People: Smart Balance, Inc. (SMBL.O)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position
Hughes, Stephen 54 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
Gluck, Robert 59 2008 Vice Chairman of the Board, Chief Operating Officer
Gever, Alan 54 2008 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Konzelmann, John 61 Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer, Controller
Lewis, James 60 2007 Director
Gillespie, Robert 66 2005 Director
Hooper, William 72 2005 Director
Laber, Gerald 65 2005 Director
McCarthy, Robert 59 2005 Director
Leighton, James 53 2007 Director
O'Brien, Michael 65 2007 Director
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Biographies

Name Description
Hughes, Stephen Stephen B. Hughes has been Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Smart Balance, Inc. since inception. Mr. Hughes served as the sole officer and director of Hughes Consulting, Inc. from 2004 to 2007. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Hughes served as a director of The Cambridge Group, a demand strategy consulting firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. While with Cambridge, Mr. Hughes led or participated in securing new marketing strategy engagements with a number of consumer packaged goods companies. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Hughes served first as vice president of sales and then as the senior vice president of marketing and sales for White Wave Foods Company, a division of Dean Foods Company. In June 2004, Mr. Hughes was also named senior vice president of marketing and research and development for Dean Foods’ newly formed White Wave division, a $1.1 billion division with brands including Silk, Horizon, International Delight, Land-o-Lakes and Marie’s. From 2000 to 2002, he served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Frontier Natural Product, Inc., a privately held cooperative providing distribution services, organic ingredients and spices to the natural foods industry. Mr. Hughes holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and political science from Denison University and an MBA degree with a concentration in marketing and finance from the University of Chicago. He also serves on the board of trustees for the Alexander Dawson School and as a director of B.F. Bolthouse LLC.
Gluck, Robert Robert S. Gluck is Vice Chairman of the Board, Chief Operating Officer of Smart Balance, Inc. He has been a Vice Chairman and a member of board of directors of Smart Balance, Inc since November 2005. On May 14, 2007, he assumed the duties of chief financial officer until January 7, 2008, when he was named chief operating officer. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Gluck served as the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Unilever United States, Inc. Mr. Gluck has also provided consulting services to companies throughout the food industry through his consulting firm, Matthew Robert Associates, LLC, where he specialized in strategic planning, financial operations review, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, competitive analysis and peer group benchmarking. In February 2006, Mr. Gluck became the president of Kristian Regale, a private company engaged in the sparkling juice business. Mr. Gluck has no active day-to-day management role with either Matthew Robert Associates, LLC or Kristian Regale. Mr. Gluck holds a Bachelors degree in marketing from the New York Institute of Technology and an MBA in finance from St. John’s University. He is a member of Financial Executives Institute, the Association for Corporate Growth, the Food Marketing Institute, and the National Restaurant Association.
Gever, Alan Alan S. Gever is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Smart Balance, Inc. He served as vice president of financial planning and analysis until January 7, 2008, when he was appointed to be executive vice president and chief financial officer of Smart Balance, Inc. Mr. Gever has a broad-based knowledge of the financial, accounting and administrative functions of a business. While serving as vice president of financial planning and analysis, Mr. Gever was responsible for leading many internal planning, financial operations, and investor relations efforts. Mr. Gever served as chief financial officer and general manager of the Nabisco Refrigerated Foods Group from 1992 to 1999 which consisted of consumer branded margarine and egg substitute products. In 2000, Mr. Gever founded ShareMax.com, an internet-based provider of strategic sourcing services to the consumer packaged goods industry. From 2001 to 2003 Mr. Gever served as chief financial officer of the Ultimate Juice Company which was, at the time, the nation’s largest fresh juice manufacturer with juice brands such as Naked Juice, Orchid Island, and Zeigler’s along with Saratoga Spring bottled water. From 2003 to May 2007, Mr. Gever was a principal of Northpointe Consulting Group LLC providing management consulting services to startup and small-cap companies primarily in the food and beverage industry. Mr. Gever received his bachelor’s degree in business management from Seton Hall University in New Jersey.
