People: Handy & Harman Ltd (HNH.PH)

HNH.PH on Philadelphia Stock Exchange

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1 May 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Warren Lichtenstein

48 2005 Chairman of the Board

Jack Howard

51 2012 Vice Chairman of the Board

Glen Kassan

2012 Vice Chairman of the Board

James McCabe

50 2010 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President

Leonard McGill

55 2012 Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Assistant Secretary

Jeffrey Svoboda

60 2011 Senior Vice President, Director; President and Chief Executive Officer of H&H and Bairnco

John McNamara

50 2008 Director

Robert Frankfurt

46 2008 Independent Director

Garen Smith

69 2002 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

Warren Lichtenstein

Mr. Warren G. Lichtenstein is the Chairman of the Board of Handy & Harman Ltd since July 2005. Mr. Lichtenstein has served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the general partner of Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (“Steel Holdings”), a global diversified holding company that owns and operates businesses and has interests in companies in a variety of industries, including diversified industrial products, energy, defense, banking, insurance, and food products and services, since July 15, 2009. He is also the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Steel Partners LLC (“Steel Partners), a subsidiary of Steel Holdings, and has been associated with Steel Partners and its affiliates since 1990. He is a Co-Founder of Steel Partners Japan Strategic Fund (Offshore), L.P. He also co-founded Steel Partners II, L.P. (“SPII”), a private investment partnership that is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Steel Holdings, in 1993. Mr. Lichtenstein has served as a director of GenCorp Inc., a manufacturer of aerospace and defense products and systems with a real estate business segment, since March 2008. He has served as a director of SL Industries, Inc. (“SLI”). He previously served as a director (formerly Chairman of the Board) of SLI from January 2002 to May 2008 and served as Chief Executive Officer from February 2002 to August 2005. He has served as a director (currently Chairman of the Board) of Steel Excel Inc. He served as a director of WebFinancial Corporation, a predecessor entity of Steel Holdings, from 1996 to June 2005, as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from December 1997 to June 2005 and as President from December 1997 to December 2003. From May 2001 to November 2007, Mr. Lichtenstein served as a director (formerly Chairman of the Board) of United Industrial Corporation (“United Industrial”). He served as a director of KT&G Corporation. Mr. Lichtenstein served as a director of Layne Christensen Company.

Jack Howard

Mr. Jack L. Howard is Vice Chairman of the Board of Handy & Harman Ltd. He has been Vice Chairman of the Board since March 2012 and has served as a director of the Company since July 2005. He has been a registered principal of Mutual Securities, Inc., a FINRA registered broker-dealer, since 1989. Mr. Howard is currently the President of the general partner of Steel Holdings. He is the President of Steel Partners and has been associated with Steel Partners and its affiliates since 1993. Mr. Howard co-founded SPII in 1993. He has been a director of Steel Excel since December 2007. Mr. Howard has also served as a director of DGT Holdings Corp., a company primarily engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of medical and dental imaging systems, since September 2011. Mr. Howard served as Chairman of the Board of a predecessor entity of Steel Holdings from June 2005 to December 2008, as a director from 1996 to December 2008 and its Vice President from 1997 to December 2008. From 1997 to May 2000, he also served as Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of Steel Holdings’ predecessor entity. Mr. Howard served as a director of SPAH from February 2007 until June 2007, and was Vice-Chairman from February 2007 until August 2007. He also served as Chief Operating Officer and Secretary of SPAH from June 2007 and February 2007, respectively, until October 2009. He currently holds the securities licenses of Series 7, Series 24, Series 55 and Series 63.

Glen Kassan

Mr. Glen M. Kassan is Vice Chairman of the Board of Handy & Harman Ltd. He is no longer Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective December 31, 2012. He has served as a director of the Company since July 2005 and as the Company’s Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since October 2005. He is a Managing Director and operating partner of Steel Partners and has been associated with Steel Partners and its affiliates since August 1999. He served as the Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of a predecessor entity of Steel Holdings from June 2000 to April 2007. He has served as a director of SLI since January 2002 and its Chairman of the Board since May 2008. He previously served as SLI’s Vice Chairman of the Board from August 2005 to May 2008, its President from February 2002 to August 2005, its interim Chief Executive Officer from June 14, 2010 to June 29, 2010 and its interim Chief Financial Officer from June 14, 2010 to August 30, 2010. He was a director of United Industrial from October 2002 to November 2007.

James McCabe

Mr. James F. McCabe, Jr., is the Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President of Handy & Harman Ltd. He has been Senior Vice President of the Company since March 2007, and Chief Financial Officer of the Company since August 2008, and holds similar positions in substantially all of the Company’s subsidiaries. Mr. McCabe has also served as President, Shared Services of the Company since March 2011. In addition, since October 2011, Mr. McCabe has served as the Chief Financial Officer of the general partner of Steel Holdings and as an officer of certain of its affiliates.

