People: Arden Group Inc (ARDNA.O)


ARDNA.O on Consolidated Issue listed on NASDAQ Global Market

107.35USD
19 Jun 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Bernard Briskin

87 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer

Laura Neumann

49 2009 Chief Financial Officer

Kenneth Goldman

69 2001 Director

M. Mark Albert

50 2007 Independent Director

John Danhakl

56 1995 Independent Director

Robert Davidow

69 1993 Independent Director

Steven Romick

48 2003 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

Bernard Briskin

Mr. Bernard Briskin is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Arden Group, Inc. He has been a director of the Company since 1970, including his service as a director of the predecessor to the Company. Mr. Briskin has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 1978. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Arden-Mayfair, Inc. and Chairman of the Board and President of Mayfair Realty, Inc., both subsidiaries of the Company, and Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of AMG Holdings, Inc. and Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Gelson’s Markets, both subsidiaries of Arden-Mayfair, Inc.

Laura Neumann

Ms. Laura J. Neumann is Chief Financial Officer of Arden Group, Inc. since December 11, 2009. Ms. Neumann also serves as Chief Financial Officer of Arden-Mayfair, Inc. and Gelson’s Markets. She was employed by the Company as its Senior Director of Financial Reporting and Compliance from December 2006 to December 2009. Ms. Neumann also served as the Director of Financial Reporting and Compliance of the Company from May 2003 through November 2006 and has been with the Company since May 1999. From July 2005 to December 2009, in the absence of a Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Neumann acted in a similar capacity as the Principal Financial Officer of the Company.

Kenneth Goldman

Mr. Kenneth A. Goldman is Director of Ardna Group Inc. since 2001. Effective April 1, 2012, Mr. Goldman established his own independent law firm. Previously, he has been an attorney and partner with Reed Smith LLP, an international law firm, since 2003. He was an attorney and director in the law firm of Crosby Heafey Roach & May, a Professional Corporation, from September 2000 to December 2002 and for more than five years prior thereto, an attorney and principal of Sanders, Barnet, Goldman, Simons & Mosk, a Professional Corporation.

M. Mark Albert

Mr. M. Mark Albert is an Independent Director of Arden Group Inc. since 2007. He serves on the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee of the Company. Mr. Albert has been a managing director of Crescent Capital Group, LP, a private investment management firm, since January of 2011. Prior thereto, he was managing director of TCW/Crescent Mezzanine, LLC from August 2006 to December 2010, a managing director of Legacy Partners Group, LLC from February 2005 to July 2006, a partner of AV Advisory, LLC from July 2004 to February 2005, a managing director of CIBC World Markets from March 2002 to June 2004 and a director of Leveraged Finance of Credit Suisse First Boston from October 1999 to February 2002.

John Danhakl

Mr. John G. Danhakl is an Independent Director of Arden Group Inc. since 1995. He has been a managing partner of Leonard Green & Partners, L.P., a private equity firm, since March 1995. Prior thereto, he was managing director of the Los Angeles office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenerette Securities Corporation, which he joined in 1990 and where he worked with Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. as its lead investment banker. Mr. Danhakl presently serves on the Board of Directors of Air Lease Corporation, HITS, Inc., IMS Health, Inc., J.Crew Group, Inc., Leslie’s Poolmart, Inc., Animal Health International, Inc. (formerly Lextron, Inc.), The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc., Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. and the Tire Rack, Inc. He previously served on the Board of Directors of AsianMedia Group, LLC, Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, Communications and Power Industries, Inc., Diamond Triumph Auto Glass, Inc., Liberty Group Publishing, Inc., MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., Phoenix Scientific, Inc., Rite Aid Corporation, Sagittarius Brands, Inc. and VCA Antech, Inc. Mr. Danhakl serves on the Investment Committee and as the chairman of the Compensation and the Nominating Committees of the Company.

Robert Davidow

Mr. Robert A. Davidow is an Independent Director of Arden Group Inc. since 1993. For more than the past five years, he has been a private investor. Prior thereto, he was a director of WHX, Inc., a public corporation, and from 1976 to 1990, director of High Yield Research at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Davidow worked for a number of Wall Street firms as a securities analyst from 1968 to 1976, and from 1964 to 1968, he was an auditor with S.D. Leidesdorf. Mr. Davidow serves on the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and as chairman of the Investment Committee of the Company.

Steven Romick

Mr. Steven Romick is an Independent Director of Arden Group, Inc. since 2003. He has been an investment advisor and member of First Pacific Advisors, LLC, an investment advisory firm, for more than the past five years. Mr. Romick has served as Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Company since 2005 and on account of his financial and accounting knowledge, has been determined to be an “audit committee financial expert.” Mr. Romick has 27 years of finance experience, including analyzing and investing in public companies.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Bernard Briskin

1,219,730

Laura Neumann

240,338

Kenneth Goldman

--

M. Mark Albert

--

John Danhakl

--

Robert Davidow

--

Steven Romick

--
As Of 30 Dec 2011

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