People: FutureFuel Corp (FF)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Paul Novelly	69	2013	Executive Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
Lee Mikles	57	2013	President, Director
Rose Sparks	46	2012	Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer
Paul Lorenzini	73	2008	Chief Operating Officer, Director
Ann Faitz	61	2012	Secretary
Donald Bedell	71	2008	Independent Director
William Dore	70	2012	Independent Director
Thomas Evans	58	2006	Independent Director
Edwin Levy	75	2005	Independent Director
Paul Manheim	64	2011	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Paul Novelly	Mr. Paul A. Novelly serves as Executive Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of FutureFuel Corp. For at least the past five years, Mr. Novelly has been chairman and chief executive officer of Apex Oil Company, Inc., a privately-held company based in St. Louis, Missouri engaged in the trading, storage, marketing, and transportation of petroleum products, including liquid terminal facilities in the Midwest and Eastern United States, and towboat and barge operations on the inland waterway system. Mr. Novelly is president and a director of AIC Limited, a Bermuda-based oil trading company, chairman and a director of World Point Terminals, Inc., a Delaware company based in Missouri which owns and operates petroleum storage facilities in the United States, and chief executive officer of St. Albans Global Management, Limited Partnership, LLLP, which provides corporate management services. He currently serves on the board of directors at Boss Holdings, Inc., a distributor of work gloves, boots and rainwear, and other consumer products, and Bond Street Holdings, Inc., a holding company whose material subsidiary is Premier American Bank, N.A. Within the past five years, Mr. Novelly also served on the board of directors of Intrawest Corporation, a company in the destination resorts and adventure travel industry, The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc., a broker-dealer and global securities and investment firm, and World Point Terminals Inc., a Canadian and Toronto Stock Exchange predecessor to World Point Terminals, Inc.
Lee Mikles	Mr. Lee E. Mikles serves as President and Director of FutureFuel Corp. He has been chief executive officer and a member of the board since inception. In addition, he served as principal financial officer before company's acquisition of FutureFuel Chemical Company and thereafter through January 31, 2008. Mr. Mikles was chairman of Mikles/Miller Management, Inc., a registered investment adviser and home to the Kodiak family of funds, between 1992 and 2005. He was also chairman of Mikles/Miller Securities, LLC, a registered broker-dealer, between 1999 and 2005. Additionally, Mr. Mikles has served on the board of directors of Pacific Capital Bankcorp., Official Payments Corporation, Coastcast Corporation, Nelnet, Inc., Imperial Bank and Imperial Bancorp. He currently serves on the board of directors of Boss Holdings, Inc. and is a member of the audit committee for Boss Holdings, Inc.
Rose Sparks	Mrs. Rose M. Sparks serves as Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of FutureFuel Corp. She is a CPA and has served as the controller of FutureFuel Chemical Company (FFCC), the Company's principal operating subsidiary, since the Company's acquisition of FFCC in 2006. In her capacity as controller, Rose manages and supervises FFCC's accounting staff and works closely with Company management in all aspects of financial reporting. Prior to the Company's acquisition of FFCC, Mrs. Sparks worked for Eastman Chemical as the controller at the Batesville plant.
Paul Lorenzini	Mr. Paul G. Lorenzini serves as Chief Operating Officer and Director of FutureFuel Corp. He has been a member of the board since January 2007 and chief operating officer since April 21, 2008. In January 1970, Mr. Lorenzini co-founded Packaging Consultants, Inc., a distribution business supplying packaging materials to the food industry. In 1983, Bunzl PLC, a supplier of supermarket and food service packaging, acquired Packaging Consultants, Inc. Mr. Lorenzini continued to work for Bunzl PLC and in 1986 became president of Bunzl USA. He subsequently became the chief executive officer of Bunzl USA and retired in July 2004 with the title of chairman emeritus. Mr. Lorenzini served as a director of Bunzl PLC between 1988 and 1991 and between 1999 and 2004.
Ann Faitz	Mrs. Ann P. Faitz serves as Secretary of FutureFuel Corp. Ms. Faitz has served as FutureFuel Chemical Company’s in-house counsel since August, 2008. Prior to her current position, Ms. Faitz was a partner in the Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian law firm in Little Rock, Arkansas for fifteen years practicing environmental and business law. Ms. Faitz also served for over three years as an attorney specialist for the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, including as a special task force advisor to then Governor Bill Clinton. Ms. Faitz is licensed to practice law in Arkansas and Missouri.
Donald Bedell	Mr. Donald Carl Bedell serves as an Independent Director of FutureFuel Corp. Mr. Bedell is chairman of the board of privately held Castle Partners and its affiliates, based in Sikeston, Missouri, which operate over 35 skilled nursing, health care, pharmaceutical, hospice, and therapy facilities throughout Missouri and other states. Mr. Bedell is a director of First Community Bank of Batesville, Arkansas and is a member of the executive committee of such bank and its holding company. He is also a director of World Point Terminal, Inc., serving as chairman of World Point’s Corporate Governance and Human Resources Committees. FutureFuel Corp.’s chairman, Paul A. Novelly, is the chairman of the board of World Point Terminal, Inc. In the past five years, Mr. Bedell has served on the board of directors of World Point Terminals Inc., a Canadian and Toronto Stock Exchange predecessor to World Point Terminal, Inc.
