Advisory Boards

MCI, Kimberly Clark, Legg Mason, Director / Audit Committee

Education:

• BS, University of Southern California, Accounting (1961)

Prior Professional Positions:

• Fannie Mae, Director 2006 to 2009
• Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Director 2002 to 2005
• Legg Mason, Inc., Director 2002 to 2005
• Financial Accounting Standards Board, Chairman 1987 to 1997
• Ernst & Young, Partner in Charge of Accounting Standards 1961 to 1986

Area of Expertise:

• Financial Accounting and Reporting, Corporate Governance

Awards:

• 2004, Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, American Institute of CPAs
• 2004, Accounting Hall of Fame, Ohio State University
• 1997, Lifetime Achievement Award, California Society of CPAs
• 1995, Honorary Doctorate, DePaul University

Editorial Appointments:

• 2000 to 2003, Associate Editor, Accounting Horizons
• 2000 to 2004, Editorial Board, The CPA Journal

Professional Service:

• 1997 to 2005, Member, Financial Reporting Committee – Institute of Management Accountants
• 1997 to 2005, Member, Committee on Corporate Reporting – Financial Executives International
• 2002 to 2003, Member, Nasdaq Listing and Hearing Review Council
• 1999 to 2003, Vice Chairman, Financial Executives Research Foundation

Lee Adrean is Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Equifax. He was named to this position in October 2006 and has responsibility for all financial functions including Accounting, Audit, Treasury, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations.

Adrean brings to Equifax more than 30 years of varied experience in financial management, business leadership, and strategy consulting. Since 2004, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for health care technology company NDCHealth Corp. Prior to that, he served as CFO for internet service provider Earthlink Inc. and computer services company First Data Corp. Adrean also held senior level positions in other companies including Providian Corp., Bain and Co., and the former Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG).

Adrean earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1976 and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Bucknell University in 1974.

Mr. Domanico joined HD Supply as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in April, 2010. Prior to joining HD Supply he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Caraustar Industries, Inc. and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at AHL Services, Inc. From 1981 to 2000, Mr. Domanico worked for Kraft Foods and Nabisco in a succession of progressively more senior roles in financial management, operations, planning and business development. His last 11 years at Kraft and Nabisco, including 7 years living abroad, were in chief financial officer positions and, when he left the company, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Nabisco International and Chief Executive Officer for Nabisco Asia. Mr. Domanico is a board member with the Georgia Council on Economic Education, The Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University, the Georgia Amateur Wrestling Association and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes – Wrestling. Mr. Domanico holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Kevin M. Dotts serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Culligan International.  Kevin oversees the financial performance and growth outlook for one of the world’s most recognized brands in water softening and water purification with global revenues of over $500M.

Prior to joining Culligan, Kevin was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of EarthLink, Inc. for over 5 years.  Prior to joining EarthLink, Kevin enjoyed a 15-year career at General Electric.

After starting in the Financial Management Program at GE Aerospace, Kevin went on to serve on GE’s in several financial leadership roles on GE’s Corporate Audit Staff, in its Plastics division (both domestic and international), at NBC, and most recently as the financial leader of a $1.5 billion business unit of GE Energy Services.

A 23-year veteran of the Coca-Cola system with extensive international experience, Bill Douglas joined Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. in July 2004 when he was appointed vice president, controller and principal accounting officer. Mr. Douglas was appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer in May of 2005 and executive vice president and chief financial officer in May of 2008.

Prior to joining CCE, he served as chief financial officer of Coca-Cola HBC, one of the largest bottlers of non-alcoholic beverages in Europe, whose territory encompasses 28 countries. In his four years with CCHBC, he led the acquisition of the Russian Coca-Cola franchise and executed the company’s successful expansion of its non-carbonated beverage portfolio.

Mr. Douglas has held various positions within the Coca-Cola system since 1985. In 1991, he was appointed division finance manager for the Nordic & Northern Eurasia Division of The Coca-Cola Company. Mr. Douglas moved to Atlanta in 1994 as executive assistant to the president of The Coca-Cola Company’s Greater Europe Group. In 1996, Mr. Douglas became Nordic Region manager and led the process of the creation of Coca-Cola Nordic Beverages, a joint venture key bottler for the Nordic countries. In June 1998, Mr. Douglas was appointed controller of Coca-Cola Beverages. Before joining the Coca-Cola system, Mr. Douglas was associated with Ernst & Whinney, an international accounting firm.

Mr. Douglas is a member of the Board of Directors of the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. He is also a member of several boards at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He received his undergraduate degree from the J.M. Tull School of Accounting at the University of Georgia.

