People: THQ Inc (THQI.O)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position
Farrell, Brian 55 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer
Pucino, Paul 48 2009 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Kaufman, Edward 49 2009 Executive Vice President - Business and Legal Affairs, Corporate Secretary
Curran, Ian 42 2009 Executive Vice President - Global Publishing
Bilson, Danny 52 2009 Executive Vice President - Core Games
Clemmer, Douglas 50 2009 Executive Vice President - Kids/Family/Casual Games
Dauterman, Steven 44 2009 Senior Vice President - Online
Gioia, Germaine 2009 Senior Vice President - Licensing and Merchandising
Whims, James 54 2009 Lead Independent Director
Burstein, Lawrence 66 1991 Director
Dougherty, Brian 52 2002 Director
DeNero, Henry 63 2003 Director
Griffiths, Jeffrey 58 2005 Director
Rieschel, Gary 53 2007 Director
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Biographies

Name Description
Farrell, Brian Mr. Brian J. Farrell is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of THQ Inc. He has been Company's President and Chief Executive Officer since January 1995 and a director since March 1993. Between October 1992 and January 1995, Mr. Farrell served as Company's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. From July 1991 to October 1992, Mr. Farrell served as Company's Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. From 1984 until joining the Company, Mr. Farrell was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hotel Investors Trust, a real estate investment trust. Mr. Farrell was employed by Deloitte Haskins & Sells, a predecessor of Deloitte & Touche LLP, an international accounting firm and Company's current auditors, from 1978 to 1984.
Pucino, Paul Mr. Paul J. Pucino was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of THQ Inc. in January 2009. From August 2007 through March 2008, Mr. Pucino was executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer of Classmates Media Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of United Online. From 2005 to 2007, Pucino was Chief Financial Officer of publicly traded internet services company Digital Insight, which was merged with Intuit in February 2007. From May 2000 to January 2005, Mr. Pucino served as executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer of Tekelec, a publicly traded developer of internet and telecommunications networking equipment. Mr. Pucino earned a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from the University of Tampa and an Masters of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Chicago.
Kaufman, Edward Mr. Edward L. Kaufman is Executive Vice President - Business and Legal Affairs, Corporate Secretary of THQ Inc. Kaufman's extensive career includes more than 15 years in senior legal management roles at media, entertainment and consumer product companies. Most recently, Kaufman was executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE). He joined the WWE in 1997 from Hanna-Barbera, Inc., where he was director, business and legal affairs. Prior to Hanna-Barbera, Inc., Kaufman was with National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Mr. Kaufman is licensed to practice in Connecticut and California. He earned a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School and a Bachelor's degree with Honors from the University of Virginia.
Curran, Ian Mr. Ian Curran was appointed as Executive Vice President, Global Publishing of THQ Inc. in June 2009. He previously served as Company's Executive Vice President, International from July 2007 and as Senior Vice President, International Publishing from December 2004. In his current role, Mr. Curran is responsible for overseeing Company's worldwide sales and distribution activities. Prior to June 2009, Mr. Curran was responsible for overseeing all of THQ's sales and distribution activities outside of North America. From October 2003 to December 2004, Mr. Curran served as Vice President, European Publishing and prior to this, between October 2000 and October 2003, was Managing Director responsible for all the publishing activities within the United Kingdom and Export divisions. From December 1998 to September 2000, Mr. Curran served as UK General Manager for Acclaim Entertainment Ltd. and was responsible for all sales, marketing and finance activities and between January 1997 and December 1998 his responsibilities for Acclaim were carried out in the capacity as UK Sales Director. Prior to joining Acclaim, between October 1995 and January 1997, Mr. Curran served as Head of European Sales for Warner Interactive International (Time Warner Inc.) and between November 1992 and November 1994 Mr. Curran was employed as Buying Director for Future Zone Stores Limited (Part of Rhino Group PLC-now trading as Game PLC). While in this position, his responsibilities included being a member of the main board of directors.
Bilson, Danny Mr. Danny Bilson was appointed Executive Vice President, Core Games of THQ Inc.in June 2009. In this role, Mr. Bilson is responsible for Company's core-gamer, fighting and racing games business unit. Mr. Bilson previously served as Company's Senior Vice President, Creative Development since October 2008 and prior to that as Company's Vice President of Creative Development since he joined the Company in February 2008. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Bilson was a principal in his own production company, Pet Fly, where he wrote, directed and produced original television series and pilots for Hollywood studios such as Warner Bros./CBS, Warner Bros./ABC, Paramount/NBC/First Run Syndication and Paramount/UPN and also wrote and produced several feature films. Mr. Bilson was employed by Electronic Arts from 1999 through 2004, where he co-produced The Sims and went on to become Vice President Intellectual Property Development providing creative direction, concept design, story and scripts for several Electronic Arts franchises. Danny has been a member of the faculty of the USC School of Cinematic arts since 2005, where he leads the interactive fiction section.
Clemmer, Douglas Mr. Douglas C. Clemmer was appointed as Executive Vice President, Kids/Family/Casual Games of THQ Inc. in June 2009. In this role, Mr. Clemmer is responsible for Company's kids, family and mass appeal games business unit. Mr. Clemmer previously served as a Senior Vice President of the Company and President of Company's both Valusoft and wireless divisions. Prior to THQ's acquisition of Valusoft in 2003, Mr. Clemmer founded and sold several companies, including Radix, a hardware distribution company that was sold to Microware Distributors and One Source Marketing, a company representing several well-known video game publishers (Sega, Virgin, Compton's and Ubisoft among others).
