People: Primus Telecommunications Group Inc (PTGI.N)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Neil Subin	47	2013	Chairman of the Board
Andrew Day	47	2013	President, Chief Executive Officer
James Keeley	46	2012	Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Controller, Treasurer
Richard Ramlall	56	2011	Senior Vice President - Corporate Development, Chief Communications Officer
John Filipowicz	53	2012	Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary
Andrea Mancuso	41	2012	Associate General Counsel, Assistant Corporate Secretary
Mark Holliday	44	2011	Independent Director
Robert Pons	56	2011	Independent Director
Steven Scheiwe	51	2010	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Neil Subin	Mr. Neil S. Subin has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc., effective May 1, 2013. He has served as Lead Independent Director of the Company since September 8, 2010. He has served as a director of PTGi since July 2009. Mr. Subin has been the Chairman of the Board of Broadbill Investment Partners, LP, a private investment fund, since 2011. Since its formation in 1991, Mr. Subin has served as managing director and president of Trendex Capital Management, a private investment fund focusing primarily on financially distressed companies. Mr. Subin has served as a director of Institutional Financial Markets, Inc. since 2011, Phospate Holdings, Inc. since November 2010, Hancock Fabrics, Inc. since August 2009, Movie Gallery, Inc. from May 2008 until 2010, and Federal Mogul Corporation since December 2007. In addition, Mr. Subin served as a director of FiberTower Corporation from December 2001 to December 2009. Mr. Subin holds a B.A. in business administration from Brooklyn College.
Andrew Day	Mr. Andrew Day, is appointed as the President, Chief Executive Officer of Primus Telecommunications Group. He had been serving as the Company’s North America CEO for the past year. Prior to holding this position, since June 2009, Mr. Day was the Chief Operating Officer of the Company’s Canadian business unit. Mr. Day joined the Company in 1999 and has held various senior positions within the Company, including managing the marketing, sales and operations departments. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Day has held a range of marketing, business development and finance positions with international companies including AT&T, Gillette and Xerox. Mr. Day has an Honours Bachelor of Commerce from McMaster University, and is a Certified Management Accountant.
James Keeley	Mr. James C. Keeley is Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Treasurer, Controller of Primus Telecommunications Group Inc. He joined the Company as Vice President of Finance in May 2009, became an executive officer (Vice President—Corporate Controller) in October 2009, Acting Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) in September 2010, Treasurer in March 2011 and Corporate Controller (Principal Accounting Officer) in May 2011. Mr. Keeley has 20 years of financial reporting and accounting experience with both private and public companies. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Keeley was a self-employed consultant providing finance and accounting services from August 2008 to May 2009. From November 2006 to August 2008, Mr. Keeley was Vice President—Consumer Investment Banking at FBR Capital Markets Corporation. Prior to November 2006, Mr. Keeley held financial reporting and accounting positions with 3SI Security Systems, Inc. and with two publicly traded companies, The Pep Boys—Manny, Moe & Jack and David’s Bridal, Inc. Mr. Keeley is a certified public accountant. Mr. Keeley holds a Bachelor of Science from Fairmont State College.
Richard Ramlall	Mr. Richard R. Ramlall is Senior Vice President - Corporate Development, Chief Communications Officer of Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc. Mr. Ramlall served as Senior Vice President Strategic External Affairs and Programming at RCN. His tenure at RCN extended from March 2005 to August 2010, during which he led the company’s regulatory, government affairs, programming, and investor relations and public relations efforts. Before joining RCN, he served as Senior Managing Director and Executive Vice President of Spencer Trask Media and Communications Group, LLC. Mr. Ramlall served as Vice President and Managing Director for Strategy, Marketing and International Government Affairs for Bechtel Telecommunications. Mr. Ramlall was Executive Director for International Business Affairs for Bell Atlantic International and he spent more than 18 years in Verizon and its predecessor organizations, serving in a variety of executive positions including strategy, government affairs, marketing, business development, regulatory and legal positions. He serves as a board member of Evolving Systems, Inc. and the Alzheimer’s Association, National Capital Area Chapter. Mr. Ramlall holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and an MGA (Technology Management) from the University of Maryland.
