BOB BAUMGARTNER
Executive Chairman & CEO
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GENE I. DAVIS
Board Member
Mr. Davis has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pirinate Consulting Group, L.L.C., a privately-held consulting firm specializing in crisis and turn-around management and strategic advisory services for public and private business entities, since 1999. Prior to joining Pirinate Consulting, Mr. Davis was Chief Operating Officer of Total-Tel USA Communications, Inc., and President of Emerson Radio Corp.
Mr. Davis has served as director for numerous public and private companies across various industries. Mr. Davis has served as a Company director since January 2010 and currently serves on the boards of Ambassadors International, Inc., Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc., Global Power Equipment, Inc., GSI Group, Inc., Mosaid Technologies, Inc., Orchid Cellmark, Inc., Rural/Metro Corp., Spectrum Brands, Inc., and U.S. Concrete, Inc. Mr. Davis is also a director of the following companies but will not stand for re-election at the 2011 annual meeting of shareholders: Knology, Inc., Roomstore, Inc., SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc., and Spansion, Inc. Mr. Davis is also a director of Trump Resorts Entertainment,Inc., whose common stock is registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 but does not trade.
Mr. Davis is on the boards of Footstar, Inc., Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation and YRC Worldwide, Inc. Footstar has announced a merger transaction pursuant to which it will be acquired by Footstar Acquisitions, Inc. in a going-private transaction. Smurfit-Stone has announced a transaction to be acquired by Rock-Tenn Company. YRC Worldwide has announced that it has entered into a non-binding term sheet regarding a restructuring. Mr. Davis will no longer serve as a director of Smurfit-Stone or YRC Worldwide upon closing of those transactions or will resign by December 31, 2011 if the transactions have not closed by that time. During the past five years, Mr. Davis has also been a director of American Commercial Lines Inc., Delta Airlines, Foamex International Inc., Granite Broadcasting Corporation, Ion Media Networks, Inc., Media General, Inc., Ogelbay Norton Company, PRG-Schultz International Inc., Silicon Graphics International, Terrastar Corp., Tipperary Corporation and Viskase, Inc. Mr. Davis brings to the Board experience with companies emerging from chapter 11 restructuring processes and also has significant experience as a director of public companies.
Mr. Davis holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College, a master of international affairs degree (MIA) in international law and organization from the School of International Affairs of Columbia University, and a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University School of Law.
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BEN BALDANZA
Board Member
Mr. Baldanza joined Spirit, the largest Ultra Low Cost Carrier in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, in January 2005 as its President and Chief Operating Officer. In May 2006, Mr. Baldanza was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer at which time he was also appointed to our board of directors.
Baldanza has over twenty-five years of airline related experience. Prior to joining Spirit, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Planning at US Airways, where he was responsible for route planning, scheduling, pricing and revenue management, marketing, sales, cargo, distribution, and the international division.
Prior to US Airways, Baldanza served as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Grupo Taca, an airline group based in Latin America and held various management positions at Continental Airlines, Northwest Airlines and American Airlines.
Baldanza holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Syracuse University and a Master of Public Affairs, specializing in transportation and economics, from Princeton University.
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ALAN DAWES
Board Member
Mr. Dawes (MBA, BA, Harvard University) is the President of ASD Advisory. Alan has 25+ years of experience in industrial experience including 17 years in operating and financial roles at General Motors Corporation (at the time appointed he was the youngest individual to be named a GM Vice President). He was Chief Financial Officer, Vice Chairman, and board member at Delphi Corporation. Alan turned around a $4 billion mature automotive business and led efforts at a $28 billion supplier to redirect resources to spur 10+% p.a. non-U.S. growth while simultaneously rationalizing high cost labor units. He championed the start up of new businesses in the automotive aftermarket and in non-automotive applications of automotive technologies.
He has been on boards at Autonation, Hilite International, ECI and BHM. Alan served as Chairman of the Motor Equipment Manufacturers and the Original Equipment Suppliers Associations.
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STEPHEN H. DECKOFF
Managing Principal
Mr. Deckoff is the Managing Principal of Black Diamond and is responsible for all portfolio management and business operations. Mr. Deckoff has held and is currently on the board of a number of Black Diamond portfolio companies, including ION Media, Werner Ladder, Bayou Steel, SmarteCarte, SunWorld, and PTC Alliance, amongst others.
Prior to the founding of Black Diamond in 1995, Mr. Deckoff was a Senior Vice President of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Inc. At Kidder, Mr. Deckoff was head of the Structured Finance Group. Under Mr. Deckoff’s direction, the group was responsible for new issue origination, transaction structuring and trading for all non-first mortgage related assets.
Prior to joining Kidder, Mr. Deckoff was a Managing Director in the Structured Finance Group at Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. where his responsibilities included all phases of transaction development and group management. Before joining Bear Stearns, Mr. Deckoff worked in the Structure Finance Department of Chemical Securities, Inc. and the Fixed Income Research Department at Drexel Burnham Lambert.
Mr. Deckoff has a B.S. in Operations Research from the Engineering School at Cornell University.
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CHRISTOPHER W. PARKER
Managing Director - Private Equity
Mr. Parker is a Managing Director at BDCM in the Private Equity division. Mr. Parker previously served as a Managing Director of Dalton Investments’ distressed debt and special situations team. Prior to Dalton, Mr. Parker worked for Lehman Brothers in corporate finance advising on mergers & acquisitions, equity capital, debt capital, financial restructuring and private equity transactions. Mr. Parker has also served as the Director of Strategic Planning to the American Stock Exchange and as Lead Policy Analyst covering the securities and futures markets at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Mr. Parker received his B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and his M.P.P. in Business and Government from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Parker currently serves on the following BDCM portfolio company Boards: Hines Horticulture (Chairman), ION Media Networks, PTC Alliance, and Sun World International, LLC (Chairman). Prior Board seats include: Smarte Carte (Chairman) and Bayou Steel Corporation.
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PHILIP RAYGORODETSKY
Managing Director - Private Equity
Mr. Raygorodetsky is a Managing Director at BDCM in the Private Equity division.
Prior to joining BDCM, Mr. Raygorodetsky was a Senior Managing Director at The GSC Group, where he was responsible for sourcing, evaluating and executing stressed and control distressed debt investments. While at GSC, Mr. Raygorodetsky was a member of the controlled distressed funds’ investment committee, and, on behalf of the GSC’s funds, chaired and was a member of various public and private companies’ boards. Prior to that, Mr. Raygorodetsky was with Salomon Smith Barney Inc. in the Investment Banking Division’s health care group, where he worked on public and private financing and advisory transactions.
Mr. Raygorodetsky received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
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KURT SCHELLHAS, M.D.
National Medical Director, MSCPA & Director of Spine Intervention, Center for Diagnostic Imaging
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