People: GP Strategies Corp (GPX)

GPX on New York Consolidated

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24 May 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Harvey Eisen

 70 2005 Independent Chairman of the Board

Douglas Sharp

 53 2006 President

Scott Greenberg

 56 2006 Chief Executive Officer, Director

Sharon Esposito-Mayer

 46 2005 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President

Karl Baer

 52 2006 Executive Vice President - Professional & Technical Services

Patricia Begley

 56 2011 Executive Vice President

Donald Duquette

 58 2008 Executive Vice President - Learning Solutions

Kenneth Crawford

 53 2007 Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary

David Gugala

 64 2012 Senior Vice President

James Moran

 49 2011 Senior Vice President

Deborah Ung

 49 2011 Senior Vice President

Daniel Friedberg

 50 2009 Independent Director

Marshall Geller

 73 2002 Independent Director

Sue Kelly

 75 2007 Independent Director

Richard Pfenniger

 57 2005 Independent Director

A. Marvin Strait

 78 2007 Independent Director

Gene Washington

 66 2007 Independent Director

Ann Blank

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Biographies

Name Description

Harvey Eisen

 Mr. Harvey P. Eisen is Independent Chairman of the Board of GP Strategies Corp., since April 26, 2005. He has been the Chairman of the Board since April 2005. He has been Chairman and Managing Member of Bedford Oak Advisors, LLC since 1998. Prior thereto, Mr. Eisen served as Senior Vice President of Travelers, Inc. and of Primerica prior to its merger with Travelers in 1993. Mr. Eisen has over thirty years of asset management experience. Mr. Eisen is a Trustee of the University of Missouri Business School, where he established the first accredited course on the Warren Buffet Principles of Investing, and of Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Eisen has also been a Director of NPDC since August 2004 and became Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of NPDC in May 2007. Mr. Eisen has served on the company Board of Directors since 2002.

Douglas Sharp

 Mr. Douglas E. Sharp is President of GP Strategies Corp., since February 17, 2006. He was President of the Company’s principal operating subsidiary, General Physics, from 2002 to 2006. Mr. Sharp had served as Chief Operating Officer of General Physics prior to becoming President and has held various other positions since joining General Physics in 1981. He was a Director of GSE from 2003 to 2006. He serves on the Managing Board of Aerospace Testing Alliance, a joint venture partnership of the Company, and serves as a Director of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries. Mr. Sharp holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland.

Scott Greenberg

 Mr. Scott N. Greenberg is Chief Executive Officer, Director of GP Strategies Corp. He has been Chief Executive Officer of GP Strategies since April 2005 and was the President of GP Strategies from 2001 until 2006. He was Chief Financial Officer from 1989 until 2005, Executive Vice President from 1998 to 2001, Vice President from 1985 to 1998, and has held other positions since joining the Company in 1981. From 1999 to 2008, he was a Director of GSE Systems, Inc. (“GSE”), a global provider of real-time simulation and training solutions which is a former majority-owned subsidiary of the Company that was spun off in 2005. Mr. Greenberg has been a Director of National Patent Development Corporation (“NPDC”), a holding company, since 2004, when NPDC, formerly a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, was spun off. Mr. Greenberg was also Chief Financial Officer of NPDC from 2004 until 2007. Mr. Greenberg has served on the Board of Directors since 1987.

Sharon Esposito-Mayer

 Ms. Sharon Esposito-Mayer is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of GP Strategies Corp., since December 15, 2005. She has been Executive Vice President in 2004, was Vice President of Finance of General Physics from 2001 until 2004 and held various financial positions prior to joining General Physics in 1995. Ms. Esposito-Mayer holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University and a MBA from Loyola College.

Karl Baer

 Mr. Karl Baer is Executive Vice President - Professional & Technical Services of GP Strategies Corp., since March 2006. He has been an Executive Vice President since 2004 and was a Vice President of General Physics from 1998 until 2004. Mr. Baer has held various other positions since joining General Physics in 1987. Prior to joining General Physics, Mr. Baer served in the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarine force for over nine years.

