People: Overstock.com Inc (OSTK.W)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Patrick Byrne	50	2013	Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
Stormy Simon	44	2013	Co-President, Director
David Nielsen	43	2013	Co-President
Jonathan Johnson	47	2013	Executive Vice Chairman of the Board
Robert Hughes	53	2013	Principal Financial Officer, Senior Vice President - Finance and Risk Management, Principal Accounting Officer
Sam Noursalehi	34	2013	Senior Vice President - Marketing
Bhargav Shah	37	2012	Senior Vice President - Technology
Stephen Tryon	51	2004	Senior Vice President - Human Capital Management and International
Allison Abraham	50	2002	Independent Director
Barclay Corbus	46	2007	Independent Director
Samuel Mitchell	69	2010	Independent Director
Joseph Tabacco	64	2007	Independent Director
Mark Harden			IR Contact Officer

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Biographies

Name	Description
Patrick Byrne	Dr. Patrick M. Byrne is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Overstock.com Inc. He has served as the company Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) and as a Director since October 1999, as Chairman of the board of directors from February 2001 through October 2005, and since July 2006. From September 1997 to May 1999, Dr. Byrne served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Fechheimer Brothers, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of uniforms. From 1995 until its sale in September 1999, Dr. Byrne was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Centricut, LLC, a manufacturer and distributor of industrial torch parts. From 1994 to the present, Dr. Byrne has served as a Manager of the Haverford Group, an investment company and an affiliate of Overstock. Dr. Byrne has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Chinese studies from Dartmouth College, a Master's Degree from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University.
Stormy Simon	Ms. Stormy D. Simon is Co-President, Director of Overstock.com, Inc. She joined Overstock in December 2001. Ms. Simon is currently the company Co-President. In the past she has served in a variety of critical positions, including managing each of the following departments at various times: Business-to-Business, Public Relations, Books, Music, Movies and Games, Co-op Sales, Travel, Customer Care, Partner Care, the Website, both on-line and off-line marketing (including branding), the mobile platform, social media, emerging business (auctions, cars, real estate) and the warehouse. She routinely serves as the "customer's voice" and the "partners' voice" on the management team.
David Nielsen	Mr. David J. Nielsen is Co-President of Overstock.Com Inc. Mr. Nielsen previously served as the Vice President, Merchandising from August 2009. Prior to joining Overstock.com in 2009, Mr. Nielsen was with Payless ShoeSource, Inc., a shoe retailer from 2005 through 2009. At Payless he held a variety of positions, most recently serving as the Vice President of Merchandise Distribution. Additionally, Mr. Nielsen worked at Old Town Imports, LLC, a retail company, where he served as President and CEO. Mr. Nielsen holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management with an emphasis in Marketing from Brigham Young University.
Jonathan Johnson	Mr. Jonathan E. Johnson, III, is Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Overstock.com, Inc. He joined Overstock in September 2002. He served as the company President and Corporate Secretary from July 2008 to February 21, 2013, and has been serving as the company Acting Chief Executive Officer since February 12, 2013. He has previously served as the company General Counsel and as the company Vice President, Strategic Projects and Legal, and Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Legal. From May 1999 to September 2002, Mr. Johnson held various positions with TenFold Corporation, a software company, including General Counsel, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. From October 1997 to April 1999, Mr. Johnson practiced law with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and from September 1994 to September 1997, he practiced law with Graham & James. From February 1994 to August 1994, Mr. Johnson served as a judicial clerk at the Utah Supreme Court for Justice Leonard H. Russon, and prior to that, from August 1993 to January 1994, Mr. Johnson served as a judicial clerk at the Utah Court of Appeals for Judge Leonard H. Russon. Mr. Johnson holds a Bachelor's Degree in Japanese from Brigham Young University, studied for a year at Osaka University of Foreign Studies in Japan, and received his law degree from the J. Reuben Clark, Jr. Law School at Brigham Young University.
Robert Hughes	Mr. Robert P. Hughes is appointed as the Principal Financial Officer, Senior Vice President - Finance and Risk Management, Principal Accounting Officer of Overstock.com, Inc. He has served as Vice President and Controller of the Company since November 2008. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hughes served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief of Staff of Tenfold Corporation. Prior to working for Tenfold, Mr. Hughes held a number of senior accounting and internal audit positions with Oracle Corporation. Mr. Hughes has more than 25 years of management and finance experience. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting and finance from the University of California Berkley, Haas School of Business, and is a certified public accountant.
Sam Noursalehi	Mr. Sam Noursalehi is appointed as the Senior Vice President - Marketing of Overstock.com, Inc. He has served as Vice President of OLabs, an innovative research and development group within the Company, and previously was Vice President of new product development. Prior to his appointment as a Vice President of the company Mr. Noursalehi was the Company’s senior director of website, mobile and search engine optimization. Mr. Noursalehi has been with Overstock.com since 2005 where he began as a software developer.
Bhargav Shah	Mr. Bhargav J. Shah is Senior Vice President - Technology of Overstock.Com, Inc. Prior to joining Overstock.com, Mr. Shah served as a director in KPMG LLP's IT advisory group since 2009. Prior to that, Mr. Shah held various positions with Bearing Point (formerly KPMG Consulting) including consulting senior manager. Mr. Shah holds a Chemical Engineering Degree from K.E.S Engineering College in Mumbai, India and a Master's of Business Administration Degree in Finance from Bentley University.