Hank Halter is Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer for Delta Air Lines at its world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. As CFO, Hank is responsible for the finance and planning of Delta’s $35 billion operation. In particular, he oversees the treasury, tax, risk management, accounting and reporting, financial planning and analysis, fleet strategy, and investor relations for the airline. He also directs development of annual and long-range business plans and works closely with operating units to ensure financial performance objectives are achieved.

Hank came to Delta in 1998 from American Airlines where he held various finance positions in corporate reporting, financial planning, and corporate real estate. Prior to his tenure with American Airlines, he was a senior accountant in the Philadelphia office of Ernst & Young LLP.

Hank holds a masters degree in business administration from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and a bachelor of science in accountancy from Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, where he graduated summa cum laude. He is a certified public accountant.

In addition to being a member of the Board of Directors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta and Delta Community Credit Union, Hank also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Delta Heritage Museum and on the Advisory Board for the Atlanta Chapter of the CFO Roundtable.

Originally from Savannah, Georgia, Hank now resides in Atlanta.

Mr. Hill, who joined ICE as our Chief Financial Officer in May of 2007, is responsible for all aspects of our finance and accounting functions, including treasury, tax, cash management and investor relations. Mr. Hill joined us from IBM Corporation. Mr. Hill’s career at IBM Corporation began in 1991, where he held various accounting and financial positions in the U.S., Europe & Japan. Prior to joining ICE, he was Assistant Controller, Financial Forecasts and Measurements at IBM from 2005-2007, where he oversaw IBM’s worldwide financial performance working with all global business units and geographies. From 2003-2005, Mr. Hill served as Vice-President and Controller of IBM Japan, where he was responsible for all financial planning & measurements, accounting, pricing and business controls for the $12 billion IBM Japan business operation. From 2002-2003, he served as Assistant Controller, Financial Strategy and Budgets, where he was responsible for developing and refining IBM’s financial model and leading the annual and strategic planning cycles. Mr. Hill earned his Bachelor’s of Business Administration from The University of Texas. He completed his Master’s of Business Administration at New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Daniel Janki is vice president and chief financial officer for GE Energy Infrastructure. GE Energy Infrastructure is a $39 billion business and a global technology leader in power generation, oil and gas production and water treatment.

Prior to joining GE Energy Infrastructure, Janki was vice president of Corporate Investor Communications at GE. He was responsible for managing the company’s relationships with various investor constituencies from February 2006. His prior role was that of chief financial officer for GE Consumer Finance, Americas. During his tenure at GE Consumer Finance, he built a finance organization designed to facilitate the business’s transformation into a multi-product company and its rapid expansion into Latin and Central America.

In 2003, Janki joined the corporate team as a member of vice chairman Dennis Dammerman’s staff. In this role, he led a variety of projects related to GE’s insurance businesses, most notably, the planning and executing of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Genworth Financial in 2003. Prior to that, he served as chief financial officer for GE Equity in Stamford, Connecticut.

Janki began his career with GE in 1992 in the Financial Management Program (FMP). Upon completion, he joined GE’s Corporate Audit Staff. During his time on the Audit Staff, Janki held a series of global assignments, including a two-year role as an executive audit manager in Asia.

Janki received a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from The Ohio State University. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and two daughters.

John E. Kampfe is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.). In this capacity, he oversees all domestic and international financial operations of the company related to its news, entertainment, animation, sports, advertising sales and distribution units, as well as managing the operations of its properties unit. Kampfe serves on the TBS, Inc. executive committee and works closely with Turner Broadcasting parent company Time Warner Inc. on financial forecasting and reporting. He is based in Atlanta and reports to Phil Kent, chairman and CEO of TBS, Inc.

Formerly senior vice president, corporate controller and chief accounting officer for TBS, Inc., Kampfe was responsible for all consolidated financial reporting, budgeting and long-range financial planning, as well as TBS, Inc.’s treasury functions, shared services and financial systems. Previously, he was senior vice president and group controller for Turner Entertainment Group, Inc. from April 1994 until he was promoted in November 2000. In that role, he was responsible for all management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and accounting operations for TBS, Inc.’s domestic entertainment networks, sports teams and sports programming divisions. Kampfe began his career at TBS, Inc. in April 1992 as group controller for Turner’s advertising and cable sales, sports teams and real estate divisions.

Before joining TBS, Inc., Kampfe served in numerous senior-level accounting and finance positions in the financial services, insurance and public accounting industries.

Kampfe earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the Fisher School of Accounting at the University of Florida. He serves on the board of directors of Broadcast Cable Financial Management (BCFM), a non-profit educational association serving the television, radio and cable industries.

Kurt Kuehn is the chief financial officer of UPS. He is responsible for all activities related to accounting, auditing, finance, financial planning, taxes and treasury. He also acts as a liaison to the finance, investor and analyst communities. Kuehn serves as a member of the UPS Management Committee, which is responsible for the day-to-day management of the company.

