain. We are in the process of completing the appropriate requirements to file and secure a United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") 510(k) clearance for our initial screening technology, AppyScore, which in late 2007 demonstrated 98% sensitivity in a 471 patient multi-hospital study.
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StealthGas, Inc.[GASS] - March 26, 2008
Harry N. Vafias, President and CEO
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Harry N. Vafias
Harry N. Vafias has been our President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors since our inception in December 2004. Mr. Vafias has been actively involved in the tanker and gas shipping industry since 1999. He has worked at Seascope, a leading ship brokering firm specializing in sale and purchase of vessels and chartering of oil tankers. Mr. Vafias also worked at Braemar, a leading ship brokering firm, where he gained extensive experience in tanker and dry cargo chartering. Seascope and Braemar merged in 2001 to form Braemar Seascope Group plc, a public company quoted on the London Stock Exchange and one of the world's largest ship brokering and shipping service groups. From 2000 until 2004, he worked at Brave Maritime and Stealth Maritime, companies providing comprehensive ship management services, where Mr. Vafias headed the operations and chartering departments of Stealth Maritime and served as manager for the sale and purchase departments of both Brave Maritime and Stealth Maritime. Mr. Vafias graduated from City University Business
School in the City of London in 1999 with a B.A. in Management Science and from Metropolitan University in 2000 with a Masters degree in Shipping, Trade and Transport.
StealthGas, Inc.
StealthGas Inc is a provider of international seaborne transportation services to LPG producers and users. Our vessels carry various petroleum and petrochemical gas products in liquefied form, including propane, butane, butadiene, isopropane, propylene and vinyl chloride monomer, which are all byproducts of the production of oil and natural gas. These products are transported in liquefied form in order to reduce their volume and to facilitate their handling.
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Rubicon Technology, Inc.[RBCN] - March 13, 2008
Raja M. Parvez, President and CEO
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Raja M. Parvez
Raja M. Parvez has served as our president and chief executive officer since January 2006 and as a member of our board of directors since August 2006. Prior to joining us, Mr. Parvez served as chief operating officer, chief manufacturing officer and vice president at CyOptics, Inc., a designer, developer and marketer of indium phosphide optical chips and components for access, metro and long-haul communications systems from July 2001 through December 2005. From July 2000 to July 2001, Mr. Parvez was president and vice president of manufacturing at Optigain, Inc. a subsidiary of FiTel Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of amplifiers for communications systems. From 1984 to 2000, he was at Lucent Technologies, where he served as distinguished and consulting member of the technical staff. His focus was on operational excellence for Lucent-Optoelectronics products, including indium phosphide and lithium niobate components. Mr. Parvez holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Peshawar, an MS in industrial engineering and an MS in management, each from Polytechnic University in New York.
Rubicon Technology, Inc.
Rubicon Technology, Inc. is an advanced electronic materials provider that is engaged in developing, manufacturing and selling monocrystalline sapphire and other crystalline products for light-emitting diodes (LEDs), radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), blue laser diodes, optoelectronics and other optical applications. The Company applies its proprietary crystal growth technology to produce very high-quality sapphire in a form that allows for volume production of various sizes and orientations of substrates and windows. Rubicon is a vertically-integrated manufacturer with capabilities in crystal growth, high precision core drilling, wafer slicing, surface lapping, large-diameter polishing and wafer cleaning processes, which the Company employs to convert the bulk crystal into products with the quality and precision specified by its customers. The Company is actively developing larger diameter products to support next-generation LED, RFIC and optical window applications.
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Elbit Systems Ltd.[ESLT] - March 12, 2008
Joseph Ackerman, President and CEO
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Joseph Ackerman
Joseph Ackerman has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Elbit Systems Ltd. since 1996. He serves as chairman or a director on the boards of many of the companies in the Elbit Systems Group. Mr. Ackerman joined Elbit Ltd. in 1982 and held various management positions, including Senior Vice President and General Manager - Elbit Defense Systems Division, General Manager - EFW Inc., Senior Vice President - Operations Group; and Vice President - Advanced Battlefield Systems. Prior to joining Elbit Ltd. he owned and operated an agricultural business. Mr. Ackerman served as an officer in the Israel Air Force as a flight test engineer. He holds a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Elbit Systems Ltd.
Elbit Systems Ltd. is an international defense electronics company engaged in a wide range of defense-related programs throughout the world. The Company, which includes Elbit Systems and its subsidiaries, operates in the areas of aerospace, land and naval systems, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance ("C4ISR"), unmanned air vehicle (UAV) systems, advanced electro-optics, electro-optic space systems, EW suites, airborne warning systems, ELINT systems, data links and military communications systems and radios. The Company also focuses on the upgrading of existing military platforms and developing new technologies for defense, homeland security and commercial aviation applications.
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Threshold Pharmaceuticals[THLD] - February 13, 2008
Harold E. Selick, CEO
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Harold E. "Barry" Selick
Harold E. "Barry" Selick, Ph.D. joined Threshold as Chief Executive Officer in May 2003. Since June 2002, Dr. Selick has been a Venture Partner of Sofinnova Ventures, Inc., a venture capital firm. From January 1999 to April 2002, he was Chief Executive Officer of Camitro Corporation, a biotechnology company. From 1992 to 1999, he was at Affymax Research Institute, the drug discovery technology development center for Glaxo Wellcome plc, most recently as Vice President of Research. Prior to working at Affymax he held scientific positions at Protein Design Labs, Inc. and Anergen, Inc.. As a staff scientist at Protein Design Labs, he co-invented the technology underlying the creation of fully humanized antibody therapeutics and applied that to PDL's first product, Zenapax, which was developed and commercialized by Roche for treating kidney transplant rejection. Dr. Selick also serves on the Board of Directors of DiObex, Inc. and Catalyst Biosciences. Dr. Selick received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and was a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund Fellow and an American Cancer Society Senior Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.
Threshold Pharmaceuticals
Threshold is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of therapeutics based on Tumor Hypoxia, a powerful scientific platform that offers broad potential to treat most solid tumors. By selectively targeting tumor cells, we are building a pipeline of drugs that hold promise to be more effective and less toxic to healthy tissues than conventional drugs.
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Huntington Bancshares, Inc.[HBAN] - January 30, 2008
Tom Hoaglin, Chairman, President and CEO
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Tom Hoaglin
Tom Hoaglin joined Huntington as President and Chief Executive Officer in February, 2001. He assumed the additional role of Chairman later that year. A banker for over 34 years, he worked for Bank One Corporation from 1973-99 and for AmSouth Bancorporation during 2000.
Born and raised in South Charleston, West Virginia, Mr. Hoaglin earned a bachelor's degree in economics with high honors from Denison University and a master's of business administration from Stanford University.
He serves as Chairman of the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation and Capitol South Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation, Chairman of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of OhioHealth. He is on the boards of The Columbus Partnership and CompeteColumbus. Hoaglin also serves as a trustee of Denison University, and a director of AEP, The Gorman-Rupp Company and The Jeffrey Company.
Mr. Hoaglin and his wife, Ann, have been married for 33 years and reside in Columbus.
Huntington Bancshares, Inc.
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated is a $55 billion regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Huntington has more than 141 years of serving the financial needs of its customers. Huntington's banking subsidiary, The Huntington National Bank, provides innovative retail and commercial financial products and services through over 600 regional banking offices in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Huntington also offers retail and commercial financial services online at huntington.com; through its technologically advanced, 24-hour telephone bank; and through its network of over 1,400 ATMs. Selected financial service activities are also conducted in other states including: Dealer Sales offices in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee; Private Financial and Capital Markets Group offices in Florida; and Mortgage Banking offices in Maryland and New Jersey. Sky Insurance offers retail and commercial insurance agency services, through offices in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, and West Virginia. International banking services are available through the headquarters office in Columbus, a limited purpose office located in both the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong.
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Biosante Pharmaceuticals, Inc.[BPAX] - January 17, 2008
Stephen M. Simes, Director, President and CEO
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Stephen M. Simes
Stephen M. Simes has served as our Vice Chairman, President and a director of our company since January 1998 and Chief Executive Officer since March 1998. From October 1994 to January 1997, Mr. Simes was President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Unimed Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) a company with a product focus on infectious diseases, AIDS, endocrinology and oncology. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Simes was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Gynex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company which concentrated on the AIDS, endocrinology, urology and growth disorders markets. In 1993, Gynex was acquired by Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc. (formerly Bio-Technology General Corp.), and from 1993 to 1994, Mr. Simes served as Senior Vice President and director of Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc. Mr. Simes’ career in the pharmaceutical industry started in 1974 with G.D. Searle & Co. (now a part of Pfizer Inc.).
Biosante Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
BioSante is developing a pipeline of hormone therapy products to treat both men and women. These hormone therapy products are gel formulations for transdermal administration that deliver estradiol and testosterone. BioSante's lead products include LibiGel® (transdermal testosterone gel) in Phase III clinical development by BioSante for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) and Elestrin (estradiol gel) developed through U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval by BioSante indicated for the treatment of moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause, marketed in the U.S. by Bradley Pharmaceuticals, Inc., BioSante's licensee. Also in development are Bio-T-Gel, a testosterone gel for male hypogonadism, and an oral contraceptive in Phase II clinical development using BioSante patented technology. The current market in the U.S. for estrogen and testosterone products is approximately $2.5 billion and for oral contraceptives approximately $3.0 billion. The company also is developing its calcium phosphate nanotechnology (CaP) for novel vaccines, drug delivery, and aesthetic medicine (BioLook). Additional information is available online at: www.biosantepharma.com.
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ZipRealty[ZIPR] - December 21, 2007
Patrick Lashinsky, President and CEO
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Patrick Lashinsky
As the Chief Executive Officer and President, Pat Lashinsky serves on the Board of Directors and is responsible for the company vision, planning, and overall strategy in addition to day to day oversight of the company's overall operations and its growth and innovation initiatives. Mr. Lashinsky has previously served as President, Executive Vice President of Product Strategy and Development, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, and as Vice President of Sales at ZipRealty.
Mr. Lashinsky has over 10 years marketing experience working with such household names as General Mills, Taco Bell, and Del Monte. While at General Mills, he was responsible for the creation and development of Go-Gurt Yogurt in addition to managing brands such as Pop Secret and Chex Mix.
Prior to joining ZipRealty, Mr. Lashinsky was the lead for new product development at Del Monte.
Mr. Lashinsky has taught marketing classes at Wharton School of Business and the Anderson School of Business at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has a Masters of Business in Marketing from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Economies from the University of California at Berkeley
ZipRealty
ZipRealty is a full-service residential real estate brokerage firm. The Company uses the Internet, proprietary technology and efficient business processes to provide home buyers and sellers with high-quality service and value. Founded in 1999, the Company currently operates in 33 major metropolitan areas in 18 states and the District of Columbia. The Company’s client-centric business strategy utilizes a sophisticated Web site, which enables home buyers and sellers to access comprehensive local Multiple Listing Services home listings data and other relevant information. The Company also utilizes a proprietary business management technology platform, which reduces costs and allows the Company to pass on significant financial savings to consumers. This Internet-enabled, technology-driven, employee-based model provides the Company with a distinct competitive advantage, allowing ZipRealty to consistently deliver outstanding service to clients.
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Dionex Corporation[DNEX] - December 7, 2007
Dr. Lukas Braunschweiler, President and CEO
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Dr. Lukas Braunschweiler
Dr. Lukas Braunschweiler joined Dionex Corporation as its President and Chief Executive Officer on August 5, 2002. Dr. Braunschweiler came to Dionex from Mettler-Toledo International, where he worked for eight years in various senior executive positions.
He earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry and analytical instrumentation at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.
Dionex is a leading developer and manufacturer of laboratory and process analytical systems and related products used to isolate, identify, and quantify the components of complex chemical mixtures.
Dionex Corporation
Dionex is a leading developer and manufacturer of laboratory and process analytical systems and related products used to isolate, identify, and quantify the components of complex chemical mixtures. Dionex products are used extensively in environmental analysis, and by the pharmaceutical, life sciences, biotechnology, chemical, petrochemical, power generation, food and beverage, and electronics industries. These products are used to meet analytical needs ranging from basic research to in-process quality control. Dionex customers include many of the largest industrial companies worldwide, as well as government agencies, research institutions, and universities.
The Dionex product line offers a broad range of analytical technologies to meet the needs of a growing number of customers. In the area of liquid chromatography, these technologies include ion chromatography (IC), classical high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), HPLC using polymeric flowpaths and capillary- and nano HPLC. In the area of sample preparation, these technologies include accelerated solvent extraction (ASE®). Dionex chromatography workstations provide reliable start-to-finish automation and multiple instrument control. An extensive and evolving line of columns, accessories, and other consumable products offers customers a range of choices to fill their needs.
Dionex is best known for pioneering IC, a powerful technique that separates ions, or charged molecules. Introduced in 1975, IC is now critically important in determining drinking water quality, environmental contaminants in waste-water, and on-line monitoring of raw materials and production processes in a variety of manufacturing facilities. Today, Dionex is the market leader in the $250 million ion analysis market.
Dionex provides a broad range of HPLC products in the HPLC market, which averages $2 billion. These HPLC products include classical stainless steel systems, HPLC systems for biomolecules using polymeric flowpaths, and capillary and nano HPLC systems for proteomics research. Innovative HPLC capabilities developed by Dionex for analyzing carbohydrates have proven valuable in the development of therapeutic agents for heart disease, AIDS, arthritis, and other medical conditions.
Dionex also develops and commercializes new technologies with demonstrated performance capabilities, such as ASE. ASE is extremely effective for extracting organic compounds from soils, polymers, processed foods, and other materials, and is faster, easier, and more economical than conventional methods.
Based in Sunnyvale, California, Dionex employs approximately 1,000 people worldwide and reported revenues of approximately $327 million for its 2007 fiscal year. Dionex shares trade on NASDAQ under the symbol DNEX.
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Innospec Inc.[IOSP] - November 29, 2007
Paul Jennings, President and CEO
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Paul Jennings
Paul Jennings serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, having been appointed to this position on June 23, 2005. Prior to this he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer having joined the Corporation in November 2002. Before joining the Corporation, Mr. Jennings served as Chief Financial Officer for Griffin LLC, a joint venture between Griffin Corporation and DuPont in the crop protection chemical industry based in the USA. From 1986 to 1999, Mr. Jennings held the positions of Chief Financial Officer and Vice President – Finance for various divisions and regions of Courtaulds plc working in Europe, USA and Singapore spanning the fiber, chemical, film and coating industries. Mr. Jennings was appointed as a non-executive director of Exide Technologies with effect from September 18, 2006.
Innospec Inc.
Innospec Inc. is an international specialty chemicals company with almost 1,000 employees in 23 countries. Innospec divides its operations into three distinct business areas: Fuel Specialties, Active Chemicals, and Octane Additives. Together, the three businesses manufacture and supply a wide range of specialty chemicals to markets in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Innospec's Fuel Specialties business specializes in manufacturing and supplying the fuel additives that help improve fuel efficiency, boost engine performance and reduce harmful emissions. Innospec's Active Chemicals business includes a range of companies that manufacture performance chemicals used in the manufacture of such items as personal care products, household detergents and crop protection chemicals as well as in the plastics, paper, metal plating and oil industries. Innospec's Octane Additives business is the world's only producer of tetra ethyl lead.
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Pinnacle Gas Resources, Inc.[PINN] - November 21, 2007
Peter G. Schoonmaker, President, Director and CEO
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Peter G. Schoonmaker
Mr. Schoonmaker has served as Chief Executive Officer since inception in June 2003, and as President and a director since February 2006. Mr. Schoonmaker has over 16 years of experience in the acquisition, exploration and development of Coalbed methan properties as well as conventional oil and gas properties.
Pinnacle Gas Resources, Inc.
We are an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of domestic onshore natural gas reserves. We currently focus our efforts on the development of coalbed methan, or CBM, properties located in the Rooky Mountain region, and we are a substantial holder of CBM acreage in the Powder River Basin and also have accumulated an acreage position in the Green River Basin. We have assembled a large,
predominantly undeveloped CBM leasehold position, which we believe positions us for significant long-term growth in production and proved reserves. In addition, we own over 94% of the rights to develop conventional and unconventional oil and gas in zones below our existing CBM reserves.
As of June 30, 2007, we owned natural gas and oil leasehold interests in approximately 480,000 gross (330,000 net) acres, approximately 92% of which are undeveloped. As of June 20, 2007, we had identified approximately 5,000 CBM drilling locations on our existing acreage, primarily on 80-acre well spacing, targeting an average of three coal seams per location. Based on our drilling results to date, analysis of core sample and third-party results in adjacent areas, we believe that our remaining undeveloed CBM acreage has substantial commercial potential.
Our management team has an average of over 20 years of experience in acquiring, developing and operating oil and gas properties, primarily in the Rocky Mountain region with expertise in CBM multizone completions. In addition, the development of our CBM properties is low risk and predictable with an attractive cost structure. Our shares began trading on May 15, 2007, on the NASDAQ exchange. We were formed in June 2003 and are based in Sheridan, Wyoming.
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DRI Corporation[TBUS] - November 19, 2007
David L. Turney, Chairman, President, and CEO
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David L. Turney
David L. Turney, age 63, has been the Company's Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer since May 1998 and a Company director since May 1996. Mr. Turney was co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Robinson Turney International, Inc., which was merged into the Company in April 1998. A consulting firm, RTI engaged in business development, marketing services, advisory services, and merger, acquisition and financing assignments for selected clients. Until the merger, the Company was an RTI client; all RTI clients were in the transit and transportation equipment industries. From March 1994 to December 1995, Mr. Turney was also engaged in strategic planning and development consulting services for his former employer, Mark IV Industries, Inc., an NYSE® listed company prior to its acquisition by a private investor. Mr. Turney founded the Mark IV Transportation Products Group, a group of nine companies, subsidiaries and operating units serving transit and transportation markets worldwide, and served as its Group Executive from February 1991 to February 1994. From 1984 to 1991, Mr. Turney was President of the Luminator division of Gulton Industries, Inc., which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Mark IV in 1987. Prior to 1984, he served in various managerial and engineering capacities in four corporations spanning the telecommunications, industrial hard goods, consumer electronics and electromagnetic components industries. Mr. Turney is active in APTA. A former chair of APTA's Business Members' group, he presently serves on the APTA Business Members' Board of Governors, as well as other industry elected and appointed positions. Mr. Turney received his B.S. degree in industrial management from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and he has participated in numerous postgraduate study courses in finance, mergers and acquisitions, public company administration, and operations.
