People: TOR Minerals International Inc (TORM.PH)


TORM.PH on Philadelphia Stock Exchange

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26 Oct 2011
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Bernard Paulson

83 2001 Independent Chairman of the Board

Olaf Karasch

55 2006 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

Barbara Russell

59 2010 Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary

Mark Schomp

52 2006 Executive Vice President

Julie Ehmann

52 2009 Independent Director

Doug Hartman

44 2001 Independent Director

Thomas Pauken

68 2001 Independent Director

Steven Paulson

48 2008 Independent Director

Chin Tan

47 2001 Independent Director

David Mossberg

Investor Relations Officer

Biographies

Name Description

Bernard Paulson

Mr. Bernard A. Paulson is the Independent Chairman of the Board of TOR Minerals International Inc., since May 2001. He has served as a director of Company since 1992. Since 1996, Mr. Paulson has served as chairman of The Automation Group, LP ("TAG"). TAG became a wholly owned subsidiary of Emerson Electric in December 2007.

Olaf Karasch

Dr. Olaf Karasch is the President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of TOR Minerals International Inc. Dr. Olaf Karasch was appointed as Executive Vice President, Operations, on September 4, 2002, and he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and elected as a director on July 1, 2006. Dr. Karasch had served as Managing Director of Company's wholly owned Netherlands subsidiary, TOR Processing and Trade, B.V. ("TP&T"), since joining Company on May 16, 2001. In January 1996, Dr. Karasch was managing director for Flohme Chrome Plating and Plasma Coating. In 1997, he joined the Royal Begemann Group in the Netherlands, the predecessor of TP&T, until purchased it in 2001. Dr. Karasch received his Ph.D. in Mineralogy at Reinisch-Westfalische University in Aachen, Germany, where he specialized in submicronization (particle size reduction below one micron).

Barbara Russell

Ms. Barbara Russell is the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary of TOR Minerals International Inc. She was appointed Chief Financial Officer on February 12, 2010 and Secretary and Treasurer on May 23, 2008. Ms. Russell has served as the Company's Controller since 1999 and as the Acting Chief Financial Officer since May of 2008. Prior to joining the Company in 1997, she was Chief Executive Officer of the South Texas Lighthouse for the Blind.

Mark Schomp

Mr. Mark J. Schomp is Executive Vice President of TOR Minerals International Inc since July 1, 2006. Mr. Schomp had served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing since September 4, 2002. Mr. Schomp is a Chemical Engineer who spent 15 years in sales and sales management with Alusuisse-Lonza, a European manufacturer of aluminum, specialty aluminas, and other products. He has wide experience in selling pigments and fillers for plastics and coatings applications. Mr. Schomp joined the Company's sales department in 2001.

Julie Ehmann

Ms. Julie Ann Ehmann, CPA, is Independent Director of TOR Minerals International Inc., since 2009. Ms. Ehmann has been an accountant with Buckley and Associates since 1991 and was elected President of Buckley and Associates in 2008. Ms. Ehmann has served as a director of Driscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation in Corpus Christi, Texas since 2008. She has also served as a director and treasurer of Texas A&M Foundation since 2008, Art Museum of South Texas since 2006, and American Diabetes Association of South Texas Council since 2006.

Doug Hartman

Mr. Douglas M. Hartman, MBA, is Independent Director of TOR Minerals International Inc., since 2001. Mr. Hartman has served as president of Hartman & Associates, Inc., an investment business in Austin, Texas, since 1999, and as a director of The Software Revolution, Inc., a provider of automated legacy computer system modernization services, since 2001. Mr. Hartman serves as Trustee for The Douglas MacDonald Hartman Family Irrevocable Trust.

Thomas Pauken

Mr. Thomas W. Pauken, Esquire, serves as Independent Director of TOR Minerals International Inc., since 1999. Mr. Pauken has been President of TWP, Inc., an investment company in Dallas, Texas, since 1991, and he has served as Managing Partner of Capital Partners, II, Ltd. Investments since 2000. Mr. Pauken is also a director of Future Matrix, a privately held company.

Steven Paulson

Mr. Steven E. Paulson is Independent Director of TOR Minerals International Inc., since 2008. Mr. Paulson has served as President and a director of TAG since 1996. TAG became a wholly owned subsidiary of Emerson Electric in December 2007.

Chin Tan

Dr. Tan Chin-Yong, Ph.D., is Independent Director of TOR Minerals International Inc, Inc since 2001. He has served as Director of subsidiary company in Malaysia, TOR Minerals Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. ("TMM"), since 2001. Dr. Tan has also served as Chief Executive Officer of Kaizen Holdings Sdn. Bhd. in Malaysia since 2008.

David Mossberg

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Bernard Paulson

16,000

Olaf Karasch

498,426

Barbara Russell

121,464

Mark Schomp

240,093

Julie Ehmann

--

Doug Hartman

--

Thomas Pauken

--

Steven Paulson

--

Chin Tan

--

David Mossberg

--
As Of 30 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name Options Value

Bernard Paulson

120,000 0

Olaf Karasch

103,500 208,490

Barbara Russell

0 0

Mark Schomp

125,000 245,500

Julie Ehmann

0 0

Doug Hartman

0 0

Thomas Pauken

0 0

Steven Paulson

0 0

Chin Tan

0 0

David Mossberg

0 0
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