Patricia Begley

 Ms. Patricia R. Begley is Executive Vice President of GP Strategies Corp., since April 2011. Prior to joining RWD in 2005, Ms. Begley was with SAP America where she served as Senior Vice President, Education for North America, from 2001 to 2005 and held a variety of training and financial positions from 1996 to 2001. From 1988 to 1996, Ms. Begley was Manager of the Mid-Atlantic Consumer Products group for Sony Corporation of America. Prior to that, she held accounting positions at Owens Illinois, International Playtex and Chesapeake Paper Company. Ms. Begley received a B.S. degree in Business Administration/Accounting from Montclair State College.

Donald Duquette

 Mr. Donald R. Duquette is Executive Vice President - Learning Solutions of GP Strategies Corp., since September 1, 2008. He was a Senior Vice President of General Physics from 2004 to 2008. He was a Vice President of General Physics from 1989 to 2004 and held various other positions since joining General Physics in 1979. Mr. Duquette holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an Executive MBA from Loyola College.

Kenneth Crawford

 Mr. Kenneth L. Crawford is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of GP Strategies Corp., since April 11, 2007. He became a Senior Vice President of General Physics in March 2006, was a Vice President of General Physics from 1991 to March 2006, and became General Counsel of General Physics in 1991 and Secretary of General Physics in 1990. Mr. Crawford joined General Physics in 1987. Prior to that he was engaged in the private practice of law. Mr. Crawford is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.

David Gugala

 Mr. David A. Gugala is Senior Vice President of GP Strategies Corp., since June 2012. He has been Vice President Operations, Sandy Corporation – a division of GP Strategies (“Sandy”) since January 2007, when the Company acquired Sandy from ADP, Inc. He has served in various operations leadership roles since joining Sandy in 1976. Mr. Gugala holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Instructional Technology from Wayne State University.

James Moran

 Mr. James D. Moran is Senior Vice President of GP Strategies Corp., since December 31, 2011. Mr. Moran has been Senior Vice President of the Company’s Europe Operations since 2006 and held various other leadership roles since joining the Company in 1998. Mr. Moran was Finance Director of Specialised Technical Services Ltd from 1987 to 1998, when it was acquired by General Physics. Mr. Moran holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting and Finance from Manchester University and is a qualified accountant through The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in England and Wales.

Deborah Ung

 Ms. Deborah T. Ung is Senior Vice President of GP Strategies Corp., since December 31, 2011. Effective with the merger of General Physics and GP Strategies, and was Vice President, RWD, since April 2011, when the Company acquired the consulting business of RWD. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Ung was a Vice President of RWD from 2006 to 2011 and from 1997 to 2001, and held various operational and leadership roles after joining RWD in 1989. From 2002 to 2005, she was President of Accelera Corporation, an education services provider for the life sciences industry. Ms. Ung received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Health/Health Physics from Purdue University.

Daniel Friedberg

 Mr. Daniel M. Friedberg is Independent Director of GP Strategies Corp., since December 2009. Mr. Friedberg has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Sagard Capital Partners Management Corporation, the investment manager of Sagard Capital Partners, L.P., since its founding in 2005. Since 2005, he has also been a Vice President of Power Corporation of Canada, a diversified international management holding company. Prior to that, he was a Partner at Bain & Company. Mr. Friedberg joined Bain & Company in 1987 in the London office, and was a founder of the Toronto office in 1989 and the New York office in 2000. Mr. Friedberg also served as a director of X-Rite, Incorporated from 2008 to 2012. Mr. Friedberg has served on the company Board of Directors since December 2009, when he was elected a director pursuant to the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement under which Sagard Capital Partners, L.P. made an equity investment in the Company.

Marshall Geller

 Mr. Marshall S. Geller is Independent Director of GP Strategies Corporation. Mr. Geller is Founder and Senior Managing Director of St. Cloud Capital, a Los Angeles based private equity fund formed in December 2001. He has spent more than 40 years in corporate finance and investment banking, including 21 years as a Senior Managing Partner of Bear, Stearns & Co., with oversight of all operations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Hong Kong and the Far East. Mr. Geller is currently a Director on the Board of Governors of Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. Mr. Geller also serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the College of Business & Economics at California State University, Los Angeles. During the past five years, Mr. Geller has also been a director of National Holdings Corporation, California Pizza Kitchen, 1st Century Bancshares, ShopNBC-ValueVision Media, Inc., and SCPIE Holdings, Inc. Mr. Geller has served on the company Board of Directors since 2002.

