Executive team

Peter McDonald comes to SuperMedia with tremendous depth of successful experience in the Yellow Pages directory advertising and publication industry and in its evolution, with more than 35 years in the industry. He began his career as a sales trainee with National Telephone Directory Company (NTDC) in New Jersey in 1973, one of the predecessor companies that are now SuperMedia. He was with NTDC for twelve years and during that time rose to Vice President – General Manager, before being recruited to join RH Donnelley (RHD) (now known as Dex One Corporation), where he was at various times responsible for its New York and independent markets, including Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Florida and Washington D.C. During his tenure at RHD, which began in 2002, he held several positions of increasing responsibility and was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of RHD in 2004, serving in that capacity until 2008.

McDonald’s career also included service as President and Chief Executive Officer of SBC Directory Operations from October 1999 to April 2000, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Ameritech Publishing’s Yellow Pages business prior to its acquisition by SBC in 1999, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dontech Publishing, a partnership between RHD and Ameritech Publishing, from 1993 to 1994 and Executive Vice President and General Manager of Donnelly Information Publishing from 1987 to 1993. McDonald has also served on a number of boards, including those of RH Donnelly Corporation, CMGI Inc., and the Yellow Pages Publishers Association, where he served as Vice Chairman.

Frank Gatto is executive vice president — operations responsible for SuperMedia's operations functions, including billing and collections; customer care; information technology for print products; Headquarters marketing and strategic planning; sales operations; production and publishing; printing; and directory distribution. He also served as acting Chief Executive Officer for SuperMedia from February through June 2008.

Before his operations position, Gatto served as president for the northeastern United States for SuperMedia and for Verizon Information Services (VIS). Before that, he was VIS senior vice president for operations support. Previously, he was vice president - finance and chief financial officer for the Puerto Rico Telephone Company, where he had served from September 1999 to September 2001. Gatto began his company career in 1978 and advanced through several positions including assistant vice president - investment and strategic planning for GTE Service Corp., vice president - finance and planning for GTE Airfone and director - budgets and plans for GTE Wireless.

Gatto earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Villanova University and a master's of business administration degree in finance from Boston College.

Del Humenik serves as our Executive Vice President Sales - East, with responsibility for ensuring that SuperMedia provides local businesses in the eastern United States with effective Yellow Pages, local search, and direct mail advertising tailored to their specific needs.

Before assuming his current role in November 2010, Humenik was Senior Vice President - Sales & Marketing for Paychex Inc. While there, he led a team of approximately 2,000 people in the sales, marketing, and business development organizations.

Prior to his role at Paychex Inc., he was Senior Vice President and General Manager for R.H. Donnelly Corporation. Until 2003, he was employed by SuperMedia’s predecessor companies for nearly 20 years, holding various sales management and executive positions.

Humenik is a native of Philadelphia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in consumer economics from the University of Delaware

Samuel D. (Dee) Jones is executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer for SuperMedia. As the primary liaison with the investment community, Jones is responsible for investor relations programs; for strategic communications with shareholders, both institutional and individual; for leading the mergers and acquisitions team in financially beneficial transactions; and for managing the company's external communications function.

Prior to his current assignment, Jones was executive director - financial reporting and analysis and mergers and acquisitions for Verizon Information Services (VIS). Jones has also served as executive director - sales support for VIS' International operations.

Jones began his career as manager - cost accounting for GTE Southwest. He advanced through positions of increasing responsibility including, manager - regulatory accounting for GTE Central and director - general accounting and financial reporting for GTE Directories. He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in accounting from Angelo State University.

Steve Nord serves as our Executive Vice President Sales - West, with responsibility for ensuring SuperMedia provides local businesses in the western United States with effective Yellow Pages, local search, and direct mail solutions. On a national level, he oversees SuperMedia’s national sales channel, its Texas-based telephone sales group, and its Internet Division Sales team.

Before his appointment at SuperMedia in November 2010, he served as Regional Vice President – Southwest for Dex Media, leading its sales organization in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico.

From 2000 to 2002, Nord was Vice President – Sales Operations for SBC Directory Operations (now AT&T) following its acquisition of Ameritech Publishing. For the five years prior to that, he was General Sales Manager/Vice President – Ohio and Wisconsin, a role to which he was appointed after serving as General Sales Manager from 1993 to 1995 and Vice President – Sales and Marketing from 1990 to 1993.