DRI Corporation
DRI is a digital communications technology leader in the domestic and international public transportation and transit security markets. Our products include: TwinVision® and Mobitec® electronic destination sign systems, Talking Bus® voice announcement systems, Digital Recorders® Internet-based passenger information and automatic vehicle location/monitoring systems, and VacTell™ video actionable intelligence systems. Our products help increase the mobility, flow, safety, and security of people who rely upon transportation infrastructure around the globe. Using proprietary hardware and software applications, our products provide easy-to-understand, real-time information that assists users and operators of transit bus and rail vehicles in locating, identifying, boarding, tracking, scheduling, and managing those vehicles. Our products also aid transit vehicle operators in their quest to increase ridership and reduce fuel consumption, as well as to identify and mitigate security risks on transit vehicles. Positioned not only to serve and address mobility, energy conservation, and environmental concerns, our products also serve the growing U.S. Homeland Security market. For more information about the Company and its operations worldwide, go to www.digrec.com.
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Silicon Image, Inc.[SIMG] - November 12, 2007
Steve Tirado, President and CEO
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Steve Tirado
Since joining Silicon Image in 1999, he has served in a number of capacities, most recently as president of the storage division, and earlier as chief operating officer and executive vice president of marketing and business development. Tirado hails from Sun Microsystems, where he served as vice president of marketing for the Thin Client Products Group, with responsibility for driving the marketing and sales development efforts required to establish Sun''s thin client product family and associated server software in the marketplace. During his 13-year tenure at Sun, Tirado held senior positions in both sales and marketing, including director of product marketing for Volume Desktops, general manager of Sun Mexico, regional manager of sales for Latin America and product line manager for SPARCstation Desktop Products. Tirado received a master''s degree in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley, a masters of social work degree in community organization management and planning from Boston University and a bachelor''s degree in psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Silicon Image, Inc.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Silicon Image, Inc. is a leader in the secure distribution, presentation and storage of high-definition content. Silicon Image offers robust, high-bandwidth semiconductors in the global PC/display, consumer electronics and storage arenas based on its innovative digital interconnect technology.
Silicon Image creates and drives industry standards for digital content delivery such as Digital Visual Interface (DVI), High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), and Serial ATA (SATA), leveraging strategic partnerships with global leaders in consumer electronics and personal computing.
Silicon Image's strategy entails establishing industry-standard, high-speed digital interfaces and building market momentum and leadership through its first-to-market, standards-based integrated circuit (IC) products. The company broadens market adoption of the DVI, HDMI, and SATA interfaces by licensing its proven intellectual property (IP) cores to companies providing advanced system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions that incorporate these interfaces. Silicon Image has become one of the top 10 semiconductor IP licensing vendors in the world, according to Gartner Inc.
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State Bancorp, Inc.[STBC] - November 7, 2007
Thomas M. O'Brien, President and CEO
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Thomas M. O'Brien
Thomas M. O'Brien is President and Chief Executive Officer of State Bank of Long Island. Prior to joining State Bank, Mr. O'Brien, was President and Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Bank of New York when it was acquired by New York Community Bancorp in 2006.
Mr. O'Brien began his banking career in 1977 at North Side Savings Bank. He was appointed CEO in 1984 at age 33. In 1986, he led North Side's initial public offering, among the first savings banks to go public in New York State. Mr. O'Brien joined North Fork Bancorporation as Vice Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors in 1996 in conjunction with North Fork's acquisition of North Side. In 2000, he joined Atlantic Bank of New York as President and CEO and a member of the Board of Directors.
Among Mr. O'Brien's current affiliations are: Chairman of the New York State Bankers Association, Independent Trustee for Prudential Insurance Company's $65 billion mutual fund complex, Trustee for Catholic Healthcare System of New York and Catholic Healthcare Foundation, Inc., and Trustee for Niagara University. He has previously served as Trustee of Molloy College where he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws, member of the National Advisory Board of Fannie Mae, and Advisory Board member for Neighborhood Housing Services of New York.
Mr. O'Brien holds a B.A. from Niagara University, an M.B.A. from Iona College and has completed the Executive School of Banking at Fairfield University.
State Bancorp, Inc.
State Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: STBC), is the holding company for State Bank of Long Island, the largest independent commercial bank headquartered on Long Island. In addition to its sixteen branch locations throughout Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties, the Bank owns Jericho, N.Y.-based Studebaker-Worthington Leasing Corp., a nationwide provider of business equipment leasing. The Bank also maintains a lending facility in Jericho. State Bank has built a reputation for providing high-quality personal service to meet the needs of commercial, small business, municipal and consumer markets throughout Long Island and Queens. The Company maintains a web site at www.statebankofli.com with corporate, investor and branch banking information.
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Aftermarket Technology Corp.[ATAC] - October 30, 2007
Donald (Don) T. Johnson, Chairman, President and CEO
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Donald (Don) T. Johnson
Mr. Johnson joined Aftermarket Technology Corp. (ATAC) in January 2004. Prior to joining ATAC, Mr. Johnson was Global Director, Parts, Supply and Logistics of Ford Motor Company.
During his career at Ford, Mr. Johnson was responsible for vision, mission, and strategy development for improvement and execution of all aspects of the global service parts supply chain performance. He was also responsible for the associated budgets for Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Land Rover, and Jaguar brands. Annually, Mr. Johnson managed $6.0 billion in cost, $1.0 billion in inventory, 7,500 employees, and 60 facilities delivering 160 million orders to 15,000 dealers. During 1999-2003, Mr. Johnson launched a comprehensive "lean/improvement" strategy resulting in recognition for Ford as "Best In Class" in the service parts industry for order fulfillment, asset utilization, inventory turns, cost performance, new model launch support, and order-to-delivery performance to dealers. Mr. Johnson annually reduced costs $80-$100 million, reduced inventory by $400 million, annually improved productivity by 7%-10%, and oversaw a 30% reduction in personnel.
Prior to Ford, Mr. Johnson held executive positions at Caterpillar, Inc. spanning a 26-year career including: Vice President - Logistics Services, Strategic Development Manager, Technology Manager, Inventory Systems Manager, Distribution Research Consultant, and Inventory Planning Manager. In his most senior position at as Vice President, Caterpillar Logistics, Mr. Johnson was a member of the administrative management team overseeing profitable grow at a 20%-25% annual rate. He successfully managed his team to reduce costs 5%-20% while improving end-customer satisfaction 10%-30% for clients.
In his first year with ATAC, Mr. Johnson grew revenue 12%. Mr. Johnson holds a BA in Management from the University of Illinois with an Associates Degree in IT. Mr. Johnson is a member of ATAC's Board of Directors.
Aftermarket Technology Corp.
Aftermarket Technology Corp.(ATC) provides outsourced engineered solutions and supply chain logistics services to the light and medium/heavy duty vehicle aftermarket and consumer electronics industries.
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Blue Coat Systems[BCSI] - October 12, 2007
Brian NeSmith, President, Chief Executive Officer
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Brian NeSmith
Brian NeSmith is a 1984 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holding a Bachelors Degree in electrical engineering. In 1993, NeSmith co-founded Newbridge Networks' Local Area Networking business, VIVID, and served as the unit's first general manager. Under NeSmith'/s direction, VIVID developed and executed Newbridge's product strategy for Layer 3 Switched Routing products. In 1995, NeSmith co-founded and was CEO of Ipsilon Networks, the pioneer of IP Switching technology. In 1997, Ipsilon was acquired by Nokia, where the Ipsilon products became the basis for the market-leading Nokia firewall appliance. NeSmith served as general manager of the Nokia firewall appliance division. That business has grown to a $500M annual revenue. In March 1999, NeSmith was appointed President and CEO of then privately-held CacheFlow. NeSmith took the company public in November 1999, and has led the company on a strategic evolution to Blue Coat Systems, profitability and the number one proxy appliance position worldwide.
Throughout his career, NeSmith has been a prominent figure in the IT industry, regularly speaking at industry events including Networld+Interop, Supercomm, InternetWorld and Technologic Partners' Network Outlook. NeSmith has also has written for publications such as Network World, Data Communications, and InternetWeek. NeSmith is a frequent guest on network television programs such as CNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg.
Today, NeSmith leads Blue Coat Systems in its mission to provide organizations with total visibility and control of all Web communications.
Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat’s family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers – provides intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000 appliances worldwide. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation[SSCC] - October 11, 2007
Patrick J. Moore, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
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Patrick J. Moore
Patrick J. Moore is chairman and chief executive officer of Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation. He has held the company's top executive post since January 2002.
Smurfit-Stone was formed in November 1998 by the merger of Jefferson Smurfit Corporation and Stone Container. Moore joined the former Jefferson Smurfit Corporation in 1987 as assistant treasurer. He held positions of increasing responsibility, including treasurer, vice president and general manager of the company's industrial packaging division, and chief financial officer before being named Smurfit-Stone president and CEO in January 2002. He was elected chairman of the board in May 2003.
Prior to joining the company, Moore served 12 years at Continental Bank in Chicago in various corporate lending, international banking, and administrative positions.
Moore is the lead independent director on the Archer Daniels Midland board, and also serves on the boards of American Forest & Paper Association, JP Morgan’s National Advisory Board, International Corrugated Case Association, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Metropolitan YMCA of St. Louis, Boys Hope/Girls Hope, and Big Shoulders (Chicago). He serves on the Washington University John M. Olin School of Business National Council and participates in numerous associations including Civic Progress (St. Louis) and The Commercial Club of Chicago.
He earned a BS degree in business administration from DePaul University, with a concentration in finance. He lives in St. Louis with his wife Beth and three children.
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation (NASDAQ: SSCC) is reshaping the world of packaging to drive profitable growth for our business and our customers' businesses by delivering the strongest price-value equation in the marketplace. Smurfit-Stone is the industry's leading integrated manufacturer of paperboard and paper-based packaging products and services, is a leading producer of kraft paper packaging, bleached paperboard, and point-of-purchase displays. Smurfit-Stone is one of the world’s largest paper recyclers, a key raw material for its products.
Smurfit-Stone continues to identify developing retail trends, creating innovative packaging concepts and speeding them to market. In the process, Smurfit-Stone is changing customer perceptions of what packaging can do and what the company can deliver. Smurfit-Stone is the only company in the industry to manufacture more than 70 custom, proprietary and standard machines, offering our customers turn-key installation, automation, line integration and packaging solutions.
The company is a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Chicago Climate Exchange. Smurfit-Stone has led the industry in safety every year since 2001, operates approximately 170 facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and employs approximately 22,000 people.
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DemandTec, Inc.[DMAN] - October 11, 2007
Patrick J. Moore, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
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Dan Fishback, President, Chief Executive Officer
Dan is President & CEO of DemandTec, Inc., a leading provider of Consumer Demand Management software. Under his leadership and vision, DemandTec has brought together three distinct disciplines - advanced econometrics, large-scale data processing, and Software-as-a-Service, in order to help retailers and consumer products manufacturers define merchandising and marketing strategies based on a scientific understanding of consumer behavior. Dan brings over 20 years of experience growing technology companies in dynamic markets, serving in senior executive positions at Ariba, Trading Dynamics, and Hyperion Solutions. Dan holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota.
DemandTec, Inc.
DemandTec's suite of on-demand applications empowers retailers and consumer products companies to optimize pricing, promotion, and other strategic decisions in order to achieve their revenue, profitability and sales volume objectives. DemandTec customers include leading retailers such as Advance Auto Parts, Best Buy, Circle K Stores, Delhaize America, Giant-Carlisle, H-E-B Grocery Co., Monoprix and Safeway, as well as more than 100 consumer products companies. For more information, please visit www.demandtec.com.
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Syntel[SYNT] - September 28, 2007
Bharat Desai, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
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Bharat Desai
Bharat Desai is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Syntel (NASDAQ: SYNT), a global provider of integrated Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solutions.
Bharat co-founded Syntel in 1980 and today, it is a "Partner of Choice" to some of the world's best known brands. Syntel currently employs more than 9,200 people globally and has a market capitalization in excess of $1.6 billion.
Syntel
Syntel (NASDAQ: SYNT) is a leading global provider of integrated information technology and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solutions. The Company's mission is to create new opportunities for its clients by harnessing the passion, talent and innovation of Syntel employees worldwide. It leverages dedicated vertical and service Centers of Excellence along with its flexible Global Delivery Model to deliver solutions that drive innovation, improve quality and reduce costs for Global 2000 customers in the Financial Services, Insurance, Health Care, Telecom, Retail, Aerospace, Manufacturing, and Automotive industries . Recognized by customers to be "Small enough to listen, Big enough to deliver." for its responsiveness and ability to build collaborative partnerships, the Company is known for solutions that deliver sustainable business advantage. Recently named to The Black Book of Outsourcing's "50 Best Managed Global Outsourcing Vendors" list, Syntel has more than 9,200 employees worldwide, is assessed at Level 5 of the SEI's CMMI, BS 7799-2:2002 as well as ISO 9001:2000 certified. To learn more, visit us at www.syntelinc.com.
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Columbia Banking System, Inc.[COLB] - September 10, 2007
Melanie J. Dressel, Chief Operating Officer, President
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Melanie J. Dressel
Melanie J. Dressel was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia Bank, the sole commercial banking subsidiary of Columbia Banking System, Inc. in January 2000, and has served as CEO of Columbia Banking System, Inc. (COLB) since February of 2003. Columbia Banking System, Inc. is the holding company for Columbia State Bank, headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, and Bank of Astoria, headquartered in Astoria, Oregon.
Dressel joined Columbia Bank in 1993, at the beginning of the Company's major expansion into Tacoma/Pierce County, as senior vice president of private banking. In May 1997, Dressel was promoted to executive vice president of retail banking where she directed the operations, investments, private banking and marketing/communications divisions of Columbia Bank, as well as the branch network.
Prior to Columbia, Dressel directed the private banking division of Puget Sound Bank. Between 1974 and 1988, she held various positions with the Bank of California.
Ms. Dressel is a graduate of the University of Washington with a degree in Political Science. She is a member on the Boards of Executive Council for a Greater Tacoma (CoChair), Washington Bankers Association (past Chair), Washington State Economic Development Commission (Chair), Washington Roundtable, the ArtsFund and the Washington State Historical Society (Treasurer). She also serves on the Government Relations Council for the American Bankers Association. She recently served as Board member of Foss Waterway Development Authority and Bellarmine Preparatory School. She further served as Chair of the Boards of Mary Bridge Childrens Foundation and Tacoma/Pierce County Chamber of Commerce. She serves on numerous committees in relation to those organizations. She was the 2003 Campaign Chair for United Way of Pierce County, and the 2006 Campaign Chair for the Go Red for Women Committee of the American Heart Association. In 2006 she was named one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking by U. S. Banker Magazine for the 3rd consecutive year. Dressel's past volunteer activities include serving on the board and executive committees for the Tacoma Art Museum, United Way of Pierce County and past president of the Tacoma Club.
American Capital
Columbia Banking System, Inc. is a 53-branch Tacoma-based bank holding company whose wholly owned banking subsidiaries are Columbia Bank and Bank of Astoria. Columbia Bank is a Washington state-chartered full-service commercial bank. With the July 23, 2007 completion of the acquisitions of Mountain Bank Holding Company and Town Center Bancorp, Columbia Bank has 48 banking offices in Pierce, King, Cowlitz, Kitsap and Thurston counties in Washington State, and Clackamas and Multnomah counties in Oregon. Included in Columbia Bank are former branches of Mt. Rainier National Bank, doing business as Mt. Rainier Bank, with 7 branches in King and Pierce counties. Bank of Astoria, a federally insured commercial bank headquartered in Astoria, Oregon, operates four branches in Clatsop County: Astoria, Warrenton, Seaside and Cannon Beach; and one branch in Manzanita in Tillamook County. More information about Columbia can be found on its website at www.columbiabank.com.
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American Capital[ACAS] - August 29, 2007
Malon Wilkus, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President
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Malon Wilkus
Malon Wilkus is the founder of American Capital and has been the Chief Executive Officer and President since the company's inception in 1986; he is also the Chairman of the company. He is a recognized leader in implementing and financing management and employee buyouts of subsidiaries, divisions and product lines of major corporations. Mr. Wilkus has been a frequent speaker and has published a number of articles on the subject.
Mr. Wilkus was past chairman of the National Center for Employee Ownership and was a member of the Board of Governors of the ESOP Association. He has served on the board of over a dozen middle market companies in a variety of industries.
During 1986, Mr. Wilkus also served as President of Working Assets, a mutual fund with assets in excess of $100 million. From 1982 until the beginning of 1986, Mr. Wilkus was Vice President and Director of Marketing of Calvert Securities Corporation, a $2 billion investment management company. As Director of Marketing, Mr. Wilkus was responsible for distribution and development of eleven different mutual funds.
American Capital
American Capital is the only alternative asset management company that is a member of the S&P 500. With $17 billion in assets under management(1), including its investments in externally managed funds, American Capital is the largest U.S. publicly traded private equity fund and one of the largest publicly traded alternative asset managers. American Capital, both directly and through its global asset management business, is an investor in management and employee buyouts, private equity buyouts, and early stage and mature private and public companies. American Capital provides senior debt, mezzanine debt and equity to fund growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations and securitizations. American Capital and its affiliates invest from $5 million to $800 million per company in North America and €5 million to €500 million per company in Europe.
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Kendle International Inc.[KNDL] - August 22, 2007
Candace Kendle, PharmD, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
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Candace Kendle
As Chairman and CEO, Candace Kendle, PharmD, has provided the overall vision and strategy to grow Kendle into a leading, global CRO. Under her leadership, Kendle has become the fourth-largest provider of Phase II-IV development services worldwide with more than 3,000 associates and operations across North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Africa.
In the thriving and increasingly competitive e-clinical trials marketplace, Dr. Kendle's focus has been on positioning the company to compete at the highest level for large global clinical development programs. In support of this goal, she led Kendle through a strategic transformation in 2006 with the acquisition of the Phase II-IV Clinical Services business of Charles River Laboratories, increasing the company's size by 50 percent and strengthening its position in the CRO industry.
