Mr. Ginsburg has served as our director and Chief Executive Officer since April 2001 and President since July 2001. Mr. Ginsburg holds a BS in communications from the University of Miami. He was a founder of Guardian International, a security monitoring company, and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from August 1996 to April 2001.
Alex Hocherman
Mr. Hocherman was appointed to our Board as a Quadrangle designee in April 2009. Mr. Hocherman joined Quadrangle Group LLC, an affiliate of POIA, in 2006 and is a Vice President focused on the firm's media and communications private equity business. Prior to joining Quadrangle, Mr. Hocherman was an Associate at Bain Capital where he focused on private equity investments. He also worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company. He received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he was the Ford Fellow and a Palmer Scholar, and graduated with a BA, magna cum laude, in economics from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Raymond C. Kubacki
Mr. Kubacki has served as our director since the IASG merger in April 2007. Mr. Kubacki served as a director of IASG from June 2004 until the IASG merger and was a member of IASG's audit, independent, compensation and governance and nominating committees. Since July 1991, Mr. Kubacki has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Psychemedics Corporation, a public biotechnology company with a proprietary drug test product. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Psychemedics since November 2003. Prior to joining Psychemedics, he held senior management positions in marketing and operations with Reliance Electric Company and ACME Cleveland Corporation and was an investment officer for Massachusetts Investors Trust, a major mutual fund investment management company. He is also a trustee for the Center for Excellence in Education based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kubacki received his AB and MBA from Harvard University.
Robert J. McGuire
Mr. McGuire has served as our director since March 2005. Mr. McGuire holds an LL.M. from New York University Law School, a JD from Saint John's University Law School and a BA from Iona College. Mr. McGuire is an attorney and consultant with offices in New York City. Mr. McGuire is a former Assistant United States Attorney and a former New York City Police Commissioner. He is a former Chairman and Chief Executive of Pinkerton's Inc. and former President of Kroll Associates, Inc. Mr. McGuire serves on the Boards of Artio Global Funds, Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, and Six Flags, Inc.
Jeffrey S. Nordhaus
Mr. Nordhaus was appointed to our Board as a Quadrangle designee in December 2008. Mr. Nordhaus is a Managing Principal of Quadrangle Group LLC, an affiliate of POIA. Mr. Nordhaus holds an AB degree with honors from Harvard University. Prior to joining Quadrangle in 2001, Mr. Nordhaus was a Vice President in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Company. Mr. Nordhaus also serves on the following boards: Dice Holdings, a publicly traded online recruitment company; Bresnan Broadband Holdings and Cequel Communications Holdings, privately-held U.S. broadband cable television providers; and Get, a Norwegian cable broadband provider.
Thomas J. Russo
Mr. Russo has served as our director since April 2007 as a Monarch designee. Mr. Russo has served as a partner and president of StepStone Hospitality, a hotel and restaurant management company, since 2007. Mr. Russo has 40 years of management experience in domestic and international operations of foodservice, lodging and consumer goods companies. Mr. Russo holds a BS degree from Fordham University and a degree of Doctor of Business Administration in Foodservice Management from Johnson and Wales University. Mr. Russo is Vice Chairman of Leadership Roundtable and past Chairman of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association. He serves on the boards of the National Restaurant Association, Oneida Ltd and Margarita, Inc.
Edward Sippel
Mr. Sippel was appointed to our Board as a Quadrangle designee in April 2008. Mr. Sippel is a Managing Principal of Quadrangle Group LLC, an affiliate of POIA. Mr. Sippel holds a BA degree from Georgetown University. Prior to joining Quadrangle in 2007, Mr. Sippel was a Managing Director and Partner at TVG Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Hong Kong, from its inception in 1998 to 2007. Prior to joining TVG Capital Partners, Mr. Sippel was with the Asian Infrastructure Fund in Hong Kong and Morgan Stanley's Global Communications Group in New York.
Michael Weinstock
Mr. Weinstock has served as our director since February 2005 as a Monarch designee. He is Managing Principal of Monarch Alternative Capital LP, an affiliate of the Monarch Stockholders. Mr. Weinstock holds a BS in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Monarch's predecessor in 2002, Mr. Weinstock was a Managing Director of Lazard Freres & Co. and was an investment banker with Salomon Brothers and Goldman Sachs.
Arlene M. Yocum
Ms. Yocum has served as our director since the IASG merger in April 2007. Ms. Yocum served as director of IASG from October 2005 until the IASG merger and was the chairperson of both the governance and nominating committee and the independent director committee. Ms. Yocum has served as Executive Vice President, Managing Executive of PNC Wealth Management Group, since 2003. From 2000 to 2003 Ms. Yocum was an Executive Vice President of the Institutional Investment Group of PNC Wealth Management. From 1993 to 2000, Ms. Yocum held management and executive positions within PNC. Ms. Yocum also serves as a director of Key Energy Services, Inc., which is headquartered in Houston, TX. Ms. Yocum is a Trustee and Vice President of the Philadelphia Community College foundation and a member of the American Bankers Association Wealth Management and Trust Conference Board.