Sue Kelly

 Mrs. Sue W. Kelly is Independent Director of GP Strategies Corp. Mrs. Kelly is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Kelly Consulting LLC, an investment and consulting firm. From 1995 to January 2007 she was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 19th Congressional District of New York. While in Congress she served on the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and on the House Financial Services Committee, among other assignments. Prior to becoming a Congresswoman, she worked in a variety of positions in business and education. Ms. Kelly currently serves as a Director of Magna Carta Companies, Inc. and has served on the company Board of Directors since December 2007.

Richard Pfenniger

 Mr. Richard C. Pfenniger Jr., is Independent Director of GP Strategies Corp. Mr. Pfenniger was the Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Continucare Corporation (Continucare), a provider of primary care physician services, until October 2011 when a merger between Continucare and Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc. became effective. Mr. Pfenniger was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Continucare in October 2003 after having served as a member of the board of Continucare since March 2002 and as Chairman since September 2002. Mr. Pfenniger was the Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Whitman Education Group, Inc., a provider of career-oriented higher education, from 1997 until June 2003. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Pfenniger served as the Chief Operating Officer of IVAX Corporation, and from 1989 to 1994 he served as the Senior Vice President-Legal Affairs and General Counsel of IVAX Corporation, a multi-national pharmaceutical company. Mr. Pfenniger currently serves as a Director of Safestitch Medical, Inc. and Opko Health, Inc. and also served as a director of IVAX Corporation from 2002 to 2009. Mr. Pfenniger has served on the company Board of Directors since 2005.

A. Marvin Strait

 Mr. A. Marvin Strait CPA., is Independent Director of GP Strategies Corp., since December 10, 2007. Mr. Strait presently practices as a Certified Public Accountant under the name A. Marvin Strait, CPA. He has practiced in the field of public accountancy in Colorado for over 40 years. He presently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Foundation, the Sam S. Bloom Foundation and Pikes Peak Educational Foundation. He also presently serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Sturm Financial Group, Inc., and on the Board of Directors of the Denver School of Nursing. Mr. Strait previously served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), as President of the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Colorado State Board of Accountancy, and serves as a permanent member of the AICPA Governing Council. Mr. Strait served as a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Continucare from 2004 to 2011, and as a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of RAE Systems, Inc. from 2006 to 2009. Mr. Strait has served on the company Board of Directors since December 2007.

Gene Washington

 Mr. Gene A. Washington is no longer Independent Director of GP Strategies Corp., effective June 18, 2013. Mr. Washington was the Director of Football Operations with the National Football League (NFL) in New York from 1994 until his retirement in March 2009. He previously served as a professional sportscaster and as Assistant Athletic Director for Stanford University prior to joining the NFL. Mr. Washington has served on numerous corporate and civic boards, and currently serves as a Director for Goodrich Petroleum Corporation and the former New York Bancorp, Inc. Mr. Washington served on the company Board of Directors since December 2007.

Ann Blank

Insider Trading

Name Shares Traded Price

FRIEDBERG DANIEL M

 500 $0.00

WASHINGTON GENE A

 500 $0.00

EISEN HARVEY P

 500 $0.00

GELLER MARSHALL S

 500 $0.00

STRAIT A MARVIN

 500 $0.00

KELLY SUE W

 500 $0.00

PFENNIGER RICHARD C JR

 500 $0.00

SAGARD CAPITAL PARTNERS L P

 500 $0.00

GUGALA DAVID A

 5,075 $22.44

GUGALA DAVID A

 4,116 $23.01

DUQUETTE DONALD R

 2,500 $22.28

GUGALA DAVID A

 15,000 $11.08

GUGALA DAVID A

 10,135 $21.59

SAGARD CAPITAL PARTNERS L P

 500 $0.00

FRIEDBERG DANIEL M

 500 $0.00

PFENNIGER RICHARD C JR

 500 $0.00

EISEN HARVEY P

 500 $0.00

GELLER MARSHALL S

 500 $0.00

WASHINGTON GENE A

 500 $0.00

STRAIT A MARVIN

 500 $0.00

KELLY SUE W

 500 $0.00

CRAWFORD KENNETH L

 1,000 $0.00

GREENBERG SCOTT N

 45,000 $11.08

GREENBERG SCOTT N

 31,609 $20.68

BAER KARL

 120 $3.93
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