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17
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, 2010.
Name
Age
Office
Richard Leeds
50
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Director
Bruce Leeds
54
Vice Chairman; Director
Robert Leeds
54
Vice Chairman; Director
Gilbert Fiorentino
50
Chief Executive of the Company’ s Technology Products Group; Director
Lawrence Reinhold
50
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Director
Thomas Axmacher
51
Vice President and Controller
Curt Rush
56
General Counsel and Secretary
Benjamin White
41
Vice President and Internal Auditor
For biographical information about Richard Leeds, Bruce Leeds, Robert Leeds, Gilbert Fiorentino and Lawrence Reinhold, see pages
8-9 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 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.
Benjamin White was appointed Vice President and Internal Auditor on November 16, 2009. He joined the Company in 2007 from
Black & Decker, where he was Director of Internal Controls and Compliance. Prior to that, he was a Senior Manager in the public
accounting firm of Ernst & Young. Mr. White has over 15 years of internal and external audit experience.