Investor Relations

Antonio Arenas was appointed as a director on December 5, 2006. and as Executive Chairman since October 9, 2007. Mr. Arenas is a Managing Director and the Chief Executive Officer of COALCA, S.A., a company involved in the sale and distribution of consumer and pharmaceutical products, and land development in the Canary Islands and Spain.  Mr. Arenas also has significant experience serving as an independent advisor with companies pursuing turnaround strategies. Recent projects include serving as the senior advisor to Papeteries de Gaves, serving as a part-time managing director of TACISA, and serving as a senior advisor and member of the board of Exclusivas Roca S.L.  Mr. Arenas received a degree in law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1977.

 

Gregory N. Roberts was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and President effective March 6, 2008. Mr. Roberts has been a director since February 2000, and is the President of Spectrum Numismatics and A-Mark Precious Metals since the company acquired those businesses. He is also a lifetime member of the Professional Numismatics Guild.

 

Jeffrey D. Benjamin, age 47, is a Senior Advisor to Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P. Mr. Benjamin is a member of the Board of Directors of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., Exco Resources, Inc. and Virgin Media Inc., and is a trustee of the American Numismatic Society. He holds an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. and a BA from Tufts University.

 

Jess M. Ravich, aged 52, is a managing director and head of capital markets of Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, Inc., an international investment bank. From 1991 through November 2009, Mr. Ravich founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Libra Securities LLC, an investment banking firm serving the middle market. Prior to founding Libra, Mr. Ravich was an Executive Vice President of the fixed income department at Jefferies & Company, a Los Angeles-based brokerage firm. Prior to Jefferies, Mr. Ravich was a Senior Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he was also a member of the executive committee of the high yield group and shared responsibility for running high yield trading from 1988 until 1990, when the firm closed. Mr. Ravich is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude, and Harvard Law School, magna cum laude and editor of Law Review. Mr. Ravich serves on the Board of Directors of The Cherokee Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHKE).

 

George Lumby was appointed to the Board on December 5, 2006. Mr. Lumby served as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he acted as an auditor and a mergers and acquisitions specialist. After leaving PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2003, Mr. Lumby established his own firm in Spain, which provides consulting services to companies involved in insolvency and reorganization situations. Mr. Lumby received a Bachelor of Commerce (with Accountancy) degree from the University of Leeds and is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, a member of the Spanish Institute of Chartered Accountants (Instituto de Censores Jurados de Cuentas de España) and a member of the Spanish Official Register of Auditors (Registro Oficial de Auditores de Cuentas ROAC).

 

John ("Jay") Moorhead, a director since June 2007, has been Managing Director of Ewing Bemiss & Co, an investment banking firm, since 2009. Prior to joining Ewing Bemiss, Mr. Moorhead was a managing director at Westwood Capital and MillRock Partners, boutique investment banking firms serving private middle market and public growth companies. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Moorhead was a corporate finance partner at CE Unterberg Towbin and for ten years prior to that, was a founding partner of the New York investment banking firm VM Equity Partners. Prior to co-founding VM Equity Partners, Mr. Moorhead was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and at E.F. Hutton. Mr. Moorhead received his B.A. degree from the University of Vermont, and attended the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School.

 

Christopher W. Nolan, Sr., is a Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions group of Rabobank International, a Dutch agribusiness bank with offices in New York. Prior to joining Rabobank, Mr. Nolan was a Vice President in the Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Advisory group at Deutsche Bank Securities in New York, and, prior to that, he held a similar position at Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup). Mr. Nolan spent eight years at GAF Corporation/International Specialty Products, where he served as Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations. Mr. Nolan holds a B.S degree in Chemical Engineering from Lafayette College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Nolan currently serves on the Board of Directors, and as a member of the Audit Committee, of United-Guardian, Inc., an AMEX-listed company.