Stephen Tryon	Mr. Stephen P. Tryon is Senior Vice President - Human Capital Management and International of Overstock.Com, Inc. He joined Overstock.com in August 2004, and serves as Senior Vice President, Human Capital Management and International. Prior to joining Overstock.com, Mr. Tryon was the Legislative Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. During his 21 years with the Army, his assignments included director of plans for the 10th Mountain Division, Congressional Fellow for United States Senator Max Cleland, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy, and commander of a company of paratroopers. Mr. Tryon received a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Applied Sciences from the U.S. Military Academy and a Master's Degree of Arts in Philosophy from Stanford University.
Allison Abraham	Ms. Allison H. Abraham is an Independent Director of Overstock.com, Inc., since March 2002. She is currently the President and Founder of The Newton School, a private, non-profit elementary and middle school located in Sterling, Virginia. She is a member of the Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and is the Chairwoman of the Audit Committee. Ms. Abraham managed her own consulting business from October 2001 to November 2008, and has served as a director of privately-held Precision Imaging, Inc. since November 2002. Previously, Ms. Abraham served as President and as a director of LifeMinders, Inc., an online direct marketing company, from May 2000 until the acquisition of LifeMinders by Cross Media Marketing Corp. in October 2001. Prior to joining LifeMinders, Ms. Abraham served as Chief Operating Officer of iVillage Inc., an online media company, from May 1998 to May 2000. From February 1997 to April 1998, Ms. Abraham was President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Shoppers Express, an online grocery service, and also served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for several months prior to her promotion. From 1992 to 1996, Ms. Abraham held several marketing and management positions at Ameritech Corporation. She was employed at American Express Travel Related Services in New York City from 1988 to 1992, focusing on the launch of new products and loyalty programs. Ms. Abraham holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Tufts University and a Master's Degree of Business Administration from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.
Barclay Corbus	Mr. Barclay F. Corbus is an Independent Director of Overstock.com Inc., since March 9, 2007. He is a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and is the Chairman of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Corbus has served as Senior Vice President of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a provider of vehicular natural gas, with responsibility for strategic development, since September 2007. He served as Co-CEO of WR Hambrecht + Co., an investment banking firm, from July 2004 to September 2007, and prior to that date served in other executive positions with WR Hambrecht + Co. Prior to joining WR Hambrecht + Co in March 1999, Mr. Corbus was in the investment banking group at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. Mr. Corbus graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Government and has a Master's Degree of Business Administration in Finance from Columbia Business School.
Samuel Mitchell	Mr. Samuel A. Mitchell is an Independent Director of Overstock.com, Inc. since October 26, 2010. Mr. Mitchell was formerly a director of International Coal Group, Inc., and served on the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee of International Coal Group until its acquisition in 2011. Since 2004, Mr. Mitchell has been a Managing Director of Hamblin Watsa Investment Counsel, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings, Inc., a Toronto-based property and casualty insurance holding company. Hamblin Watsa is responsible for managing the investments of Fairfax Financial. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Mitchell was a director of Odyssey Re Holdings Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Fairfax Financial that is an underwriter of property and casualty treaty and facultative reinsurance. Prior to joining Hamblin Watsa, Mr. Mitchell was Managing Director and co-founder in 1993 of Marshfield Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based investment counsel firm. Mr. Mitchell also has experience in the healthcare industry, having served as a Director of Research and Federal Relations for the Federation of American Health Systems from 1983 to 1993, and as Director of Research for the Health Industry Manufacturers Association from 1977 to 1981. In 1973, he co-founded Research from Washington, which advised institutional investors on the outlook and economic impact of legislation and federal government initiatives. Mr. Mitchell started his career in 1968 with the Washington, D.C.-based investment counsel firm, Davidge and Co. He has a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Joseph Tabacco	Mr. Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr., is an Independent Director of Overstock.com, Inc., since June 6, 2007. He is a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee and is the Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. For more than the last five years Mr. Tabacco has served as the managing partner of the San Francisco office of Berman DeValerio (formerly Berman DeValerio Pease Tabacco Burt & Pucillo). A 1974 honors graduate of George Washington University School of Law, Mr. Tabacco litigates antitrust, securities fraud, commercial high tech, and intellectual property matters. Since entering private practice in the early 1980s, Mr. Tabacco has served as trial or lead counsel in numerous antitrust and securities cases and has been involved in all aspects of state and federal litigation. Prior to 1981, Mr. Tabacco served as senior trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and in both the Central District of California and the Southern District of New York. Mr. Tabacco frequently lectures and authors articles on securities and antitrust law issues and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Mr. Tabacco is also a former teaching fellow of the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C., and has served on the faculty of ALI-ABA on programs about U.S.-Canadian business litigation and trial of complex securities cases.
Mark Harden

