Total Compensation: $ 2.03 M
Mr. Laikin, founder of Brightpoint, has served as a member of our board of directors since its inception in August 1989. Mr. Laikin has been chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Brightpoint since January 1994. Mr. Laikin was president of Brightpoint from June 1992 until September 1996 and vice president and treasurer of Brightpoint from August 1989 until May 1992. From July 1986 to December 1987, Mr. Laikin was vice president and, from January 1988 to February 1993, president of Century Cellular Network, Inc., a company engaged in the retail sale of cellular telephones and accessories.
Total Compensation: $ 778,852.00
Anthony Boor has served as Brightpoint's executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer since October 2005 and, prior thereto, from June 2005 to October 2005, he served as our acting chief financial officer and acting principal financial officer. Since July 2001, Mr. Boor has also served as the senior vice president and chief financial officer of our Americas division. Mr. Boor was previously vice president and controller of Brightpoint North America L.P. from July 1999 to July 2001 and Director of Business Management of Brightpoint North America from August 1998 to July 1999. Prior to joining Brightpoint, Mr. Boor was employed in various financial positions with Macmillan Publishing, Day Dream, Inc., Ernst & Young LLP, New Mexico State Fairgrounds and The Downs at Albuquerque, KPMG, LLP and Ernst & Whinney. Mr. Boor is a certified public accountant.
Total Compensation: $ 1.20 M
John Alexander du Plessis Currie has served as our executive vice president and chief information officer since November 2007. Prior thereto he served as our president, emerging markets from January 2006 until November 2007. From August 2002 to December 2005, Mr. Currie was the chairman and chief executive officer of Persequor Limited, a holding company for investments in wireless telecommunications that we subsequently acquired and which is now one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries. From January 1998 to August 2002, Mr. Currie served as the managing director of Brightpoint Middle East FZE, then one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries. Mr. Currie also serves on the board of directors of several of our subsidiaries.
Total Compensation: $ —
Vincent Donargo has served as Brightpoint's vice president, chief accounting officer and controller since September 2005. From 1998 to 2005, Mr. Donargo was the strategic business unit controller, director of finance and corporate controller of Aearo Company, a safety products manufacturing company. Prior to that, from 1990 to 1998, Mr. Donargo was employed in various financial positions with National Starch and Chemical Company, a specialty chemical manufacturing subsidiary of ICI Americas, Inc. Mr. Donargo is a certified public accountant and a certified management accountant.
Total Compensation: $ 884,637.00
Steven E. Fivel has served as our executive vice president, general counsel and secretary since January 1997. From December 1993 until January 1997, Mr. Fivel was an attorney with an affiliate of Simon Property Group, a publicly-held real estate investment trust. From February 1988 to December 1993, Mr. Fivel was an attorney with Melvin Simon & Associates, Inc., a privately-held shopping center development company.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Gesmar-Larsen has served as a member of our board of directors since the July 31, 2007 closing of our acquisition of Dangaard Telecom and is currently a member of our compensation and human resources committee. From September 2006 until the closing our acquisition of Dangaard Telecom (at which time he resigned his positions with Dangaard Telecom and Dangaard Holding) Mr. Gesmar-Larsen served on the board of directors of Dangaard Telecom and Dangaard Holding. Prior thereto, he served on various other boards of directors, including as chairman of Interse A/S from January 2001 until May 2005, chairman of Hal Knowledge Solutions from August 2002 until May 2004 and as vice chairman of Bang & Olufsen A/S from 1996 to May 2003. He also served on the advisory board of Danske Bank A/S from September 1999 to May 2004. Previously he held senior executive positions in the personal computer industry, including at Dell Computer Corporation as president of Europe, Middle East and Africa division (EMEA) from 1997 to 2000 and at Apple computer in various positions from 1992 to 1997, including most recently as its president EMEA.