Dauterman, Steven Mr. Steven F. Dauterman was appointed as Senior Vice President, Online of THQ Inc. in June 2009. In this role, Mr. Dauterman is responsible for Company's online division. Mr. Dauterman previously served as Company's Senior Vice President, Product Development since 2005. In this role, he oversaw the product development in the Asia Pacific Region, the Company's initiatives in online product development in Asia and the Company's outsourcing initiatives in Asia. From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Dauterman served as Vice President and General Manager of THQ Studio Australia. Prior to joining THQ in 2003, Dauterman was Vice President at Electronic Arts from 1999 to 2002 where he was responsible for starting Electronic Arts' internal studio in Australia and leading their Chertsey studio in the United Kingdom. Mr. Dauterman's initial start in the video games industry was when he joined Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts Entertainment Company where he worked from 1989 to 1999 in various roles. In 1992 he was made Director of Product Development at LucasArts Entertainment Company. Mr. Dauterman graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting.
Gioia, Germaine Ms. Germaine Gioia has been appointed as Senior Vice President - Licensing and Merchandising of THQ Inc. Ms. Gioia's tenure in the video game industry spans nearly two decades. She rejoins THQ after serving as senior vice president, licensing for Capcom Entertainment in the US and European territories for the past three years. At Capcom, Gioia oversaw and secured merchandising partnerships for Capcom's franchises, spanning electronics, apparel, book and music publishing, toy, home furnishings, promotion and media. She also secured intellectual property procurement across game platforms. Gioia previously headed the licensing efforts of THQ for 14 years, where she was instrumental in securing many of THQ's most successful franchises. She returns to THQ along with Josh Austin to work with each of THQ's business units in their licensing and merchandising efforts. Ms. Gioia's prior roles include director of corporate communications at CIC, a high-technology computer software development company in Silicon Valley and corporate marketing communications at LucasArts Entertainment Company. Ms. Gioia holds a bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University.
Whims, James Mr. James L. Whims has been the Lead Independent Director of THQ Inc. since August 6, 2009. Since 1996, Mr. Whims has been a Managing Director of TechFund Capital I, L.P., TechFund Capital II, L.P., and since 2001, TechFund Capital Europe, venture capital firms concentrating on high-technology enterprises. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Whims was Executive Vice President of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. Mr. Whims is also a board member of Synaptics Inc. and numerous private company boards. Mr. Whims holds an Masters of Business Administration from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University.
Burstein, Lawrence Mr. Lawrence Burstein has been a Director of THQ Inc. since July 1991. Since March 1996, Mr. Burstein has served as President and a director and has been a stockholder of Unity Venture Capital Associates Ltd., a private investment company. From 1986 through March 1996, Mr. Burstein was President, a director and a principal stockholder of Trinity Capital Corporation, a private investment company. Mr. Burstein is a director of CAS Medical Systems, Inc., I.D. Systems, Inc., Atrinsic, Inc., American Telecom Services, Inc. and Millenium India Acquisition Corp.
Dougherty, Brian Mr. Brian P. Dougherty has been a Director of THQ Inc. since November 2002. Mr. Dougherty is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of AirSet, Inc. (formerly Airena, Inc.), a software development company. Prior to AirSet he was the Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Wink Communications, a provider of end-to-end interactive television services to the cable and satellite industries that he founded in 1995 and sold to Liberty Media in 2002. Mr. Dougherty also founded Geoworks in 1983; over his ten year tenure as Chief Executive Officer of Geoworks, the company developed video games for consoles and PCs, productivity software and operating systems for PCs, and operating systems and applications for mobile phones. His first company, Imagic, developed games for various consoles including Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision, and Commodore 64, and was purchased by Activision in 1984. Mr. Dougherty has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Mr. Dougherty is a board member of AirSet, Inc.
DeNero, Henry Mr. Henry T. DeNero has been a Director of THQ Inc. since June 2003. Since January 2001, Mr. DeNero has been an independent management consultant. From January 1999 to December 2000, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HomeSpace, Inc., an internet company in the real estate and mortgage services business. From July 1995 to December 1998, he was Executive Vice President of First Data Corporation, a computer services company, and was responsible for the company's commercial payment instruments group. From June 1994 to June 1995, Mr. DeNero was an independent management consultant. From April 1992 to April 1994, he was Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Dayton Hudson Corporation (now Target Corporation), a general merchandise retailer. From 1973 to 1992, he was with the management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, first as an associate and later as a junior and then a senior partner of the firm. Mr. DeNero is also a director of Western Digital Corporation and Vignette Corporation.
Griffiths, Jeffrey Mr. Jeffrey W. Griffiths has been a Director of THQ Inc. since October 2005. Since September 2006, Mr. Griffiths has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Lumber Liquidators, a national retailer of hardwood flooring. Mr. Griffiths was President and Chief Executive Officer of video game retailer Electronics Boutique Holdings Corp. ("EB") from 2001 through 2005 when EB merged with GameStop Corp. Mr. Griffiths' career at EB spanned more than 20 years. He served as Vice President and Senior Vice President of Merchandising, Marketing and Distribution for EB from 1987 to 1996 and from 1996 to 2001, respectively. Mr. Griffiths also served as a director of EB from 2001 to 2005 and of Game PLC, formerly Electronics Boutique PLC, from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Griffiths holds an Masters of Business Administration from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts from Albright College. He serves on the board of Trustees of Albright College and the board of directors of the Philadelphia Academies Inc. and Lumber Liquidators.
Rieschel, Gary Mr. Gary E. Rieschel joined THQ Inc.'s Board as a Director in January 2007. Mr. Rieschel has more than 25 years of operating and investing experience in the information technology industry. He is the founder of Qiming Venture Partners, a $500 million fund that invests in early stage Chinese companies. Mr. Rieschel also founded SOFTBANK Venture Capital/Mobius Venture Capital, a $2 billion fund based in the United States, which invested in more than 50 technology companies during Mr. Rieschel's tenure. Prior to his years as a venture capitalist, Mr. Rieschel held senior executive positions at Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, Sequent Computer Systems and nCUBE.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total
Farrell, Brian 2,277,450
Pucino, Paul 68,873
Kaufman, Edward --
Curran, Ian 1,214,080
Bilson, Danny --
Clemmer, Douglas --
Dauterman, Steven --
Gioia, Germaine --
Whims, James --
Burstein, Lawrence --
Dougherty, Brian --
DeNero, Henry --
Griffiths, Jeffrey --
Rieschel, Gary --
As Of 30 Mar 2009