Dr. Kendle is a founding member and Immediate Past Chair (2006) of the Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO), which fosters continued advancement of medical product development and expedites the introduction of new medicines and new treatments to improve health and save lives.
Dr. Kendle is a member of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association Board and a member of the Committee of 200, an organization of preeminent women entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. Dr. Kendle also serves as a director of the H.J. Heinz Company.
Prior to founding the company, Dr. Kendle held senior faculty positions in the pharmaceutical programs of several leading institutions. More recently, she played a key role in the development of the master of science program in global drug development at the University of Cincinnati.
Kendle International Inc.
Kendle International Inc. (NASDAQ: KNDL) is among the world's leading global clinical research organizations and is the fourth-largest provider of Phase II-IV clinical development services worldwide. We deliver innovative and robust clinical development solutions - from first-in-human studies through market launch and surveillance - to help the world's biopharmaceutical companies maximize product life cycles and grow market share.
Our global clinical development business is focused on five regions - North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Africa - to meet customer needs. With the expertise of our more than 3,000 associates worldwide, Kendle has conducted clinical trials and provided regulatory and pharmacovigilance services in more than 80 countries.
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Transition Therapeutics [TTHI] - August 20, 2007
Tony Cruz, Chief Executive Officer
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Tony Cruz
Dr. Cruz is one of the founders of Transition Therapeutics and has held the
position of Chief Executive Officer of Transition Therapeutics since its
inception in July 1998. Dr. Cruz was a Co-Founder, Vice-President and Director
at Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc. Dr. Cruz has been a Senior Scientist at Mount
Sinai Hospital since 1995 and was the CEO and President of the Canadian
Arthritis Network until 2001. He has also served as a consultant for
biotechnology companies and investment firms.
Transition Therapeutics
Transition is a biopharmaceutical company, developing novel therapeutics for
disease indications with large markets. Transition's lead products include
AZD-103/ELND005 for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and regenerative
therapies E1-I.N.T.™ and GLP1-I.N.T.™ for the treatment of diabetes. Transition
has an emerging pipeline of preclinical drug candidates developed using its
proprietary drug discovery engine. Transition's shares are listed on the
Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "TTH". For additional information about
the company, please visit www.transitiontherapeutics.com.
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InnerWorkings, Inc.[INWK] - August 17, 2007
Steven E. Zuccarini, President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
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Steven E. Zuccarini
Steven E. Zuccarini is President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of
InnerWorkings, Inc. (NASDAQ:INWK). Mr. Zuccarini is at the helm of a leading
provider of outsourced print procurement solutions to corporate clients. Under
his leadership, the company went public in August 2006 raising $110 million and
is focused on satisfying the enterprise print needs of the Fortune 1000.
Mr. Zuccarini joined InnerWorkings in November 2004 from R.R. Donnelley, one of
the world’s largest full-service printing companies, where he served in various
senior executive positions of escalating responsibility for 25 years. His most
recent position was President of Global Solutions. Prior to that, he served as
President of the Catalog and Retail Solutions business unit.
Mr. Zuccarini joined R.R. Donnelley in 1979 after earning his bachelors in
science degree from Northwestern University.
Mr. Zuccarini serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Youth Centers and
the Direct Marketing Education Foundation.
InnerWorkings, Inc.
InnerWorkings, Inc. (NASDAQ:INWK) is a leading provider of outsourced print
procurement solutions to corporate clients. With proprietary technology, an
extensive supplier network and domain expertise, the company procures, manages
and delivers printed products as part of a comprehensive outsourced enterprise
solution. Based in Chicago with locations throughout the United States,
InnerWorkings procures printed products for clients across a wide range of
industries, such as advertising, consumer products, publishing and retail. For
more information on InnerWorkings, visit: www.iwprint.com.
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Linn Energy, LLC[LINE] - August 9, 2007
Michael C. Linn, Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer
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Michael C. Linn
Michael C. Linn is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Linn
Energy, LLC (Nasdaq: LINE), a publicly traded partnership focused on the
acquisition and development of oil and gas properties, which he founded in
March 2003. Linn Energy currently operates in the Appalachian Basin, Panhandle
of Texas, Los Angeles Basin in California and Sooner Trend in Oklahoma.
Mr. Linn currently serves as Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association
of America (IPAA), the largest national trade association of independent oil
and gas producers. In addition, he is a member of the Natural Gas Council and
the National Petroleum Council and sits on the board of the Natural Gas Supply
Association. Mr. Linn was recently inducted into the 25 Year Club of the
petroleum industry. Mr. Linn regularly appears on behalf of the oil and gas
industry before state and federal agencies, such as the Department of Energy,
Department of the Treasury, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the
Environmental Protection Agency. He has testified on behalf of the oil and gas
industry before the various committees and subcommittees of the U.S. House of
Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He is regularly quoted and has published
various articles for oil and gas trade publications and newspapers. In
addition, he is frequently a guest on radio and television programs
representing the oil and gas industry.
Mr. Linn is a former President of the Independent Oil and Gas Association of
New York, Independent Oil and Gas Association of Pennsylvania and Independent
Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia. Mr. Linn was President of Allegheny
Interests, Inc., a private oil and gas investment company, from 2000 to 2003.
Previously, Mr. Linn was President and Chief Executive Officer of Meridian
Exploration Corporation, a private oil and gas company which operated in both
the Appalachian and Permian Basins, until its sale in 1999.
Mr. Linn graduated cum laude from Villanova University in 1974 with a BA in
Political Science. Subsequent to completing his undergraduate degree, Mr. Linn
entered the University of Baltimore School of Law and graduated cum laude in
1977. Following graduation, Mr. Linn went on to practice law for the law firm
of Ecker, Ecker, Zofer and Rome until 1980, when he joined Meridian Exploration
as General Counsel.
Linn Energy, LLC
Linn Energy, LLC is an independent oil and gas company focused on the
development and acquisition of long-lived properties which complement its asset
profile in producing basins within the United States.
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Atlantic Southern Financial Group, Inc.[ASFN] - August 7, 2007
Mark A. Stevens, President, Chief Executive Officer
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Mark A. Stevens
1974 Graduate of Mercer University, Graduate of Banking School of the South at
Louisiana State University, Graduate of University of Oklahoma Commercial
Lending School
President, and CEO of Atlantic Southern Bank; Former President and CEO of
Colonial Bank's central Georgia region. A Macon native, Mark is married to
Deborah Waters Stevens. They have two daughters Molly Stevens and Monica
Stevens Kirby. Mark and Deborah attend Mabel White Baptist Church. Mark is on
the Board of Directors of the Cherry Blossom Festival, The Museum of Aviation
at Robins Air Force Base, the Business School of Georgia College and State
University, The Grand Opera House, Chairman, Keep Macon Bibb Beautiful
Commission and the WPGA Community Board. Mr. Stevens also serves on the Board
of Directors of Nexity Bank in Birmingham, Al.
Atlantic Southern Financial Group, Inc.
About Atlantic Southern Financial Group, Inc. and Atlantic Southern Bank
With headquarters in Macon, Georgia, Atlantic Southern Financial Group, Inc.,
operates eight banking locations in the middle Georgia markets of Macon and
Warner Robins and six locations in the coastal markets of Savannah, Darien,
Brunswick and St. Simons Island, Georgia and a loan production office in
Valdosta, Georgia. The Company specializes in commercial real estate and small
business lending.
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Shore Financial Corporation[SHBK] - August 7, 2007
Scott C. Harvard, President, Chief Executive Officer
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Scott C. Harvard
Scott C. Harvard is president and chief executive officer of Shore Financial
Corporation, a publicly traded bank holding company with headquarters in Onley,
Virginia. He has served as president and chief executive officer of its
subsidiary, Shore Bank, since 1985. Mr. Harvard has served for five years on
the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta and currently serves as its
Chairman. Harvard has been actively involved with the Virginia Bankers
Association, having served on the board and as the Chairman of it's for profit
subsidiary. Mr. Harvard currently serves as Chairman of the Shore Memorial
Hospital Endowment Board, Chairman of the board of trustees of Broadwater
Academy, an independent school serving the eastern shore of Virginia, and on
the board of the Virginia Association of Community Banks.
As a community banker, Harvard has committed his time and energy to improving
the quality of life in the communities he serves. Involvement has included
founding a local united way agency and a local crime solvers agency, leading
the local chamber of commerce, participating on the board of the local rural
health organization and promoting the eastern shore of Virginia across the
commonwealth.
Shore Financial Corporation
Shore Financial Corporation (the "Company") is a Virginia corporation organized
in September 1997 by Shore Bank (the "Bank") for the purpose of becoming a
unitary holding company of the Bank. The Bank is a Virginia chartered Federal
Reserve member commercial bank that began business in 1961. The Company and the
Bank are headquartered in Onley, Virginia.
The Bank operates out of a 19,000 square foot headquarters and operations
facility and delivers its banking services through seven full-service banking
centers and two investment offices located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and
Maryland, including the counties of Accomack and Northampton in Virginia and
Salisbury/Wicomico County area in Maryland. The Bank has a 24.1% market share
of the banking deposits in the Accomack and Northampton Counties in Virginia
and 3.2% of the market share in Wicomico County Maryland. At June 30, 2007, the
Company had consolidated assets of $263.5 million, Bank deposits of $203.8
million and stockholders' equity of $26.7 million. Ninety-eight dedicated
employees staff the Company's facilities.
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Superior Offshore International, Inc.[DEEP] - July 5, 2007
James J. Mermis, Chief Executive Officer
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James J. Mermis
James J. Mermis has been the Chief Executive Officer since August 2006. Mr.
Mermis was the President from February 2006 to August 2006 and the Vice
President of Operations from March 2005 to January 2006. From June 2000 until
February 2005, Mr. Mermis served s General Manager of Business Development at
Torch Offshore, Inc., an offshore energy services company. From 1997 until
2000, Mr. Mermis worked at Stolt Comex Seaway Inc., an offshore energy services
company as Operations Manager and Senior Project Manager. Prior to that time,
Mr. Mermis served in a variety of capacities at Subsea International Inc., an
ofshore energy services company. Mr Mermis has over 30 years of experience in
the domestic and international energy services industry. Mr. Mermis has a
degree in Marine Technology and a Masters of Business Administration from
Tulane University.
Superior Offshore International, Inc.
Superior Offshore International, Inc., (NASDAQ: DEEP) provides subsea
construction, commercial diving and fabricationservices to the oil and gas
industry. Superior Offshore’s subsea services span the life-cycle of the
pipeline and production infrastructure, including installation, inspection,
maintenance and repair (IMR), upgrading and decommissioning. Superior performs
its services in both surface and saturation diving modes in water depths of up
to 1,000 feet, primarily in the US Gulf but with an expanding footprint in
Latin America, Africa and the Arabian Gulf. Superior Offshore completed its IPO
on April 25, 2007.
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Bionovo[BNVI] - June 25, 2007
Isaac Cohen, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
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Isaac Cohen
Isaac Cohen, O.M.D., L.Ac., Chairman, Chief Executive Officer. Isaac Cohen is a
Guest Scientist at the University of California, San Francisco and he has been
involved with the UCSF Cancer Research Center and UCSF Center for Reproductive
Endocrinology for the past ten years. He is one of the founding members of the
University of California, San Francisco Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Program. He is a
co-investigator on numerous basic and clinical grants and has assembled teams
of scientists from four different universities to work on his projects. Dr.
Cohen is an international leader in the study and application of natural
products for cancer and women's health. Dr. Cohen graduated from the Pacific
College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego and he completed his doctorate degree
at the Postgraduate Institute of Oriental Medicine in Hong Kong, China. His
expertise is in translational science, and working from the bench to the
clinic, he has developed a number of products for clinical testing that have
been awarded an FDA IND, as well as a pipeline of over 50 candidate drugs. Dr.
Cohen is a Co-Founder of Bionovo.
Bionovo
Bionovo is a drug development company focusing on the discovery of novel
pharmaceutical agents for cancer and women's health. The company has two drugs
in clinical testing. MF101 has completed Phase 2 for quality of life conditions
associated with menopause, and BZL101 is in Phase 1/2 for the treatment of
advanced breast cancer. The company has an additional pipeline of drugs in
development for breast cancer, pancreatic cancer and other menopausal symptoms.
The company is developing its products in close collaboration with leading U.S.
academic research centers including: University of California, San Francisco,
University of California, Davis, and the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center. For further information please visit: http://www.bionovo.com
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United Stationers Inc.[USTR] - June 22, 2007
Richard W. Gochnauer, President and Chief Executive Officer
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Richard W. Gochnauer
Richard W. Gochnauer joined United Stationers as Chief Operating Officer and a
Director in July 2002. In December 2002, Mr. Gochnauer was named the Company's
President and Chief Executive Officer. United Stationers, with headquarters in
Deerfield, Illinois, is North America's largest broad line wholesale
distributor of office and business products. With sales of $4.5 billion, the
Company offers some 46,000 brand-name items from more than 550 manufacturers,
as well as its own private-brand merchandise line.
From 1994 until he joined United, Mr. Gochnauer held the positions of Vice
Chairman and President, International, and President and Chief Operating
Officer of Golden State Foods (GSF), a privately held food company that
manufactures and distributes food and paper products for McDonald's Corporation
and other customers in 55 countries. At the time Mr. Gochnauer left GSF, it had
total revenues of $2.2 billion.
Prior to GSF, Mr. Gochnauer served as Executive Vice President of the Dial
Corporation where he was responsible for their Household Consumer Products
businesses, which included over 75 brands and eight manufacturing facilities.
Mr. Gochnauer also served as President of the Stella Cheese Company, a division
of Universal Foods, and as President of the international division of Schreiber
Foods, Inc. Mr. Gochnauer earned a Masters degree in Business Administration
from Harvard Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in
Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University.
Mr. Gochnauer is a member of the board of Fieldstone Communities, a large
regional homebuilder, and Golden State Foods. He has served on numerous
nonprofit boards including the Saint Joseph Ballet, Orangewood Children's
Foundation, Rising Tide Transitional Housing, the Foundation for Christian
Fellowship and the Green Bay, Milwaukee and Phoenix YMCAs. He was also the
founding Chair of the Corona del Mar High School Foundation. Mr. Gochnauer and
his wife, Beth, have two adult children: Grant who is a graduate of
Northwestern University, and Meg who is a senior at Carroll College. The family
resides in Winnetka, Illinois.
United Stationers Inc.
United Stationers Inc. is North America's largest broad line wholesale
distributor of business products, with net sales for 2006 of $4.5 billion. The
company's network of 63 distribution centers allows it to offer nearly 46,000
items to its approximately 20,000 reseller customers. This network, combined
with United's depth and breadth of inventory in technology products,
traditional business products, office furniture, janitorial and sanitation
products, and foodservice consumables, enables the company to ship products
overnight to more than 90% of the U.S. and major cities in Mexico. United's
focus on fulfillment excellence has given it an average line fill rate of
better than 97%, a 99.5% order accuracy rate, and a 99% on-time delivery rate.
For more information, visit www.unitedstationers.com
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Tessera Technologies, Inc. [TSRA] - June 13, 2007
Bruce McWilliams, President & CEO
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Bruce McWilliams
Bruce M. McWilliams, Ph.D.
has served as Chief Executive Officer, President and a member of our board of
directors since June 1999. He became Chairman of the Board in February 2002.
From November 1997 to January 1999, he was President and Chief Executive
Officer of S-Vision Inc., a silicon chip-based display company which he
co-founded. From January 1995 to November 1996, Dr. McWilliams served as Senior
Vice President at Flextronics International Ltd., an electronic manufacturing
services company. From February 1989 to January 1995, he served as President of
nCHIP Inc., a multi-chip module packaging company which he co-founded and which
was acquired by Flextronics in 1995. McWilliams is a member of the board of
directors for Intermolecular, Inc. a molecular engineering electronics company.
He also serves on the advisory board for the Department of Physics at Carnegie
Mellon University. In 2005, he was awarded Ernst & Young's Northern California
Entrepreneur of the Year® award. He holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
physics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Tessera Technologies, Inc.
When Tessera, Inc. was founded in 1990, we took our name from the Latin word
for "tile", evoking an image of packaged chips being tiled closely together as
in a mosaic. As demand for high performance, small size and better reliability
in electronic devices was growing at an unprecedented rate, semiconductor
companies found that silicon packaging - the physical interface between the
silicon die and the circuit board - was a bottleneck that had to be overcome.
To meet the need for small, fast and reliable packaging, and to make possible
many of the electronic advances witnessed in the 1990s, Tessera developed
packaging solutions that were virtually the same size and speed as the silicon
chip itself. This technology became known as
"Chip Scale Packaging"
or "CSP", and the technology has become broadly adopted. In fact, one million
packages using Tessera's µBGA® CSP technology are produced each day for
products ranging from cellular phones to network servers.
Today we continue our work by providing a broad range of advanced packaging
solutions - from stacked chip solutions to wafer-level packaging - and a full
suite of customer services that enable electronics companies to meet their
growing and changing packaging needs.
Tessera's CSP technology
can be seen improving the life of millions of people everyday - from faster
computers and network servers, to smaller cell phones and PDAs, to better MP3
players and 3-D video games.
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Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc.[HTGC] - June 12, 2007
Manuel A. Henriquez, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO
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Manuel A. Henriquez
Since October 2003, Manuel A. Henriquez has been the co-founder, chairman and
CEO of Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTGC), a leading debt
and equity growth capital provider to technology and life science companies.
Prior to co-founding Hercules, Mr. Henriquez was a partner at VantagePoint
Venture Partners, a $2.5 billion multi-stage venture capital firm, where he was
an active equity investor and board member of many leading communications and
software companies. From 1997 to March 2000, Mr. Henriquez was at Comdisco
Ventures, where he was the president and chief investment officer, along with
other senior level positions. While at Comdisco Ventures, he co-headed the
investment activities for more than $2 billion in investments to venture backed
companies. Earlier in his career, Mr. Henriquez was a vice president at
Robertson Stephens & Co.’s late stage equity venture fund, CrossLink Capital
(fka Omega Ventures). From 1987 to early 1991, Mr. Henriquez was a vice
president at BancBoston Ventures, the Bank of Boston’s early stage venture
capital fund. He also was in the Bank of Boston’s specialized High Technology
Lending Group.
In addition to his extensive debt and equity investment experience, Mr.
