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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
There are no arrangements or understandings between any officer and any other person pursuant to which such person was
selected as an officer.
The following table sets forth certain information with respect to the executive officers of the Company as of April 22, 2009.
Name Age Office
Richard Leeds 49 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Director
Bruce Leeds 53 Vice Chairman; Director
Robert Leeds 53 Vice Chairman; Director
Gilbert Fiorentino 49 Chief Executive of the Company’ s Technology Products Group; Director
Lawrence P. Reinhold 49 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Director
Thomas Axmacher 49 Vice President and Controller
Curt S. Rush 55 General Counsel and Secretary
For biographical information about Richard Leeds, Bruce Leeds, Robert Leeds, Gilbert Fiorentino and Lawrence Reinhold, see pages
1-2 of this Proxy Statement.
Thomas Axmacher was appointed Vice President and Controller of the Company effective October 2, 2006. He was previously
Chief Financial Officer of Curative Health Services, Inc., a publicly traded health care company. He held that position from 2001 to
2006. From 1991 to 2001 Mr. Axmacher served as Vice President and Controller of that company. From 1986 to 1991 Mr. Axmacher
served as Vice President and Controller of Tempo Instrument Group, an electronics manufacturer. Mr. Axmacher received his B.S.
degree in Accounting in 1982 from Albany University and his M.B.A. in 1992 from Long Island University.
Curt S. Rush has been General Counsel and Secretary of the Company since 1996. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rush was
employed from 1993 to 1996 as Corporate Counsel to Globe Communications Corp. and from 1990 to 1993 as Corporate Counsel to
the Image Bank, Inc. Prior to that, he was a corporate attorney with the law firms of Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman and
Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis. Mr. Rush graduated from Hunter College in 1981 with a B.A. degree in Philosophy and graduated
with honors from Brooklyn Law School in 1984 where he was Second Circuit Review Editor of the Law Review. He was admitted to
the Bar of the State of New York in 1985.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL
OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
The following table provides certain information regarding the beneficial ownership of the Shares as of April 22, 2009, by (i) each
of the Directors, (ii) each of the officers listed in the summary compensation table, (iii) all current Directors and officers as a group and
(iv) each person known to the Company to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of any class of the Company’ s voting securities.
As used in this table “beneficial ownership” means the sole or shared power to vote or direct the voting or to dispose or direct the
disposition of any security. A person is deemed as of any date to have “beneficial ownership” of any security that such person owns or
has a right to acquire within 60 days after such date. Any security that any person named above has the right to acquire within 60 days
is deemed to be outstanding for purposes of calculating the ownership percentage of such person, but is not deemed to be outstanding
for purposes of calculating the ownership percentage of any other person. Unless otherwise stated, each person owns the reported
shares directly and has the sole right to vote and determine whether to dispose of such shares.