Jerry E. Polis has been President and a director since 1973. Since 1963 he has been self-employed primarily in real estate investment, and from 1964 to 2002 he owned and operated Polis Realty. From 1968 to the sale of his ownership in January 1997, he was active as a co-owner of the Taco Bell franchises for the State of Nevada (operated under privately owned Las Cal Corporation). In 1994, he co-founded Commercial Bank of Nevada, an unlisted publicly owned bank located in Las Vegas, Nevada, which was sold through a merger to a NYSE bank group in June 1998. He was a director of Commercial Bank from 1994 and Chairman from May 1996 until its sale. Mr. Polis graduated from Penn State University with a B.A. Degree in Commerce in 1953. |