People: AeroVironment Inc (AVAV.O)
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
Timothy Conver |
68 | 2007 | Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer |
Jikun Kim |
48 | 2010 | Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President |
Thomas Herring |
52 | 2012 | Chief Operating Officer |
Roy Minson |
50 | 2012 | Senior Vice President and General Manager - Unmanned Aircraft Systems |
Wahid Nawabi |
43 | 2011 | Senior Vice President and General Manager - Efficient Energy Systems |
Cathleen Cline |
53 | 2008 | Senior Vice President - Administration |
Charles Holland |
66 | 2004 | Director |
Stephen Page |
2013 | Director | |
Joseph Alibrandi |
83 | 1999 | Independent Director |
Kenneth Baker |
65 | 1994 | Independent Director |
Arnold Fishman |
67 | 1998 | Independent Director |
Murray Gell-Mann |
82 | 1971 | Independent Director |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Timothy Conver |
Mr. Timothy E. Conver is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of AeroVironment, Inc. He has served as President since November 1990, as Chief Executive Officer since 1992, and as a member of board of directors since 1988. Prior to joining AeroVironment, Mr. Conver served as President of Whittaker Electronic Resources, a supplier of engineered products for military electronics and industrial instrumentation, for ten years. Mr. Conver is a graduate of the University of Montana and received his M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. |
Jikun Kim |
Mr. Jikun Kim is the Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President of AeroVironment, Inc., since June 22, 2010. He served as Interim Chief Financial Officer since March 31, 2010. Prior to the interim appointment Mr. Kim served as Vice President and Controller since June 2009. Prior to joining AeroVironment, Mr. Kim served with Raytheon Company, a defense contractor, for more than eight years, most recently as Chief Financial Officer of Raytheon Vision Systems. Raytheon Vision Systems is in infrared detector technology focused on design and manufacturing infrared detectors for space, tactical and airborne infrared sensors. Mr. Kim received an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. |
Thomas Herring |
Mr. Thomas Herring is Chief Operating Officer of AeroVironment, Inc. since May 2012 after serving as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, for two years beginning in March 2010. Mr. Herring previously served as Vice President, Strategy for the same business from November 2008 to December 2009 and then as Vice President, Business Development through March 2010. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Herring worked for 27 years with BAE Systems in a succession of positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of Integrated Solutions, a BAE Systems business unit with approximately $150 million in annual revenues and approximately 300 employees. Mr. Herring received a B.B.A from Hofstra University and an M.B.A from Pepperdine University. |
Roy Minson |
Mr. Roy Minson is Senior Vice President and General Manager - Unmanned Aircraft Systems of AeroVironment, Inc. since May 2012, and previously served as the Vice President of Business Development and Deputy General Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, since April 2010. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Minson served as Vice President and Operations Manager for a research and development business within the Tactical Systems and Solutions division of SAIC, a defense contractor, for 5 years, where he was responsible for transitioning products and solutions. Mr. Minson received a B.S. in Industrial Technology from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and an M.B.A. from University of Redlands. |
Wahid Nawabi |
Mr. Wahid Nawabi is Senior Vice President and General Manager - Efficient Energy Systems of AeroVironment Inc., since December 2011. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Nawabi served as Vice President, Global Sales of Altergy Systems, a designer and manufacturer of fuel cell power systems, manufacturer of fuel cell power systems, from March 2010 through November 2011, and as Vice President, Americas, and Vice President, Global Sales for C&D Technologies, a producer and marketer of electrical power storage and conversion products, from February 2009 through March 2010. Prior to joining C&D Technologies, Mr. Nawabi worked for 16 years with American Power Conversion. a provider of power protection products and services, in a succession of positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as Vice President, Enterprise Segment, North America and Canada. Mr. Nawabi has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering for the University of Maryland, College Park. |
Cathleen Cline |
Ms. Cathleen S. Cline is Senior Vice President - Administration of AeroVironment, Inc. Prior to joining the company, Ms. Cline was the Human Resources Manager at both Whittaker Electronic Resources and the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Ms. Cline has a B.S. in psychology and a B.S. in business management from the University of Oregon. |
Charles Holland |
Gen. Retd. Charles Robert Holland is Director of AeroVironment, Inc., since May 2004. Mr. Holland retired as Commander, Headquarters U.S. Special Operations Command, or USSOCOM, in November 2003 and currently serves as an independent consultant for various entities. Mr. Holland has been a consultant of AeroVironment since February 2004. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Holland was responsible for all special operations forces of the Army, Navy and Air Force, both active duty and reserve. Mr. Holland entered the United States Air Force in 1968. He has commanded a squadron, two Air Force wings, served as Deputy Commanding General of the Joint Special Operations Command, and was Commander of the Special Operations Command, Pacific. Prior to commanding USSOCOM, he commanded the Air Force Special Operations and was the Vice Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Mr. Holland serves on the board of directors of SELEX Galileo, Inc., Augusta Westland N.A. Inc., Protonex Technology Corporation, and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, and as an advisor to Cubic Defense Applications Incorporated, General Atomics Technologies Corporation, and Camber Corporation.. Mr. Holland has a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy, an M.S. in business management from Troy State University (W. Germany) and an M.S. in astronautical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. |
