People: CalAmp Corp (CAMP.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Frank Perna	74	2008	Independent Chairman of the Board
Michael Burdiek	53	2011	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Richard Gold	57	2011	Vice Chairman of the Board
Richard Vitelle	58	2001	Chief Financial Officer, Vice President - Finance, Corporate Secretary
Garo Sarkissian	45	2006	Vice President - Corporate Development
Kimberly Alexy	42	2008	Independent Director
Albert Moyer	68	2004	Independent Director
Thomas Pardun	68	2006	Independent Director
Larry Wolfe	61	2008	Independent Director
Lasse Glassen		2012	Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Frank Perna	Mr. Frank Perna is an Independent Chairman of the Board of CalAmp Corp. He has been a director of the Company since May 2000 and Chairman of the Board since February 2008. He is Chairman Emeritus of MSC Software, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2005. Mr. Perna was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EOS Corporation from 1994 to 1998, and was President and Director (Chief Executive Officer from 1990) of Magnetek from 1984 to 1993. Mr. Perna also serves as a director of Ping Identity Corp., a venture-funded provider of single sign-on and identity management software, Chairman of Interneer, Inc., a private company providing products and services for web-based enterprise applications, and a director of LibertadCard, Inc., a privately held provider of reloadable debit cards. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Kettering University. Mr. Perna holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University, a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University, and an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Michael Burdiek	Mr. Michael J. Burdiek is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of CalAmp Corp. He joined CalAmp as Executive Vice President in June 2006 and was appointed President of the Company's Wireless DataCom segment in March 2007. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Company in June 2008 and was promoted to President and COO in April 2010. Effective June 1, 2011, Mr. Burdiek was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and was appointed to the Board of Directors. Prior to joining CalAmp, Mr. Burdiek was the President and CEO of Telenetics Corporation, a manufacturer of data communications products. From 2004 to 2005, he worked as an investment partner and advisor in the private equity sector. From 1987 to 2003, Mr. Burdiek held a technical and general management positions with Comarco, Inc., a provider of test solutions to the wireless industry, as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Comarco's Wireless Test Systems unit. Mr. Burdiek began his career as a design engineer with Hughes Aircraft Company. He holds MBA and MSEE degrees from California State University - Fullerton, and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University.
Richard Gold	Mr. Richard B. Gold is Vice Chairman of the Board of CalAmp Corp. He joined the Company in February 2008 and was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in March 2008. In April 2010, Mr. Gold relinquished the title of President but retained the title of Chief Executive Officer in conjunction with the promotion of Mr. Burdiek to President and Chief Operating Officer. Effective June 1, 2011, Mr. Gold was appointed Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors upon Mr. Burdiek’s promotion to President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Gold has been a director of the Company since December 2000 and served as Chairman of the Board from July 2004 to February 2008. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Gold was a Managing Director of InnoCal Venture Capital, a position he held from 2004 to 2008. From 2002 until 2004, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nova Crystals, Inc., a supplier of optical sensing equipment. He was Chairman of Radia Communications, Inc., a supplier of wireless communications semiconductors, from 2002 to 2003. Prior to this, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Genoa Corp. and Pacific Monolithics, Inc., and Vice President and General Manager of Adams-Russell Semiconductor. He began his career as an engineer with Hewlett-Packard Co. Mr. Gold received a BS degree in Engineering Physics from Cornell University, an MBA from Northeastern University, and an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Richard Vitelle	Mr. Richard Vitelle is Chief Financial Officer, Vice President - Finance, Corporate Secretary of CalAmp Corp., since July 2001. Prior to joining the Company, he served as Vice President of Finance and CFO of SMTEK International, Inc., a publicly held electronics manufacturing services provider, where he was employed for a total of 11 years. Earlier in his career Mr. Vitelle served as a senior manager with Price Waterhouse.
Garo Sarkissian	Mr. Garo Sarkissian is Vice President - Corporate Development of CalAmp Corp. He joined the Company as Vice President, Corporate Development in October 2005 and was appointed an executive officer in July 2006. Prior to joining the Company, from 2003 to 2005 he served as Principal and Vice President of Business Development for Global Technology Investments (GTI), a private equity firm. Prior to GTI, from 1999 to 2003, Mr. Sarkissian held senior management and business development roles at California Eastern Laboratories, a private company developing and marketing radio frequency (RF), microwave and optical components. Mr. Sarkissian began his career as an RF engineer in 1988 and developed state-of-the-art RF power products over a span of 10 years for M/A Com and NEC.
Kimberly Alexy	Ms. Kimberly E. Alexy is an Independent Director of CalAmp Corp., since June 2008. She is the Principal of Alexy Capital Management, a private investment management firm that she founded in 2005. From 1998 to 2003, she was senior vice president and managing director of equity research for Prudential Securities, where she served as principal technology hardware analyst for the firm. Prior to joining Prudential, Ms. Alexy was vice president of equity research at Lehman Brothers, where she covered the computer hardware sector, and assistant vice president of corporate finance at Wachovia Bank. Ms. Alexy served on the boards of SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc., a supplier of memory modules and solid state drives, from September 2009 until August 2011 (when SMART Modular was taken private), SouthWest Water Company, a water and wastewater public utility and system operator, from August 2009 until September 2010 (when SouthWest Water was acquired by J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Water Asset Management, LLC), Dot Hill Systems Corp., a provider of networked storage and data management systems, from December 2005 until May 2010, and Maxtor Corporation from August 2005 until May 2006 (when Maxtor was acquired by Seagate Technology LLC). Ms. Alexy is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and holds a BA degree in Psychology from Emory University and an MBA with a concentration in Finance and Accounting from the College of William and Mary.