John Filipowicz	Mr. John D. Filipowicz is Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary of Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc. He joined the Company as Chief Administrative Officer in May 2011. In August 2011, he became the Company’s Acting General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer, as well as his previous position of Chief Administrative Officer and since March 2012, he has been the Company’s General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer, as well as his previous position of Chief Administrative Officer. Mr. Filipowicz has worked with small and mid-size telecommunications companies in the areas of legal, operations, human resources, integration, sales, and marketing. From 1988 to 2009, Mr. Filipowicz held a number of executive positions at RCN Corporation (“RCN”) and its predecessor companies, including President of RCN’s Residential Markets, General Manager of its Philadelphia and Pennsylvania markets, Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer; Senior Vice President of Human Resources, and Acting General Counsel. Prior to RCN, he served as Acting General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Commonwealth Telephone Company, Mercom, Inc. and Cable Michigan. Mr. Filipowicz holds a Juris Doctor from Thomas M. Cooley Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in government from St. Lawrence University.
Andrea Mancuso	Ms. Andrea L. Mancuso is an Associate General Counsel, Assistant Corporate Secretary of Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc. She joined the Company as Associate General Counsel in November 2011 and became Assistant Corporate Secretary in March 2012. Prior to joining the Company, from August 2010 to September 2011, Ms. Mancuso was Senior Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary of SRA International, Inc. and provided leadership and expedite the sale of SRA to a private equity firm. From March 2002 to September 2009, Ms. Mancuso was a Corporate & Securities Associate at Arnold & Porter LLP law firm advising clients on securities law matters and corporate transactions. Ms. Mancuso is a certified public accountant and, prior to becoming an attorney, held accounting positions. Ms. Mancuso holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law Center and a Bachelor of Science from Lehigh University.
Mark Holliday	Mr. Mark E. Holliday is an Independent Director of Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc., since May 2011. Mr. Holliday is President of Goshawk Capital Corp., an investment firm which he founded in January 2009, and was a partner at Camden Asset Management, LP (“Camden”), a hedge fund focused on convertible arbitrage, from 2003 to 2009. Prior to joining Camden, Mr. Holliday was a portfolio manager at Deephaven Capital Management, LLC from 2001 to 2002 and a principal at Heartland Capital Corp. from 1995 to 2000. Mr. Holliday has served as a director and audit committee chairman of FiberTower Corporation, a provider of backhaul transmission services to wireless carriers, since November 2008 and of YRC Worldwide, Inc., a provider of transportation and global logistics services, since May 2010. Mr. Holliday formerly served as a director and audit committee chairman of Movie Gallery, Inc., which was the second video rental company in the United States, from May 2008 to November 2010, and served as chairman of the board of directors from February 2010 to November 2010, and as a director of Clear Choice Health Plans from January 2009 to June 2010. Mr. Holliday earned a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University.
Robert Pons	Mr. Robert M. Pons is an Independent Director of Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc., since September 16, 2011. Mr. Pons is Chairman of LiveWire Mobile, Inc., a comprehensive one-stop digital content solution for mobile carriers, handset manufacturers and media companies, a position he has held since February 2011. From January 2008 until February 2011, Mr. Pons was Senior Vice President of TMNG Global, a provider of professional services to the converging communications media and entertainment industries and the capital formation firms that support it. From January 2004 until April 2007, Mr. Pons served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Uphonia, Inc. (previously SmartServ Online, Inc.), a wireless applications service provider. From August 2003 until January 2004, Mr. Pons served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of SmartServ Online, Inc. on a consulting basis. From March 1999 to August 2003, he was President of FreedomPay, Inc., a wireless device payment processing company. During the period January 1994 to March 1999, Mr. Pons was President of Lifesafety Solutions, Inc., an enterprise software company. Mr. Pons has over 25 years of management experience with telecommunications companies including MCI, Inc., Sprint, Inc. and Geotek, Inc. Mr. Pons currently serves on the board of directors of Network-1 Security Solutions, Inc., an acquirer, developer and licensor of intellectual property, and Proxim Wireless Corporation, a provider of Wi-Fi, Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint 4G wireless network technologies for wireless Internet, video surveillance and backhaul applications and serves as the Vice-Chairman of MRV Communications. He served on the board of directors of Arbinet Corporation from April 2009 until its acquisition by PTGi in February 2011. Mr. Pons received a B.A. degree from Rowan University.
