Allan R. Tessler serves as the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Epoch Holding Company since the integration of Epoch Investment Partners with JNet Enterprises in June of 2004. Prior to that, he served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of JNet Enterprises since March of 2000 and May 1994 respectively. He was a director of JNet since 1980. He has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of International Financial Group, Inc., an international merchant banking firm, since 1987. He was Co-Chief Executive Officer of Interactive Data Corporation (formerly Data Broadcasting Corporation), a securities market data supplier, from June 1992 through February 2000. From 1986 through 2001 Mr. Tessler was Chairman of the Board of Enhance Financial Services Group, Inc., an insurance holding company which was merged into Radian Corp., and was Chairman of the Board of Great Dane Holdings Inc., a diversified holding company, from 1987 through December 1996. He is also a director of Limited Brands, Inc. and Interactive Data Corporation. Allan is currently a principal of Corporate Recovery Group, LLC. Mr. Tessler received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and L.L.B. from Cornell University Law School. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell Law Quarterly and was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and the Order of the Coif. |