People: Ambassadors Group Inc (EPAX.O)
EPAX.O on Nasdaq
3.65USD
17 May 2013
3.65USD
17 May 2013
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
James Kalustian |
51 | 2012 | Chairman of the Board |
Anthony Dombrowik |
42 | 2013 | Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary |
Kristi Gravelle |
45 | 2012 | Vice President - Operations Management |
Peter Kamin |
50 | 2012 | Director |
Daniel Byrne |
58 | 2005 | Independent Director |
Nilofer Merchant |
44 | 2011 | Independent Director |
Thomas Rusin |
2010 | Independent Director | |
Ricardo Valencia |
46 | 2007 | Independent Director |
Timothy Walsh |
49 | 2012 | Independent Director |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
James Kalustian |
Mr. James M. Kalustian has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Ambassadors Group, Inc., effective June 13, 2012. Mr. Kalustian has served as an independent director of the Company since May 2006. His career spans 15 years in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, industrial, retail and consumer products industries where he held a number of senior executive posts at various public companies including Fair Isaac Corporation, Braun Consulting, Inc., Raytheon Company and W.R. Grace & Company. Mr. Kalustian is co-founder of Vertex Partners, a customer-focused strategic consulting firm. He is also co-founder and senior vice president of HRInet, Inc., a healthcare technology and services company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kalustian served in various capacities at Corporate Decisions, Inc. (a division of Mercer Management Consulting) and Canada Dry. |
Anthony Dombrowik |
Mr. Anthony F. Dombrowik is the Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary of Ambassadors Group, Inc. Mr. Dombrowik has been the Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of the Company since October 18, 2010. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Dombrowik served as the Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer of Red Lion Hotels Corporation, a NYSE-listed hospitality and leisure company. |
Kristi Gravelle |
Ms. Kristi J. Gravelle has been appointed as Vice President - Operations Management of Ambassadors Group Inc since April 2012. She served as vice president of finance and accounting of the Company from October 2010 to April 2012. Mrs. Gravelle served as interim chief financial officer and secretary of the Company from November 2009 to November 2010 and as controller for the Company from September 2007 to April 2012. Prior to joining the Company, Mrs. Gravelle was an independent financial consultant in Denver, Colorado to publicly held and private companies from January 2003 through August 2007. From May 2001 to January 2003, Mrs. Gravelle held a controllership position at AIMCO, a real-estate investment trust in Denver, Colorado. Previously, Mrs. Gravelle held controllership positions specializing in supply chain management at retail companies, including Bi-Lo Stores, a division of AHOLD, Inc., Babies-R-Us, a division of Toys-R-Us, Inc. and One Price Clothing Stores, Inc. in Greenville, South Carolina between 1992 and April 2001. |
Peter Kamin |
|
Daniel Byrne |
Mr. Daniel G. Byrne, CPA, is Independent Director of Ambassadors Group Inc. Mr. Byrne is currently an independent consultant in the financial services sector. Between February 2011 and April 2012, Mr. Byrne served as executive vice president of Corporate Development and between June 1983 and January 2011 served as executive vice president—finance, chief financial officer and assistant secretary of Sterling Financial Corporation. Before joining Sterling, Mr. Byrne was employed by the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand in Spokane, Washington. He is a past lieutenant governor of Kiwanis International. Mr. Byrne is a past member of the Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee and the Finance Committee for Gonzaga Preparatory School. He is also president of the Board of Directors of Frontier Behavioral Health. He serves as a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Financial Manager's Society and the American Community Bankers Association and its Accounting Committee. Mr. Byrne is a certified public accountant and graduated from Gonzaga University in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in Accounting. |
Nilofer Merchant |
Ms. Nilofer Merchant has been appointed as an Independent Director of Ambassadors Group Inc since August 2011. Since December 2010, Mrs. Merchant has been a business innovator, author, keynote speaker, and university lecturer, focusing on a wide range of business leadership events, technology expos, women's conferences and universities including AjaxWorld, TEDIndia, Web 2.0, Cisco Partner Velocity, National HR conferences, and Stanford University. She is also a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review on the topics of culture, innovation, and strategy, has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal, published by BusinessWeek, Forbes and AdAge, and author of "The New How", a critically acclaimed 2010 book on business solutions through collaborative strategy. From June 1999 through December 2010, Mrs. Merchant served as the founder and chief executive officer of Rubicon Consulting, Inc., a management consulting company advising companies on strategic business modeling used for increasing growth, expanding into new markets, analyzing competitor markets, and optimizing revenue for companies ranging from start-ups to multi-billion dollar global enterprises. Her sought after strategic insight was profitably deployed by Adobe, Symantec, Symbian, HP, Yahoo, Openwave, Logitech, and VMWare. Prior to Mrs. Merchant founding Rubicon Consulting, she drove pricing, channel strategy, product launches, vertical segments, and marketing investment decisions for the Americas division of Autodesk (ADSK) from 1997 to 1999. From 1996 to 1997, Mrs. Merchant served as the vice president of sales and marketing for GoLive, a start-up company acquired by Adobe, where she grew revenues to $4.5 million in 16 months. Mrs. Merchant graduated from University of San Francisco in 1993 with a bachelor's of science degree in applied economics and from Santa Clara University in 2000 with a master's degree in business administration. |