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Patrick Byrne	405,100
Stormy Simon	622,158
David Nielsen	620,506
Jonathan Johnson	744,031
Robert Hughes	--
Sam Noursalehi	--
Bhargav Shah	--
Stephen Tryon	620,506
Allison Abraham	--
Barclay Corbus	--
Samuel Mitchell	--
Joseph Tabacco	--
Mark Harden	--

As Of 30 Dec 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Patrick Byrne	257,588	4,341,102
Stormy Simon	52,207	480,943
David Nielsen	0	0
Jonathan Johnson	103,668	1,702,793
Robert Hughes	0	0
Sam Noursalehi	0	0
Bhargav Shah	0	0
Stephen Tryon	35,000	0
Allison Abraham	0	0
Barclay Corbus	0	0
Samuel Mitchell	0	0
Joseph Tabacco	0	0
Mark Harden	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
CORBUS BARCLAY FLEMING	3,800	$25.22
CHOU FRANCIS S M	50,612	$25.75
ABRAHAM ALLISON H	5,000	$0.00
CORBUS BARCLAY FLEMING	5,000	$0.00
TABACCO JOSEPH J JR	5,000	$0.00
ABRAHAM ALLISON H	3,800	$25.22
TABACCO JOSEPH J JR	3,800	$25.22
MITCHELL SAMUEL APPLETON	2,100	$25.22
CORBUS BARCLAY FLEMING	3,000	$25.24
CHOU FRANCIS S M	300	$15.00
JOHNSON JONATHAN E III	2,000	$25.03
ABRAHAM ALLISON H	2,000	$0.00
CORBUS BARCLAY FLEMING	2,000	$0.00
TABACCO JOSEPH J JR	2,000	$0.00
MITCHELL SAMUEL APPLETON	2,000	$0.00
TABACCO JOSEPH J JR	4,375	$0.00
MITCHELL SAMUEL APPLETON	4,375	$0.00
ABRAHAM ALLISON H	4,375	$0.00
CORBUS BARCLAY FLEMING	4,375	$0.00
CHOU FRANCIS S M	76,424	$20.91
CHOU FRANCIS S M	79,834	$20.80
CHOU FRANCIS S M	78,321	$20.81
CHOU FRANCIS S M	65,421	$20.81
CHOU FRANCIS S M	135,976	$19.52
CHOU FRANCIS S M	5,300	$19.00

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