People: Digital Ally, Inc. (DGLY.O)

DGLY.O on Consolidated Issue listed on NASDAQ Capital Market

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position
Ross, Stanton 46 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President
Heckman, Thomas 2007 Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary
Smith, Edward 2009 Vice President - Operations
McCoy, Kenneth Vice President - Marketing
Phillips, Steven 2009 Vice President - Engineering
Caulfield, Michael 2009 Vice President - Strategic Development
Richie, Leroy 67 2005 Lead Director
Hutchins, Daniel 52 2007 Director
Juchniewicz, Edward 77 2005 Director
Kaplan, Elliot 57 2005 Director
Bianchino, Bernie 60 2009 Director
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Biographies

Name Description
Ross, Stanton Stanton E. Ross has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Ally Inc since September 2005. From March 1992 to June 2005, Mr. Ross was the Chairman and President of Infinity Energy Resources, Inc., a publicly held oil and gas production and service company listed on Nasdaq (“Infinity”), and served as an officer and director of each of Infinity’s subsidiaries. He resigned all of his positions with Infinity in June 2005, except Chairman, but was reappointed President in October 2006. From 1991 until March 1992, he founded and served as President of Midwest Financial, a financial services corporation involved in mergers, acquisitions and financing for corporations in the Midwest. From 1990 to 1991, Mr. Ross was employed by Duggan Securities, Inc., an investment banking firm in Overland Park, Kansas, where he primarily worked in corporate finance. From 1989 to 1990, he was employed by Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., a member of the New York Stock Exchange, where he was an investment executive. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Ross was self-employed as a business consultant. From 1985 to 1987, Mr. Ross was President and founder of Kansas Microwave, Inc., which developed a radar detector product. From 1981 to 1985, he was employed by Birdview Satellite Communications, Inc., which manufactured and marketed home satellite television systems, initially as a salesman and later as National Sales Manager. Mr. Ross devotes such time to the business of Digital as he deems necessary to discharge his fiduciary duties to it. Mr. Ross estimated that he divided his time equally between Infinity and Digital through the first quarter of 2007 and thereafter, Mr. Ross has devoted the majority of his time to Digital. In late 2007, Infinity sold a substantial portion of its operating assets. Mr. Ross holds no public company directorships other than with the Company and Infinity.
Heckman, Thomas Thomas J. Heckman serves as CFO, Treasurer and Secretary of Digital Ally Inc. Mr. Heckman worked as a consultant to the Company during 2007 and effective December 31, 2007, was appointed CFO, Treasurer and Secretary, replacing Mr. Bakalar.
Smith, Edward Mr. Edward E. Smith is Vice President - Operations of Digital Ally, Inc. Mr. Smith joined Digital Ally in April 2008 after spending the previous nine years as a Vice President and General Manager with Suntron Corporation, where he was responsible for a number of plants, including a $260 million (sales) contract manufacturing/assembly operation with 1,500 employees in multiple locations. Suntron provides manufacturing services and solutions in the medical, aerospace, defense, industrial, networking/telecommunications, and semiconductor industries.From August 1994 to September 1998, Mr. Smith was Director of New Product Introduction and Test Engineering for AlliedSignal Business and General Aviation, where he was responsible for the introduction of new avionics products, including the selection of processes, sourcing strategies for supply chain management, procurement and transition to production. He was an Operations Manager and Corporate Manufacturing Technology Chairman at Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. from December 1990 to August 1994. While at Lockheed, Mr. Smith managed over 100 professional employees involved in materials and process engineering, manufacturing/tool engineering, standards, quality and test engineering, inspection, production control and production quoting. For twelve years prior to joining Lockheed, Mr. Smith served in various management positions with ITT Corporation, including Production Operations Manager with ITT Aerospace/Communications (August 1988-November 1990), Manager of New Product Development with ITT Defense Communications Division (August 1986-July 1988), Plant Manager with ITT Network Switching Division (July 1983-July 1986), and Operations Finance Manager with ITT North Electric .
McCoy, Kenneth Kenneth L. McCoy serves as Vice President—Marketing of Digital Ally Inc.
Phillips, Steven Mr. Steven Phillips is Vice President - Engineering of Digital Ally, Inc. For the past 11 years, Steven Phillips held a variety of engineering and management positions with Garmin International, where he was most recently in charge of that company's development program for its marine radar product line. He was also the leader of a team that designs or consults on the designs of Garmin's antennas for all of its products. Garmin is the global leader in satellite navigation, and most of its products are enabled by GPS technology. Mr. Phillips joined Garmin in 1998 to develop its second-generation GPS RF integrated circuit, which was used in all of Garmin's navigation products.During the years 1988 to 1998, Mr. Phillips worked for Puritan Bennett, a medical electronics company that produced mechanical ventilation and respiratory care devices, where he was responsible for oximetry and ventilator product engineering design teams. While at Puritan Bennett, he was issued a patent on a circuit that senses and controls a patient's airflow. For five years (1981 to 1986) prior to joining Puritan Bennett, Mr. Phillips served as Vice President of Engineering at Birdview Satellite Communications, a microwave electronics design and manufacturing company. He was responsible for, and contributed to the design of, Birdview's line of microwave products, including C-band low-noise block converters, antennas and baseband receivers. Mr. Phillips joined Kustom Electronics (now Kustom Signals, Inc.), which currently designs, manufactures and markets traffic speed radar systems, lidar, in-car video systems, and mobile roadside speed monitoring trailers, upon graduating from Texas Tech University with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1971. During his years at Kustom Electronics, he was involved in the design of mobile terminals for law enforcement, aviation test equipment, and audio products.