Options Compensation

Name Options Value
Farrell, Brian 1,520,226 15,842,960
Pucino, Paul 0 0
Kaufman, Edward 0 0
Curran, Ian 164,695 1,875,543
Bilson, Danny 0 0
Clemmer, Douglas 0 0
Dauterman, Steven 0 0
Gioia, Germaine 0 0
Whims, James 0 0
Burstein, Lawrence 0 0
Dougherty, Brian 0 0
DeNero, Henry 0 0
Griffiths, Jeffrey 0 0
Rieschel, Gary 0 0

Insider Trading

Name Shares Traded Price
DOUGHERTY BRIAN P 4,050 $0.00
BURSTEIN LAWRENCE S 4,050 $0.00
PUCINO PAUL J 10,000 $2.49
FARRELL BRIAN J 50,000 $2.34
FARRELL BRIAN J 50,000 $0.00
GRIFFITHS JEFFREY W 10,000 $3.09
FARRELL BRIAN J 4,000 $0.00
SORENSEN JACK 40,000 $14.28
SORENSEN JACK 40,000 $11.67
SORENSEN JACK 20,000 $14.59
SORENSEN JACK 20,000 $11.67
SORENSEN JACK 40,000 $11.67
SORENSEN JACK 40,000 $15.26
DOUGHERTY BRIAN P 4,050 $0.00
BURSTEIN LAWRENCE S 4,050 $0.00
KENNEDY JAMES M 2,500 $11.67
KENNEDY JAMES M 2,500 $20.13
DOUGHERTY BRIAN P 8,438 $12.06
GOODMEN WILLIAM WALTER 2,699 $21.00
DOUGHERTY BRIAN P 1,358 $18.70
DOUGHERTY BRIAN P 8,438 $8.56
DOUGHERTY BRIAN P 700 $18.77
DOUGHERTY BRIAN P 1,700 $18.72
DOUGHERTY BRIAN P 200 $18.80
DOUGHERTY BRIAN P 1,000 $18.71
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