Total Compensation: $ 1.33 M
On July 31, 2007, Mr. Howell became our co-chief operating officer and President, Americas. Mr. Howell had served as president of Brightpoint, Inc. since September 1996, president, Americas since March 2001 and was our chief operating officer from August 1995 to April 1998 and from July 1998 to March 2003. He was executive vice president, finance, chief financial officer, treasurer and secretary of Brightpoint from July 1994 until September 1996. From July 1992 until joining Brightpoint in 1994, Mr. Howell was corporate controller for ADESA Corporation, a company that owns and operates automobile auctions in the United States and Canada. Prior thereto, Mr. Howell was an accountant with Ernst & Young LLP.
Total Compensation: $ 1.11 M
R. Bruce Thomlinson has served as president, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa since November 2007. From August 2005 until August 2007 Mr. Thomlinson served as our president, Asia-Pacific and president, International Operations, the latter of which he relinquished upon the closing of the Dangaard Telecom acquisition. Prior thereto, until July 2005, he served as president of our Asia-Pacific division from October 1998 and as managing director of Brightpoint Australia, one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries, from October 1996. Prior to joining our management team, Mr. Thomlinson held the position of managing director/director for Hatadicorp Pty Ltd., a company he co-owned from 1989 until it was acquired by Brightpoint in October 1996.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Jensen has served as a member of our board of directors since the July 31, 2007 closing of our acquisition of Dangaard Telecom and is currently a member of our audit committee. He has also served as Executive Vice President and chief financial officer of Carlsberg A/S, an international brewery, since 2000 and, during his tenure there, has also served as chairman, vice chairman or board member in several companies within the Carlsberg Group. Mr. Jensen is also a member of the board of directors of the JL Foundation (Vesterhavet A/S) which owns the J. Lauritzen Group, a shipping company.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Krarup has served as a member of our board of directors since the July 31, 2007 closing of our acquisition of Dangaard Telecom and is currently a member of our corporate governance and nominating committee. From September 2006 until the closing of the Dangaard Telecom acquisition (at which time he resigned his positions with Dangaard Telecom and Dangaard Holding), Mr. Krarup served as the chairman of Dangaard Telecom and Dangaard Holding. Mr. Krarup has functioned as an advisor to Nordic Capital since 2004. Previously, he held several group chief executive positions within the financial sector, including with Nykredit A/S, a Danish mortgage bank, and following its merger with Tryg, a Danish insurance company, the holding company Tryg Nykredit Holding, from 1987 to 1992; Unibank A/S, a Danish bank, from 1992 to 2000; and Nordea AB, a bank in the Nordic region, which he co-founded, from 2000 to 2002. Mr. Krarup also currently serves as deputy chairman of the boards of H. Lundbeck A/S, a pharmaceuticals company, Alk Abello A/S, an allergy treatment/pharmaceuticals company, and LFI A/S, an investment company that holds 72% of H. Lundbeck. He is also a member of the board of directors for each of Group 4 Securicor Plc, a security and cash service company, and Bang & Olufsen A/S, a consumer electronics company, as well as several foundations, including Lundbeckfonden, The Crown Prince Frederik Fond and Danmark-Amerika fondet.
Total Compensation: $ 365,836.00
On July 31, 2007, Mr. Koehn Milland became co-chief operating officer and president, International Operations of Brightpoint. Prior to that, he served as chief operating officer of Dangaard Telecom since 1999. Prior to joining Dangaard Telecom, he held positions as chief executive officer of the handset vendor Phillips Consumer Communication in Central Europe, General Director and chief executive officer of FOR A, a Russian telecommunications operator in St. Petersburg, chief operating officer of Thorn EMI, a retail, defense, music and consumer electronics company, in Denmark and other positions in international retail and telecommunications. Mr. Koehn Milland was also part of the team that started Sonofon, which is today a part of the Telenor Group, a wireless network operator.
