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Audit and Ethics
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Nominating and Governance
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Compensation
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Howard Lee Morgan
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Howard Lee Morgan has served as a Director and Chairman of our Board of Directors since 1999. Dr. Morgan has also been a director of Idealab, a creator and operator of technology companies, since March 2002 and also was a director of Idealab from 1999 to 2001. Dr. Morgan served as President of Idealab New York from 2000 to 2001, and as Vice Chairman until December 2002. Since 1989, Dr. Morgan has also been President of Arca Group, Inc., a consulting and investment management firm specializing in the areas of computers and communications technologies. He serves as a Chairman for Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., and a number of private companies, including Videoegg, Desktop Factory, Snap, and others. Since January 2005, he has been a partner in First Round Capital, a seed-stage venture fund. Dr. Morgan has a B.S. from City University of New York and a Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University.
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Robert N. Brisco
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Chief Executive Officer, President, and Director Robert N. Brisco has been Chief Executive Officer, President, and Director since 1999. From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Brisco served as the President of Universal Studios Hollywood Theme Park, an entertainment company, and Citywalk, an entertainment and shopping complex. Prior to Universal, Mr. Brisco was Senior Vice President of Advertising, Marketing, and New Business Development for The Los Angeles Times, a newspaper company, from 1993 to 1998. Prior to that, Mr. Brisco was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. and the Boston Consulting Group, where he specialized in media and consumer products. Mr. Brisco has a B.A. from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Mr. Brisco's blog can be accessed by clicking here.
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Kenneth B. Gilman
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Kenneth B. Gilman has served as a Director since January 2002. Mr. Gilman was the Chief Executive Officer of Asbury Automotive Group, an automotive retailing and services company, from 2001 to May 2007. Previously, from 1976 to 2001, Mr. Gilman was employed in a variety of capacities with Limited Brands, a specialty apparel retailer, where his most recent assignment was Chief Executive Officer of Lane Bryant. From 1993 to 2001, Mr. Gilman served as Vice Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer of Limited Brands, with responsibility for finance, information technology, supply chain management, production, real estate, legal and internal audit. From 1987 to 1993, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Limited Brands. He joined Limited Brands' executive committee in 1987 and was elected to its board of directors in 1990. Mr. Gilman has a B.B.A. from Pace University.
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Marcia Goodstein
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Marcia Goodstein has served as a Director at since the company's inception in 1998 and since August 2004. Ms. Goodstein has served as Idealab's Chief Operating Officer since 1998 and President since 2000. Ms. Goodstein serves on the board of directors of several private companies. Ms. Goodstein has a B.A. from Pomona College.
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William Gross
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William Gross has served as a Director since the company's inception in 1998. Mr. Gross is founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Idealab. Mr. Gross serves on the board of directors of several private companies. Mr. Gross sits on the board of trustees of the California Institute of Technology. Mr. Gross has a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology.
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Martin R. Melone
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Martin R. Melone has served as a Director since August 2005. Mr. Melone was a partner of Ernst & Young, LLP, an accounting firm, from 1975 to 2001. Currently, Mr. Melone serves on the boards of Countrywide Financial Corporation, where he is chairman of the audit and ethics committee, Countrywide Bank, FSB and Public Counsel Law Center and serves as a trustee of the California Science Center Foundation. Mr. Melone is a member of the Board of Regents for Santa Clara University and the Advisory Board for Markula Center for Applied Ethics. Mr. Melone has a B.S.C. from Santa Clara University, and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
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James R. Ukropina
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James R. Ukropina has served as a Director since February 2006. Mr. Ukropina has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Directions, LLC, a management and strategic consulting firm, since 2001. Previously, Mr. Ukropina was a partner with the law firm O'Melveny & Myers LLP until 2000, and continues to practice with the firm as Of Counsel. Mr. Ukropina serves on the boards of Lockheed Martin Corporation, Pacific Life Corp., The TCW Group, Inc., Central Natural Resources and the Keck Foundation. Mr. Ukropina has a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Stanford University, and LL.B. from the University of Southern California.
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