William Dore	Mr. William J. Dore serves as an Independent Director of FutureFuel Corp. He was previously a member of board between May 24, 2006 and March 20, 2007. Mr. Doré is also the founder and retired chairman/chief executive officer of Global Industries, Ltd., a worldwide organization of over 6,000 employees which operates one of the fleets of marine construction assets in the world. Global Industries’ construction services extend throughout the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and India, the Pacific Rim, South America, and Mexico’s Bay of Campeche. In 2000, Mr. Doré was presented with the Rhodes Petroleum Industry Leadership Award from the Petroleum Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is also the recipient of the 2000 Horatio Alger Award. In 2011, Mr. Doré was named as the Civic Service Award recipient from the Chamber Southwest Louisiana.
Thomas Evans	Mr. Thomas R. Evans serves as an Independent Director of FutureFuel Corp. Since June 2004, he has served as president and chief executive officer of Bankrate, Inc., an Internet based aggregator of financial rate information. Mr. Evans was elected to Bankrate, Inc.’s board of directors in May 2004. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Evans was chairman and chief executive officer of Official Payments Corporation, an Internet processor of payment to government entities.
Edwin Levy	Mr. Edwin A. Levy serves as an Independent Director of FutureFuel Corp. In 1979, Mr. Levy co-founded Levy, Harkins & Co., Inc., an investment advisory firm, where he now serves as chairman of the board and individual advisor. Mr. Levy was a director of Traffix, Inc. between November 1995 and 2006, and served as a member of its audit committee and stock options committee. He is a director of World Point Terminals, Inc., a Delaware company based in Missouri which owns and operates petroleum storage facilities in the United States. In the past five years Mr. Levy was a director of Forward Industries, Inc., a publicly-held company in the business of designing, manufacturing, and distributing custom carrying case solutions, and World Point Terminals Inc., a Canadian and Toronto Stock Exchange predecessor to World Point Terminals, Inc.
Paul Manheim	Mr. Paul M. Manheim serves as an Independent Director of FutureFuel Corp. He is currently a consultant to and a corporate director of HAL Real Estate Investments Inc., which develops and owns a portfolio of real estate in the Pacific northwest consisting of multi-family, office, and mixed-use assets. He was the president and chief executive officer of HAL Real Estate Investments Inc. until September 2005. HAL Real Estate Investments Inc. is a subsidiary of HAL Holding N.V. Mr. Manheim joined Holland America Line, N.V., the predecessor of HAL Holding N.V., an international holding company traded on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, in 1982 and filled various positions in the financial and corporate development areas. Since June 2005, Mr. Manheim has been the chairman of the board of Shanghai Red Star Optical Company, which owns a portfolio of optical retail outlets in China and is affiliated with Europe’s optical retailer. Mr. Manheim has served as a director of World Point Terminals, Inc. and its predecessor since 2009, and is chairman of the audit committee of World Point Terminals, Inc. Within the past five years, Mr. Manheim was the chairman and managing director of HAL Investments Asia B.V. and served as a director of Intrawest Corporation. Mr. Manheim received a bachelor of commerce degree with honors from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and is a chartered accountant.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Paul Novelly	60,600
Lee Mikles	57,600
Rose Sparks	218,533
Paul Lorenzini	152,600
Ann Faitz	--
Donald Bedell	--
William Dore	--
Thomas Evans	--
Edwin Levy	--
Paul Manheim	--

As Of 30 Dec 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Paul Novelly	165,000	837,175
Lee Mikles	65,000	259,400
Rose Sparks	15,611	76,284
Paul Lorenzini	55,000	267,575
Ann Faitz	0	0
Donald Bedell	0	0
William Dore	0	0
Thomas Evans	0	0
Edwin Levy	0	0
Paul Manheim	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
BAKER DAVID	433	$12.25
BAKER DAVID	567	$12.22
BAKER DAVID	1,000	$12.28
DORTCH SAMUEL	4,750	$11.60
MIKLES LEE E	1,400	$0.00
BAKER DAVID	5,000	$11.62
EVANS THOMAS R	10,000	$4.00
LEVY EDWIN A	10,000	$10.62
EVANS THOMAS R	5,000	$7.00
BEDELL DONALD C	10,000	$10.62
SPARKS ROSE	11,279	$11.72
SPARKS ROSE	5,000	$6.48
SPARKS ROSE	10,611	$7.00
BAKER DAVID	13,304	$11.87
BAKER DAVID	10,611	$7.00
LORENZINI PAUL G	40,170	$11.87
DORTCH SAMUEL	10,611	$7.00
BAKER DAVID	10,000	$4.00
DORTCH SAMUEL	13,304	$11.87
DORTCH SAMUEL	10,000	$4.00
MIKLES LEE E	10,000	$10.62
LORENZINI PAUL G	55,000	$7.00
DORTCH SAMUEL	755	$11.60
MIKLES LEE E	55,000	$7.00
NOVELLY PAUL A	55,000	$7.00

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