Corporate governance

Edward Bayone has taught full time at Brandeis University’s International Business since 2003 and is the Earle W. Kazis Professor of the Practice of Finance and International Real Estate. He currently serves as an advisor to Churchill Financial, LLC, a commercial finance and asset management company founded by Bear Stearns Merchant Banking (now known as Irving Place Capital) and served as a board member from 2006 to 2009.

Bayone was formerly a financial consultant to various corporate clients from 2003 to 2006. Prior to this, he held numerous positions at FleetBoston Financial Group, and its predecessors, from 1979 to 2002, including Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer.

Bayone has a M.I.A. in Banking and Finance from Columbia University, a M.A. in History from the University of Rochester, and a B.A. in History from Queens College.

He is also a member of the board of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston and serves on the Budget and Administration Committee.

Robert C. Blattberg is currently the Timothy W. McGuire Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and the director of the Center for Marketing Technology and Information at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.

From 1991-2008, Blattberg was a professor and director of the Center for Retail Management at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Prior to this, he was a professor and director of the Center for Marketing Information Technology at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Blattberg has a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie-Mellon University and a B.A. in Mathematics from Northwestern University. He has received numerous research grants from various organizations and has also been honored with a number of awards, including Best Paper in 2005 from the Journal of Interactive Marketing, Educator of the Year in 2004 from the Sales and Marketing Executives organization, and the Robert B. Clarke Award as the Direct Marketing Association Educator of the Year in 1990.

Blattberg has also authored and published a wide array of books, industry reports, and articles focused on various topics in marketing and economics.

Charles B. Carden currently serves on the board of directors for Ivox Corporation, a privately-held software company that provides driver-based risk management information to fleets and insurance companies. He also currently serves on the Advisory Board of Dialog Medical, a privately-held software company.

Carden previously served as a director and member of the Audit and Compensation Committees for Goldleaf Financial Solutions, a publicly held financial software and services company which was acquired by Jack Henry and Associates in October 2009. He also previously served as a director and member of the Compensation Committee for Netzee, a provider of internet banking and bill payment services that was acquired by Certegy. From 1999 to 2007, Carden held the positions of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for John H. Harland Company, a provider of products and services to the financial institution and education markets. Prior to this, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Mariner Post-Acute Network and the Senior Vice President, Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer for Leaseway Transportation Corp.

In addition, he has served as a director of Fairmont Theatre for the Deaf and the Bellflower Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse. Carden has an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. in Mathematics from Westminster College. He also served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971.

Robin Domeniconi has served as Senior Vice President, Chief Brand Officer for the Elle Group since July 2010. From 2008 to June 2010, she served as Vice President, US Microsoft Advertising for Microsoft Corporation. From 2007 to 2008, Domeniconi was the Senior Advisor/Media & Digital of Avista Capital Partners.

Prior to this, she was with Time Warner as President of Time, Inc. Media Group from 2005 to 2007 and as President and Publisher of Real Simple from 1999 to 2005. Domeniconi has also served for Meredith Corporation as Publisher of Country Home and Country Gardens Magazine and Golf for Women Magazine. She was previously an Associate Publisher of Arts & Antiques Magazine for Transworld Publishing and a National Sales Manager for Communities Magazine.

Domeniconi has a B.A. from the University of Florida.

Thomas Gardner has previously served as a trustee for Northern Westchester Hospital and Reader’s Digest Foundation, and is currently a trustee for Guideposts. He most recently served as Executive Vice President of Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. from 2006 to 2007, and was President of Reader’s Digest International from 2003 to 2007.

Prior to holding those positions, he also held numerous other positions with Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. from 1992 to 2007, including President, North American Books and Home Entertainment; President, Global Marketing; Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and U.S. New Business Development; Vice President, Marketing, Reader’s Digest USA; and Director, Corporate Planning.

From 1989 to 1992, Gardner was a Management Consultant for McKinsey & Co. Other experience includes time with General Foods Corporation in Product Management, Desserts Division, and with Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., Industrial and Corporate Communications division, in Project Management.

Gardner has an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. in Political Science from Williams College.