Leonard McGill

Mr. Leonard J. McGill serves as the Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Assistant Secretary of Handy & Harman Ltd. since January 2012. He joined Steel Partners in November 2011 and has been Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of the general partner of Steel Holdings since January 2012. Previously, from May 2010 to October 2011, Mr. McGill was Senior Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel of Ameron International Corporation, a multinational manufacturer of highly-engineered products and materials for the chemical, industrial, energy, transportation and infrastructure markets, and from 2002 to 2010 was with Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc., a producer and distributor of recreational vehicles and manufactured housing, where he was Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary. Fleetwood filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March 2009. Prior to joining Fleetwood Mr. McGill was of counsel to the international law firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center.

Jeffrey Svoboda

Mr. Jeffrey A. Svoboda is Senior Vice President, Director of Handy & Harman Ltd and President and Chief Executive Officer of Handy & Harman and Bairnco Corporation, the subsidiaries of the Company. He has served as a director of the Company since June 2011 and has been President and Chief Executive Officer of each of HNH Group, since August 2011, Handy & Harman (“HNH”), since January 2008, and Bairnco Corporation (“Bairnco”), since January 2009. Mr. Svoboda has also served as a Senior Vice President of the Company since March 2009. Mr. Svoboda has previously served as a Group Executive and Corporate Vice President of Danaher Corporation from 2001 through 2007. From 1998 through 2001, he was with Fortune Brands as President of Moen Incorporated. Prior positions included Vice President of Manufacturing and Distribution for Black & Decker, General Manager of International Marketing and Sales for General Electric Appliances, and President of Electro Componentes de Mexico, an affiliate of General Electric.

John McNamara

Mr. John H. McNamara Jr., is Director of Handy & Harman Ltd since February 2008. He has served as a director of the Company since February 2008. He is a Managing Director and investment professional of Steel Partners and has been associated with Steel Partners and its affiliates since May 2006. He has also served as a director of Fox & Hound Restaurant Group, an owner and operator of entertainment restaurants, since April 2008. Mr. McNamara has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of WebBank, a Utah chartered industrial bank that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Steel Holdings, since May 2009. Mr. McNamara served as a director of SLI from May 2008 until June 2011. Mr. McNamara also served as a director of a predecessor entity of Steel Holdings from April 2008 to December 2008, and was its Chief Executive Officer from June 2008 to December 2008. Prior to working at Steel Partners, Mr. McNamara was a Managing Director and Partner at Imperial Capital LLC, an investment banking firm, which he joined in 1995. As a member of its Corporate Finance Group he provided advisory services for middle market companies in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and financings. Mr. McNamara began his career at Bay Banks, Inc., a commercial bank, where he served in lending and work-out capacities.

Robert Frankfurt

Mr. Robert Frankfurt is Independent Director of Handy & Harman Ltd since November 2008. Mr. Frankfurt is the founder of Myca Partners, Inc., an investment advisory services firm, and has served as its President since November 2006. From February 2005 through December 2005, Mr. Frankfurt served as the Vice President of Sandell Asset Management Corp., a privately owned hedge fund. From October 2002 through January 2005, Mr. Frankfurt was a private investor. Mr. Frankfurt has been a director of Peerless Systems Corp., a public company that licenses and sells imaging and networking technologies and components to the digital document markets, since November 2010. Mr. Frankfurt has been a director of Mercury Payment Systems, Inc., a private company that provides integrated transaction processing, since October 2010. Mr. Frankfurt graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics and received an M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at University of California at Los Angeles.

Garen Smith

Mr. Garen W. Smith is Independent Director of Handy & Harman Ltd since 2002. Mr. Smith is Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer of New Abundance Corp., a business consulting company. Mr. Smith served as Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer of Abundance Corp., a consulting company that provided services to the Company, from 2002 to February 2005. In addition, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Unimast Incorporated (“Unimast”) from 1991 to 2002. Mr. Smith has served as a director of Phillips Manufacturing Company since November 2006. Mr. Smith also serves on the advisory board of Steel Warehouse Company, Inc. Mr. Smith is also currently the President of Grove Park Associates, a small, regional residential developer. Mr. Smith received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Penn State University in 1964 and his Masters of Engineering degree (Civil Engineering) from Penn State University in 1966.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Warren Lichtenstein

--

Jack Howard

--

Glen Kassan

1,077,000

James McCabe

839,329

Leonard McGill

--

Jeffrey Svoboda

1,695,640

John McNamara

--

Robert Frankfurt

--

Garen Smith

--
As Of 30 Dec 2011
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