A native of South Bend, Ind., Kuehn attended Yale University and received a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Miami. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of the Wharton School of Business. Kuehn began his UPS career in 1977 as a delivery driver. He has held positions of increasing responsibility in operations, industrial engineering, finance and marketing. After several positions in Florida and Montana, Kuehn was named facilities planning manager in 1986. Subsequent positions included work in strategic marketing analysis and financial planning.

In 1996, Kuehn was named manager of the strategic cost department, responsible for profit and loss measurement, customer pricing systems and cost analysis. He later held the position of vice president of business information analysis. In that role, Kuehn oversaw market research, strategic cost analysis, competitive analysis and data mining.

Kuehn became UPS’s first vice president of investor relations in 1999 and later that year, helped take UPS public – the largest IPO of the 20th century. Prior to his current position, Kuehn served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, where he led the company’s sales-force integration to provide a harmonized
customer experience.

In addition to his corporate responsibilities, he serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for Independent Higher Education, the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and the Woodruff Arts Center.

David Mangum is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Global\ Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN). In this role, Mr. Mangum is responsible for all financial operations of the company, including accounting, tax, treasury, finance, internal audit, and investor relations. Previously, Mr. Mangum served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CheckFree Corporation, a leading global provider of financial electronic commerce services and products. CheckFree was acquired by Fiserv Inc. in December 2007 in a transaction valued at approximately $4.4 billion. Mr. Mangum represented CheckFree during diligence and negotiations and subsequently served as Executive Vice President of Fiserv prior to joining Global Payments. Mr. Mangum joined CheckFree in 1999 as Senior Vice President of Finance and Accounting after serving as Vice President of Finance and Administration for the Managed Systems Division of Sterling Commerce, Inc. He also held management positions at XcelleNet, Inc. and The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. Mr. Mangum was named one of the best CFOs in America by Institutional Investor magazine.

Axel Meier was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Siemens Industry, Inc. October 2009. He directs all aspects of the financial management of the U.S. operations of Siemens Industry Sector businesses. From 2004 to 2008, Meier served as CFO of Siemens Building Technologies, Inc. where he contributed to the company’s unprecedented growth and profitability, as well as overseeing one of the largest Spiridon/SAP implementations in Siemens corporate history. Meier joined Siemens in 1988 as a financial analyst for Siemens AG in Bocholt, Germany. His broad experience and financial systems acumen lead to positions of increasing responsibility within the telecommunications-related businesses of Siemens AG; culminating in his appointment in 1997 to vice president of business administration Siemens Information and Communications, Mobile. Prior to his appointment to Building Technologies CFO, Meier was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the San Diego-based U.S. headquarters of Siemens Information and Communications Mobile, LLC, where, among other accomplishments, Meier was instrumental in the company’s turnaround.

Meier earned his Diplom-Kaufmann, a financial business management degree from University Gesamthochschule, Siegen, Germany in 1988 after serving in the German Military. He and his wife Petra have two children and currently reside in San Diego.

Corporate biography is currently unavailable.

Steve Pierson joined ING in December 2002 as Head of Strategic Cost Management and is currently Senior Vice President and Controller of ING Americas. His responsibilities include Business Performance Reporting and Financial Planning and Analysis for the Americas, as well as the US Finance Shared Services (which includes external Financial Reporting, Corporate Accounting and Cost & Budget areas). Immediately prior to joining ING, Steve worked for approximately 9 years with Fortis, a Dutch-owned global financial services company. While with Fortis, he served in a number of Financial positions within Assurant (the US business of Fortis), including Senior Vice President of Finance, SVP of Mergers and Acquisitions, SVP of Strategic Finance, Vice President and Controller and Director of Planning and Analysis where he developed a broad range of experience in both Property & Casualty and Life Insurance.

Steve began is career in public accounting with Ernst & Young in the Atlanta Office, where he served 9+ years in the auditing area. He served a number of different industries, eventually specializing in the insurance industry as a Senior Audit Manager.

He enjoys sports as a spectator and participant and, as a father of 19-year old twins and an 12-year old, participating in a variety of his family’s activities.

Mr. Potts was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in March 2004, and has been the Chief Information Officer since the acquisition of Arris Interactive L.L.C. in August 2001. Prior to joining ARRIS, Mr. Potts was Chief Financial Officer of Arris Interactive L.L.C from 1995 through 2001. From 1984 through 1995, Mr. Potts held various executive management positions with Nortel Networks including Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Bell Northern Research in Ottawa and Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions in Toronto. Prior to Nortel Networks, Mr. Potts was with Touche Ross in Toronto. Mr. Potts holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Lakehead University in Canada and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Canada.

As Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Raghavan (Raj) Rajaji is responsible for Infor’s accounting, reporting, and information technology, as well as all functions related to finance, planning, treasury, and taxes. He has a keen ability to make sure Infor’s investments deliver values to its customers.

“Our success has been built on our customer-centric focus, and we have a commitment to keep that focus sharp as we go forward,” Rajaji says. “That means being creative, being able to move quickly when we see an opportunity that adds value to our solutions, and continuing to deliver low total cost of ownership to our customers.”

A CPA, Rajaji joined Infor from IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS), where he was Vice President, Operations. Before IBM’s acquisition of ISS in 2006, he served as CFO of ISS, and previously was Executive Vice President and CFO for Manugistics, a position he held for six years. His experience also includes four years as CFO of BancTec and 12 years as CFO of Occidental Chemical Company, a $5 billion subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation.

Alison Rand is the Chief Financial Officer of Primerica, a leading provider of financial products and services. The Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup, ranks amongst North America’s top providers of term life insurance with over a half trillion of in force coverage and after-tax profits of more than $500 million. While based in the United States, the company also has operations in Canada, Ireland and Spain.

Ms. Rand joined Primerica as the Director of Financial Reporting in 1995 with subsequently increasing roles in Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Financial Control and Treasury. She assumed her current role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2000. In the capacity of CFO, Ms. Rand is responsible for Financial Control, Reporting, Business Planning and Strategy, Tax, Treasury and Capital Management. Prior to joining Primerica, Ms. Rand worked for 5 years in the audit practice of KPMG, where she largely focused on financial institutions.

Ms. Rand earned her B.S. in Accounting from the University of Florida in 1990. She is a Certified Public Accountant and holds various securities licenses. She is presently an Executive Committee member of the Board of Imagine It!, The Children’s Museum of Atlanta and is serving her second term as Program Committee Chair. She is also a past Board Member of Consumer Credit Counseling Services of Greater Atlanta.

Loren Starr has served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Invesco since October 2005. His current responsibilities include finance, accounting, internal audit and corporate properties. Previously, he served from 2001 to 2005 as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Janus Capital Group Inc., after working as head of corporate finance from 1998 to 2001 at Putnam Investments. Prior to these positions, Mr. Starr held senior corporate finance roles with Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley & Co. He received a B.A. in chemistry and B.S. in industrial engineering, summa cum laude, from Columbia University, as well as an MBA, also from Columbia, and M.S. in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Starr is a certified treasury professional and serves as chairman of the Association for Financial Professionals.

Steve Voorhees has served as RockTenn’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since September 2000. He has also served as the Company’s Chief Administrative Officer since July 2008. RockTenn (NYSE:RKT) is one of North America’s leading manufacturers of paperboard, containerboard, consumer and corrugated packaging and merchandising displays. With annual net sales of approximately $3 billion, the Company operates more than 90 locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Argentina.

Prior to joining RockTenn, Voorhees was an executive at Sonat Inc., a diversified energy company engaged in the exploration and production of natural gas, interstate transmission of natural gas and energy services. He received his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Northwestern University and his M.B.A. from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

An experienced senior finance and accounting executive, David Becker has 13 years of demonstrated global expertise at efficiently managing finance, accounting, treasury and corporate development organizations.

During his career, Becker held executive financial positions at i2 Technologies, Inc. and Price Waterhouse, LLP. At i2, he served as the Senior Vice President – Finance and was responsible for treasury, risk management, corporate development and financial reporting and analysis; he established the necessary policies, procedures, systems and controls for supporting an organization that grew from 150 employees and $20M of total revenue to over 6,000 employees and $1B of revenue. He was also instrumental in raising $480M through initial and secondary offerings of equity capital and the issuance of convertible debt, and negotiated and completed the acquisition of more than 10 companies.

During his tenure with Price Waterhouse, LLP, he worked in the audit, assurance and business advisory services organization.

David earned a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in accounting and a Master in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas and is licensed to practice as a Certified Public Accountant.

Susan Fish has been the Chief Financial Officer of The Rosewood Corporation since January 1998. The Rosewood Corporation is a private holding company wholly owned by the Caroline Hunt Trust Estate, which was established in 1935 by the legendary oil man H.L. Hunt. The Rosewood Corporation has worldwide operations and investments in the oil and gas, real estate and hospitality industries.