Henriquez has held various senior executive level operating positions at
companies, including ON Technology (NASDAQ: ONTC), a Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers venture backed software company acquired by Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC). He
was also the founder of various technology companies including HealthyPets,
acquired by Petopia.com. Mr. Henriquez earned his B.S. in Business
Administration and Finance from Northeastern University.
Mr. Henriquez has also served on the board of directors of many technology
companies, including Alopa Networks (acquired by C-Cor: CCBL), Asiner, S.A.
(Mexico City), eAssist Solutions (acquired by Talisma), New Channel (acquired
by LivePerson: LPSN), Qiva (acquired by TradeBeam). Savvion, STSN, and Think
Engines (acquired by Cognitronics: CGN).
Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc.
Founded in December 2003, Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. is a NASDAQ
traded specialty finance company providing debt and equity growth capital to
technology and life science companies at all stages of development. The Company
primarily finances privately-held companies backed by leading venture capital
and private equity firms and also may finance certain publicly-traded
companies. Hercules’ strategy is to evaluate and invest in a broad range of
ventures active in technology and life science industries and to offer a full
suite of growth capital products up and down the capital structure to
prospective clients ranging from early-stage growth to expansion stage
companies. The Company's investments are originated through its principal
office located in Silicon Valley, as well as additional offices in the Boston,
Boulder and Chicago areas. Providing capital to publicly-traded or
privately-held companies backed by leading venture capital and private equity
firms involves a high degree of credit risk and may result in potential losses
of capital.
For more information, please visit www.HTGC.com.
Companies interested in learning more about financing opportunities should
contact info@HTGC.com, or call 650.289.3060.
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Thermage, Inc. [THRM] - June 6, 2007
Stephen J. Fanning, President & CEO
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Stephen J. Fanning
Stephen J. Fanning was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of
Thermage, Inc., a leader in non-invasive tissue tightening in the aesthetic
industry, on January 15, 2005. He was elected Chairman of the Board of
Directors effective as of July 31, 2006. Under his leadership, the Company went
public in November 2006, raising $42 million. Mr. Fanning has an extensive
background in the healthcare, consumer pharmaceuticals and consumer package
goods industries.
Mr. Fanning joined Thermage, Inc. from Ocular Sciences, Inc., a $350 million
global public company, which developed, manufactured and marketed disposable
contact lenses. Mr. Fanning had been President and Chief Executive Officer of
the Company and a member of the Board of Directors since August 13, 2001. Under
his leadership, Ocular Sciences implemented a next-generation manufacturing
process significantly driving down the cost of goods sold, achieved significant
increases in global market share and attained more than $300 million in annual
sales. In January 2005, Ocular Sciences was successfully acquired by
CooperVision for $1.3 billion.
Mr. Fanning joined Ocular Sciences from Johnson & Johnson (J&J), one of the
world's largest manufacturers of healthcare products, where he served in
various senior executive positions of escalating responsibility for 25 years.
His most recent position was President, Worldwide, of J&J's McNeil Specialty
Products division. Prior to that, he served as President of Johnson & Johnson
Medical, a medical device company. Mr. Fanning has also served as Managing
Director of J&J Austria/Switzerland, and Vice President, Sales, of J&J's McNeil
Consumer Products Division.
Mr. Fanning holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Philadelphia University.
Thermage, Inc.
Thermage, Inc. (Nasdaq:THRM) is one of the premier medical device companies for
aesthetics applications. Thermage’s innovative radiofrequency technology
provides a safe, non-invasive procedure to tighten and contour skin,
significantly expanding the aesthetic applications physicians can offer to the
rapidly growing "anti-aging" market. Since market introduction in November
2002, more than 375,000 Thermage procedures have been performed throughout the
world by over 2,000 dermatologists, plastic surgeons and other cosmetic
physicians. Today, our proprietary ThermaCool®
system is available in 80 countries.
Unique to the industry is the company’s recurring revenue business model based
on the sale of high-margin single-use ThermaTips™. Our ThermaCool system
employs our single-use ThermaTips in conjunction with our generator to deliver
a controlled amount of radiofrequency energy to heat and shrink collagen
beneath the surface of the skin. The Thermage procedure results in a tightening
of the dermis and subcutaneous tissue, while simultaneously cooling and
protecting the surface of the skin. The tips are available in a variety of
sizes and configurations and are designed to optimize the Thermage procedure on
any part of the body: face, eyes, abdomens, hands, and other parts of the body.
Over 70% of the company’s revenue is attributable to single-use consumables
products. The company has a broad and expanding product line, proprietary
technology, a unique recurring revenue model and a strong market presence.
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Riverbed Technology [RVBD] - May 4, 2007
CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors
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Jerry M. Kennelly
Jerry M. Kennelly co-founded Riverbed in May 2002 and serves as chairman of our
board of directors and as our President and Chief Executive Officer.
Immediately prior to founding our company, Mr. Kennelly spent six years at
Inktomi Corporation, an infrastructure software company, where he served as
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. From June 1990
until joining Inktomi in October 1996, Mr. Kennelly worked for Sybase, Inc., an
infrastructure software company, in a number of senior financial and
operational positions, most recently as Vice President of Corporate Finance.
From November 1988 until June 1990, Mr. Kennelly worked at Oracle Corporation
as finance director for US Operations. From June 1980 until November 1988, Mr.
Kennelly worked at Hewlett-Packard Company as Worldwide Sales and Marketing
Controller for the Tandem Computers Division. Mr. Kennelly holds a Bachelor's
degree from Williams College and a Masters degree from the New York University
Graduate School of Business Administration.
Riverbed Technology is the pioneer and, with over 2,000
customers, the worldwide technology and market share leader in
wide area data services (WDS)
. Riverbed provides the first and only comprehensive WDS solution to a host of
severe problems that have effectively prevented enterprises from sharing
applications and data across wide areas. By wide area, we mean anywhere in the
world. Between Chicago and New York. Or between Seattle and Shanghai.
Riverbed's award-winning
Steelhead WDS appliances address all of the issues that affect
application performance over the WAN, dramatically improving the performance of
applications that companies and knowledge workers rely on every day - including
file sharing, email, backup, document management systems, IT tools, as well as
ERP and CRM solutions. With Riverbed, any of these applications can be
accelerated somewhere between 5 and
50, and even up to 100 times faster.
In very simple terms, the impact for companies is the difference between having
dial-up and having broadband. Suddenly, the impossible becomes possible, just
like that. Riverbed's Steelhead WDS solutions are available anywhere in the
world through certified resellers, who are members of the Riverbed Partner
Network, from Riverbed OEM partners or directly from Riverbed.
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BreitBurn Energy Partners, L.P. [BBEP] - April 26, 2007
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
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Halbert S. Washburn
Mr. Washburn has been the Co-Chief Executive Officer and a Director of
BreitBurn GP LLC since March 2006. Mr. Washburn is also the Co-Founder,
Co-Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of BreitBurn Energy Corporation.
Mr. Washburn is Executive Committee Member and Treasurer of the California
Independent Petroleum Association, and has been named Chairman for the 2008
term. Mr. Washburn is a past Chairman of the Wildcat Committee, a California
oil industry charitable organization, and past Chairman of the Stanford
University Petroleum Investments Committee. Mr. Washburn currently serves as a
member of the Board of Directors and Audit and Compensation Committees of
Rentech, Inc., which is an alternative fuels company.
Prior to founding BreitBurn in 1988, Mr. Washburn was Manager of Engineering at
Eastern American Energy Corporation.
Mr. Washburn holds a B.S., with Distinction, in Petroleum Engineering from
Stanford University.
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Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Randall H. Breitenbach
Mr. Breitenbach has been the Co-Chief Executive Officer and a Director of
BreitBurn GP, LLC since March 2006. Mr. Breitenbach is also the Co-Founder,
Co-Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of BreitBurn Energy Corporation.
Mr. Breitenbach currently serves as Lead Trustee Committee Chairman for
Hotchkis and Wiley Funds, Chairman for Stanford University’s Petroleum
Investment Committee Endowment, Advisor for Stanford’s School of Earth
Sciences, and board member of the California Independent Petroleum Association.
Mr. Breitenbach is also active with several charitable organizations and is a
past Chairman of the Wildcat Committee, a California oil industry charitable
organization.
Prior to founding BreitBurn in 1988, Mr. Breitenbach was a Corporate Financial
Analyst at ARCO and held a number of production and engineering positions at
Amoco, Getty, Chevron and Sohio.
Mr. Breitenbach holds both a B.S and M.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from
Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
BreitBurn Energy Partners LP
An independent oil and gas partnership focused on the acquisition, exploitation
and development of oil and gas properties for the purpose of generating cash
flow. Our goal is to provide our unitholders with stable and growing cash
distributions. Our assets consist primarily of producing and non producing
crude oil reserves located in the Los Angeles Basin in California, the Wind
River and Big Horn Basins in central Wyoming, and the Permian Basin in West
Texas.
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Double Eagle Petroleum Company [DBLE] - April 26, 2007
President & CEO
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Stephen H. Hollis
Stephen H. Hollis, 56, has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer
of the Company since January 1994 and previously served as a Vice-President of
the Company from December 1989 through January 1994. Mr. Hollis has also served
as a Director of the Company since December 1989. Mr. Hollis has served as the
Vice President of Hollis Oil & Gas Co., a small oil and gas company, of which
he owns 51% beneficial interest, since January 1994 and served as the President
of Hollis Oil & Gas Co. from June 1986 through January 1994. In 1979, Mr.
Hollis joined Marathon Oil Company and held various positions until 1986, when
he founded Hollis Oil & Gas Co. Mr. Hollis was a geologist for an affiliate of
United Nuclear Corporation from 1974 to 1977 and a consulting geologist from
1977 to 1979. Mr. Hollis is a past President of the Wyoming Geological
Association and past President of the Rocky Mountain Section of the AAPG. Mr.
Hollis received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1972 and a Masters degree in Geology from Bryn Mawr College in
1974.
Double Eagle Petroleum Co.
is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development,
production and sale of natural gas and crude oil, primarily in the Rocky
Mountain Basins of the western United States. Our principal properties are
located in southwestern Wyoming, where we have coal bed methane reserves and
production in the Atlantic Rim area of the Eastern Washakie Basin and tight
sands gas reserves and production in the Pinedale Anticline.
As of December 31, 2006, we owned interests in a total of 664 producing wells
and had an interest in 556,389 gross acres (252,962 net), of which 433,648
gross acres (247,629 net) are undeveloped, in what we believe are natural gas
prone basins of the Rocky Mountains and Nevada. Our two most significant
development areas, the Atlantic Rim coal bed natural gas play and the Pinedale
Anticline, accounted for over 69% of our proved developed reserves as of
December 31, 2006, and over 88% of our 2006 production.
As of December 31, 2006, we had estimated proved reserves of 48.5 Bcf of
natural gas and 360 MBbl of oil, or a total of 50.7 Bcfe, with a PV-10 value of
approximately $67.6. Of these reserves, 62% was proved developed and 96% was
natural gas.
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Team Inc. [TISI] - March 22, 2007
CEO and Chairman
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Philip J. Hawk
Phil Hawk is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Team, Inc., a provider of
specialized industrial services related to the construction and maintenance of
pressurized piping and process systems. Headquartered in Alvin, Texas, the
Company operates in over 50 customer service locations throughout North
America. Team, Inc. common stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker
symbol "TISI."
Prior to joining Team in November 1998, Phil was President and CEO of EOTT
Energy Partners, a publicly traded MLP in the energy marketing industry.
Previously, he was also a partner with McKinsey & Company.
Phil is a Director of NCI Building Systems (NYSE: NCS), a leading manufacturer
of metal buildings and components. He is also a member of the Board of Visitors
for Duke's Pratt School of Engineering.
Phil is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Business School.
Team Inc.
Headquartered in Alvin, Texas, Team Inc. is a leading provider of specialty and
construction services required in maintaining high-temperature and
high-pressure piping systems and vessels that are utilized extensively in the
refining, petrochemical, power, pipeline and other heavy industries. The
Company's inspection services also serve a broader customer base that includes
the aerospace and automotive industries. Team offers these services in over 70
locations throughout the United States, Aruba, Canada, Singapore, Trinidad and
Venezuela. The Company licenses its proprietary techniques and materials to
various companies outside the United States and receives royalties based upon
revenues earned by its licensees. Team Inc. common stock is traded on the
NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "TISI". For more
information about the company, please visit
www.teamindustrialservices.com.
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StealthGass [GASS] - March 6, 2007
President, CEO, and member of the Board of Directors
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Harry N. Vafias
Mr. Vafias has been actively involved in the tanker and gas shipping industry
since 1999. After graduating from City University Business School in the City
of London in 1999 with a B.A. in Management Science and from Metropolitan
University in 2000 with a Masters degree in Shipping, Trade and Transport, he
commenced working at Seascope, a leading ship brokering firm specializing in
sale and purchase of vessels and chartering of oil tankers. Mr. Vafias also
worked at Braemar, a leading ship brokering firm, where he gained extensive
experience in tanker and dry cargo chartering. Seascope and Braemar merged in
2001 to form Braemar Seascope Group plc, a public company quoted on the London
Stock Exchange and one of the world’s largest ship brokering and shipping
service groups. From 2000 until 2004, he worked at Brave Maritime and Stealth
Maritime, companies providing comprehensive ship management services, where Mr.
Vafias headed the operations and chartering departments of Stealth Maritime and
served as manager for the sale and purchase departments of both Brave Maritime
and Stealth Maritime.
StealthGas Inc.
StealthGas Inc is a provider of international seaborne transportation services
to LPG producers and users. Our vessels carry various petroleum and
petrochemical gas products in liquefied form, including propane, butane,
butadiene, isopropane, propylene and vinyl chloride monomer, which are all
byproducts of the production of oil and natural gas. These products are
transported in liquefied form in order to reduce their volume and to facilitate
their handling.
Our fleet currently numbers 29 vessels ranging from 1600 cbm to 7500 cbm with a
total carrying capacity of 120,760 cbm and average age of 11,1 years.
StealthGas ranks number 1 in owned vessels in the 3,000 to 8,000 cbm segment
which is our focus.
Transportation by sea represents a major element of gas transportation
logistics. LPG products have a variety of both industrial and other uses,
including transportation, fertilizer production, the manufacture of plastics,
space heating, cooking, water heating and process heating. We serve industrial
companies, as well as national and independent energy companies and energy
traders.
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Omniture, Inc. [OMTR] - February 16, 2007
CEO & Co-Founder
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Josh James
Josh James is the CEO and co-founder of Omniture, a publicly held online
business optimization company trading on the NASDAQ. Omniture is the
fastest-growing publicly traded software company (and the second fastest when
including companies that have grown through acquisition) according to Baseline
Magazine. The company has been recognized on the Inc. 500 and Deloitte
Technology Fast 500 for four consecutive years. Representing a new breed of
entrepreneurs, James combines visionary business practices with old-fashioned
values in a manner that builds long-term customer relationships. The result is
a business philosophy that has earned Omniture the highest customer retention
rate in the industry—with marquee clients including eBay, AOL, Wal-Mart,
Gannett, Microsoft, Oracle, GM, Countrywide, and HP.
Prior to co-founding Omniture in 1996, James founded and managed three other
successful high-tech companies—MyComputer.com, a leading application
service provider (ASP) of integrated Web site development and management tools;
JP Interactive, a profitable full-service eBusiness consulting and development
firm; and ScriptSearch, a development portal for IT professionals.
MyComputer.com's small business division was sold to VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN)
and James expanded the enterprise division into what is today—Omniture.
As an experienced and successful entrepreneur, James was a recipient of the
2006 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award (among others) and shares
his experience and vision as a frequent lecturer at many industry, educational,
and trade conferences. Additionally, James serves on several industry boards
such as the Brigham Young University’s eBusiness Center and the BYU Center for
Entrepreneurship, and the Utah Information Technology Association. He has also
served on several advisory and director boards for public and private
companies. James is fluent in Japanese and studied Business Management and
Entrepreneurship at Brigham Young University.
Omniture, Inc.
Omniture, Inc., is a leading provider of online business optimization software,
enabling customers to manage and enhance online, offline and multi-channel
business initiatives. Omniture’s software, which it hosts and delivers to its
customers on-demand, enables customers to capture, store and analyze
information generated by their Web sites and other sources and gain critical
business insights into the performance and efficiency of marketing and sales
initiatives and other business processes. In addition, Omniture offers a range
of professional services that complement its online services, including
implementation, best practices, consulting, customer support and user training
provided through Omniture University™. Omniture’s customers include eBay, AOL,
Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Oracle, General Motors and HP. www.omniture.com.
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Force Protection, Inc. [FRPT] - February 13, 2007
Chairman
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Frank Kavanaugh
Frank Kavanaugh was appointed to Force Protection’s board of directors in
December 2003, and became Chairman in January 2005. He currently serves as the
managing director of Fort Ashford Funds, LLC, a provider of secured bridge
loans, and is a principal of equity investment firm Ashford Capital, LLC,
through which he has served in several executive and operational management
positions at portfolio companies for the past 10 years. He co-founded and
served as President of QuickStart Technologies and previously held positions at
Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.
Mr. Kavanaugh earned a Bachelor’s degree in information and computer science
from the University of California, Irvine and a Master’s degree in business
administration from Pepperdine University. He also serves on several community
boards including the Child Guidance Center of Orange County, and the board of
advisors at Chapman University's Leatherby Center.
Force Protection, Inc.
Force Protection Industries, Inc. manufactures the world’s most advanced blast-
and ballistic-protected vehicles that offer a proven solution to the threat of
improvised explosive devices, land mines, and roadside bombs. Its signature
vehicle series, the Buffalo and Cougar, have been deployed with U.S. and Allied
forces in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003 and have logged more than 2 million
hours of heavy combat operations.
In the past three years the company has grown from a small start-up firm with
less than a dozen employees to more than 750, enlarged its facilities to more
than 340,000 square foot of test, integration, and test space, expanded
production capacity through partnering agreements with other defense industry
leaders such as General Dynamics Land Systems and Armor Holdings, increased
sales revenue from $50 million in 2005 to a projected $200 million in 2006, and
seen its stock price move from less than a dollar a share on the Over the
Counter Bulletin Board to more than $17 per share and listing on the NASDAQ
Stock Market in January 2007.
