Leonard P. Shaykin has served as our Chairman of the Board since June 1993, and our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since August 1999. In 1995, Mr. Shaykin founded Shaykin & Co., LLC, a private investment and management company. Prior to founding Shaykin & Co., Mr. Shaykin was a managing partner of Adler & Shaykin, an investment partnership organized to sponsor management leveraged buyouts. Prior to that, Mr. Shaykin was Vice President, Director and a member of the Investment Committee of Citicorp Venture Capital, Ltd. and Citicorp Capital Investors, Inc., the venture capital and equity investment subsidiaries of Citicorp and Citibank. He is currently Chairman of the Board of the American Friends of Sheba Medical Center-Tel Hashomer, Israel, the largest medical center in the Middle East, and a trustee of the Jackson Laboratories, a not-for-profit genetic research institute. Mr. Shaykin received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
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