Susan also serves as the President of Rosewood Property Company. As the real estate investment arm of The Rosewood Corporation, Rosewood Property Company through its affiliates and partnerships acquires and manages a diverse portfolio of real estate assets. The current portfolio includes direct equity investment in land, office, hotel, industrial, retail, senior housing, multi-family and single-family properties as well as investments in the debt and equity activities of public and private real estate companies. Most recently, Rosewood Property Company completed a 400,000 square foot office building, Rosewood Court, located in the heart of Uptown Dallas. Rosewood Court will serve as the permanent headquarters for The Rosewood Corporation and its subsidiaries. Susan currently serves on the Advisory Boards of the Eiger Fund I, E2M Value Added Fund, L.P. and Cypress Equities Real Estate Fund I, L.P. (Staubach).

Before joining Rosewood, she had been with Crow Family Holdings since 1985 where she most recently held the position of Financial Planning and Reporting Manager. Crow Family Holdings is the office responsible for oversight of the business affairs for the real estate developer Trammell Crow and his family.

Susan graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in accounting in 1979 and a Master of Accounting Science degree, specializing in taxation, in 1980. She is a certified public accountant. Upon graduation, Susan joined Arthur Andersen & Company where she achieved the level of tax manager prior to joining Trammell Crow Hotel Company.

Renée Hornbaker is the Chief Financial Officer of Shared Technologies, a provider of converged voice and data networking solutions for enterprise businesses. Renée serves on the board of Eastman Chemical, a FORTUNE 500 international chemical company with sales of $7 billion and approximately 11,000 employees. She chairs its Audit Committee and also serves on its Finance and Health, Safety, Environmental and Security Committees. Prior to Shared Technologies, she was managing director and founder of RH Partners, a consulting firm focused on increasing shareholder value. Before that Renée served as CFO of Flowserve Corporation, a Fortune 1000 international manufacturing firm, where she directed its five-fold growth.

Prior to becoming CFO, she held positions of Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Business Development. Previously, Ms. Hornbaker held senior financial executive positions with a number of firms including Phelps Dodge Corporation, a Fortune 500 diversified mining and industrial firm, where she served as finance head for its $1.5 billion portfolio of industrial businesses. Earlier, Renée held senior financial positions with the Circle K Corporation, Education Management Group and Southwest Forest Industries. Ms. Hornbaker is a CPA and former Senior Manager in the Assurance Practice of Deloitte & Touche.

Renée holds an MBA in Accounting and BA in English from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She is a member of Financial Executives International and on the leadership team for the Dallas Chapter, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, National Association for Corporate Directors and is a board member of the North Texas Chapter, Women Corporate Directors and the International Women’s Forum.

Marty Kittrell has served as Dresser, Inc.’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since December 2007. Dresser, Inc. is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of highly-engineered equipment and services sold primarily to customers in the flow control, measurement systems, and compression and power systems segments of the energy industry. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Dresser has a comprehensive global presence with more than 6,500 employees and a sales presence in more than 100 countries worldwide.

From 2003 to 2007 Mr. Kittrell served as Chief Financial Officer of Andrew Corporation and was Vice President of Strategic Planning for Andrew Corporation from 2002 to 2003. Andrew was a world leader in wireless infrastructure products, with annual revenues of approximately $2 billion and headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Kittrell joined Andrew after serving as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Celiant since July 2001. Celiant was a leading supplier to the wireless communications industry, with annual revenues of approximately $300 million and was acquired by Andrew in 2002.

From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Kittrell was Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration and a member of the Board of Directors for BlueStar Battery Systems International. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Kittrell served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Worldtex, Inc., a leading supplier of components to the apparel and textile industries. Mr. Kittrell also previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Enfinity Corporation, a consolidator in the commercial and industrial indoor environmental and energy management markets. From 1989 to 1997, he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Exide Electronics Group, Inc., a $600 million world leader in power protection products and services.

From 1983 to 1989, Mr. Kittrell held various executive positions, including Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, with Proctor Silex, Inc., a leading consumer products manufacturer. Mr. Kittrell began his business career with Price Waterhouse where he attained the position of audit manager. Mr. Kittrell was a certified public accountant in Tennessee and Ohio. Mr. Kittrell graduated magna cum laude from Lipscomb University. He is a member of Financial Executives International, the National Investor Relations Institute, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is currently serving on the Board of Trustees of Lipscomb University and on the Board of Directors of NiSource Inc.

Mr. Kittrell resides in Dallas, Texas, and Franklin, Tennessee, with his wife Jane and has two children.

Mike L. Kovar has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since March 2008 and served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since October 2000. Mr. Kovar served as Senior Vice President, Finance from March 2000 until October 2000.

From November 1997 until March 2000, Mr. Kovar served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for BearCom Group, Inc., a wholesaler of two-way radios, and as Controller from July 1996 to November 1997.

Mike is a Texas CPA and also spent five years in the audit department with Ernst and Young.