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Citizens Banking Corporation [CBCF] - January 24, 2007
CEO
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Bill Hartman
William R. Hartman is Chief Executive Officer of Citizens Republic Bancorp, a
$14 billion financial services company with locations in Michigan, Wisconsin,
Ohio, Iowa and Indiana. Citizens Republic, the second largest bank holding
company headquartered in Michigan, provides a full range of financial services
through its 258 banking and financial center locations, and its investment and
mortgage subsidiaries, title company and insurance agency. Prior to the
completion of the merger with Republic Bancorp on December 29, 2006, that
created Citizens Republic, Mr. Hartman served as Chairman, President and CEO of
Citizens Banking Corporation.
Prior to joining Citizens in February of 2002, Hartman was chairman, president
and CEO of Bank One, NA– Ohio and Kentucky, headquartered in Columbus. He was
appointed to that position in 2000. The region for which he was responsible
consisted of 340 branches with combined assets of $41 billion. Hartman joined
the Bank One organization in 1990, first as director, president and COO of Bank
One, Dayton, NA from 1990 until 1992, at which time he was appointed chairman
and CEO of Bank One, Lexington, NA. He served in that capacity until 1995 when
he became chairman, president and CEO of Bank One, Kentucky, NA. During his
nine-year tenure with Bank One, Kentucky, Hartman managed the merger of all
legacy Bank One organizations in Kentucky into a single entity.
Prior to joining Bank One, Hartman spent 13 years with Corestates Financial
Corporation and Hamilton Bank, which was acquired by Corestates. During this
period he held several management positions including the head of Hamilton
Bank’s commercial lending department (in Harrisburg, PA), regional
administrator responsible for the bank’s consumer and commercial lending (in
York County, PA), and executive vice president of Hamilton Bank with direct
responsibility for strategic planning, and later, the Bank’s commercial line of
business.
Hartman is a strong supporter of community service. He currently serves as a
director of Kettering University, the Clarion University Foundation, and the
Greater Genesee County Regional Chamber of Commerce. In Columbus, OH he was a
member of the board of directors of the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce,
Central Ohio United Way and the Columbus Association of Performing Arts. Bill
is a past chairperson of both the Louisville Fund for Arts Drive and Greater
Louisville, Inc., an organization comprising the Louisville Chamber of Commerce
and Economic Development Partnership. He is a former trustee, executive
committee member, and past finance committee chairperson of Bellarmine
University, Louisville and a former member of the board of overseers of the
University of Louisville. He also served as trustee for the University of
Kentucky School of Business, and as a director of the Kentucky Economic
Development Corporation and the Kentucky Bankers Association, where he was also
a member of the executive committee.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Hartman received his Bachelor of Science degree
in Business Administration from Clarion University, Clarion, PA in 1970. He is
a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.
Citizens Banking Corporation
Citizens Republic Bancorp (NASDAQ: CRBC) is a diversified financial services
company providing a wide range of commercial, consumer, mortgage banking, trust
and financial planning services to a broad client base. Citizens Republic
Bancorp serves communities in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Indiana as
Citizens Bank and Republic Bank and in Iowa as F&M Bank, with a total of 270
offices and 287 ATMs. Citizens Republic Bancorp is the second-largest bank
holding company headquartered in Michigan with roots dating back to 1871.
Citizens Republic is the 42nd largest bank holding company headquartered in the
United States with $14.0 billion in assets.
Merger Background
On December 29, 2006, Michigan-based Republic Bancorp Inc. with over $6 billion
in assets, merged into Citizens Banking Corporation to create Citizens Republic
Bancorp in a transaction valued at $1.052 billion. The merger doubled Citizens
market cap and expanded its footprint to 5 Midwest states (Michigan, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Iowa and Indiana). The merger makes Citizens Republic the seventh
largest bank operating in Michigan with approximately 5% of the total deposits
in Michigan, and places over 35% of its deposits in high-growth markets.
The strategic rationale for establishing the new Citizens Republic includes:
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Dramatically improves scale and footprint, enhancing franchise value and
strategic options,
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Creates a greater revenue synergy than most bank mergers due to the
complimentary aspect of the two organizations,
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Creates meaningful cost reduction opportunities,
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Strengthens management and market teams,
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Has manageable execution risk,
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Is GAAP and cash accretive in 2007, and
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Eliminates the need for continued costly de novo expansion in Southeast
Michigan.
More information about Citizens Republic Bancorp is available at
www.citizensonline.com
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Hughes Communications Inc. [HUGH] - January 18, 2007
President and CEO
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Pradman P. Kaul
Pradman P. Kaul is President and Chief Executive Officer of Hughes
Communications, Inc. Mr. Kaul also continues as Chairman and CEO of Hughes
Network Systems, LLC (HNS). Before joining HNS, Mr. Kaul worked at COMSAT
Laboratories in Clarksburg, MD.
Mr. Kaul received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from
George Washington University and a Master of Science degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He holds numerous
patents and has published articles and papers on a variety of technical topics
concerning satellite communications.
In October 2004, Mr. Kaul was inducted into the National Academy of
Engineering. Mr. Kaul was selected as a “Distinguished Engineering Alumnus” of
the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and “Distinguished Alumnus” at
George Washington University, Washington DC in 2005. He was awarded the IEEE
Third Millennium medal in 2000.
Mr. Kaul is also:
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Member, National Advisory Council, George Washington University
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Member, Board of Directors, Primus Telecom - Publicly listed company
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Member, CIBER Advisory Board, University of Maryland
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Chairman, Maryland India Business Round Table
Hughes Communications Inc.
The principal business of Hughes Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: HUGH) is the
management and administration of its wholly owned subsidiary, Hughes Network
Systems, LLC (Hughes). Hughes is the global leader in providing broadband
satellite networks and services for large enterprises, governments, small
businesses, and consumers. HughesNet encompasses all broadband solutions and
managed services from Hughes, bridging the best of satellite and terrestrial
technologies. Hughes has shipped more than 1.2 million systems to customers in
over 100 countries. Its broadband satellite products are based on the IPoS (IP
over Satellite) global standard, approved by the TIA, ETSI, and ITU standards
organizations. Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland,
USA, Hughes maintains sales and support offices worldwide.
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Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. [CBOU] - January 9, 2007
President, Chairman and CEO
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Michael Coles
Michael Coles, an accomplished businessman, community leader, education
advocate, and family man, is living proof that there are no limits to what we
as individuals can accomplish. In January 2003, Coles accepted the corporate
reins of Caribou Coffee Company. He now leads the 14-year-old company as its
Chairman, CEO and President extending its market reach and building its
international presence. In September of 2005, Caribou became a publicly traded
company listed on NASDAQ as CBOU.
Caribou Coffee Company, Inc.,
founded in 1992 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the second
largest company-owned gourmet coffeehouse operator in the United States based
on the number of coffeehouses. As of October 1, 2006, Caribou Coffee had 432
coffeehouses, including sixteen licensed locations. Caribou Coffee's
company-owned coffeehouses are located in 17 states and the District of
Columbia. Caribou Coffee offers its customers high-quality gourmet coffee and
espresso-based beverages, as well as specialty teas, baked goods, whole bean
coffee, branded merchandise and related products. In addition, Caribou Coffee
sells products to club stores, grocery stores, mass merchandisers, office
coffee providers, airlines, hotels, sports and entertainment venues, college
campuses and other commercial customers. In addition, Caribou Coffee licenses
third parties to use the Caribou Coffee brand on quality food and merchandise
items. Caribou Coffee focuses on creating a unique experience for customers
through a combination of high-quality products, a comfortable and welcoming
coffeehouse environment and customer service.
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Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd. [SOLF] - December 21, 2006
Founder, Chairman and CEO
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Mr. Yonghua Lu
is Solarfun's founder, chairman of our board of directors and chief executive
officer. He also has been chairman and general manager of Linyang Electronics
since 1997. Linyang Electronics had been the parent company of Linyang China
until June 2, 2006. Mr. Lu was general manager of Qidong Changtong Computer
Group Company, and deputy manager of Qidong Computer Factory, from 1988 to
1996. From 1983 to 1988, he was deputy manager of the Lining Cloth Factory of
Qidong ""Wu Qi'' Farm and manager of the Cashmere Factory of Qidong ""Wu Qi''
Farm. Mr. Lu has over 20 years of experience in enterprise management. He has
received many awards and honors for his entrepreneurship, including being named
one of Jiangsu Province's Top Ten Outstanding Young Entrepreneurs and
Fifth-term National Township Entrepreneur. Mr. Lu has attended a 15-month
training course for Applied Social Studies at Soochow University Graduate
School of Humanities, and a 20-month executive MBA course at Renmin University
in China.
Solarfun Power Holdings Co, Ltd.
is an established manufacturer of both PV cells and PV modules in China.
Established in August 2004, Solarfun conducts substantially all of its business
through its operating subsidiary in the People's Republic of China (PRC),
Jiangsu Linyang Solarfun Co., Ltd., or Linyang China, and two majority-owned
subsidiaries of Linyang China, Shanghai Linyang Solar Technology Co., Ltd.,
which provides system integration services in China tailoring PV products for
specific customers' needs and linking them with end-use devices that require
solar power and Sichuan Leshan Jiayang New Energy Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of
PV modules. Solarfun sells its products both through third-party distributors
and directly to system integrators.
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Grill Concepts Inc. [GRIL] - December 18, 2006
President and CEO
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Philip Gay
Philip Gay joined Grill Concepts in July 2004 as Chief Financial Officer, and
was named President and Chief Executive Officer in June 2006. Philip began his
20-year career in the food and casual dining industry when he joined California
Pizza Kitchen in 1987 as Chief Financial Officer. During his seven-year tenure
at the company, he helped build the pizza chain from two restaurants to 100
restaurants. Philip then joined Santa Monica-based Wolfgang Puck Food Company
from 1994 to 1996 as Chief Financial Officer and interim Chief Executive
Officer. He also held chief operating officer and chief executive officer
positions with privately-held Diversified Food Group in Lincolnwood, Illinois
and was a managing director of Triple Enterprises, a Dallas-based business
advisory firm. In addition to his board seat at Grill Concepts, Philip is
currently a member of the boards of directors of the California Restaurant
Association and MotorCar Parts of America.
Grill Concepts
owns, manages and licenses upscale casual and fine dining, full service
restaurants under two core brand names: The Grill on the Alley and Daily Grill.
The company operates 25 restaurants including five The Grill on the
Alley-branded restaurants in Beverly Hills, Hollywood and San Jose, California;
Chicago, Illinois; and Dallas, Texas, as well as 20 Daily Grill restaurants in
Southern and Northern California; the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region;
Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon; and Skokie, Illinois.
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Axcan Pharma Inc. [AXCA] - December 12, 2006
President and CEO
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Frank A.G.M. Verwiel, M.D.
Frank A.G.M. Verwiel, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Axcan
Pharma, joined the Company in 2005 with more than 20 years of experience in the
pharmaceutical industry.
Formerly with Merck & Co. Inc. (Merck) as vice president, hypertension,
Worldwide Human Health Marketing, he concurrently served as a member of Merck’s
Worldwide Hypertension Business Strategy team. Before Merck, from 1988 to 1996,
Dr. Verwiel worked with Servier in Europe in various executive positions such
as area director of Central European operations, which included Germany,
Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Dr. Verwiel holds Doctorate of Medicine and Master of Medicine degrees from
Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He also attended INSEAD in
Fontainebleau, France, where he obtained a Master of Business Administration
degree. Dr. Verwiel is fluent in Dutch, English, French, and German.
Axcan
is a Canada-based, leading multinational specialty pharmaceutical company
focused on gastroenterology. The company develops and markets a broad line of
prescription products to treat a range of gastrointestinal diseases and
disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome,
cholestatic liver diseases and complications related to pancreatic
insufficiency. Axcan's products are marketed by its own specialized sales
forces in North America and Europe. Its common shares are listed on the Toronto
Stock Exchange under the symbol "AXP" and on the NASDAQ Global Market under the
symbol "AXCA".
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MediciNova, Inc. [MNOV] - December 7, 2006
Executive Chairman, President and CEO, Founder
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Yuichi Iwaki, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Iwaki holds three professorships at the University of Southern California
School of Medicine in the Departments of Urology, Surgery and Pathology and has
been Director of the Transplantation Immunology and Immunogenetic Laboratory
since 1992. He is also a visiting professor at the Nihon University School of
Medicine, Kyushu University and the Tokyo Women's Medical School in Japan.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Southern California School of
Medicine, Dr. Iwaki held professorships at the University of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine in the Departments of Surgery and Pathology from 1989 through 1991.
He received both his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Sapporo Medical School in
Sapporo, Japan. Dr. Iwaki is the author of 200 peer-reviewed publications and
more than 40 books. He has been advising pharmaceutical companies and venture
capital funds regarding research and investment strategies for over 20 years
and is a board member of several biotechnology companies, including Avigen Inc.
MediciNova, Inc.
is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on acquiring,
developing and commercializing high-quality small molecule therapeutics.
Through strategic alliances primarily with Japanese pharmaceutical companies,
MediciNova has built a diversified portfolio of drug candidates each of which
we believe has broad patent protection, a well-characterized and differentiated
therapeutic profile and attractive commercial potential. MediciNova currently
has eight compounds in development for ten different therapeutic indications
representing large market opportunities. Medicinova's pipeline includes
treatments for asthma, multiple sclerosis, status asthmaticus, interstitial
cystitis, cancer, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, preterm labor, urinary
incontinence and thrombotic disorders. Seven of these programs are in advanced
clinical testing. MediciNova's strategy is to advance its clinical programs
through the Phase II proof-of-concept stage and, at appropriate points of
high-value inflection, to establish strategic alliances and partnerships to
support Phase III clinical testing and commercialization of selected
development programs. MediciNova may also retain certain promising compounds
for further in-house development and potential commercialization. MediciNova's
executive management team has extensive global development, regulatory and
commercial experience, and manages its international clinical and manufacturing
operations through efficient and cost-effective utilization of contract
research organizations. Headquartered in San Diego, California, MediciNova
today has 24 employees. For more information on MediciNova, Inc., please visit
www.medicinova.com.
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OMA [OMAB] - November 29, 2006
CEO
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Ruben Lopez Barrera
Rubén López has served as our Chief Executive Officer since December 2003.
Previously, he served as our General Vice President, Human Resources and Legal,
and our Communications Director. Mr. López has also previously served as
Business Development Director and Project Finance Director of Empresas ICA. Mr.
López received a degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana, a
diploma in finance from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, a
master's degree in business administration from the Pontificia Universidad
Catolica de Chile and the Washington University and a certificate in airport
management and development from Aéroports de Paris.
Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte, S.A. de C.V. (OMA)
is a company that operates and manages thirteen airports in nine states of the
Mexican Republic, serving 11.5 million passengers a year.
OMA was created in 1998 as a result of the deregulation process in the Mexican
Airport System opening it to private investment. OMA employs over 900 persons
to offer its passengers and clients, excellent airport and commercial services,
in facilities that comply with all the applicable international safety and
security standards.
Since June 2000, OMA has the support of Servicios de Tecnología Aeroportuaria
S.A. de C.V. (SETA), a Strategic Partner, which is made up of two outstanding
international companies in the field of airport infrastructure operation and
services: Aéroports de Paris of France and Ingenieros Civiles Asociados (ICA)
of Mexico.
We at OMA have developed the Mission, Vision, Quality Policy and Values to
offer our clients, passengers and users the highest quality in facilities and
services.
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California Costal Communities Inc. [CALC] - November 3, 2006
President and CEO
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Raymond J. Pacini
Mr. Pacini has been the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of
California Coastal Communities, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALC) since May 1998. CALC is a
residential land development and homebuilding company operating in Southern
California. In April 2005, CALC obtained approval from the California Coastal
Commission to build 349 homes at Bolsa Chica, near Huntington Beach, CA. Prior
to May 1998, Mr. Pacini was the Chief Financial Officer of CALC (formerly known
as Koll Real Estate Group, Inc. and Henley Properties, Inc.) from June 1990
until May 1998. During that time, Mr. Pacini led the company through a
pre-packaged bankruptcy in 1997 that exchanged $200 million of debentures for
equity in the company.
Mr. Pacini also serves on the board of directors of Cadiz Inc. (NASDAQ: CDZI),
which manages water resources in California, and he is chairman of that
company’s audit committee. From March 1999 to June 2002, Mr. Pacini also served
as a director of Metalclad Corporation (NASDAQ: MTLC), a company in the
business of waste treatment, asbestos removal and insulation installation, and
chairman of its audit committee.
Prior to moving to California in 1990, Mr. Pacini was the Director of Financial
Reporting for The Henley Group, Inc., a $ 7 billion conglomerate based in
Hampton, NH. Mr. Pacini started his career as a CPA for Coopers & Lybrand (now
know as PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Boston, MA from 1979 through 1986.
Mr. Pacini received an A.B. from Colgate University in 1977 and an M.B.A. from
Cornell University in 1979.
California Coastal Communities, Inc. is a residential land
development and homebuilding company with properties owned or controlled in six
Southern California counties (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino,
San Diego and Ventura). Our principal activities include:
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obtaining zoning and other entitlements for land we own or control through
purchase options or joint ventures;
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improving the land for residential development; and
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designing, constructing and selling single-family homes in Southern California.
The majority of our homes are designed to appeal to move-up homebuyers and are
generally offered for sale in advance of their construction.
Our two largest assets are the Brightwater project in Huntington Beach and the
SouthShore project in Oxnard, CA. Both of these projects have required our
entitlement expertise to navigate the difficult regulatory environment in
California in order to obtain the necessary development permits.
We are publicly-traded on NASDAQ under the symbol CALC, with an equity market
capitalization of $212 million as of 10/25/06. We recently paid a special
dividend of $12.50 per share, totaling $136 million, to our stockholders on
9/28/06. The special dividend was funded primarily by a $125 million term loan,
which provided us with an opportunity to unlock some of the value of our
Brightwater property and return capital to our stockholders on a tax efficient
basis.
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Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc. [SPPI] - September 26, 2006
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
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Rajesh C. Shrotriya, M.D.
In September 2000, Dr. Shrotriya joined the Company as President and Chief
Operating Officer and in August 2002, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer.
In this capacity he has spearheaded major changes in business strategy and
coordinated structural reorganization culminating in the formation of Spectrum
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Intel's Enterprise Platform Group designs, markets, and supports building
blocks for enterprise computing. During Fister's tenure as General Manager,
Intel garnered commanding market segment share, including the introduction of
the Itanium processor family which leads in virtually every performance
category. Other products included a complement of Xeon processors, chipsets,
boards/systems, and software tools and services.