Konzelmann, John John F. Konzelmann is Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer, Controller of Smart Balance, Inc. He has been the principal accounting officer of Smart Balance, Inc since June 2007. Mr. Konzelmann has a broad-based knowledge of the financial, accounting and administrative functions of a business. From June 2005 to June 2007, Mr. Konzelmann served as the vice president, controller and chief accounting officer of Alpharma, Inc. He served as assistant corporate controller and director of financial reporting of Unilever United States Inc. from 2000 until April 2004. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Konzelmann served as assistant corporate controller of Bestfoods, prior to Unilever’s acquisition of Bestfoods. Mr. Konzelmann is a certified public accountant and holds a bachelors degree and a masters in business administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
Lewis, James James E. Lewis is a Director of Smart Balance, Inc. He has been a director since inception and served as vice chairman of Smart Balance, Inc until May 14, 2007. Since 1991, Mr. Lewis has served as chairman and chief executive of Jeltex Holdings, LLC. Currently, Mr. Lewis is the sole officer and director of Jeltex. The Jeltex group has been comprised of significant or controlling ownership stakes acquired, held and sold for Mr. Lewis’ personal account in a vertically integrated group of private food businesses engaged in vegetable farming, fresh produce distribution, manufacture of canned foods and retail grocery distribution. Today, Mr. Lewis and his spouse hold a controlling interest in Centennial Specialty Foods Corporation, a public company engaged in the manufacture and marketing of specialty branded, quality ethnic Southwestern canned sauces and food products. Mr. Lewis is a certified public accountant and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants. He holds a BBA degree in accounting from Texas Tech University.
Gillespie, Robert Robert J. Gillespie has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Smart Balance, Inc. since September 2005. Mr. Gillespie is currently the principal of Westmount Investments, LLC, a privately held investment company. In February 2006, Mr. Gillespie joined the board of directors of Kristian Regale, a private company engaged in the sparkling juice business. Mr. Gillespie also serves on the board of directors of SRV Bank and the Delbarton School. He formerly served on the boards of directors of Best Foods, Factory Mutual Insurance Company, Advanced H2O Inc., Tiger 21, The Valley Hospital, Dominex, LLC and CSC Consumer Products, and he is the former chairman of the Sarah W. Stedman Center for Nutritional Studies at Duke University.
Hooper, William William E. Hooper has been a Member of Board of Directors of Smart Balance, Inc. since June 2005 and has served as Company's marketing coordinator since May 2007. In September 2005, Mr. Hooper formed Hooper Consulting LLC, a marketing communications consultancy. From 2000 to September 2005, Mr. Hooper served as chairman of Trahan, Burden & Charles Inc., or TBC, a mid-sized advertising agency headquartered in New York and Baltimore that provides creative, public relations, media planning and buying, and direct marketing services to a broad spectrum of corporate customers. Among TBC’s clientele was Dow Jones & Company, Nextel Communications, Vanguard Securities, Yellow Book Directories, Gaylord Hotels, The Mills Corporation and the National Security Agency. Mr. Hooper holds a B.S. degree in business administration from Loyola College of Maryland and has served on the board of trustees of the Loyola College of Maryland, the National Aquarium and the St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Baltimore. He was also a member of the U.S. Army Reserve Military Police Corp. from 1958 to 1966.
Laber, Gerald Gerald J. “Bud” Laber has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Smart Balance, Inc. since June 2005. Mr. Laber has been a private investor since 2000, when he retired after 33 years of service with Arthur Andersen. Mr. Laber was a partner with Arthur Andersen from 1980 to 2000 and, with the exception of a leave for military service from 1966 through 1968, was employed by Arthur Andersen from 1965 until retiring in 2000. Mr. Laber is a certified public accountant and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants. From July 2003 to May 2006, he has served as a member of the board of directors and chair of the audit committee of Healthetech, Inc.; since October 2003 on the board of directors and chair of the audit committee of Centennial Specialty Foods Corporation; since February 2004 on the board of directors and as chair of the audit committee of Scott’s Liquid Gold, Inc; from April 2004 to March 2007 on the board of directors and as chair of the audit committee of Spectralink Corporation; since July 2004 on the board of directors and as chair of the audit committee of Qualmark Corporation; and from July 2004 to July 2007 on the board of directors and audit committee (chair since October 2005) of Applied Films Corporation. Each of these companies is, or was, publicly traded. Effective January 1, 2008, Mr. Laber was appointed president of The Catholic Foundation of Northern Colorado. Mr. Laber holds a B.S.B.A. degree with a major in accountancy from the University of South Dakota, and is a member of the board of directors or trustees of two charitable organizations with offices in the metropolitan Denver, Colorado area and is a member of the board of trustees of the University of South Dakota Foundation.