Corporate biography is currently unavailable.

Ms. Taylor is Chief Financial Officer – Private Investments for Commerce Street Capital, LLC, with responsibility for all financial and operational aspects of the firm’s fund management business. She currently also serves as Chief Financial Officer of Independent Bankers Capital Fund, LP, Service Equity Partners, LP, Genesis Bank Fund, LP, Commerce Street Income Partners, LP, and Commerce Street Lending Partners, LP. She previously served as Chief Financial Officer of SAMCO Capital Markets, Inc.

Ms. Taylor has worked in the private equity and investment banking industry since 1990. Since 1999, she has served as Chief Financial Officer of Independent Bankers Capital Fund, LP. From 1995 to 1999, she served as Controller of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated and from 1990 to 1993, she was Assistant Controller of Sunwestern Investment Group.

Ms. Taylor is a Certified Public Accountant and was employed by Ernst & Young in the audit division from 1987 to 1990. She has a BBA in Accounting from Texas Tech University.

Bob Thompson has over 20 years experience in Senior Financial roles. Currently the CFO of Encompass Home Health with operations in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Mr. Thompson also held the position of Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer for Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., with revenues of approximately $250 million. In addition, Mr. Thompson has held senior financial and operational roles with Paging Network, Inc. (PageNet), and prior to that was an audit manager at Ernst and Young. Mr. Thompson is a CPA and member of the Texas Society of CPA’s and the AICPA.

Mark Travis joined TransFirst as senior vice president and chief financial officer in October 2001. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s overall financial performance, managing and developing relationships with lenders and investors, and negotiating and financing acquisitions. Mr. Travis has 27 years experience in financial management. Prior to joining TransFirst, he served as part of Electronic Data Systems’ CFO group for more than 18 years. During this time, he served as assistant corporate controller and chief financial officer for a number of EDS’ operating divisions.

Mr. Travis has extensive experience in the financial management of operations both domestically and abroad, and he has been a key contributor in developing new business opportunities including driving the financial structure for major new contracts and acquisitions. Mr. Travis spent more than eight years working in the Asia Pacific region, where for five of those years he had overall financial responsibility for EDS’ business in that region.

Mr. Travis, who completed his CMA Certification in 1991, earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of North Texas in Denton. He has served as a mentor for the Dallas Menttium Program and has also served as a member of the University of North Texas Accounting Advisory Board.

Theodore Abajian was appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer of CKE Restaurants, Inc. in April 2003. Mr. Abajian joined the Company as chief administrative officer in March 2002, following the completion of the acquisition of Santa Barbara Restaurant Group, Inc.

Prior to the merger, Abajian served as president and chief executive officer of Santa Barbara Restaurant Group, Inc. beginning in November 2000 and as executive vice president and chief financial officer from May 1998. From January 2000 to October 2000, Abajian held the position of senior vice president and chief financial officer for Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc., and served as the chief financial officer of Star Buffet, Inc. from July 1997 to May 1998. Mr. Abajian also served as a director of Stacey’s Buffet, Inc. from October 1997 to February 1998, and was vice president and controller of Summit Family Restaurants, Inc. from 1994 to 1998.

Abajian holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Corporate biography is currently unavailable.

Corporate biography is currently unavailable.

Wolfgang Nickl, senior vice president and chief financial officer, is responsible for Western Digital’s financial planning and analysis, operations finance, accounting, treasury, credit, tax, investor relations and internal audit functions. He also leads the company’s market analysis and competitive intelligence groups. Nickl has been with the company since 1995 and reports to chief executive officer, John Coyne.

From 2005 to 2010, Nickl served as vice president of finance. During the prior two years, Nickl was vice president of worldwide business operations and has served in several other roles in finance, supply chain management and IT in Europe, as well as in the U.S. Nickl was instrumental in WD’s acquisition of Komag in 2007 and several other business development projects.

Prior to joining WD, Nickl worked at IBM Global Services as a consultant for SAP costing and finance applications. Nickl holds a Bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Cooperative Education Stuttgart, Germany, where he received a full scholarship from IBM, and a master’s degree of business administration from the University of Southern California.

Richard Shields became Chief Financial Officer of Oakley November 3, 2005. From October 2002 to April 2005, Mr. Shields served as Chief Financial Officer of Southwest Water Company, which provides water-related services and generates revenue in excess of $200 million. Prior to Southwest Water, Mr. Shields served as Chief Financial Officer at Day Software Corporation from September 2001 to July 2002, Winfire Corporation from February 1999 to July 2001, and Frame-NLens Optical, Inc. from 1996 to 1999. He previously served as International Controller and Finance Director for the Americas for AST Research, a personal computer manufacturer. Prior to AST, Mr. Shields worked in corporate finance with Taco Bell Corporation. He began his career in 1982 at Price Waterhouse. Mr. Shields had been a certified public accountant since 1986. He is an avid outdoor sports enthusiast.

