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Jon N. Bengtson, 61, has been a director of the Corporation since July 2003 and was appointed Chairman of the Board in June 2004. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of The Sands Regent Hotel Casino and served as chairman of the board of Radica Games Limited from 1996 until its acquisition by Mattel, Inc. in October 2006. Mr. Bengtson began his career with Harrah's, where he served for nine years in various management positions, including vice president of management information systems. He joined International Game Technology in 1980 as vice president, chief financial officer and director and was subsequently promoted to vice president of marketing in 1982. Mr. Bengtson joined The Sands Regent Hotel Casino in June 1984 and served in various positions, including vice president of finance and administration, chief financial officer, treasurer and director, senior vice president and director and executive vice president and chief operating officer and director until December 1993. In January 1994 he joined Radica Games Limited as vice president, chief financial officer and was appointed president and chief executive officer of Radica USA in December 1994 and was appointed chairman of the board in January 1996. Mr. Bengtson was a founder and chief financial officer of ShareGate, Inc., a venture funded telecommunications equipment company from March 1996 until October 2001. Mr. Bengtson is a founder and Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Pinyon Technologies, a start-up technology corporation developing wireless smart antenna networking technology. He holds a bachelors degree in Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Nevada, Reno. Other Directorships: The Sands Regent Hotel Casino.
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Michel Bazinet M.D., 50, was appointed a director of the Corporation effective July 9, 2004. Since January 2003, Dr. Bazinet has been Chairman & CEO of privately held Replicor, Inc., which develops new antiviral and anticancer therapies. Prior to his involvement with Replicor, from 1996 to 2000, Dr. Bazinet was the founder and medical director of Mediconsult, a healthcare knowledge company. Mediconsult completed its initial public offering in 1999 and was ultimately acquired by The Cybear Group in 2000. Dr. Bazinet, a board-certified urologist, received his MD from Sherbrooke University. He completed his residency at McGill University, Montreal, and has been a research fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York. Dr. Bazinet, a former assistant professor of both urology and oncology at McGill University, is also an accomplished speaker, medical industry author and consultant. Other Directorships: Bioniche Life Sciences Inc.
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George E. Hartman, 57, was elected a director of the Corporation in March 1997. From 1995 until 1998, Mr. Hartman served as President of Planvest Pacific Financial Corp. ("Planvest Pacific"), a Vancouver-based financial planning firm with U.S. $1 billion of assets under management. Mr. Hartman also served on the board of directors of Planvest Capital Corp., the parent of Planvest Pacific. From 1998 until 2000, Mr. Hartman was Senior Vice President of Financial Concept Group until the firm's sale to Assante Corporation, a North American financial services industry consolidator. At that time, he became Chief Executive Officer of PlanPlus Inc., Canada's oldest firm specializing in the development and distribution of wealth management software to the financial services industry. Mr. Hartman also continues as President of Hartman & Corporation, Inc., a firm he founded in 1991 which provides consulting services to the financial services industry. Since April 2004, Mr. Hartman has worked as a consultant with The Covenant Group, a management consulting firm. Mr. Hartman is the author of Risk is a Four-Letter Word--The Asset Allocation Approach to Investing, a Canadian best-seller published in 1992, and is the author of its sequel, Risk is STILL a Four Letter Word, released in 2000. Other Directorships: none
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Pierre Lortie, 60, was appointed a director of the corporation effective June 1st 2006. He is currently Senior Business Advisor to Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, one of Canada's leading full service business law firms serving both Canadian and international clients. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Lyrtech and Country Style Food Services, and is a Director of Group Canam and Dynaplas. He is also a Special Investors for CAI & Partners and serves on several Advisory Boards. Mr. Lortie served more than ten years as president and COO of Bombardier’s Transportation, Capital, International and Regional Aircraft Aerospace groups and has held several positions in the technology field, including Chairman of the Centre for Information Technology Innovation and Vice Chairman of Canada’s National Advisor Board on Science and Technology. He was a representative of the Prime Minister of Canada on the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) from 1999 to 2004. Mr. Lortie holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Sciences in Engineering Physics from Université Laval, a degree in Applied Economics from the Université de Lauvain, Belgium, and an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago. Other Directorships: Lyrtech, Country Style Food Services, Group Canam and Dynaplas.
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Robert F. Hemphill, Jr., 64, began serving as Executive Vice President of AES Corporation in 2005. AES is one of the world’s largest global power companies with operations in 26 countries on five continents. Mr. Hemphill joined AES in 1981 and has held a series of senior leadership positions, including serving as AES’s Executive Vice President of Global Development from 2003 to 2004. Earlier in his tenure, he participated in or oversaw the development of many of AES’s earliest projects. He also served as a member of the AES Board of Directors from June 1996 to February 2004. From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Hemphill served as the Managing Director of Toucan Capital Fund II, L.P., a $120 million private venture capital fund focused on seed and early-stage life science and advanced technology investments. Prior to joining AES in 1981, Mr. Hemphill held senior management positions with the Tennessee Valley Authority, US Department of Energy and the Office of Management and Budget. Mr Hemphill is a director of RNT (“Reactive Nanotechnology”), a private company engaged in the development and manufacture of NanoFoil® to precisely control the instantaneous release of heat energy for reaction initiation and American Grid Inc., a private company engaged in systems integration for the power distribution industry. Mr. Hemphill holds a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in political science from Yale University, a masters in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Masters of Business Administration from the George Washington University.
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Robert G. van Schoonenberg, 61, is executive vice president, chief legal officer, and secretary to the board of directors of Avery Dennison Corporation (AVY), a NYSE Fortune 500 manufacturer of pressure-sensitive labeling materials, office products and retail tag and branding systems with 2007 sales of $6.3 billion and more than 30,000 employees in over 60 countries. He joined the Company in 1981 as vice president, general counsel, and secretary, and was promoted to senior vice president in 1996 and executive vice president in 2000. Before joining Avery Dennison, Mr. van Schoonenberg was with Gulf Oil Corporation for seven years, where he was regional attorney in Los Angeles (1974-79) and a key member of its corporate general counsel’s staff in Pittsburgh (1979-81). On the Altair board, he chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of its Compensation, Nominating and Governance, and Strategic Review Committees. He is on the board of Guidance Software, Inc. (GUID: Nasdaq). Mr. van Schoonenberg is chairman and chief executive officer of BayPoint Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity/advisory firm located in Newport Beach, California. He is also chairman of the board of Premiere Entertainment, LLC, one of BayPoint Capital’s portfolio companies. Mr. van Schoonenberg is a director on the western region advisory board of FM Global, a leading multinational mutual property casualty company. He is a trustee of Southwestern University Law School, a past director of the University of Wisconsin Graduate School of Business Advisory Board and a trustee of the Avery Dennison Foundation. Mr. van Schoonenberg serves on the board of the Los Angeles Sports Council and has served in a leadership role and on the board of a number of other national and local civic, charitable, and professional organizations. His educational background includes a B.A. (economics) from Marquette University, a M.B.A. (finance) from the University of Wisconsin, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. He served in the United States Army, military intelligence, in Munich, Germany. |
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