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Chairman of the Board | Marc Gabelli
Mr. Gabelli has been serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of The LGL Group, Inc. since September of 2004. Currently, he is also the Director of IFIT Group, a Zurich based financial services administration firm and Director and Managing Partner of GAMA Funds Holdings GmbH. In addition, Mr. Gabelli has also served as the Managing Director of GGCP, Inc., a private corporation that makes investments for its own account, since 2004. He has also been serving as the President of Gemini Capital Management LLC since 1995 and the President of Venator Global, the general partner of Venator Merchant Fund, LP, an investment management vehicle.
Mr. Gabelli is a well recognized practitioner in global equity fund management, and has managed a diverse group of fund portfolios, including several mutual funds that achieved the highest rankings from 1994 through 2001 by Morningstar and by Lipper, managing the #1 U.S. ranked fund in the global equity category for the period.
Mr. Gabelli has been a frequent participant in various financial publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Financial Times. He has been a regular panelist on the Barron’s Annual Telecommunications Roundtable, and a variety of investment industry conferences. He has been a frequent guest on CNN and CNBC, and Bloomberg television.
Mr. Gabelli has been with Gabelli Group of companies since 1993. Prior to Gabelli, he began his career in equity arbitrage and research at Lehman Brothers International in London.
Mr. Gabelli is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), with a master’s degree in business administration, Boston College with a bachelor’s degree in economics, and holds a diploma in management from the SEP at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
He is a member of several industry associations including The New York Society of Securities Analysts and the Media and Entertainment Analysts of New York.
He is involved with several New York area charitable causes including serving as a founding trustee of the New York Nativity Centers, a full year middle school system operating in lower Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. Additionally he is involved with St. Ignatius School, and the Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx, NY. Mr. Gabelli serves on the Board of Directors for the United Nations’ (IIE, NLG) “Institute of International Education New Leaders Group” which helps administer Fulbright scholarships and was previously on the board of the John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, and on the investment board of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
Mr. Gabelli's qualifications to serve on the Board of Directors include his extensive knowledge of the Company's business and industry due his longstanding service on the Board of Directors, as well as his financial expertise, leadership experience as an executive of various investment firms.
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Vice Chairman of the Board | Timothy Foufas
Vice Chairman of the Board
Mr. Foufas has been serving as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for The LGL Group, Inc. since 2007. He has also served as the Managing Partner of Plato, Foufas & Co., LLC, a financial services company, since 2005. In addition, Mr. Foufas has served as President of Levalon Properties, LLC, a real estate property management company, since 2007.
Previously, Mr. Foufas served as Senior Vice President of Bayshore Management Co., LLC, from 2005 to 2006. Prior to joining Bayshore Management Co., LLC, he was the Director of Investments at Liam Ventures Inc., a private equity investment firm, from 2000 to 2005.
Mr. Foufas brings to the Board of Directors his management skills and expertise in finance, investment and real estate matters.
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Board of Directors | Patrick J. Guarino
Mr. Guarino has been serving as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for The LGL Group, Inc. since 2006. He also serves as Managing Partner of August Properties, LLC, a private investment company with real estate and securities holdings since 2005.
Previously, Mr. Guarino was the Managing Partner of the Independent Board Advisory Services, LLC, a corporate governance and consulting firm, from 2002 to 2005. He is also a retired Executive Vice President of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation, a NYSE-listed Fortune 200 international petroleum and marketing company. From 1986 to 1992, he was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Ultramar PLC, a London Stock Exchange listed international, integrated oil company.
Mr. Guarino brings to the Board of Directors valuable knowledge of and fluency with legal and corporate governance matters, and the perspective of a former General Counsel for a public company.
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Board of Directors | Jeremiah M. Healy
Mr. Healy has been serving as Chairman of the Nominating Committee and on the Board of Directors for The LGL Group, Inc. since 2007. Prior to joining the Board of Directors, he served in the roles of President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of The LGL Group, Inc. from 2006 to 2007.
Mr. Healy also served as Chairman of the Audit Committee at Infocrossing, Inc., an outsourcer of computer software during 2007. Prior to joining Infocrossing, Inc. he served as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ge-Ray Holdings Company, Inc., a private manufacturer of knitted textiles.