Before joining Ameritech, Nord’s career already included nearly 15 years at L.M. Berry, where he advanced through roles of increasing responsibility. He began his career there in 1976 as a Yellow Pages sales representative in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota.

Nord’s leadership experience also includes serving on numerous committees and boards, including the Yellow Pages Publishers Association.

Georgia Scaife is responsible for SuperMedia's human resources and employee administration services, including associate relations, compensation and benefits, payroll administration, training and development, staffing, diversity, business compliance and employee communications.

Previously, Scaife was vice president - human resources for Verizon Information Services. Before that, she served as vice president - staffing services for talent acquisition and staffing operations for Verizon and as vice president - human resources for Puerto Rico Telephone Co. She has experience in various human resources fields, including labor and employee relations, compensation, benefits, strategy and planning, recruitment and staffing, succession planning, leadership development and Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action.

She serves as president of the board of directors of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre and was selected as a “2010 Most Powerful and Influential Woman of Texas” by the National Diversity Council.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from the University of California.

Matthew J. Stover is Executive Vice President - Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for driving the company’s growth strategy and marketing functions across print, online, mobile and social media, as well as overseeing business development and partnership relationships.

Before joining SuperMedia, Stover was Chief Executive Officer of Local Matters, Inc., which provides online search and advertising products and solutions for leading directory publishers and real estate portals in 16 countries. From 2005 to 2008, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ypOne Publishing, LP, a closely held company providing print and online yellow pages directories in the United States and Canada, prior to which he was a director and executive and several public and private companies.

Stover served from 1994 through 1999 as group president of Bell Atlantic Directory Group and president and CEO of its predecessor companies, Bell Atlantic Information Services Group and NYNEX Information Resources Company, where he oversaw the $2.4 billion domestic print white and Yellow Pages publishing business, created the United States’ first national Yellow Pages on the Internet, BigYellow, as well as the successful web@once suite of website creation, copywriting and hosting products; established BellAtlantic.net as a major Internet Service Provider; and created Global Directory Services, Inc., which provided print and online shopping directory services in China, Greece, Poland and the Czech and Slovak Republics. He is a past director and chairman of the board of the Yellow Pages Association.

Stover is a graduate of Yale University and the Executive Program of the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. He is a director of Local Matters, Inc., and Mobile Search Security, LLC, as well as on the advisory boards of several private businesses. He is vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Chester College of New England and a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development.

Cody Wilbanks serves as SuperMedia's chief legal officer, with responsibility for legal, compliance and security functions.

Prior to his appointment, Wilbanks was vice president, associate general counsel - Commercial Operations for SuperMedia.

From 1987 through 2006, Wilbanks was employed by Verizon Communications Inc. and its predecessor GTE Incorporated, in the legal departments of various business units, including GTE Southwest Inc., GTE Telephone Operations World Headquarters, GTE Airfone Inc. and GTE's competitive local exchange telecommunications subsidiary GTE Communications Corp. Wilbanks successfully served in a number of increasingly responsible positions across a broad range of legal disciplines, including vice president - general counsel of Airfone. He began his assignment at Verizon Information Services, in 2000. He remained in SuperMedia's legal department following its spin-off from Verizon in 2006.

Wilbanks earned a bachelors degree in history from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1975, and in 1981 he graduated with high honors from SMU's Dedman School of Law, earning a juris doctor degree. Wilbanks began his legal career in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps as a Regular Army Captain, where he served as a criminal prosecutor. After his military service, he was an associate attorney with the law firm of Vinson & Elkins in Austin, Texas, from 1984 to 1987, practicing in tax-exempt finance and regulatory law.

Since 1997, Wilbanks has continuously held the highest peer review ratings awarded in the legal profession -- Martindale-Hubbell's AV® rating -- for very high to pre-eminent legal ability and ethical standards. He has been active in coaching youth sports and in community service, having recently served four years (two as president) on the board of directors for Captain Hope's Kids Inc., a non-profit corporation that provides clothing and other critical needs to homeless infants and children in the North Texas area.