Previously, Dr. Shrotriya was Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific
Officer for SuperGen, Inc. and Vice President, Medical Affairs and Vice
President, Chief Medical Officer at MGI Pharma, Inc. For 18 years he held
various positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, the most recent being
Executive Director Worldwide CNS Clinical Research.
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
is an oncology-focused, NASDAQ-listed, clinical development company (NASDAQ:
SPPI, www.spectrumpharm.com) based in Irvine, CA. Spectrum opportunistically
acquires and advances a diversified portfolio of oncology drug candidates that
meet critical health challenges for which there are few other treatment
options. Spectrum's expertise lies in identifying undervalued drug candidates
with demonstrated safety and efficacy, and adding value through further
clinical development and selection of the most viable and low-risk methods of
commercialization. The company's pipeline includes promising early and
late-stage drug candidates with unique formulations and mechanisms of action
that address the needs of seriously ill patients, such as at-home chemotherapy
and new treatment regimens for refractory disease.
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. [CDNS] - October 27, 2006
President and CEO
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Michael J. Fister
Mike Fister is President and Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Design Systems,
Inc. Prior to joining Cadence, he spent 17 years at Intel Corporation, where he
was most recently Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company's
Enterprise Platforms Group.
Intel's Enterprise Platform Group designs, markets, and supports building
blocks for enterprise computing. During Fister's tenure as General Manager,
Intel garnered commanding market segment share, including the introduction of
the Itanium processor family which leads in virtually every performance
category. Other products included a complement of Xeon processors, chipsets,
boards/systems, and software tools and services.
Previously, Fister served as Vice President and General Manager of the
Performance Microprocessor Group, where he managed Intel's IA-32 processor
development organization and was responsible for the design, development and
marketing of IA-32 processors, including the last versions of the Intel486 and
the entire line including the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron,
Pentium II Xeon, and Pentium III Xeon processors. Prior to this role, Mike held
many other product development positions at Intel and has a long legacy of
successful technology development and product delivery.
Fister is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati where he received a BS and
MS in electrical engineering in 1977 and 1978 respectively. He spent his early
years in a variety of executive and engineering management positions at Wyse,
Machine Vision International, and Cincinnati Milacron. He currently sits on the
Board of Directors of Autodesk Corporation and two non-profit organizations,
the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) and the
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
is the global leader in software, hardware, methodologies and services that
play essential roles in accelerating innovation in today’s highly complex
integrated circuits, printed-circuit boards, and electronics systems. Companies
use Cadence electronic design automation (EDA) technologies and engineering
services to design, verify, and prepare advanced semiconductors and systems for
manufacturing. These products in turn form the foundation of consumer
electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems.
5,100 Cadence employees at locations throughout the world—including China,
India, Europe, Russia, Israel, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and North America—serve
our global customer base.
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Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation [SWHC] - October 19, 2006
President and CEO
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Michael Golden
Born and raised on the outskirts of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Michael
Golden’s youth was comprised of family, academics and sports. His experience as
a BSA Eagle Scout, helped to develop his skills of leadership, citizenship, and
character.
For fifteen years at Black & Decker, Golden held a series of increasingly
responsible positions to become Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the
Accessory Division. His tenure at Black & Decker, and his involvement with the
DeWalt line of industrial tools and accessories, laid the foundation for his
experience with brand management. He played a leading role in executing
DeWalt’s strategy to emerge as a leading brand known for its reliability and
durability not only with consumers, but within industrial and construction
companies as well. Golden moved to Kohler Co., a 130-year old manufacturer of
high-end kitchen and bathroom fixtures founded on the principles of
craftsmanship and technology. As Vice President of Sales for the Plumbing
Division for Kohler, Golden led the team that drove changes in the company’s
culture and its performance management to yield double-digit growth. Golden was
then named President of Sales for the Industrial and Construction Division of
The Stanley Works, a 160-year old company specializing in tools, hardware and
specialty hardware. Golden later returned to Kohler as President of the
Cabinetry Division where he made a significant contribution to the development
of Kohler’s management processes.
Golden received his Bachelor of Science in Marketing from The Pennsylvania
State University and his MBA from Emory University in Georgia.
Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation, through its subsidiary
Smith & Wesson Corp., is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of quality
handguns, law enforcement products and firearm safety/security products. The
Company also licenses shooter protection, knives, apparel, footwear and other
accessory lines. The Company is based in Springfield, Mass., with manufacturing
facilities in Springfield and Houlton, Maine. The Smith & Wesson Academy is
America’s longest-running firearms training facility for America’s public
servants. For more information, call (800) 331-0852 or log on to
www.smith-wesson.com
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United Security Bancshares [UBFO] - October 13, 2006
President and CEO
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Dennis Woods
Dennis Richard Woods was born in Fresno in 1947 as one of six children,
educated in the Fresno School system, graduated from California State
University Fresno, married, Cheryl, his high school sweetheart, raised two
children with her and now serves as co-grandparent to five grandchildren. Both
of his children live in Fresno with their families. On their wedding
anniversary this year, Dennis and Cheryl celebrated their 39th year of
marriage.
Dennis was the original organizer of United Security Bank beginning in 1986,
the company opened for business in 1987 and the other founders elected him as
chairman, a position he has held since. Being chosen to chair the bank board,
even though he was the youngest founding member, is perhaps the most revealing
statement about his ethical standards and character and leadership skills.
Banking is an extremely regulated and heavily scrutinized industry and his
management style and ethics standards have been proven during the last 18 years
of operation. He is honest, open, forthright and fair in his dealings with all
matters and with all people. In addition to the bank, he has been party to some
40 other business partnerships during his lifetime and in each case, it was he
that was chosen to be in charge of the funds. The results of these partnerships
and the banking business over these many years have been success after success
without a hint of impropriety on any matter.
United Security Bancshares
Founded in 1987, United Security Bancshares (NASDAQ: UBFO) is the parent of
United Security Bank, a state-chartered independent community bank
headquartered in Fresno, California. The Bank currently operates ten branches
in Fresno, Madera, and Kern Counties, and employs over 135 people. Today, with
more than $640 million in assets, $560 million in deposits and $400 million in
loans, United Security Bank continues to seek growth in its market area while
enhancing the financial services offered to its customers.
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Concur Technologies, Inc. [CNQR] - September 19, 2006
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Steve Singh
Steve Singh currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Singh
has served as Chief Executive Officer since February 1996, and was appointed to
Chairman of the Board of Directors in October 1999. Prior to joining Concur
Technologies, Mr. Singh was General Manager of the Contact Management Division
at Symantec Corporation.
Concur Technologies, Inc.
is the world's leading provider of on-demand business services that automate
Corporate Expense Management (CEM). Concur's integrated suite of on-demand CEM
services enables organizations of all sizes to automate and control spending --
driving the costs out of the corporate travel booking and expense reporting
processes while providing enhanced visibility and actionable expense analysis.
Concur's services reach millions of employees across thousands of organizations
around the world -- streamlining business processes, reducing operating costs
and improving internal controls -- while empowering companies to apply greater
insight into their spending patterns.
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NetSol Technologies, Inc. [NTWK] - September 13, 2006
Chairman
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Najeeb Ghauri is Chairman of the Board of Directors of NetSol Technologies,
Inc. Mr. Ghauri was the founder of Netsol Technologies, Inc. (USA). He was very
instrumental in the completion of the IPO in 1998 and spearheaded the listing
of NetSol to NASDAQ Small Cap in December 1999. Most recently, Mr. Ghauri
managed a most successful IPO on KSE (Karachi Stock Exchange) by listing the
first software company 'Netsol Technologies, Ltd' in Pakistan.
Prior to launching NetSol in the U.S., Mr. Ghauri had over 15 years of combined
marketing and management experience with Fortune 500 companies such as Unilever
and Atlantic Richfield Corporation (ARCO). He received a bachelor's degree from
Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan and a bachelor's degree from
Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. He earned an MBA in marketing
management from the Peter Drucker School of Management at The Claremont
Graduate School.
In 2001, Mr. Ghauri was a nominee for the Ernst & Young 'Entrepreneur of the
Year' award in California. He is very active in various philanthropic and civic
activities in the U.S. and in Pakistan. Mr. Ghauri is a founding board member
the U.S. Pakistan Business Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in
Washington, D.C. and a founding board member of the Pakistan Human Development
Fund in Pakistan. Mr. Ghauri is also on the board of M4 International, Inc., a
California-based executive consulting firm.
NetSol Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:NTWK), is a multi-dimensional technology company, deriving revenue from
a variety of information technology (IT) services and custom software
offerings.
Through its off-shore IT service group located in Lahore, Pakistan, the company
provides a wide range of consulting services and cost-effective development of
customized application software. NetSol, with 350 plus employees and offices in
the US, the UK, Australia and Pakistan, develops and markets LeaseSoft, a
robust, highly scalable and flexible software suite for the $500 billion
leasing and financial services industry, already in use by leading global
companies such as Yamaha and DaimlerChrysler.
The company also provides, through its Pakistan-based majority-owned subsidiary
NetSol-Ahkter, a complete range of high-speed and wireless Internet
connectivity, support, services and maintenance.
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RAM Holdings Ltd. [RAMR] - September 6, 2006
Vern Endo, President & Chief Executive Officer
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Vern Endo
Mr. Endo joined RAM Re in 2003 from GFGC LLC, a startup venture formed to
establish a European-based financial guaranty company, where he was CEO and
co-founder. Mr. Endo was a managing director and member of the corporate
leadership team and board of directors at FGIC from 1991 to 2001. During his
tenure at FGIC, he was responsible for various business segments including
structured finance, bond insurance underwriting (including public finance and
international), capital markets and new products. Between 1988 and 1991, Mr.
Endo was also a managing director responsible for the mortgage finance unit and
was later a member of the financial institutions group at Prudential
Securities. He began his career at Citibank in 1976. He is Vice Chairman and a
director of the Association of Financial Guaranty Insurers.
RAM Holdings Ltd. was founded in 1998 as a Bermuda-based
provider of financial guaranty reinsurance. We conduct substantially all of our
operations through our wholly owned subsidiary, RAM Reinsurance Company Ltd. We
are the only financial guaranty reinsurer rated “AAA” by Standard & Poor’s
focused solely on providing reinsurance to third parties. We provide financial
guaranty reinsurance for public finance and structured finance obligations,
covering risks in both the United States and international markets. More
information can be found at www.ramre.com
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TASER Int'l [TASR] - August 31, 2006
Thomas P. Smith, President
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Thomas P. Smith
Thomas P. Smith is the President of TASER International, a company he
co-founded with his brother in 1993. TASER International, headquartered in
Scottsdale, Arizona, is the world's leading manufacturer of conductive energy
non-lethal weapons which are currently deployed by more than 7500 federal,
state and local law enforcement agencies.
Mr. Smith had primary responsibility for establishing the operations and
logistics of the Company in the beginning while his brother focused on research
and development and marketing. From 1994 through 1996, Mr. Smith was
responsible for the accounting, finance and operations. In 1996, Mr. Smith had
responsibility for moving the manufacturing operations from the U.S. to Mexico
using a Cessna 414 that he piloted to commute weekly from Scottsdale to Mexico.
He ran the manufacturing and operations areas in the U.S. and Mexico through
2001 including the final relocation from Mexico back to Scottsdale. Starting in
1997, Mr. Smith began his involvement in the export sales activities in
addition to his manufacturing and operations responsibilities.
After the Company's IPO in May, 2001, Mr. Smith moved full-time into the
Company's sales area where his primary responsibility remains today. Mr.
Smith's prime responsibilities are managing both domestic and international
sales for TASER International. This requires worldwide travel to over 40
countries to conduct presentations for government officials and for law
enforcement agency command staff demonstrations. In addition, Mr. Smith directs
all interactions for the company with the federal government including the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Department of Homeland
Security, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Justice, and the
U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in Washington, DC. Mr. Smith also
overseas the highly sensitive area of aircraft security and has spent over a
two years assisting with lobbying efforts in Washington, DC.
The success of TASER International and his proven entrepreneurial drive keeps
Mr. Smith traveling the globe presenting to high level governments on the
benefits from using his products. He recently has presented at financial
investor and conferences, Non-Lethal Weapons Symposium, and numerous foreign
government meetings to initiate use of the TASER in their respective countries.
Mr. Smith is also a frequent guest representing his company on CNBC, MSNBC,
CNN, Bloomberg News and FOX News. Mr. Smith, along with his brother, won the
2002 Arizona Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Mr. Smith is an honorary member of the Board of Directors for the TASER
Foundation supporting its mission to honor the service and sacrifice of local
and federal law enforcement officers in the United States and Canada lost in
the line of duty by providing financial support to their families.
Prior to the founding of TASER International, Mr. Smith held positions with
Jostens Learning Corporation and Andersen Consulting.
Mr. Smith is a certified airline transport pilot with over 5,500 flying hours.
He also enjoys SCUBA diving, water and snow skiing, piano and photography.
Mr. Smith holds a M.B.A. degree from Northern Arizona University and a B.S.
degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona. He
and his wife Deanna have two children and reside in Paradise Valley.
TASER International
provides advanced electronic control devices for use in the law enforcement,
military, private security and personal defense markets.
Founded in 1993 by brothers Rick and Tom Smith as a private company, TASER
International has remained committed to saving lives every day by providing
innovative, high quality products and services that exceed customer
satisfaction every time. Since that time, TASER International has become a
publicly traded company (NASDAQ: TASR) that is revolutionizing and changing the
world.
TASER devices use proprietary technology to incapacitate dangerous, combative
or high-risk subjects who pose a risk to law enforcement officers, innocent
citizens or themselves in a manner that is generally recognized as a safer
alternative to other uses of force.
Over 9,500 law enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad have
deployed TASER products. Over 2,500 police departments have purchased TASER®
electronic control devices for full deployment to all patrol officers.
Effective weapons increase the safety of military personnel and law enforcement
officers, decrease suspect injuries, improve community relations, reduce
litigation as well as reduce law enforcement medical and liability insurance
costs. Most importantly, TASER technology saves lives.
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Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. [CALP] - August 24, 2006
Kevin Hrusovsky, President and CEO
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Kevin Hrusovsky
Kevin Hrusovsky was appointed President and CEO of Caliper Life Sciences
immediately following the acquisition of Zymark Corporation by Caliper in July
2003. Prior to the acquisition, Mr. Hrusovsky served as President and CEO for
Zymark starting in late 1996. Mr. Hrusovsky successfully transformed Zymark
from a custom robotics company into a formidable Life Sciences "Tools" company
through acquisitions, R&D investment and recruitment of top industry talent.
Under Mr. Hrusovsky's leadership, Zymark developed a strong global channel into
the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, with subsequent expansion into
the genomics and proteomics market. Mr. Hrusovsky has senior management
relationships throughout the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, and
has been instrumental in developing strategic collaborations with Johnson &
Johnson, Pfizer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Amgen, Millennium, Aventis, Glaxo,
Molecular Devices, Affymetrix, Qiagen, Dako, and Eppendorf. Before joining
Zymark, Mr. Hrusovsky was president of the Pharmaceutical Division at FMC and
ran the Teflon and other specialty businesses at Dupont. His entire career has
been associated with managing transformative innovation into sustainable
profitable enterprises. He is on the Board of Directors of Xenogen Corporation,
the Global Research Council for Children's Hospital, Boston and is a member of
the Association of Laboratory Automation Steering Committee. He received an
Honorary Doctorate degree from Framingham State University for contributions to
life sciences. Mr. Hrusovsky holds a BSME from Ohio State and M.B.A. from Ohio
University. He and his family are authentic Buckeyes!
Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. Caliper Life Sciences is a leading
provider of drug discovery and life sciences research solutions for the
pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. With its recent acquisitions of
NovaScreen Biosciences and Xenogen Corp., Caliper has positioned itself to
transform drug discovery and development through a keen focus on clinically
relevant experimentation. Caliper's products and services, assembled from a
leading portfolio of microfluidics, liquid handling, and imaging technologies,
span in vitro and in vivo experimentation and address key issues on the
critical path of drug discovery and development. More information about Caliper
can be found at www.caliperLS.com
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AXT Inc. [AXTI] - August 9, 2006
Philip C.S. Yin, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer
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Philip C.S. Yin, Ph.D.
Dr. Yin joined AXT in March 2005. From 2003 to February 2005, Dr. Yin served as
general manager for North America of AIXTRON Inc., the world's leading
manufacturer of MOCVD equipment used in the compound semiconductor industry.
From 2002 to 2003, Dr. Yin was sole proprietor of Philip S. Yin Consulting, a
consultant of semiconductor materials in areas of epitaxial deposition, silicon
wafers and strategic business development. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Yin was
president of ATMI Epitaxial Services. Prior to that, Dr. Yin held positions as
senior vice president, sales and marketing of Crysteco, and director of sales
for Mitsubishi Silicon America. Dr. Yin also held various positions with
Monsanto Electronics Materials and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Dr.
Yin holds a B.S. in Physics from Villanova University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in
Material Science from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He is a member of the
Electrochemical Society and the American Association for Crystal Growth. He is
also a member of the Harley Davidson Advisory Panel.
AXT Inc.
AXT designs, develops, manufactures and distributes high-performance compound
and single element semiconductor substrates comprising gallium arsenide (GaAs),
indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge). The company's substrate products are
used primarily in lighting display applications, wireless communications, and
fiber optic communications. Its vertical gradient freeze (VGF) technique for
manufacturing semiconductor substrates provides significant benefits over other
methods and enabled AXT to become a leading manufacturer of such substrates,
particularly in optoelectronics applications. AXT has manufacturing facilities
in China and invests in five joint ventures producing raw materials. For more
information, see AXT's website at http://www.axt.com. The company can also be
reached at 4281 Technology Drive, Fremont, California 94538 or by calling
510-683-5900. AXT is traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol AXTI.
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NETGEAR, Inc. [NTGR] - August 4, 2006
Patrick Lo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Patrick Lo
Patrick Lo brings more than 25 years of marketing, product management and
development and managerial experience in the computer software, networking PC
and hardware industries. He holds overall responsibility for driving NETGEAR's
strategic business development, market definition, retail and channel sales
efforts and worldwide marketing programs.