Albert Moyer	Mr. Albert J. Moyer is an Independent Director of CalAmp Corp., since February 2004. Mr. Moyer, a business consultant and private investor, served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of QAD Inc., a publicly held software company that is a provider of enterprise resource planning software applications, from 1998 until 2000, and he served as a consultant to QAD, assisting in the Sales Operations of the Americas Region. Prior to joining QAD in 1998, Mr. Moyer served as Chief Financial Officer of Allergan Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company based in Irvine, California, from 1995 to 1998. Earlier in his career Mr. Moyer served as Chief Financial Officer of Western Digital, National Semiconductor and Coldwell Banker. Mr. Moyer serves on the boards of Collectors Universe, Inc., a company engaged in authentication and grading services for high-end collectibles, Virco Manufacturing Corporation, which designs and produces furniture for the commercial and education markets, and MaxLinear, Inc., a provider of semiconductor products for broadband communications. He served on the boards of Lasercard and Occam Networks until January and February 2011, respectively, when those companies were acquired. Mr. Moyer received a BS degree in Finance from Duquesne University and graduated from the Advanced Management Program at the University of Texas, Austin. Mr. Moyer holds an Advanced Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors, a national public company director education and credentialing organization.
Thomas Pardun	Mr. Thomas E. Pardun is an Independent Director of CalAmp Corp., since June 2006. Mr. Pardun is Chairman of the Board of Western Digital Corporation, a information storage provider, where he has served as a director since 1993. Mr. Pardun was President of MediaOne International, Asia-Pacific (previously U.S. West International), an owner/operator of international properties in cable television, telephone services and wireless communications, from May 1996 until retirement in July 2000. Before joining U.S. West, Mr. Pardun was President of the Central Group for Sprint and previously held a management positions during his 19-year tenure with IBM. In addition to his service on the board of Western Digital, Mr. Pardun serves as a director of Calix, Inc., a supplier of broadband access systems to communications service providers, Finisar Corporation, a provider of optical products for high-speed data communications, and MaxLinear, Inc., a provider of semiconductor products for broadband communications. Mr. Pardun served as a director of Occam Networks, a broadband networking equipment provider, until February 2011 when that company was acquired by Calix. Mr. Pardun received a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with emphasis in Economics and Marketing from the University of Iowa and Management School Certificates from Harvard Business School, Stanford University and The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Larry Wolfe	Mr. Larry J. Wolfe is an Independent Director of CalAmp Corp., since June 2008. From 2006 to January 2010, Mr. Wolfe was the President and CEO of Taxcient, Inc., a privately held provider of sales and use tax compliance software and services. In 2010, Taxcient was merged with Avalara, Inc., and Mr. Wolfe joined Avalara's Board of Directors. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Wolfe served as a director of QAD Inc., a publicly held software company that is a provider of enterprise resource planning software applications. From 1987 until 2001, Mr. Wolfe was employed by Intuit Inc. and certain predecessor companies, most recently as senior vice president responsible for the tax division. In addition to his role as senior vice president, Mr. Wolfe was vice president and general manager of Intuit's Personal Tax Group where he guided the launch of the online version of TurboTax for web-based tax return preparation and filing services. Mr. Wolfe is a former board member of the San Diego Software Industry Council. Earlier in his career, Mr. Wolfe was a managing partner at two certified public accounting firms, Wolfe & Co. and Strand Wolfe & Lutton. He began his career at the accounting firm Deloitte Haskins & Sells, where he earned his CPA license. Mr. Wolfe received a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
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Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Frank Perna	--
Michael Burdiek	1,628,860
Richard Gold	685,848
Richard Vitelle	724,076
Garo Sarkissian	543,634
Kimberly Alexy	--
Albert Moyer	--
Thomas Pardun	--
Larry Wolfe	--
Lasse Glassen	--

As Of 27 Feb 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Frank Perna	0	0
Michael Burdiek	0	0
Richard Gold	0	0
Richard Vitelle	190,000	890,550
Garo Sarkissian	0	0
Kimberly Alexy	0	0
Albert Moyer	0	0
Thomas Pardun	0	0
Larry Wolfe	0	0
Lasse Glassen	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
BURDIEK MICHAEL J	20,000	$12.00
BURDIEK MICHAEL J	20,000	$8.45
GOLD RICHARD B	5,000	$11.07
GOLD RICHARD B	87,500	$11.14
BURDIEK MICHAEL J	4,857	$9.00
BURDIEK MICHAEL J	4,857	$4.28
GOLD RICHARD B	22,500	$9.02
BURDIEK MICHAEL J	5,143	$9.00
BURDIEK MICHAEL J	5,143	$4.28
VITELLE RICHARD K	3,750	$3.16
VITELLE RICHARD K	3,750	$8.50
VITELLE RICHARD K	1,250	$8.50
VITELLE RICHARD K	1,250	$3.16
GOLD RICHARD B	7,500	$8.28
BURDIEK MICHAEL J	5,000	$8.56
BURDIEK MICHAEL J	5,000	$2.13
GOLD RICHARD B	4,489	$0.00
GOLD RICHARD B	7,500	$8.12
BURDIEK MICHAEL J	5,000	$2.13
BURDIEK MICHAEL J	5,000	$8.60
SARKISSIAN GARO SARKIS	10,000	$2.13
SARKISSIAN GARO SARKIS	10,000	$2.13
SARKISSIAN GARO SARKIS	10,000	$8.50
SARKISSIAN GARO SARKIS	10,000	$8.50
SARKISSIAN GARO SARKIS	12,664	$8.43

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