Steven Scheiwe	Mr. Steven D. Scheiwe is an Independent Director of Primus Telecommunications Group Inc., since August 2010. Since 2001, Mr. Scheiwe has served as the President of Ontrac Advisors, Inc., a provider of analysis and business management services. Prior to founding Ontrac in 2001, Mr. Scheiwe served as Chief Executive Officer and founding management member of Teletrac, Inc. (“Teltrac”), where he led a strategic and financial restructuring. Mr. Scheiwe began his tenure at Teletrac in 1995 as General Counsel and Secretary. From 1988 to 1995, he was a co-founder, General Counsel and Secretary of Premiere Page, Inc., a radio paging business, which completed an initial public offering in 1993 and merged with Arch Wireless in late 1994. Mr. Scheiwe also served as Senior Legal Counsel and Midwest Office Managing Director, Cable Operations at Hardesty, Puckett, Queen & Co., a national business brokerage operation specializing in cable television systems. Mr. Scheiwe serves as a member of the board of directors and member of the audit and compensation committees of FiberTower Corporation and serves as the chairman of the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee of Hancock Fabrics Inc., a specialty retailer of fabrics, home textiles and sewing products and on the board of directors of Inner City Media Corporation, Xstelos Holdings, Inc. and WMI Holdings, Inc. In addition to these current public company directorships, within the past five years, Mr. Scheiwe has served on the boards of directors of General Chemical Industrial Products, Inc., Friedman’s, Inc., American Restaurant Group, Inc., Zemex Minerals Group, Inc., Footstar, Inc. and Movie Gallery, Inc. He received a B.A. from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and a J.D. with Honors from the Washburn University School of Law.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Neil Subin	--
Andrew Day	--
James Keeley	727,720
Richard Ramlall	835,213
John Filipowicz	--
Andrea Mancuso	--
Mark Holliday	--
Robert Pons	--
Steven Scheiwe	--

As Of 30 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Neil Subin	0	0
Andrew Day	0	0
James Keeley	0	0
Richard Ramlall	0	0
John Filipowicz	0	0
Andrea Mancuso	0	0
Mark Holliday	0	0
Robert Pons	0	0
Steven Scheiwe	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
AQUINO PETER D	17,924	$12.57
AQUINO PETER D	41,586	$0.00
AQUINO PETER D	41,586	$0.00
DAY ANDREW	1,710	$10.23
AQUINO PETER D	17,924	$11.05
AQUINO PETER D	35,728	$10.87
DAY ANDREW	1,710	$10.87
DAY ANDREW	774	$10.50
KEELEY JAMES C	648	$10.50
SUBIN NEIL S	32,000	$0.00
FILIPOWICZ JOHN D	1,535	$0.00
KEELEY JAMES C	2,000	$0.00
SCHWARZ KENNETH D	3,801	$0.00
FILIPOWICZ JOHN D	2,000	$0.00
SCHWARZ KENNETH D	5,948	$16.63
RAMLALL RICHARD R	10,000	$0.00
SCHWARZ KENNETH D	5,000	$0.00
SCHWARZ KENNETH D	5,000	$0.00
RAMLALL RICHARD R	2,632	$0.00
KEELEY JAMES C	2,193	$0.00
RAMLALL RICHARD R	7,967	$16.63
RAMLALL RICHARD R	10,000	$0.00
KEELEY JAMES C	3,046	$16.63
FILIPOWICZ JOHN D	1,754	$16.63
KEELEY JAMES C	2,000	$0.00

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