Mr. Shields has a Master of Business Administration from University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor of Arts in Business from Eastern Washington University.

Nate Steffens is the Controller of the Americas region for Kingston Technology, a privately held, $4 billion multinational organization. As Controller, Mr. Steffens is responsible for all financial functions related to the $2 billion region. These functions include general ledger and cost accounting, as well as involvement in global strategic initiatives, tax, and treasury initiatives for Kingston Corporation. When Mr. Steffens joined Kingston in 2004, he was responsible for creating the financial planning and analysis team within Kingston Corporation.

Before joining Kingston, Mr. Steffens worked in various finance related roles at Expanets, a company later acquired by Avaya. Prior to Expanets, Mr. Steffens served in financial leadership roles in two privately held companies within the finance and travel industries.

Mr. Steffens graduated with a BA in Accounting from Loras College in Dubuque, IA, and holds an MBA in international business from the University of San Francisco.

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Financial Economics
M.B.A. Wharton
B.A. Johns Hopkins University

Tom Copeland is one of the few people in the world with deep experience, and top credentials as a practitioner as well as an academic in financial economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, his MBA from Wharton in 1969 (where he graduated second in his class), and a BA in economics from Johns Hopkins University.

As an academic, he has written 6 books and over 60 articles. Financial Theory and Corporate Policy is now in its fourth edition and has been in print continuously since 1979, having been used as a textbook at over 100 universities. Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, sold over 350,000 copies. Tom has published significant research papers on valuation, real options, stock splits, the theory of the bid-ask spread, the theory of trading volume, non-synergistic acquisition, and capital efficiency. He was a tenured full professor at UCLA, an adjunct full professor at NYU and Harvard Business School. He was a senior lecturer at MIT for 5 years. He was elected to the Financial Economics Roundtable in 2004, and is one of the top 100 researchers in finance by citation in the top three journals over the last 25 years. He won teaching awards at UCLA and NYU.

Tom’s practitioner experience extends over a 31 year period. For eleven years he was coleader of McKinsey’s global corporate finance where he consulted or over 200 companies in 40 countries on topics as diverse as value-based management, mergers and acquisitions, capital structure and cost of capital, hedging, restructuring, and turnarounds. Additionally, he was Managing Director of Monitor’s corporate finance practice for seven years, and was a Senior Advisor for Charles River Associates and has twice appeared before the World Court as an expert witness on major valuation matters. He is currently Distinguished Clinical Professor of Financial Economics at the University of San Diego.

Paul Bowman serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary with 28 years of experience in financial management. Mr. Bowman served as Cymer’s interim chief financial officer from December 2008 to October 2009. He joined the company as vice president of investor relations in May of 2008. Prior to joining Cymer, Mr. Bowman served as chief financial officer of American Mold Guard, Inc. which was a NASDAQ listed company in the home services industry. From 1996 to April 2006, Mr. Bowman was employed at Applied Materials, Inc., holding positions as the managing director of investor relations, managing director of finance for worldwide manufacturing and controller of the worldwide service division. Prior to Applied Materials, he held various financial management positions at Unisys Corporation and IBM. Mr. Bowman received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Shippensburg State University.

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Mr. Hoffmeister is Life Technologies’ Chief Financial Officer and served as Invitrogen’s Chief Financial Officer and leader of Global Finance since October 2004. Mr. Hoffmeister held various positions over the course of 20 years with McKinsey & Company, most recently as a senior partner serving clients in the healthcare, private equity and specialty chemicals industries on strategy and organizational issues. Prior to joining McKinsey, Mr. Hoffmeister held financial positions at GTE and W.R. Grace. He is currently a board member of Celanese Corporation and chairman of the audit committee. Mr. Hoffmeister received his B.S. degree in business from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Mark Legg currently serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at General Atomics, a leading technology, mining and defense contractor headquartered in San Diego. He brings over 30 years experience in domestic and international management, operations, finance, and logistics to the company.

Prior to joining General Atomics in August of 2009, Mr. Legg served as Chief Financial Officer for the American Reprographics Company for nine years. Mr. Legg was responsible for all finance and administrative functions for this $600 million information management, digital printing and software company. While there he established the financial infrastructure to support the company’s IPO in 2005 and successful SOX compliance in 2006. During Mr. Legg’s tenure at American Reprographics the company grew by 600% through acquisitions and internal growth. American Reprographics’ IPO was recognized as one of the 10 most successful initial public offerings in 2005.