Mr. Healy served in the US Army from 1967 to 1970, with Vietnam experience from April 1969 to May 1970. He held the ranks of First Lieutenant and Infantry Platoon leader with Valor awards which included the Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and 2 air medals with V devices, each representing twenty-five hours of flight in combat operations.
As former Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of The LGL Group, Inc., Mr. Healy brings extensive knowledge of the organization to the Board of Directors, as well as significant leadership and valuable accounting expertise.
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Board of Directors | Anthony R. Pustorino, CPA
Mr. Pustorino has been serving on the Board of Directors for The LGL Group, Inc. since 2002, and has served as the Chairman of the Audit Committee since that time. In 2001, he was named Professor Emeritus at Pace University and also holds positions as a director and chairman of the audit committees for various other investment companies within the Gabelli Mutual Funds Complex.
Mr. Pustorino served as Professor of Accounting and Assistant Chairman of the Accounting Department at Pace University from 1965 to 2001. Prior to joining Pace University, he was President and a shareholder of Pustorino, Puglisi and Company, P.C., CPAs from 1961 through 1989. In addition, he is also a Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the New York State Board of Accountancy and a Former Chairman of the CPA Examination Review Board of the National Association of the State Board of Accountancy.
During his career, Mr. Pustorino has received several awards, including the Distinguished Service Award from the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Kenan Award for Teaching Excellence from Pace University. He holds his Master of Business Administration degree from the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and his Bachelor of Science degree from Fordham University College of Business Administration.
Mr. Pustorino’s significant accounting experience obtained over the course of his distinguished career in public accounting and as a professor provides the Board of Directors with invaluable insight, and uniquely qualifies him to serve as Chairman of the Company’s Audit Committee.
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Board of Directors | Javier Romero
Mr. Romero has been serving on the Board of Directors of The LGL Group, Inc. since 2007.
He began his career as a qualified Corporate Lawyer. Since 2007, he has been serving as the Executive Chairman of GSF Capital, an Asset Management Company investing in Renewable Energies with offices in Europe and Asia and more than $1 billion under management. In addition, Mr. Romero is also the President and member of the Investment Committee of China Link, an RMB private equity firm operating in Mainland China. Mr. Romero is also serving on the board of several European and Chinese companies, which are part of GSF portfolio companies.
Previously, Mr. Romero was employed at Arthur D. Little. He joined their London office in 2000, later transferring to ADL Madrid as Head of the Corporate Finance and Strategy sector. Mr. Romero has also led numerous projects for the World Bank in the financial sector.
Mr. Romero has been published in several publications specializing in Finance and Renewable Energies. He has also lectured at Investment Conferences and leading business schools in Europe and Asia.
Mr. Romero is a graduate of Deusto University in Spain, where he earned undergraduate degrees in both Law and Economics. He also earned his Master’s in Business Administration from Manchester Business School (exchange at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies), and participated in the Executive Education program at Harvard Business School.
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Board of Directors | Hans Wunderl
Mr. Wunderl joined the Board of Directors of The LGL Group, Inc. in February 2010 after having completed his one-year assignment as Chief Operating Officer of The LGL Group, Inc. He also currently serves as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the Dutch Semiconductor Company, Fico, where he begin also in February 2010. Fico is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BE Semiconductor, which is a leading manufacturer of infrastructure equipment for the semiconductor industry, with operations the Netherlands, Malaysia and China.
In his assignment as the Chief Operating Officer of The LGL Group, Inc. from February 2009 to January 2010, Mr. Wunderl's efforts helped to reposition the company, leading to a return to profitability and value creation for stockholders. Prior to joining the Company, he was employed with BE Semiconductor Industries N.V., a manufacturer of back-end microelectronic assembly equipment. He served as their Chief Operating Officer from January 2004 to January 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Wunderl served as Chief Executive Officer of Oerlikon Esec, a global supplier of die and wire bonding equipment for the semiconductor industry and President of ASM USA and Europe, a supplier of semiconductor process equipment from 1991 to 1999.
Mr. Wunderl is a graduate of the Technical University Eindhoven, Holland, where he earned a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He shares with the Board of Directors his in-depth knowledge of the Company's operations, as well as significant direct experience in high technology development, marketing and operations.
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