Caulfield, Michael Michael Caulfield has been appointed as Vice President - Strategic Development of Digital Ally, Inc., effective June 1, 2009. Mr. Caulfield was most recently (2006-2009) a Managing Director at Banc of America Securities ("BAS"), where he was responsible for the investment banking firm's relationships with a broad range of large industrial companies. He was also in charge of BAS's global investment banking activities involving the Safety, Security, Engineering and Construction Industries. Prior to joining BAS, Mr. Caulfield spent six years (2000-2006) as a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley in New York City, that global investment banking firm's efforts in the Aerospace and Defense Industries. He was also responsible for the investment banking relationships with a number of Morgan Stanley's largest clients. From 1989 to 2000, he worked at General Electric Capital Corp., where he served as a Managing Director and head of the Corporate Finance Group. In this capacity, he advised GE Capital and the industrial divisions of General Electric on such issues as capital structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions. Mr. Caulfield received Masters of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Minnesota.
Richie, Leroy Leroy C. Richie has been the Lead Outside Director of Digital Ally since September 2005 and he was the chairman of the Audit Committee in fiscal 2007 until December 27, 2007, and is a member of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating Committees. Since June 1, 1999 Mr. Richie has been a director of Infinity Energy Resources, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed company. He has also been a member of the board of directors of J.W. Seligman & Co. since 2000. Since November 2004, he has been of counsel to the Detroit law firm of Lewis & Munday, P.C. From September 2000 to November 2004, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Q Standards World Wide, Inc. From April 1999 to August 2000, he was President of Capitol Coating Technologies, Inc. From September 1998 to April 1999 he was President of Intrepid World Communications. From January 1998 to September 1998, Mr. Richie reviewed business opportunities and served as Chairman of H.P. Devco and Vice Chairman of the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. and Detroit Medical Center. Mr. Richie was formerly Vice President of Chrysler Corporation and General Counsel for automotive legal affairs, where he directed all legal affairs for that company’s automotive operations from 1986 to 1997. Before joining Chrysler, he served as director of the New York office of the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Richie received a B.A. from City College of New York and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law. Mr. Richie is a member of the board of directors of OGE Energy Corp. (“OGE”) and serves on its Compensation and Corporate Governance Committee. OGE is a public company that provides services to the energy industry. Mr. Richie is also a board member of J. & W. Seligman & Co., Incorporated, a mutual fund manager, and Tri-Continental Corporation, an investment management company for a closed-end fund.
Hutchins, Daniel Daniel F. Hutchins was elected as a Director of Digital of Digital Ally Inc in December 2007. He will also serve as Chairman of the Audit Committee and the Board’s financial expert. Mr. Hutchins, a Certified Public Accountant, is a Principal with the accounting firm of Hutchins & Haake, LLC and currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Infinity Energy Resources, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed company, of which Stanton E. Ross is the Chairman and President. He was previously a member of the Advisory Board of Digital. Mr. Hutchins has served as an instructor for the Becker CPA exam with the Keller Graduate School of Management and has over 17 years of teaching experience preparing CPA candidates for the CPA exam. He has 30 years of public accounting experience, including five years with Deloitte & Touche, LLP. He has served on the boards of various non-profit groups and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Hutchins earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Mr. Hutchins holds no other public company directorships.
Juchniewicz, Edward Edward Juchniewicz has been a Director of Digital Ally Inc since September 2005 and he is Chairman of the Nominating Committee and a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1953 and retired in 1986 as Associate Deputy Director for Operations. Prior to joining the CIA, he was a Senior Non SECed Intelligence Officer. Since retirement, he has been involved in the intelligence and communications fields as president of ESL International (1986-1990) and an Advisory Board member of Elsin Corporation, a subsidiary of TRACOR, Inc. (1990-1991). Mr. Juchniewicz currently serves on the Advisory Board at the Higgins Foundation on Terrorism in Washington, DC. He attended the Naval Intelligence Language School, Georgetown University—School of Foreign Service, and Sophia University in Tokyo. Mr. Juchniewicz has acted as a consultant on espionage to the PBS television series “Frontline.” Mr. Juchniewicz holds no other public company directorships.
Kaplan, Elliot Elliot M. Kaplan has been a Director of Digital Ally Inc since September 2005 and he is Chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Audit and Nominating Committees. Mr. Kaplan was a practicing attorney with Daniels & Kaplan, P.C. from 1994 through 2006, with a concentration in corporate strategy. During the years 1985 through 1993, Mr. Kaplan practiced with the law firms of Berman, DeLeve, Kuchan and Chapman (1991-1993); DeWitt, Zeldin and Bigus (1990-1991); and Husch, Eppenberger, Donahue, Cornfeld and Jenkins (1985-1990). From 1983 to 1985, he served as Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Air One, Inc. He also serves on the board of directors of Nasdaq-listed Infinity Energy Resources, Inc. (since July 2004). Mr. Kaplan serves as the chairman of the Advisory Board of Executive Action and is a member of the SCCA ProRacing Advisory Board. Mr. Kaplan holds no public company directorships other than with the Company and Infinity Energy Resources, Inc.
Bianchino, Bernie Mr. Bernie Bianchino is Director of Digital Ally, Inc. Mr. Bianchino is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Jaguar Telecom LLC, a wireless telecommunications firm that is pursuing opportunities for the resale of fixed wireless, local loop service in rural areas and that intends to develop a proprietary wireless data product for existing customers of a wireless carrier. He founded Jaguar Telecom in 2003. In 2003, Mr. Bianchino was employed by the Bryan Cave, LLP law firm in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2001, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of OnFiber Communications, a local fiber services venture headquartered in Austin, Texas that was founded to provide the delivery of fiber optic broadband services to service providers in metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. Mr. Bianchino received his undergraduate and law degrees from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and later participated in the Fuqua School of Business Executive Program for Corporate Counsel at Duke University. He is former President of the Washburn Law School Association Board of Governors and currently serves as Chairman of the Washburn Endowment Association, a foundation with almost $100 million in assets that supports the programs of Washburn University.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total
Ross, Stanton 641,767
Heckman, Thomas 54,444
Smith, Edward --
McCoy, Kenneth 344,108
Phillips, Steven --
Caulfield, Michael --
Richie, Leroy --
Hutchins, Daniel --
Juchniewicz, Edward --
Kaplan, Elliot --
Bianchino, Bernie --
As Of 30 Dec 2007

