Michael Gibbs, our Chief Financial Officer from March 11, 2005 until his retirement on March 31, 2007, was also a director from February 11, 2005 until March 11, 2005. Mr. Gibbs is the President of Page Mill Corporation, a. business consulting firm, which he began in 1971. Since 1999, Mr. Gibbs has consulted to certain privately owned businesses, including the largest freight airline in Florida. From September 1996 to April 1999, he was President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Compass Plastics Corporation and its predecessor, a manufacturer of television and computer cabinets and related items. Mr. Gibbs began his business career in 1964 with the international business consulting firm of Booz Allen & Hamilton and spent five years as Vice President of Corporate Planning for ReLiance Holdings Corporation (formerly, Leas co Corporation), a New York Stock Exchange company, before becoming an independent entrepreneur and business advisor in 1973. For the past 32 years, Mr. Gibbs has served as a financial and business advisor to third parties in the identification, financing, acquisition and operation of approximately 45 businesses, and has participated as a principal stockholder, executive officer and director in certain of such businesses. Mr. Gibbs received a BS degree in Engineering from the University of Alabama in 1957 and a Masters degree in Industrial Management from New York Polytechnic Institute in 1965. |