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KL2 2600873.8
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
Proposal No. 1 on Proxy Card
At the Annual Meeting, eight Directors are to be elected to serve until their successors have been elected and
qualified. Information regarding such nominees is set forth below.
The accompanying proxy will be voted for the election of the Board’ s nominees unless contrary instructions are given. If any
Board nominee is unable to serve, which is not anticipated, the persons named as proxies intend to vote, unless the Board of Directors
reduces the number of nominees, for such other person or persons as the Board of Directors may designate.
Except as otherwise indicated herein, each of the nominees has served as a director during fiscal year 2008. Mr. Reinhold, the
Company’ s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, was elected as a Director on March 3, 2009. Ms. Adler-Kravecas
has been nominated by the Board for election at the Annual Meeting. If voting by proxy with respect to the election of Directors,
stockholders may vote in favor of all nominees, withhold their votes as to all nominees or withhold their votes for specific nominees.
There were no arrangements or understandings between any Director or nominee for Director and any other person pursuant to
which such person was selected as a Director or nominee for Director. There are no family relationships among any of our Directors
executive officers or nominees for Director or executive officer, except that Richard Leeds, Bruce Leeds and Robert Leeds are brothers.
Nominees
Name of Nominee Principal Occupation Age Director Since
Richard Leeds Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company 49 April 1995
Bruce Leeds Vice Chairman of the Company 53 April 1995
Robert Leeds Vice Chairman of the Company 53 April 1995
Gilbert Fiorentino Chief Executive of the Company’ s Technology Products Group 49 May 2004
Lawrence P. Reinhold Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company 49 March 2009
Robert D. Rosenthal Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Long Island Investors LLC 60 July 1995
Stacy S. Dick Managing Director of Rothschild Inc. 52 November 1995
Marie Adler-Kravecas Retired President of Myron Corporation 49 N/A
Richard Leeds joined the Company in 1982 and has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since April
1995. Mr. Leeds graduated from New York University in 1982 with a B.S. degree in Finance.
Bruce Leeds joined the Company in 1977 and has served as Vice Chairman of the Company since April 1995. Mr. Leeds also
served as President of International Operations of the Company from 1990 until March 2005. Mr. Leeds graduated from Tufts
University in 1977 with a B.A. degree in Economics.
Robert Leeds joined the Company in 1977 and has served as Vice Chairman of the Company since April 1995. Mr. Leeds also
served as President of Domestic Operations of the Company from April 1995 until March 2005. Mr. Leeds graduated from Tufts
University in 1977 with a B.S. degree in Computer Applications Engineering.
Gilbert Fiorentino joined the Company in 1995 as President of Tiger Direct, Inc. a subsidiary of the Company and has served as
Chief Executive of the Company’ s Technology Products Group and as a Director of the Company since 2004. Mr. Fiorentino
graduated from the University of Miami in 1981 with a B.S. degree in Economics and graduated from the University of Miami Law
School in 1984.
Lawrence P. Reinhold joined the Company in January 2007 and has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer of the Company since that date. In addition, Mr. Reinhold has served as a Director since March 2009. Mr. Reinhold was a
business, finance and accounting consultant in 2006. Previously he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of
Greatbatch, Inc., a publicly traded developer and manufacturer of components used in implantable medical devices from 2002 through
2005; Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Critical Path, Inc. a publicly traded communications software company