People: Gaming Partners International Corp (GPIC.W)

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1 Apr 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Gregory Gronau

53 2009 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

Gerald Koslow

53 2010 Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer

Laura McAllister Cox

52 2010 Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary

Martin Berkowitz

2013 Interim Chief Administrative Officer, Director

Eric Endy

57 2003 Director

Jean-Francois Lendais

48 2010 Director

Alain Thieffry

56 2002 Director

Charles Henry

74 2006 Independent Director

Robert Kelly

56 2006 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

Gregory Gronau

Mr. Gregory S. Gronau is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Gaming Partners International Corp., since September 2009. Mr. Gronau served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from October 2008 through September 2009. From 2006 to March 2008, Mr. Gronau served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cadillac Jack (Duluth, Georgia), a supplier of innovative games and systems to the gaming industry. From 2002 to 2006, he served as Vice President of Operations of Shuffle Master, Inc. (Las Vegas, Nevada), a publicly-traded supplier of automatic card shufflers and proprietary table games. At Shuffle Master, Mr. Gronau oversaw software and hardware research for two product lines and directed manufacturing operations for all products. Between 1996 and 2002, Mr. Gronau served as Director of Operations and Business Planning and then as Vice President of Distribution Services of WMS Industries, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois), a publicly-traded manufacturer of lottery terminals and slot machines.

Gerald Koslow

Mr. Gerald William Koslow is Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer of Gaming Partners International Corp., since August 20, 2010. From November 2009 to August 2010, Mr. Koslow served as the Company’s Controller. From September 2005 to May 2009, Mr. Koslow was the Vice President and Controller for The Upper Deck Company, a private sports and entertainment trading card manufacturer and distributor. From January 1999 to June 2004, Mr. Koslow was Controller (until March 2002) and Chief Financial Officer (until June 2004) of Shuffle Master, Inc., a public international casino gaming equipment manufacturer. Mr. Koslow has held a number of board and financial executive positions in various industries, including consumer products, hazardous waste treatment, agribusiness, oil and gas exploration and construction. Mr. Koslow was an auditor with Price Waterhouse and is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Laura McAllister Cox

Ms. Laura McAllister Cox is an Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Gaming Partners International Corp. She is an attorney at law licensed to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, was appointed Executive Vice President and General Counsel on September 12, 2009 and Corporate Secretary on November 5, 2010. She was appointed director of Gaming Partners International Asia Limited on May 9, 2011. She previously served as Chief Legal and Gaming Compliance Officer for the Company since December 2003. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. McAllister Cox was an attorney for 16 years with the Atlantic City law firm of Cooper Levenson April Niedelman & Wagenheim, P.A. and became a partner of the firm in 1996. A member of the Cooper Levenson Casino Law Department, Ms. McAllister Cox represented casino operators, gaming manufacturers and distributors, and casino employees in all aspects of regulatory, licensing and litigation matters. As part of her practice, Ms. McAllister Cox handled gaming regulatory matters for GPI SAS since 1997, for the former Bud Jones Company since 2000 and for GPIC since 2002. Ms. McAllister Cox holds a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from the University of Tennessee (1980) and a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law (1987). Ms. McAllister Cox is a Trustee of the International Association of Gaming Advisors and is past-chair of the Casino Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Martin Berkowitz

Mr. Martin A. Berkowitz is Interim Chief Administrative Officer, Director of Gaming Partners International Corp. Mr. Berkowitz served as the Chief Financial Officer of Virtual Coaching, LLC, a technology-enabled service company based in New York City. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Berkowitz was Chief Financial Officer of ChildNet, Inc, a community-based non-profit corporation that administers foster care and adoptive services for Broward County, Florida. From 2006 to 2007, he was a consultant in the areas of financial management and business development. He was Chief Financial Officer for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools in 2005 and 2006. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Berkowitz held the positions of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, then President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Veterans Business Development Corporation. He retired as Senior Vice President from Prudential Financial in 2000 following a twenty-five year career where he served as Comptroller of the individual insurance unit, Chief Financial Officer of the investment management business unit, and the Corporate Comptroller. Mr. Berkowitz earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1970 and his Master of Business Administration from St. John’s University in 1975. He has attended executive programs at the University of Michigan, Stanford University and Harvard University.

