|
Mr. Messick has served as our Chief Financial Officer since August 2006. He is a strong financial executive with more than 20 years of experience in accounting and financial reporting, pre-initial public offering and IPO activities, and management of a multi-national company with revenue in excess of $900 million. Other areas of expertise include; international operations, cost control, forecasting, budgeting, and significant strategic and tactical planning. He began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he worked for seven years in rapidly advancing positions of leadership within the firm. In 1993 he joined Worldspan as an Assistant Controller before being named Chief Financial Officer. While there, he prepared Worldspan twice for a public offering, the first resulting in a leveraged buy out and the second in a new public debt offering. Mr. Messick received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the College of William and Mary and is a Certified Public Accountant. | 