Total Compensation: $ —
Steen Pedersen, President Europe.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Wilska has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2005. Since November 2005, Mr. Wilska has been a venture partner in Austin Ventures, a venture capital fund that focuses on investing in Texas. Mr. Wilska served in a variety of leadership positions in Nokia's U.S. mobile phone operations from 1993 to 2004, including as president of Nokia, Inc. (Nokia Americas) from 1999 to December 2004 and as president of Vertu Ltd., a subsidiary of Nokia, Inc. From November 2004 until December 2005, Mr. Wilska served as a director of Zarlink Semiconductor Inc., and from December 2005 until it was merged with LSI Corporation, Mr. Wilska served as a director of Agere Systems, a global leader in semiconductors and software solutions for storage, mobility and networking markets. From June 2004 until its merger with American Tower Corporation in August 2005, Mr. Wilska served as a director of SpectraSite, Inc. Mr. Wilska serves on the boards of Pulsewave RF Inc. Mavenir Systems Inc., Paragon Wireless Inc., 724 Solutions, Inc. and BlackSand Technologies.
Total Compensation: $ —
Ms. Hermann has been a member of our board of directors since January 2003, and is currently chairperson of our compensation and human resources committee and a member of our corporate governance and nominating committee. She is currently Managing Director of Green Park Consultancy Limited (UK). She was formerly employed by BP plc from 1985-2008 where she served as Vice President Human Resources at global headquarters for 7 years, and was previously part of the business leadership in the oil and gas exploration and production division for over 10 years. During the late 1990's she was integrally involved in the merger of British Petroleum and Amoco Corporation, participating in the organization design and cultural integration of the two companies.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Stead has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2000 and currently serves as our lead independent director. Mr. Stead is a member of our compensation and human resources committee and chairman of our corporate governance and nominating committee. Mr. Stead has been chairman of IHS Inc. since December 2000 and its chief executive officer since September 2006. From August 1996 to June 2000, Mr. Stead served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Ingram Micro Inc., a worldwide distributor of information technology products and services. Mr. Stead served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Legent Corporation, a software development company from January 1995 until its sale in September 1995. From 1993 through 1994, Mr. Stead was executive vice president of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a telecommunications company, and chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Global Information Solutions, a computer and communications company, formerly NCR Corp. Mr. Stead was president of AT&T Global Business Communications Systems, a communications company, from 1991 to 1993. Mr. Stead was chairman, president and chief executive officer from 1989 to 1991 and president from 1987 to 1989 of Square D Company, an industrial control and electrical distribution products company. In addition, he held numerous positions during a 21-year career at Honeywell. Mr. Stead is a director of Mindspeed Technologies, Inc., and Conexant Systems, Inc.
Total Compensation: $ —
Ms. Pratt has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2003 and is currently a member of our audit committee. Since 1991, Ms. Pratt has been employed by Eli Lilly and Company, a pharmaceutical company, in various finance and treasury related positions.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Roedel has served as a member of our board of directors and as chairman of our audit committee since October 2002 and currently serves as a member of our corporate governance and nominating committee. Mr. Roedel is a director, and chairman of the audit committee of Sealy Corporation and Luna Innovations Incorporated, and is a director and a member of the audit committee of IHS Inc. He is also a director of the Association of Audit Committee Members, Inc., a non-profit organization. Mr. Roedel was a director and chairman of the audit committee of Dade Behring Holdings, Inc. from October 2002 until November 2007 when Dade was acquired by Siemens AG. Mr. Roedel served in various capacities while with Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. from April 2004 to June 2005, including as its chairman and chief executive officer. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Roedel was chairman and chief executive officer of the accounting firm BDO Seidman LLP, the United States member firm of BDO International. Before becoming chairman and chief executive officer, he was the managing partner of BDO Seidman's New York metropolitan area from 1994 to 1999, the managing partner of its Chicago office from 1990 to 1994 and an audit partner from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Roedel is a certified public accountant.