Eric Endy

Mr. Eric P. Endy is Director of Gaming Partners International Corp., since 1993. Mr. Endy was Executive Vice President from September 2002 to March 2003, and served as a consultant to the Company from April 2003 to September 2007. He served as Secretary from May 1984 to March 2003, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from November 1998 to September 2002, President from January 1994 to September 2002 and Treasurer from July 2001 to September 2002. From May 1998 to July 1998, Mr. Endy was Treasurer and from January 1994 to July 1995, Mr. Endy was Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Endy was Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the former Paul-Son Gaming Supplies, Inc. from November 1998 to September 2002, and Executive Vice President and General Manager of the former Paul-Son Gaming Supplies, Inc. from July 1990 to November 1998. Mr. Endy received a Master of Arts from California State University-Los Angeles in 1981 and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in 2007.

Jean-Francois Lendais

Mr. Jean-Francois Lendais is Director of Gaming Partners International Corp., since May 2010. Mr. Lendais is the President and CEO of CJS-PLV, a French company which designs and manufactures displays for point of sale. From 2000 until December 2010, Mr. Lendais served as a Vice President of Capgemini Consulting France, also serving as a member of the Executive Committee from 2003 until December 2010, and as the head of its Operational Transformation practice during that period. From 1989 to 2000, Mr. Lendais worked in capacities with Bossard Consultants and Gemini Consultants. He has served on the Supervisory Board of Holding Wilson, S.A. since 2004.

Alain Thieffry

Mr. Alain Thieffry is Director of Gaming Partners International Corp., since September 2002. Mr. Thieffry has served as President of the Executive Board of Holding Wilson, S.A. since February 2002. He has been an executive officer of Holding Wilson, S.A. since 1984. Since 2003, Mr. Thieffry has served as Chief Executive Officer of DeRoche, S.A., wholly-owned subsidiary of Holding Wilson, S.A. Mr. Thieffry holds Masters of Law and Business Administration and the equivalent of a CPA license in France.

Charles Henry

Mr. Charles R. Henry is an Independent Director of Gaming Partners International Corp., since June 2006. Mr. Henry is a retired two-star general, with 41 years of leadership experience, a distinguished military career and an advanced law degree. He is currently the President of CRH, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in defense acquisition issues. He has served on the board of directors of Molycorp, Inc., an American mining corporation, since August 2009. From 2005 to 2007, he was the Chief Operating Officer and, from 1994 to 2007, a board member of CEG Company in Rico Rica, Arizona, a producer of wiring harnesses for military vehicles. Prior to that, he was a consultant in Washington D.C. for companies on defense issues. In 2001, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer and President of the National Veterans Business Development Corporation. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Henry served as President of LFR Levine Fricke, an environmental management and consulting firm, which is an affiliate of Holding Wilson, S.A., principal stockholder. Mr. Henry holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Middle Tennessee State University; he is a graduate of the United States Army War College and the United States Army Command and General Staff College; he holds a J.D. and a L.L.M. degree from Woodrow Wilson Law School.

Robert Kelly

Mr. Robert J. Kelly is an Independent Director of Gaming Partners International Corp., since February 2006. Mr. Kelly received a Master in Business Administration from Harvard in 1986 and an engineering degree from Princeton in 1977. Since 2000, Mr. Kelly has been the founder, patent holder and primary stockholder of EarthSource Inc., Raynham, Massachusetts, a waste-water treatment plant. He is a civil engineer and responsible for designing the EarthSource process and managing its operations. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Kelly worked with LFR, Inc., an environmental engineering company and affiliate of Holding Wilson, S.A., principal stockholder. Prior to 1994, Mr. Kelly worked as a Division Manager for OHM Corporation, a publicly-traded company that provides technology-based, on-site hazardous waste remediation environmental services, and as a Field Service Manager at IT Corporation, a publicly-traded company in the environmental engineering business, providing environmental consulting, engineering and construction and remediation services.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Gregory Gronau

466,710

Gerald Koslow

250,277

Laura McAllister Cox

252,529

Martin Berkowitz

--

Eric Endy

158,171

Jean-Francois Lendais

--

Alain Thieffry

--

Charles Henry

--

Robert Kelly

--
As Of 30 Dec 2011
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