Stephen Page |
Mr. Stephen F. Page has been appointed as Director of AeroVironment, Inc., effective April 24, 2013. Mr. Page most recently served on the boards of directors and audit committees of Lowe’s Companies, Inc., PACCAR, Inc. and Liberty Mutual Holding Company Inc., where he was lead director, and on the board of trustees at Loyola Marymount University. He chaired the audit committees at PACCAR and Lowe’s. Mr. Page currently serves as a trustee of Mount St. Mary’s College and the Catholic Education Foundation. Mr. Page spent 20 years with Black & Decker Corporation, first as general counsel for its McCullough Corporation subsidiary, then as treasurer, and finally as executive vice president and chief financial officer at the company’s corporate headquarters in Towson, Md. Following Black & Decker, Mr. Page served in many leadership roles at United Technologies Corporation, including director, vice chairman and chief financial officer, and president and chief executive officer of Otis Elevator, an $8 billion division of the company, before retiring in 2004. Mr. Page holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Loyola Marymount University and a J.D. from Loyola Law School. |
Joseph Alibrandi |
Mr. Joseph F. Alibrandi is an Independent Director of AeroVironment, Inc., since 1999. Mr. Alibrandi has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Alibrandi Associates, a money management firm, since 1999 and is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Whittaker Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of a broad range of fluid control devices and systems for both commercial and military aircraft, as well as various industrial applications. Mr. Alibrandi has also served as a director of BancAmerica Corporation, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Jacobs Engineering, Catellus Development Corp., as Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the International Policy Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the California Business Roundtable's Task Force on Education and as Co-Chairman of President Reagan's Grace Commission. Mr. Alibrandi received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
Kenneth Baker |
Mr. Kenneth R. Baker is an Independent Director of AeroVironment, Inc., since 1994. since 1994. Mr. Baker is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of TechBroker LLC, an independent technology broker in the areas of alternative energy and advanced transportation. Mr. Baker served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Altarum Institute, a not-for-profit research institution from 1999 through 2007, was the founding Chairman of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium and served in a variety of engineering, research and executive management positions with General Motors Corporation, including Program Manager of the Electrovette and EV1 programs, Vice President of Global Research and Development and Vice President/General Manager of its Distributed Energy business venture. Mr. Baker is a member of the board of directors of Energy Power Systems, Inc. and an advisor to EDI, Inc. and is an internationally recognized consultant on business strategy for transportation electrification. Mr. Baker has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Clarkson University. |
Arnold Fishman |
Mr. Arnold L. Fishman is an Independent Director of AeroVironment, Inc., since 1998. Mr. Fishman is the Founder of Lieberman Research Worldwide, a market research firm in the western United States, Interviewing Service of America, a supplier of market survey services, and Location Production Services, Inc., a firm that co-produces films and arranges specialized financial transactions in Croatia. Mr. Fishman has served as the Chairman of Lieberman Research Worldwide and Interviewing Service of America since 1979 and 1983, respectively. Mr. Fishman received his B.S. in psychology from Brooklyn College. |
Murray Gell-Mann |
Dr. Murray Gell-Mann is an Independent Director of AeroVironment, Inc., since 1971. Dr. Gell-Mann is a Co-Founder of the Santa Fe Institute, which is devoted to the interdisciplinary study of scientific problems related to simplicity and complexity and to adaptation and evolution, where he has served as a Distinguished Fellow since 1993. Dr. Gell-Mann is a Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a recipient of the Research Corporation Award and the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute and a 1969 Nobel Prize recipient for physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. Dr. Gell-Mann is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on the President's Science Advisory Committee and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. In addition, as one of the directors (1979 to 2002) of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Dr. Gell-Mann helped found the World Resources Institute, which conducts policy studies on global environmental problems. Dr. Gell-Mann received a B.S. in physics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
Timothy Conver |
1,199,870 |
Jikun Kim |
808,129 |
Thomas Herring |
1,145,200 |
Roy Minson |
-- |
Wahid Nawabi |
610,916 |
Cathleen Cline |
783,025 |
Charles Holland |
-- |
Stephen Page |
-- |
Joseph Alibrandi |
-- |
Kenneth Baker |
-- |
Arnold Fishman |
-- |
Murray Gell-Mann |
-- |
As Of 29 Apr 2012
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
Timothy Conver |
295,587 | 2,958,820 |
Jikun Kim |
0 | 0 |
Thomas Herring |
5,000 | 32,964 |
Roy Minson |
0 | 0 |
Wahid Nawabi |
0 | 0 |
Cathleen Cline |
20,000 | 609,169 |
Charles Holland |
0 | 0 |
Stephen Page |
0 | 0 |
Joseph Alibrandi |
0 | 0 |
Kenneth Baker |
0 | 0 |
Arnold Fishman |
0 | 0 |
Murray Gell-Mann |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
CONVER TIMOTHY E |
3,426 | $20.15 |
CONVER TIMOTHY E |
4,500 | $20.18 |
KIM JIKUN |
968 | $0.00 |
KIM JIKUN |
356 | $19.36 |
CLINE CATHLEEN S |
341 | $19.36 |
HERRING TOM |
403 | $19.36 |
CLINE CATHLEEN S |
777 | $0.00 |
MINSON ROY E |
403 | $19.36 |
MINSON ROY E |
1,097 | $0.00 |
CONVER TIMOTHY E |
2,739 | $0.00 |
HERRING TOM |
1,097 | $0.00 |
PAGE STEPHEN F |
7,500 | $0.00 |
HOLLAND CHARLES R |
1,000 | $0.00 |
GELL MANN MURRAY |
1,000 | $0.00 |
BAKER KENNETH R |
1,000 | $0.00 |
ALIBRANDI JOSEPH F |
1,000 | $0.00 |
HERRING TOM |
20,000 | $0.00 |
KIM JIKUN |
20,000 | $0.00 |
MINSON ROY E |
20,000 | $0.00 |
NAWABI WAHID |
20,000 | $0.00 |
FISHMAN ARNOLD L |
1,000 | $0.00 |
CLINE CATHLEEN S |
12,000 | $0.00 |
FISHMAN ARNOLD L |
5,630 | $0.78 |
FISHMAN ARNOLD L |
8,000 | $18.03 |
FISHMAN ARNOLD L |
14,075 | $2.13 |