McCarthy, Robert Robert F. McCarthy has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Smart Balance, Inc. since June 2005. Since 2004, Mr. McCarthy has been active in advising several consumer packaged goods companies and managing his personal investments. From 1998 to 2004, Mr. McCarthy co-led the roll-up of the consumer packaged goods food sales agency business that resulted in the creation of a national agency, Acosta Sales and Marketing Company. From 1998 to 2004, Mr. McCarthy served as president of the Acosta Grocery Channel, the grocery division of Acosta Sales and Marketing. Mr. McCarthy holds a BBA degree in marketing from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Management degree from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.
Leighton, James James B. Leighton has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Smart Balance, Inc. since August 2007. From 2006 to the present, Mr. Leighton has served as the senior vice president of operations and supply chain of Perdue Farms Incorporated, a large, privately-held poultry company. From 2002 to 2006, Mr Leighton served as the senior vice president of operations of Conagra Foods, Inc., one of the largest food companies in the United States. Mr. Leighton holds a B.S.B.A. degree in business administration and industrial relations from the University of Iowa and a masters degree in business administration from Keller Graduate School of Management.
O'Brien, Michael Michael R. O'Brien was a Member of Board of Directors of Smart Balance, Inc. from June 2005 to November 2005 and was a senior advisor to the Company until August 2007, when he was appointed to board of directors. Mr. O’Brien co-founded Catalina Marketing Corporation, a direct marketing company, in 1983, and served as Catalina’s president until 1989 and as its chairman of the board and chief executive officer until 1992. Since 1992, Mr. O’Brien has been chairman emeritus of, and a consultant to, Catalina. Catalina was founded to develop and distribute behavior-based communications for consumer packaged goods and pharmaceutical products manufacturers, marketers and retailers. Mr. O’Brien has previously served on the boards of directors of MemberWorks and Imagitas, Inc. MemberWorks designs and markets innovative membership programs that offer members access to significant savings at national brand name service providers and merchants, while membership organizations receive royalties in exchange for providing MemberWorks with members. Imagitas is a targeted direct mail marketing company serving Federal and state governmental agencies such as the U.S. Postal Service and corporate clients such as Home Depot and Ford. Imagitas was sold to Pitney Bowes Inc. in 2005. Mr. O’Brien currently serves on the board of directors of Velocity Media, Inc. Mr. O’Brien attended the University of Kansas from 1961 – 1965.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total
Hughes, Stephen 2,648,270
Gluck, Robert 2,879,800
Gever, Alan 1,126,500
Konzelmann, John 579,210
Lewis, James --
Gillespie, Robert --
Hooper, William --
Laber, Gerald --
McCarthy, Robert --
Leighton, James --
O'Brien, Michael --
As Of 30 Dec 2008

Insider Trading

Name Shares Traded Price
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 3,000 $5.49
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 3,000 $5.57
HUGHES STEPHEN B 3,575 $0.00
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 1,400 $5.84
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 4,839 $5.81
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 14,125 $5.80
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 1,700 $5.76
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 100 $5.74
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 1,500 $5.81
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 200 $5.78
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 3,700 $5.75
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 6,000 $5.85
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 4,500 $5.76
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 2,874 $5.74
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 2,830 $5.83
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 10,831 $5.75
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 2,300 $5.76
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 1,626 $5.73
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 2,849 $5.80
O BRIEN MICHAEL R 5,600 $5.77
HUGHES STEPHEN B 3,000 $5.11
LABER GERALD J 4,000 $5.12
GILLESPIE ROBERT J 10,000 $4.95
ADAGE CAPITAL PARTNERS GP L L C 514,469 $5.50
LABER GERALD J 9,000 $5.75
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