Board of Directors
Allan C. Silber,
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Silber was elected to the Board of Directors as a Class II director in September 2001. He was appointed as Chairman of the Board in November 2001, a position he held until October 2004, and was again appointed as Chairman of the Board in March 2005. Mr. Silber is the Chairman and CEO of Counsel Corporation, which he founded in 1979. Mr. Silber attended McMaster University and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto.
Hal B. Heaton,
Director. Dr. Heaton was appointed by the Board of Directors as a Class II director on June 14, 2000 to fill a board vacancy. In March 2005, Mr. Heaton was appointed as Chairman of the Special Committee of Independent Directors. From 1982 to present he has been a professor of Finance at Brigham Young University and between 1988 and 1990 was a visiting professor of Finance at Harvard University. Dr. Heaton is a director of MITY Enterprises, Inc., a publicly traded manufacturer of furniture in Orem, Utah. Dr. Heaton holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Mathematics and a Master’s in Business Administration from Brigham Young University, as well as a Master’s degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford University.
Samuel L. Shimer,
Director. Mr. Shimer was appointed by the Board of Directors as a Class I director on April 15, 2001 to fill a board vacancy. He was appointed Senior Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions and Business Development on February 12, 2003 and he terminated his employment with the Company on February 27, 2004 to join Whitney & Co., an asset management company. From 1997 to February 2003 he was employed by Counsel as a Managing Director. From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Shimer worked at two merchant banking funds affiliated with Lazard Frères & Co., Center Partners and Corporate Partners, ultimately serving as a Principal. Mr. Shimer earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master’s of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.
Henry Y. L. Toh,
Director. The Board of Directors elected Mr. Toh as a Class II director and as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in April 1992. Mr. Toh became President of C2 in May 1993, Acting Chief Financial Officer in September 1995 and Chairman of the Board in May 1996, and served as such through September 1996. Mr. Toh was appointed as Chairman of the Audit Committee in March 2005. Mr. Toh has served as a director of Four M International Inc, a private investment firm, since 1992; a director of iDNA, Inc. (previously National Auto Credit, Inc.) since December 1998; a director of Teletouch Communications, Inc., a retail provider of internet, cellular and paging services, since November 2001; and a director of Isolagen, Inc., a biotechnology company, since 2003. Mr. Toh has been a director and Chief Executive Officer of Amerique Investments since 1992. Mr. Toh is a graduate of Rice University.
David Turock,
Mr. David L. Turock joined the C2 Global Technologies board on January 16, 2008. He has extensive experience in the telecommunications industry. He began his career with AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1982 and Bell Communications Research in 1988, and subsequently founded enhanced telephone service provider, Call Sciences. He later formed Interexchange, which designed and operated one of the world’s largest debit card systems.
Mr. Turock received his B.S. in Experimental Psychology from Syracuse University, his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Cognitive Psychology from Rutgers University, and his M.S.E. in Computer Science from the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Turock is the inventor of the Company’s U.S. Patent No. 6,243,373 (the “VoIP Patent”), entitled “Method and Apparatus for Implementing a Computer Network/Internet Telephone System”.
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