Patrick Lo has served as NETGEAR's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since
March 2002. From September 1999 to March 2002, he served as President, and from
inception in 1996 to September 1999, he served as Vice President and General
Manager.
Mr. Lo joined Bay Networks, a networking company, in August 1995 to launch a
division targeting the small business and home markets and established the
NETGEAR division in January 1996. From 1983 until 1995, Mr. Lo worked at
Hewlett-Packard Company, a computer and test equipment company, where he served
in various management positions in software sales, technical support, network
product management, sales support and marketing in the United States and Asia,
most recently as the Asia/ Pacific marketing director for Unix servers. Mr. Lo
received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.
NETGEAR, Inc.
(NASDAQ: NTGR) designs technologically advanced, branded networking products
that address the specific needs of small business and home users. The Company’s
product offerings enable users to share Internet access, peripherals, files,
digital multimedia content and applications among multiple personal computers
and other Internet-enabled devices. These products are grouped into three major
product portfolios: Ethernet Networking Products, Broadband Products and
Wireless Products. Ethernet Networking Products include Ethernet adapters,
hubs, switches and accessories. Broadband Products include secured wired and
wireless routers and gateways. Gateways are routers with integrated broadband
modems and / or voice over Internet connections. Wireless Products include
adapters, access points, antennas and accessories.
NETGEAR, formally a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bay Networks, Inc., which was
purchased by Nortel Networks NA Inc. in August 1998, is focused on the
networking needs of the small business, which the Company defines as businesses
with fewer than 250 employees, and home markets. As a result of NETGEAR's
strong brand name, the execution of its operating strategy and the growth in
demand for networking products within small and medium businesses and homes,
the Company has experienced a CAGR of 26% since 1999.
NETGEAR's diverse global sales channel includes thousands of value added
resellers (VARs), direct market resellers (DMRs), such as CDW, traditional
retailers with over 10,000 retail locations around the world, including Best
Buy, CompUSA, and Staples in North America, and PC World in the United Kingdom
and MediaMarkt in Germany, as well as online retailers such as Amazon.com and
Buy.com. In addition, the Company sells its products through broadband service
providers such as Time-Warner Cable, Comcast and Charter Communications.
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Capital Corporation of the West [CCOW] - August 3, 2006
Thomas Hawker, Chief Executive Officer
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Thomas Hawker
Responsibilities: Overall responsibility for the holding Company and Bank and
is a member of the Board of Capital Corp of the West and County Bank. He serves
on the Asset Liability Committee (ALCO), Directors Loan Committee (DLC),
Directors Search Committee, and County Bank Foundation.
He also serves as a Director of TCM Bank. He also serves on ICBA's Payments &
Technology and Large Community Bank Committee. He is also Vice Chair and
founding Director of the Pacific Coast Bankers Bank.
He graduated from San Jose State University and went on to receive his MBA in
Finance from Santa Clara University. He and his wife and three daughters
transferred to the Merced area in 1992. He is a lifetime banker. He is a past
President of the Rotary and is an Advisory Director of the California Aviation
Challenge Foundation and Merced College and a Trustee for the UC Merced
Foundation. He also serves as a Director for the Fresno Economic & Development
Corporation.
Capital Corp
of the West, a bank holding company established November 1, 1995, is the parent
company of County Bank, which has over 29 years of service as "Central
California's Community Bank." Currently County Bank has twenty- three branch
offices serving the counties of Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Sacramento,
Stanislaus, San Joaquin, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Sacramento, and Tuolumne.
As of the latest FDIC data, County Bank has a 6.5% market share in the six
Central California counties in which it has significant retail branches. This
ranks County Bank fifth out of thirty-seven financial institutions in this
market area. For further information about the Company's financial performance,
contact Tom Hawker, President & Chief Executive Officer at 209-725-2276, or R.
Dale McKinney Chief Financial Officer, at 209-725-7435.
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Pegasus Wireless Corporation [PGWC] - July 21, 2006
Jasper Knabb, Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
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Jasper Knabb
Mr. Knabb has more than 20 years experience in the high tech industry. His
expansive involvement in the technology business encompasses PC manufacturing,
distribution and sales, computer gaming, technology development and
manufacturing, and product invention. Prior to joining Pegasus Wireless, Mr.
Knabb was the President of Wireless Frontier from 2003 to 2004 and was
responsible for successfully bringing the company public. Prior to Wireless
Frontier, Mr. Knabb was a Managing Director at Pegasus Wireless Corporation
responsible for business development from 2001 to 2003. In 1998, Mr. Knabb
founded and became the President of Beach Access, an Internet service providing
company, and successfully sold the company in 2000. Between 1985 and 1998, he
was the owner and the President of Microland, a PC retailing business. During
this time Mr. Knabb was also involved with SEI, a Nintendo console game
developer and manufacturer, and he is credited with developing the security
chip which allowed 3rd party software to run on licensed Nintendo 8bit
consoles, legally opening the software market to game developers from the pc
platform. Mr. Knabb successfully sold SEI in 1999. Mr. Knabb was a founding
member of WECA; now known as the Wi-Fi Alliance, which is credited for the
development of 802.11 technology to which Pegasus holds a patent.
Pegasus Wireless Corporation
has been providing customers worldwide with broadband wireless networking
solutions since it was founded in 1993. The Company’s mission is to bring
standards based wireless solutions to all areas of application-specific markets
by providing the most feature-rich, flexible and robust hardware and software
solutions customized for each application’s unique needs. The Company holds a
patent to 802.11 technology, which is the platform for all wireless protocol.
This allows the user to implement wireless network products for various
applications without needing to load and configure additional software drivers.
In order to meet the needs of the Company’s current rate of growth, as well as
bring innovative products to retail shelves by the end of 2006, Pegasus
acquired three companies in late 2005. AMAX Engineering Corporation, located in
Fremont, CA is an award-winning manufacturer and distributor of innovative
server, industrial, workstation and clustering systems. The company and its
state-of-the art distribution facility will allow Pegasus to meet the growing
demand for its revolutionary products, and will make it possible for the
Company to provide end-to-end solutions for its clients with greater confidence
and rapidity. CNet Technologies, Inc. is a China-based designer and
manufacturer of computer network equipment. Pegasus acquired CNet in order to
accelerate the assembly of its own products as well as goods for companies
abroad, which will ultimately increase profit margins. The company’s third
subsidiary is S.K.I. Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of electronics and
wireless communications products. S.K.I. is located in Taiwan, where it is
considered the dominant force in its industry. These three companies give
Pegasus the capacity to engineer, manufacture, and distribute its wireless
products through its own channels, therefore eliminating the need for contract
manufacturing from outside venues. In Pegasus’ annual report for 2005, the
Company estimated that the combination of its three subsidiaries have the
ability to produce approximately $650 million (at selling price) of Pegasus'
products.
Their unique technologies, from products such as plug and play devices to their
own patented polling protocols, continue to improve and emerge with the ever
demanding needs of the market and customers. These products and solutions
utilize cutting-edge technology that the competition does not have, such as
real-time high-definition streaming video, and allow a higher user capacity per
base station, dynamic key sniff-proof security, easy true plug-n-play
driverless installation, and bandwidth control, which allows for more efficient
use of bandwidth.
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Blue Holdings Inc. [BLUE] - June 20, 2006
Paul Guez, Chairman, CEO and President
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Paul Guez
Mr. Guez, “tycoon of denim,” is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
of Blue Holdings, Inc.. Prior to his undertakings with Blue Holdings, Mr. Guez
was the Chief Executive Officer (and remains the owner) of Blue Concept LLC, a
Los Angeles-based fashion incubator, engaged in the design, marketing,
manufacturing and wholesale distribution of premium fashion collections for a
growing stable of contemporary brands, including Duarte Jeans, Elvis, and
Memphis Blues. For the nine year period prior to the formation of Blue Concept
in 2002, Mr. Guez co-operated Azteca Production International, Inc., a Los
Angeles-based manufacturer of denim apparel. Mr. Guez began his career in the
apparel industry in 1976, when he founded Sasson Jeans.
Blue Holdings Inc.
Blue Holdings Inc., based in Commerce, CA, was formed by Paul Guez in September
2004. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Antik Denim, LLC, Blue Holdings
designs, manufactures, and markets high-end vintage denim fashion jeans,
apparel and accessories with an Old West flair. The Company is managed by
seasoned fashion industry executives and professionals, and currently has over
70 employees. Blue Holdings completed a reverse merger transaction with Marine
Jet Technology Corp. on April 29, 2005, and its stock is currently traded on
the OTC Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol BLHL. Besides owning the “Antik
Denim” brand, the Company is a licensee of three other brands :“Yanuk”, “U” and
“Taverniti So Jeans”.
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Hythiam Inc. [HYTM] - May 17, 2006
Terren S. Peizer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Terren S. Peizer
Terren Peizer founded Hythiam™ in 2003. Recognizing that advances in scientific
research definitively established alcohol and drug addiction as physiological
chronic diseases - not psychological, sociological, or personality disorders -
Peizer launched Hythiam.
Prior to forming Hythiam, Peizer founded and served as Chairman and CEO of
Clearant, Inc., a biotechnology company that is a leader in pathogen
inactivation solutions. Peizer has served as President and Vice Chairman of
Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals and Chairman of the Board of Cray, Inc. - the
supercomputing industry leader. He remains the largest beneficial shareholder
of Cray, Inc. He also has been among the largest beneficial shareholders and
senior executives at several other technology and biotechnology companies.
Peizer has assisted companies with assembling management teams, boards of
directors and scientific advisory boards, and formulating business and
financial strategies - including investor and public relations, and capital
formation. Peizer has a background in venture capital, mergers and
acquisitions, investing, and corporate finance. He held senior executive
positions with the investment banking firms Goldman Sachs, First Boston, and
Drexel Burnham Lambert.
Hythiam Inc. Hythiam® is a healthcare services management
company focused on delivering solutions for those suffering from alcoholism and
other substance dependencies. Hythiam researches, develops, licenses and
commercializes innovative physiological, nutritional, and behavioral treatment
protocols that seek to address substance dependence. Additionally, Hythiam
provides proprietary administrative services to assist physicians and
facilities with staff education, marketing and outreach support, and outcomes
tracking for data analysis. For further information, please click on
www.hythiam.com
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Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. [ALDN] - May 16, 2006
Yanki Margalit, CEO, Founder and Chairman
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Yanki Margalit
Yanki Margalit is the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aladdin
Knowledge Systems, Ltd. In 1984, he designed and developed several products in
the areas of artificial intelligence and software security, founding Aladdin to
market them. Mr. Margalit then introduced HASP, a system offering software
protection without inconveniencing legitimate users. In 1993, Mr. Margalit took
Aladdin public on the NASDAQ stock exchange, and in 1996 he brought about the
merger of Aladdin with FAST Software Security in Germany. Aladdin acquired
eSafe Technologies in 1998 and Preview Systems in 2001. Today, Aladdin is a
worldwide leader in digital security, providing trusted solutions for software
Digital Rights Management and Internet Security. A strong proponent of
community activism, Mr. Margalit has shaped Aladdin into a company with
longstanding involvement in a number of philanthropic and charity
organizations.
Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd.
is a global provider of security solutions that reduce software theft,
authenticate network users and protect against unwanted Internet and e-mail
content, including spam, viruses and spyware. Its security products are
organized into two segments: Software Digital Rights Management (DRM) and
Enterprise Security. Aladdin’s Software DRM products allow software publishers
to protect their intellectual property and increase revenues by reducing losses
from software theft and piracy. Its Enterprise Security solutions enable
organizations to secure their information technology assets by controlling who
has access to their networks (authentication) and what content their users can
utilize (content security). Visit the Aladdin Web site at
www.Aladdin.com
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F5 Networks [FFIV] - May 12, 2006
John McAdam, CEO, President and Director
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John McAdam
John McAdam has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director
since July 2000. Prior to joining F5 Networks, McAdam served as General Manager
of the Web server sales business at IBM. From January 1995 until August 1999,
McAdam served as he President and Chief Operating Officer of Sequent Computer
Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of high-end open systems, which was sold to IBM
in September 1999. McAdam holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University
of Glasgow, Scotland.
F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery
Networking. F5 provides solutions that make applications secure, fast, and
available for everyone, helping organizations get the most out of their
investment. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to
offload applications, F5 optimizes applications and allows them to work faster
and consume fewer resources. F5's extensible architecture intelligently
integrates application optimization, protects the application and the network,
and delivers application reliability - all on one universal platform. Over
10,000 organizations and service providers worldwide trust F5 to keep their
applications running. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with
offices worldwide. For more information, go to
www.f5.com.
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Magma Design Automation [LAVA] - April 17, 2006
Rajeev Madhavan, CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors
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Rajeev Madhavan
Rajeev Madhavan has served as Magma’s CEO, president and chairman of the board
of directors since he co-founded the company in 1997. Prior to that Madhavan
co-founded and served as president and CEO of Ambit Design Systems. Madhavan
previously co-founded and served as director of engineering of LogicVision.
Madhavan received a bachelor's degree in electronics and communication from
KREC, Surathkal, India, and a master's degree in electrical engineering from
Queen's University, Ontario, Canada.
Magma Design Automation is a fast-growing software company,
providing electronic design automation (EDA) products used by the world's major
semiconductor manufacturers to design some of the most complex and
highest-performing integrated circuits being made today. The company was
founded in 1997 on the concept of combining logic design and physical design
into a single system to better address emerging deep submicron design
challenges.
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Crosstex Energy, Inc.[XTXI] - April 11, 2006
Barry E. Davis, President & CEO
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Barry E. Davis
Barry E. Davis is president and chief executive officer of the Crosstex Energy
companies, Crosstex Energy, Inc. (XTXI) and Crosstex Energy L.P. (XTEX). Barry
led the founding of Crosstex in 1996 by accomplishing a management buyout of
his previous company, Comstock Natural Gas, Inc. Under Barry's leadership,
Crosstex has grown to be a significant midstream service provider with
throughput of approximately 2.6 billion cf/day of natural gas. Barry has more
than 20 years of experience in the natural gas industry. In 1992, he founded
Ventana Natural Gas Company, a predecessor of Crosstex. Prior to Ventana, he
served as vice president of marketing and project development for Endevco, Inc.
and worked in the marketing group at Enserch Exploration. He currently serves
on the boards of Leadership Network, the Kidlinks Foundation, and the Dallas
Hardhatter Association. Barry is a member and former president of the Natural
Gas & Electric Power Society and he is also a member of the Natural Gas
Society of East Texas and the Young Presidents' Organization. He earned his
bachelor of business administration degree in finance from Texas Christian
University.
Crosstex Energy
is a leading independent midstream energy services company engaged in the
gathering, transmission, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas. The
company owns pipeline and plant facilities in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, and New Mexico. The company’s headquarters are in Dallas,
Texas.
The company connects the wells of natural gas producers in key supply areas to
the company's gathering systems. Crosstex also treats natural gas to remove
impurities to ensure that it meets pipeline quality specifications, processes
natural gas for removal of natural gas liquids, transports natural gas and
ultimately provide an aggregated supply of natural gas to utilities and
industrial consumers. The company is also engaged in providing crude oil,
natural gas and NGL marketing services.
Since its founding in 1996, Crosstex has grown through the construction,
acquisition, and operation of new midstream facilities.
In 2005 alone, the company acquired Graco Operations, which added 25 amine
treating plants and Cardinal Gas Services, which included nine additional amine
treating facilities and 19 dew point control gas processing plants. In
addition, Crosstex purchased El Paso Corporation’s processing and natural gas
liquids business in South Louisiana. The transaction included 2.3 billion cubic
feet per day of processing capacity, 66,000 barrels per day of fractionation
capacity, 2.4 billion barrels of underground storage and approximately 400
miles of natural gas liquids transport lines.
Also in 2005, Crosstex began construction of a 144-mile, 24-inch diameter
pipeline in the gas rich Barnett Shale region of North Texas. The pipeline is
expected to be completed in early 2006. In addition, the company expanded the
capacity of its South Texas and Mississippi Systems during the year.
The company currently operates over 5,000 miles of pipeline, ten processing
plants, four fractionators, and approximately 150 natural gas amine treating
plants. Crosstex currently provides services for approximately 2.6 billion
cubic feet/day of natural gas, or approximately 4.9 percent of marketed U.S.
daily production based on August 2005 Department of Energy data.
Crosstex Energy, L.P. (master limited partnership) common units are listed on
the NASDAQ national market under the symbol XTEX. Crosstex Energy, Inc.
(general partner) common shares are listed on the NASDAQ national market under
the symbol XTXI.
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Parallel Petroleum [PLLL] - April 10, 2006
Larry Oldham, President & CEO
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Larry C. Oldham
Larry Oldham, President and CEO, is a founder of Parallel Petroleum, and has
served as an officer and Director since the Company was formed in 1979. Before
Parallel's formation, Mr. Oldham was employed by Dorchester Gas Corporation
from 1976 to 1979 and KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP during 1975 and 1976. Mr. Oldham
became CEO of Parallel in January 2004 and has served as President since
October 1994. He served as Executive Vice President before that time.
Parallel Petroleum is a rapidly growing energy company focused
exclusively on onshore, domestic development and production of oil and natural
gas reserves, primarily in Texas and New Mexico. Parallel is a fast follower
and implementer of New Technology, including horizontal drilling, fracture
stimulation and three-dimensional seismic. Parallel currently has a repeatable
low-risk inventory of approximately 400 net drilling locations that have a
potential high rate of return, i.e. quick cash-on-cash payouts and long life
reserves.
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Amarin Corporation [AMRN] - March 29, 2006
Rick Stewart, Chief Executive Officer
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Rick Stewart
Rick Stewart joined the company in November, 1998 as President & Chief
Operating Officer of Amarin Corporation plc. Prior to joining the company, Rick
was responsible for corporate strategy as Corporate Development Director of
SkyePharma plc, having previously been Finance Director. He holds a B.S. in
Business Administration from The University of Bath, School of Management.
Amarin is a neuroscience company focused on the research, development and
commercialization of novel drugs for the treatment of central nervous system
disorders. Miraxion, Amarin’s lead development compound, is in Phase III
development for Huntington’s disease, Phase II development for depressive
disorders and pre-clinical development for Parkinson’s disease.