Prior to joining American Reprographics, Mr. Legg spend 11 years at Vivitar Corporation, an international photography and technology firm with operations in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, the UK, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Mr. Legg served as the Company’s CFO and COO during his tenure there.

Mr. Legg is an alumnus of University of Santa Clara’s undergraduate accounting program and received his MBA in finance and management from the University of Southern California. After graduation, Mr. Legg began his financial career at Price Waterhouse where he specialized in assisting companies with their initial public offerings and SEC compliance.

In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Mr. Legg also serves on the San Diego Advisory Board for the Cushman & Wakefield CFO Roundtable at the University of San Diego. Prior to moving to San Diego, he was proud to serve on various charitable financial councils including work for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles where was a trustee for the Diocese’s investment fund.

Advisory Board Bio_Jerry Rebel 2Jerry P. Rebel, executive vice president and chief financial officer since October 2005. He was previously senior vice president and chief financial officer since January 2005. Mr. Rebel was previously vice president and controller of the company from September 2003 to January 2005. Prior to joining the company, he was vice president and controller for Fleming Companies. Mr. Rebel has more than 20 years of corporate finance experience, including senior level positions with the CVS Corporation and People’s Drugs.

Jay Rembolt has more than 20 years of public accounting and financial experience and has served as the company’s vice president, finance/controller since 2001.

Michael Irwin, who has served as WD-40 Company CFO since 2001, will now serve in a newly created position of executive vice president, strategic development, and will lead WD-40 Company’s merger and acquisition activities. “Mike has built a strong financial team in-house with solid succession planning and he will now focus his expertise and experience on the development aspect of our business,” said Garry Ridge, WD-40 Company president and chief executive officer.

“Jay’s financial background and his experience as controller, combined with his deep understanding of WD-40 Company makes him the ideal choice for CFO,” said Ridge.

Prior to joining WD-40 Company in 1997, Rembolt served in a variety of positions, including consulting roles in the tax practice of the public accounting firm Price Waterhouse LLP, now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, from 1991 to 1997.

Rembolt has a master of science in accountancy and taxation from San Diego State University and also has a master of science in executive leadership from the University of San Diego.

Mark A. Snell is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Sempra Energy, a San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy services holding company whose subsidiaries provide electricity, natural gas and value-added products and services. The Sempra Energy companies’ 13,800 employees serve more than 29 million consumers worldwide.

Snell formerly was group president of Sempra Global, the umbrella organization for the competitive businesses of Sempra Energy. In that position, Snell oversaw all aspects of Sempra Global in competitive energy markets, including energy trading, electric generation, liquefied natural gas, pipelines and storage facilities, international utilities and retail energy marketing.

Before becoming group president, Snell was chief financial officer of Sempra Global overseeing the acquisitions, business development and all financial matters for the group.

Prior to his role with Sempra Global, Snell was vice president of planning and development for Sempra Energy.

Before joining Sempra Energy in 2001, Snell served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Earth Tech, a Long Beach, Calif.-based water management, engineering and environmental services firm. Earth Tech specializes in the design, building and operation of water and wastewater treatment facilities.

Before joining Earth Tech, Snell was executive vice president and chief financial officer at Dames and Moore, a NYSE listed engineering and construction firm headquartered in Los Angeles. At Dames and Moore, Snell guided the completion of acquisitions that more than doubled the firm’s revenues.

Snell also served as chief financial and administrative officer for Latham & Watkins, a law firm with more than 1,600 partners and employees worldwide. He also served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of World Oil Corp., a privately held, integrated oil company. As a senior manager at the Los Angeles office of KPMG Peat Marwick, Snell supervised activities that supported acquisitions by client companies.

Snell is a member of the board of directors of Venoco Inc. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from San Diego State University and is a certified public accountant.

As Vice President of Financial and Business Operations for Cox Communications San Diego, Dennis Stansfield manages a team of 150 employees and oversees all financial planning, facilities planning, supply chain, credit services and legal affairs.

Stansfield joined Cox Communications San Diego in 2001. Prior to that, he spent four years as Vice President of Business Operations for Cox Communications in Orange County, where he managed a team of 75 employees and helped Cox Orange County become the first cable system to offer digital video, digital telephone and high speed Internet.

In addition, he served as Director of Budgeting and Planning at NextWave Telecom, a start-up cellular company, spent 18 years with US WEST Communications, and served as Vice President of the Utah Development Council. He has also worked abroad in the international joint venture arena, primarily in Spain.

Stansfield graduated Magna Cum Laude from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah with a double major in Finance and Business Administration, and a minor in Economics. He is a member of the Alpha Chi Honor Society, and serves on the Cushman & Wakefield San Diego CFO Roundtable Advisory Board.