Insider Trading

Name Shares Traded Price
RICHIE LEROY C 13,495 $2.89
ROSS STANTON E 69,204 $2.89
PHILLIPS STEVEN 22,838 $2.89
JUCHNIEWICZ EDWARD S 13,495 $2.89
HECKMAN THOMAS J 22,838 $2.89
HUTCHINS DANIEL F 13,495 $2.89
BIANCHINO BERNARD A 13,495 $2.89
SMITH EDWARD 22,838 $2.89
MCCOY KENNETH L 22,838 $2.89
CAULFIELD MICHAEL 22,838 $2.89
KAPLAN ELLIOT M 13,495 $2.89
HECKMAN THOMAS J 1,000 $1.48
HECKMAN THOMAS J 1,000 $1.67
HECKMAN THOMAS J 1,000 $1.48
HECKMAN THOMAS J 1,000 $1.48
HECKMAN THOMAS J 1,000 $1.72
HECKMAN THOMAS J 2,000 $1.86
HECKMAN THOMAS J 1,000 $2.65
KAPLAN ELLIOT M 43,532 $2.35
KAPLAN ELLIOT M 43,532 $2.35
HECKMAN THOMAS J 2,000 $1.77
HUTCHINS DANIEL F 2,000 $1.49
RICHIE LEROY C 52,258 $1.89
MCCOY KENNETH L 5,000 $1.82
KAPLAN ELLIOT M 25,000 $3.00
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