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Taleo Corporation [TLEO] - March 22, 2006
Michael Gregoire, Chief Executive Officer
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Michael Gregoire
Michael Gregoire is the President and CEO Taleo, the largest software on demand
company in the world focused on Talent Management solutions. Taleo enables
organizations of all sizes to assess, acquire, develop and align their
workforce for improved business performance.
Prior to Taleo, Mr. Gregoire served as an officer and Executive Vice President
of enterprise software company PeopleSoft, responsible for its global Services
business. The PeopleSoft Services business consisted of PeopleSoft Consulting,
PeopleSoft Education, and PeopleSoft Hosting. Here, Gregoire led a workforce of
more than 4,000 professionals and $2.3B in revenue.
Immediately prior to his position at PeopleSoft, Inc. Mr. Gregoire was the
Executive Director of the EDS New York Information Solutions Organization based
in New York City. The Information Solutions Organization business was a $500M+
in annual revenue unit focused on aligning technology and operations with
business strategy. Mr. Gregoire’s 12-plus year career at EDS spanned multiple
executive positions including Managing Director of the Global Financial Markets
Consulting Division and Chief Technology Officer of a division of EDS Canada.
Gregoire has a master’s degree from California Coast University and holds a
Bachelor of Science degree from Wilfred Laurier University in Ontario, Canada.
He has been named one of Consulting Magazine's "Top 25 Most Influential
Consultants."
Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO) delivers on demand talent management
solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to assess, acquire, develop
and align their workforce for improved business performance. Taleo’s customers
use its suite of solutions to improve their talent management processes to
reduce the time and costs associated with these processes and to enhance the
quality, productivity and efficiency of their workforces. Taleo currently has
more than 350 corporate customers with approximately 500,000 registered users
who use our services to fill positions in almost 100 countries. For more
information visit www.taleo.com.
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Innospec Inc. [IOSP] - March 21, 2006
Paul Jennings, President & Chief Executive Officer
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Paul Jennings
Paul Jennings joined the company in 2002 as Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer. He was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in
July 2005. Prior to this Paul was Chief Financial Officer for Griffin LLC, a
joint venture between Griffin Corporation and Dupont in the crop protection
chemical industry based in the US. From 1986 to 1999, he held the positions of
Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance for various divisions and
regions of Courtaulds plc. He worked in Europe, US and Singapore, in the fibre,
chemical, film and coating industries.
Innospec Inc. is an international specialty chemicals company with
operations in three distinct business areas. Its Fuel Specialties business
specializes in manufacturing and supplying additives to improve fuel efficiency
boost engine performance and reduce harmful emissions. Performance Chemicals
supplies chemicals used in the production of personal care, household
detergents and crop protection products as well as additives used in plastics,
paper, metal plating and oil process industries. Innospec’s Octane Additives
business is the world’s only producer of tetraethyl lead (TEL). The company has
approximately 1,000 employees in 23 countries.
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Eurotrust. [EURO] - March 14, 2006
Aldo Petersen, Chief Executive Officer
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Eurotrust
operates within Renewable energy and property development.
Our strategy is to continue to use the profits from our Real Estate development
unit to expand our holdings within renewable energy.
Real Estate Development
Eurotrust real estate development segment, through various wholly owned
subsidiaries and corporate joint ventures, primarily develops homeowner
condominiums, complexes, single family homes, recreational homes and
multi-family rental complexes throughout Denmark. The development occurs as we:
1) seek out desirable locations for property development, 2) acquire permission
for resale of a finalized development project, 3) acquire the land or options
to purchase the land, 4) design the project in cooperation with outside
architects and engineers, 4) acquire governmental permission to build the
project, 5) pre-sell through local real estate agents a minimum number of
units, requiring purchasers to sign a binding sales contract and guarantee, 5)
construct the properties through outside construction contractors and 6) sell
remaining units, if any.
Wind Energy
During June 2005, the company acquired six operating windmills located in wind
parks in Germany. The Company also holds a 25% equity interest in an additional
windmill in Germany. Each respective windmill or windpark has entered into 20
year agreements with German electric utilities companies, to sell the
electricity generated. The agreements have fixed minimum prices. The
manufacturers have agreed to operate the wind parks at a fixed percentage of
revenue. The Company generally acquires a lease for the land for periods of 20
years with two, five year options to extend the lease.
Eurotrust plans to continue to expand this segment through the development and
operation of windmill energy parks throughout Europe, where we believe there is
a strong consumer and government preference for renewable and alternative
non-polluting energy sources, resulting in attractive government subsidies and
tax benefits from accelerated depreciation. We expect this political climate to
persist in the near future.
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Rosetta Resources Inc. [ROSE] - February 14, 2006
Bill Berilgen, Chief Executive Officer
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Bill Berilgen
B.A. “Bill” Berilgen is Chief Executive Officer of Rosetta Resources Inc. Mr.
Berilgen has a total of 35 years experience in the oil and gas business. He has
a BS Degree in Petroleum Engineering and a MS Degree in Industrial Engineering
from the University of Oklahoma. From 1970 through 1974, he worked for Mobil
Oil as a petroleum engineer in Oklahoma. From 1975 through 1981, Mr. Berilgen
worked for ANR Production Company/Michigan Wisconsin Pipeline in various
engineering and management positions. From 1981 through 1984 he was employed by
Aminoil, a large independent, initially as Operations Manager for Texas onshore
and later as Engineering Manager for the Gulf Coast, onshore and offshore. Mr.
Berilgen joined Forest Oil in late 1984 until mid 1997. His early positions at
Forest were in engineering and management. From 1992 though 1996, he was Vice
President of Operations. During his last year at Forest Oil, Mr. Berilgen held
the position of Vice President and Chief Technical Officer. In June 1997, Mr.
Berilgen joined Sheridan Energy, a public oil and gas company, as its President
and Chief Executive Officer. While CEO, the company increased its oil and gas
production from 5MMCFE/D to 40 MMCFE/D in two years. After the sale of Sheridan
to Calpine, under Mr. Berilgen’s direction, Calpine’s gas production increased
from 40 MMCFE/D to over 400 MMCFE/D and 1.3 TCF of proved reserves.
Rosetta Resources Inc. is an independent oil and gas company engaged in
acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and gas properties
in North America. Our operations are concentrated in the Sacramento Basin of
California, South Texas, the Gulf of Mexico and the Rocky Mountains. Rosetta is
a Delaware corporation based in Houston, Texas.
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Witness Systems [WITS] - February 8, 2006
David Gould, Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
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David Gould
Having held leadership roles with both start-up and larger technology
companies, Dave offers a broad range of experience that touches every aspect of
the business. A proven industry leader with a breadth of knowledge in launching
and growing businesses in emerging markets, he possesses sound experience in
predicting market developments, setting and adjusting strategy, and leading
organizations amidst changing market dynamics.
Under his leadership, several key milestones have contributed to the company's
standing today. In February 2000, Dave took Witness Systems through its initial
public offering. In April 2003, his team successfully acquired and combined
U.K.-based Eyretel into its organization, and in January 2005, it completed its
combination with workforce management company, Blue Pumpkin Software. Under his
guidance and that of the company's senior management team, Witness Systems has
increased revenue and stockholder value quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year,
and through its successful M&A activities, it has expanded its global
footprint, grown its staff, increased customer acquisition, extended its
channel network and broadened its software/services - offering the market's
first workforce optimization solutions, all from a single provider.
Professional History
Dave joined Witness Systems from Boston-based InStream Corporation, where he
was chairman and CEO of the early-stage Internet electronic commerce company
targeting the healthcare market. Prior to his roles there, he served as
president of DCA's Remote Access Division (now Attachmate Corporation) and held
management positions with Management Science America (MSA).
During his career, he has served on the board of directors for several
organizations, including his current position on PrimeRevenue's board. Dave
also sits on the board for the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and the
Board of Advisors for the Atlanta Metro Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, he
is a member of the Tocqueville Society of the United Way.
Education
Dave holds a bachelors in economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania
and a MBA from Emory University.
Witness Systems is a leading global provider of workforce optimization
software and services that provide enterprises with unprecedented visibility
into customer service processes, workforce performance, and customer
intelligence. The company's solutions play a strategic role in the customer
interaction centers of Global 2000, small- and medium-sized businesses
worldwide, as well as in IP Telephony and back office environments, and
throughout the extended enterprise, including branch offices. Through its
Impact 360™ workforce optimization solution, Witness Systems brings together
workforce management, quality monitoring/full-time recording, eLearning, and
performance management under a flexible, scalable framework that provides a
single user interface and centralized access to data and reports. By maximizing
enterprise information flow and customer service effectiveness while minimizing
the complexity of system administration, Witness Systems' solutions enable
organizations to optimize their people, processes and technology. Through an
integrated business consulting, implementation and training methodology,
Witness Systems supports a rapid deployment of its solutions, enabling the
company's customers to drive revenue, reduce operational costs, and achieve
greater customer retention and loyalty.
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ATP Oil & Gas Corporation [ATPG] - February 6,
2006
T. Paul Bulmahn, Founder, Chairman, and President
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T. Paul Bulmahn
T. Paul Bulmahn is the Founder and presently is the Chairman and President of
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation (NASDAQ: ATPG), an international offshore oil and
gas development and production company. ATP Oil & Gas Corporation, with
offices in Houston, London, and IJmuiden, Netherlands, has earned a reputation
for superior company performance with a historic 97% success rate developing
offshore properties for commercial production. In 2000 ATP achieved a ranking
of #5 on the Inc. 500, the 5th fastest growing company in America, with a
five-year growth rate of 8,127%. After Mr. Bulmahn took ATP public in 2001, its
share price performance has outstripped an array of prominent indexes including
pork belly futures, gold futures, U.S. Treasury Bond Yield and the S&P 500
Index. ATP has accepted a number of significant awards, including: Offshore
Energy Achievement Award for Innovation/Technology (2004), Inc./Cisco 2000
Growing with Technology Award, Best Field Improvement Project (1999), and Mr.
Bulmahn was selected Entrepreneur of the Year in Energy by Ernst and Young in
2000.
Mr. Bulmahn earned a B. A. from Valparaiso University; J. D. from University of
Texas School of Law; and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business, Texas
State University, which in 2000 named him a Distinguished Alumnus.
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation is engaged in the acquisition, development
and production of natural gas and oil properties in the Gulf of Mexico and the
North Sea. ATP acquires and develops properties, many of which have proved
undeveloped reserves (“PUD’s”) at the time of acquisition that are economically
attractive to ATP, but not strategic to exploration-oriented oil and gas
companies. Such strategy provides ATP with the assets to develop and produce
without the risk, cost and time involved in traditional exploration. Since its
inception in 1991, ATP has had an exceptionally strong development record,
taking 38 out of 39 projects to production that were previously undeveloped and
non-producing.
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Boardwalk Bank [BORD] - February 2, 2006
Michael D. Devlin, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
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Michael D. Devlin
Michael D. Devlin has been the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
of the Bank since its inception in 1999. Mr. Devlin currently serves as a
member of the Board of Directors of Marquette National Corporation based in
Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Devlin is a graduate of St. Joseph’s University.
Boardwalk Bank (“the Bank”) is a New Jersey state chartered commercial
bank headquartered in Linwood, Atlantic County, New Jersey, in the southern
Atlantic shore region of the state. We conduct business from a lending office
in Linwood and branch offices in Linwood, Galloway Township, Margate, Egg
Harbor Township, and Cape May Court House, New Jersey. We have a branch office
under construction in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey and branch office sites
under consideration in Cape May City, New Jersey, Vineland, New Jersey and
Hamilton Township, New Jersey. At December 31, 2005, the Bank had total assets
of $401,666,000, total deposits of $272,494,000 and stockholders’ equity of
$35,343,000. Our business objective is to be recognized as a reliable and
responsive provider of high quality banking services to small and mid-sized
businesses and professionals located in our target market area of Atlantic,
Cape May and Cumberland counties, New Jersey. The address of our principal
executive office is 201 Shore Road, Linwood, New Jersey 08221 and our telephone
number is (609) 601-0600. The website for the Bank is
www.boardwalkbank.com .
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optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. [OXPS] - January 24, 2006
David Kalt, Chief Executive Officer
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David Kalt
David Kalt is co-founder and CEO of optionsXpress Holdings, Inc., the online
options and stock brokerage. Kalt co-founded the company with Jim Gray,
chairman, and Ned Bennett, COO, in 2000 to provide the tools and services
investors need to successfully use options as part of a long-term portfolio
management strategy.
In this role, Kalt is responsible for all technology initiatives, strategic
direction and investor relations. With Ned Bennett, optionsXpress’ co-founder
and COO, he also is responsible for day-to-day management and the establishment
of company goals and policies.
Kalt has extensive experience in the development, marketing and support of
software and Internet technologies. In 1994, he founded Third Party Solutions,
a company which developed technology and solutions for the travel industry. By
1998, Third Party Solutions’ ClientBASE™ had become the dominant marketing
system for travel agencies. In 1998, Kalt merged Third Party Solutions with
TRAMS Inc., where he served as chief technology officer.
Kalt has a master’s degree in computer science from DePaul University and a
bachelor of arts degree in political science from University of Michigan. Kalt
has the following NASD registrations: Series 4, 7, 24 and 63.
OptionsXpress Holdings, Inc. (OXPS) provides innovative securities
brokerage products and services for investor education, strategy evaluation and
trade execution. Through its subsidiaries optionsXpress
www.optionsxpress.com, an online brokerage, and brokersXpress
www.brokersxpress.com , an online trading and reporting platform for
independent investment professionals, the company offers a wide range of
investor tools, licensed customer service and competitive commissions.
OptionsXpress was named the top online securities brokerage by Barron’s in
2003, 2004 and 2005 and the top discount securities brokerage by SmartMoney in
2004. It was also named “Favorite Options Site” by Forbes Best of the Web in
2004.
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AMI Semiconductor [AMIS] - January 10, 2006
Christine King, President and Chief Executive Officer
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Christine King
Christine King, President and Chief Executive Officer. King, formerly vice
president of Semiconductor Products for IBM Microelectronics, brings more than
25 years of industry experience to AMI Semiconductor. While at IBM, she
launched the company's ASIC and networking businesses and served as IBM vice
president of field engineering programs and global marketing. King earned a
BSEE from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
AMI Semiconductor (AMIS) is a leader in the design and manufacture of
silicon solutions for the real world. As a widely recognized innovator in
state-of-the-art integrated mixed-signal and structured digital products, AMIS
is committed to providing customers with the optimal value, quickest
time-to-market semiconductor solutions. Offering unparalleled manufacturing
flexibility and dedication to customer service, AMI Semiconductor operates
globally with headquarters in Pocatello, Idaho, European corporate offices in
Oudenaarde, Belgium, and a network of sales and design centers located in the
key markets of the North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
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Sunterra Corporation [SNRR] - December 15, 2005
Nicholas Benson, Chief Executive Officer
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Nicholas Benson
Mr. Benson has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunterra
since November 2001. Mr. Benson was the Chief Executive Officer of Sunterra
Europe from January 2000 until assuming his current position. He served as the
Chief Operating Officer of Sunterra Europe from June 1997 until January 2000.
Prior to joining Sunterra, Mr. Benson was a solicitor with the London law firm
Rowe & Maw, where he specialized in aviation and leisure industry law.
Prior to joining Rowe & Maw, Mr. Benson served as a British Army officer
for ten years.
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ON Semiconductor Corporation [ONNN] - November 11, 2005
Keith Jackson, President and Chief Executive Officer
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Keith Jackson
Keith Jackson brings more than two decades of experience in the semiconductor
industry to ON Semiconductor. Before joining ON Semiconductor, Mr. Jackson was
executive vice president and general manager of the Analog-Mixed Signal
division of Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, and, more recently, was
selected to head Fairchild’s Integrated Circuits Group.
From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Jackson served as president and member of the board of
Tritech Microelectronics Ltd. From 1986 to 1996, Mr. Jackson served in various
managerial and marketing positions at National Semiconductor, including its
High Performance Logic, Digital Logic, Advanced Systems and Interface Products
divisions, and culminating in the vice president and general manager position
at its Analog & Mixed Signal division.
Mr. Jackson began his engineering career in electronics when he joined Texas
Instruments Incorporated in 1973 and left in 1986 as engineering manager. Mr.
Jackson earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Southern Methodist
University.
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Verity, Inc. (VRTY) - October 6, 2005
Anthony Bettencourt, Chief Executive Officer
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Anthony Bettencourt
Anthony Bettencourt joined Verity in July 1995 as Vice President of North
American Sales. He was subsequently promoted to Vice President of Worldwide
Sales and Marketing and served in this position until his departure in December
1996. From December 1996 to September 1997, Mr. Bettencourt served as an
officer of OnLive! Technologies, a private technology company. Mr. Bettencourt
rejoined Verity in September 1997 as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and
Product Marketing. He was appointed to the position of President in September
1999 and to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer in March
2003.
Mr Bettencourt relinquished the title of President in September 2005 to focus
on top line revenue growth while defining and directing the strategy for the
Company.
Prior to initially joining Verity, Mr. Bettencourt served as vice president of
sales for Versant Object Technology from 1992 to June 1995 and as director of
U.S. sales for Versant Object Technology from July 1990 to 1992. From December
1988 to July 1990, Mr. Bettencourt served as Vice President of Sales for
Rockwell CMC.
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Kanbay International Inc. - August 5, 2005
Raymond J. Spencer, Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Raymond J. Spencer
Raymond Spencer is Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kanbay
International, Inc. Mr. Spencer directs global operations from Kanbay's
Chicago-area headquarters, leveraging his expertise in the areas of leadership,
management, planning, finance, team-building, conflict resolution, advocacy and
training. Mr. Spencer's management and consulting experience includes more than
25 years of directing international projects in 18 countries, including the
United States, Australia, India, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Prior to founding Kanbay, Mr. Spencer served for 20 years with the Institute of
Cultural Affairs (ICA), a United Nations-recognized private voluntary
organization (PVO) focused on worldwide rural and community development. While
working with the ICA, Mr. Spencer resided in India for six years where he
established the Indian division of the ICA. Mr. Spencer later held numerous
leadership roles within ICA's headquarters based in Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Spencer is active in various professional and charitable organizations,
including the Economic Club of Chicago, and was recently inducted to the
Chicago Area Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. He is a member of the Advisory Board of
the Cross-Atlantic Board of the Cross-Atlantic Technology Fund, a venture
capital fund focused on investments in the US, Ireland and Great Britain.
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