David E. Hawthorne has been with Hawthorne Management LLC since 2005, a firm that develops, owns, and operates commercial real estate in central Florida. He previously served as a consultant to Friedman’s Inc., assisting the jewelry retailer in investigating operating and financial issues.

From 2001 to 2003, Hawthorne was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Lodgian, Inc., an independent hotel owner and operator. He was also a consultant for FTI Consulting, Inc. from 2000 to 2001, during which he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Restructuring Officer of Tower Records, Inc. Hawthorne has also served as the acting Chief Executive Officer of Premier Cruise Lines, the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alliance Entertainment Corporation, and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Servico Hotels and Resorts, Inc.

Hawthorne has an M.B.A. from the University of Tampa and a B.A. from the University of South Florida. In addition, he served in the U.S. Army from 1970 to 1972.

Scott W. Klein has been chief executive officer for SuperMedia and a member of the SuperMedia Board of Directors since June 2008. Klein previously served as an operating partner of Symphony Technology Group, a private investment firm, since November 1, 2007. From January 2004 to October 2007, Klein served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Information Resources, Inc., a provider of information solutions for the consumer packaged goods, retail, and healthcare industries.

Prior to joining Information Resources, Klein served as President, Consumer Industries, Retail & Energy Global Industry Group of Electronic Data Systems Corporation from July 2001 to January 2004.

Klein also held management positions with PC Mall, Inc., PrimeSource Building Products, Inc., Guardian Purchasing Corp., PepsiCo, Inc., and The Procter & Gamble Company earlier in his career.

Thomas S. Rogers has served as a director of SuperMedia since November 2006. He serves as a member of the Human Resources Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Rogers currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of TiVo Inc., a position he has held since July 2005. He also currently serves on the board of directors of TiVo Inc., a provider of television-based interactive and entertainment services.

Rogers previously served as chairman of the board of Teleglobe International Holdings, Ltd., a provider of international voice, data, internet, and mobile roaming services, from November 2004 to February 2006. He also has served as chairman of TRget Media LLC, a media industry investment and operations advisory firm, since July 2003. Rogers served as the senior operating executive for media and entertainment for Cerberus Capital Management, a large private equity firm, from 2004 to July 2005.

Prior to holding that position, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of Primedia, Inc., a print, video, and online media company, from October 1999 to April 2003. From January 1987 until October 1999, Mr. Rogers held positions with National Broadcast Company, Inc., including president of NBC Cable and executive vice president.

John Slater is a Vice President at Paulson & Co. Inc. where he focuses on investments in the media, telecom and technology sectors. Slater joined Paulson in January 2009. Previously, he was a Vice President at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital where he worked from 2004 to 2008 in the Global Trading Strategies group focusing on investments in the media and other sectors.

Prior to Lehman, he was Senior Director, Finance and Strategy at NextSet Software Inc., a financial trading systems software vendor. He started his career as an Associate Consultant at Burlington Consultants, a strategy consultancy based in London.

He holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MA and BA from the University of Cambridge and he is a CFA Charterholder.

Douglas Wheat serves as the chairman of the board. Wheat also serves as chairman of AMN Healthcare Services Inc., one of the leading temporary healthcare staffing companies in the world.  He previously served as a director of Playtex Products Inc. from 1995 to 2007, including serving as Chairman from 2004 to 2006.

Among other boards, Mr. Wheat has served as a member of the boards of Dr. Pepper/Seven-Up Companies Inc., Thermadyne Industries Inc., Sybron International Corporation, Smarte Carte Corporation, Nebraska Book Corporation and ALC Communications Corporation.  Since 2008, he has served as Managing Partner of Southlake Equity Group (formerly Challenger Equity Group), a private investment firm.

Prior to Southlake Equity Group, he served as co-founder and chairman of Foxbridge Partners, a private equity firm from 2006 to 2007 and as president of Haas Wheat & Partners , a private investment firm specializing in strategic equity investments and leveraged buyouts of middle market companies from 1992 to 2006.  Mr. Wheat also held various leadership and senior management positions at Grauer & Wheat and Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation earlier in his career.