Harvey P. Eisen has been a director since 2002 and chairman of the board since April 2005. He has been chairman and managing member of Bedford Oak Management LLC since 1998. Prior thereto Mr. Eisen served as senior vice president of Travelers Inc. and of Primerica prior to its merger with Travelers in 1993. Mr. Eisen has over thirty years of asset management experience is often consulted by the national media for his views on all phases of the investment marketplace and is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal The New York Times PensionWorld U.S. News & World Report Financial World and Business Week among others. Mr. Eisen also appears regularly on such television programs as Wall Street Week CNN and CNBC. Mr. Eisen is a trustee of the University of Missouri Business School where he established the first accredited course on the Warren Buffet principles of investing. Mr. Eisen has also been a director of NPDC since August 2004. He is also a trustee of Rippowam Cisqua School in Bedford New York and the Northern Westchester Hospital Center. |