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19
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, 2011.
Name
Age
Position
Richard Leeds
51
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Director
Bruce Leeds
55
Vice Chairman; Director
Robert Leeds
55
Vice Chairman; Director; Interim Chief Executive of the Company’ s Technology
Products Group
Lawrence Reinhold
51
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Director
Thomas Axmacher
52
Vice President and Controller
Curt Rush
57
General Counsel and Secretary
Benjamin White
42
Vice President and Internal Auditor
Gilbert Fiorentino1
51
Chief Executive of the Company’ s Technology Products Group; Director
For biographical information about Richard Leeds, Bruce Leeds, Robert Leeds and Lawrence Reinhold, see page 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.
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. Mr. Fiorentino was selected to serve
1 As previously reported in the Company’ s Form 8-K filed on April 20, 2011, on April 18, 2011 the Company notified Mr.
Fiorentino that it intends to terminate his employment pursuant to the terms of his employment agreement. As required by his
agreement, the Company has scheduled a meeting of its Executive Committee for May 3, 2011 to address this matter. Following
that meeting, the Company will make its final determination as to his employment. Mr. Fiorentino has been placed on
administrative leave pending the outcome of the meeting. See “Employment Arrangements of the Named Executive Officers-
Gilbert Fiorentino” at page 33 and “Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change of Control- Gilbert Fiorentino” at page 40
for additional information.