Thomas Rusin |
Mr. Thomas J. Rusin is no longer Independent Director of Ambassadors Group, Inc., effective Company's 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Mr. Rusin has served as the Chief Executive Officer of HomeServe USA, a provider of emergency repair service plans, since July 2011. Prior to joining HomeServe USA, Mr. Rusin served as President and Chief Executive Officer, of Affinion Group North America, from June 2007 to June 2010. From October 2005 to May 2007, Mr. Rusin served as Affinion's Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer. Mr. Rusin joined Affinion in December 1999 as Product Manager in the Netmarket Group overseeing Travel Marketing and was subsequently promoted to Vice President of Travel in January 2001, Senior Vice President Consumer Saving Group with responsibility for Travel, Auto and Leisure in October 2001, and then to Executive Vice President of Product Management, New Product Development in December 2003. From 1990 to 1998, he owned and operated Just for Travel Inc., a business he then sold. Mr. Rusin also serves on the board of directors of the Connecticut Yankee Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Rusin has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing from the University of Connecticut. |
Ricardo Valencia |
Mr. Ricardo Lopez Valencia has served as Independent Director of Ambassadors Group Inc since May 2007. In July 2007, Mr. Valencia started, and currently serves as principal at, ZAMAS Holdings, LLC, a privately owned company that includes a consulting business and a business incubator for entrepreneurial ventures and early stage companies. From 2001 to July 2007, Mr. Valencia was a senior executive for ING. He served as the vice president of Hispanic markets for ING Group. In 2003, he became senior vice president. He had strategic, fiscal and operational responsibility for the development of accumulations strategies focused on diversity markets with specific focus in the African American, Asian American, Hispanic, women, LGBT and capabilities market segments. Since returning to Arizona in 2007, Mr. Valencia was appointed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer as Corporate Chair of the 2010 Border Governors Conference and to serve a term on the Arizona Mexico Commission to chair the strategic development committee. In 2008, Mr. Valencia was also appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano to serve on the Arizona State Charter School Board. Mr. Valencia also serves on the board of West Ed, a national nonprofit education research, development, and service agency. He serves on the board of the Children's Action Alliance, an Arizona based advocacy movement. Mr. Valencia has served on the boards of the National PTA, International Association of Marketing Students (DECA), the White House Millennium Youth Initiative and the U.S. Department of Education's Partnership for Involvement. Additionally he has served on the boards of the National 4-H, the National Future Farmers of America Foundation and the New York Hispanic Ballet. |
Timothy Walsh |
Mr. Timothy M. Walsh has been appointed as Independent Director of Ambassadors Group, Inc., effective February 16, 2012. Mr. Walsh was appointed the Director (chief investment officer) for the State of New Jersey pension fund in August 2010, where he serves as the chief fiduciary for the approximately $70 billion New Jersey pension fund as well as approximately $15 billion in money markets funds, deferred compensation plans and college savings plans. Prior to joining the State of New Jersey, he was the chief investment officer managing the $8 billion Indiana State Teachers' Retirement Fund. Before joining the Indiana State Teachers' Retirement Fund, he was head of investor relations for a global macro hedge fund, and a vice president and senior trader in fixed income securities and foreign currencies for several money center banks in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Walsh founded an investment advisory firm, Walsh Financial Services that provided management services for individuals, private trusts and corporate clients. Mr. Wash has been a board member of various private companies and a trustee of the Indiana State Teachers' Retirement Fund as well as a Commissioner of the Indiana Gaming Commission. Mr. Walsh graduated from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business management and from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1989 with an MBA. With over 25 years of experience in the investment industry, Mr. Walsh has a deep and diverse background in the capital markets and portfolio management area. |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
James Kalustian |
-- |
Anthony Dombrowik |
403,997 |
Kristi Gravelle |
205,777 |
Peter Kamin |
-- |
Daniel Byrne |
-- |
Nilofer Merchant |
-- |
Thomas Rusin |
-- |
Ricardo Valencia |
-- |
Timothy Walsh |
-- |
As Of 30 Dec 2011
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
James Kalustian |
0 | 0 |
Anthony Dombrowik |
0 | 0 |
Kristi Gravelle |
0 | 0 |
Peter Kamin |
0 | 0 |
Daniel Byrne |
0 | 0 |
Nilofer Merchant |
0 | 0 |
Thomas Rusin |
0 | 0 |
Ricardo Valencia |
0 | 0 |
Timothy Walsh |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
KAMIN PETER H |
25,000 | $3.45 |
KAMIN PETER H |
25,000 | $3.45 |
KAMIN PETER H |
75,000 | $3.45 |
KAMIN PETER H |
42,400 | $3.29 |
KAMIN PETER H |
1,335 | $3.24 |
KAMIN PETER H |
84,800 | $3.29 |
DOMBROWIK ANTHONY F |
9,251 | $0.00 |
THOMAS MARGARET MARY |
12,225 | $0.00 |
THOMAS JEFFREY D |
31,278 | $0.00 |
THOMAS JEFFREY D |
11,980 | $4.47 |
THOMAS MARGARET MARY |
4,933 | $4.47 |
KAMIN PETER H |
3,400 | $5.26 |
KAMIN PETER H |
5,000 | $5.26 |
KAMIN PETER H |
4,600 | $5.24 |
KAMIN PETER H |
10,000 | $5.24 |
KAMIN PETER H |
2,215 | $5.25 |
KAMIN PETER H |
22,000 | $5.19 |
KAMIN PETER H |
10,000 | $5.19 |
BANDERA PARTNERS L L C |
49,851 | $4.99 |
BANDERA PARTNERS L L C |
23,700 | $4.99 |
BANDERA PARTNERS L L C |
4,069 | $5.00 |
BANDERA PARTNERS L L C |
5,626 | $5.00 |
BANDERA PARTNERS L L C |
53,199 | $5.00 |
BANDERA PARTNERS L L C |
5,448 | $5.00 |
BANDERA PARTNERS L L C |
10,300 | $4.94 |
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