Mr. Fleischer is President and a member of the Board of Directors of Bogen Communications International, Inc., a leading designer, developer, and manufacturer of communications and audio equipment and software, a position he has held since 1997. Bogen has annual revenues of approximately $60 million. From November 2003 to June 2004, Mr. Fleischer took a leave from Bogen to serve with the U.S. Department of Defense in Baghdad, Iraq, as Deputy Director and then Director of the Office of Private Sector Development at the Coalition Provisional Authority. In these roles, he and the office sought to accelerate growth in Iraq's non-oil private sector and to influence the creation of a vigorous free market. Mr. Fleischer has previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of Alliant Techsystems, Inc. (NYSE:ATK), a major defense contractor. From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Fleischer was President of Ekco/Glaco, Ltd., a manufacturer of commercial baking pans and a provider of other services to commercial bakeries. Mr. Fleischer is also President of Active Management Group, Inc., a firm he co-founded in 1990, which invests in and turns around companies facing financial and operational difficulty. From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Fleischer was a consultant with McKinsey & Co., Inc. He served as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer from 1979 to 1983. Mr. Fleischer received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1985 and a B.A. from Colgate University in 1978. |