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Paul Guez, Chairman
Mr. Guez has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors since July 2007 and was previously the Company’s, Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his undertakings with Blue Holdings, Mr. Guez was the Chief Executive Officer of Blue Concept LLC, a Los Angeles-based fashion incubator. For the nine year period prior to the formation of Blue Concept in 2002, Mr. Guez co-operated Azteca Production International, Inc., a Los Angeles-based manufacturer of denim apparel. Mr. Guez began his career in the apparel industry in 1976, when he founded Sasson Jeans.
Keith B. Hall
Mr.
Hall brings to Blue Holdings, Inc. 30 years of experience in financial
analysis, accounting, investor relations, strategic planning, process
redesign and international operations. He retired last year as the
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of LendingTree, Inc.,
a division of InterActive Corp. (IACI). During his eight years at
LendingTree, Mr. Hall helped lead the company to profitability and
raised $150 million in capital, including overseeing the company’s
initial public offering in 2000. Prior to LendingTree, Mr. Hall held
chief financial officer positions with three public companies (Broadway
& Seymour, Inc., Loctite Corporation, and Legent Corporation) that
were acquired. He also was employed for over twelve years in various
financial positions of increasing responsibility at United Technologies
Corporation (UTX), including chief financial officer of Carrier
Corporation’s North American Operations.
Mr. Hall serves as a member of the Board and is on the Audit
Committee for MTM Technologies, Inc., a leading national provider of
innovative IT solutions and services to Global 2000 and mid-size
companies. Mr. Hall also served as a member of the Board and Chairman
of the Audit Committee for Electronic Clearing House, Inc., a leading
provider of electronic payment and transaction processing services,
until its acquisition earlier this year by Intuit, Inc. (INTU). Mr.
Hall is currently a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of
NewRiver, Inc., a private Internet company serving the mutual fund
industry. Mr. Hall is on the Board of Trustees of Coe College in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a
Bachelor of Arts degree from Coe College.
Leonard Hecht
Mr. Hecht has served on the Company’s Board of Directors since May 2007. Mr. Hecht brings over 45 years of management experience, primarily in turnarounds, acquisitions and divestitures, strategic planning and general management consulting. He is the Founder and President of Chrysalis Capital Group, an investment banking firm in Southern California. Prior to this, from 1987-1993, he was Managing Director of the Technology Assessment Group at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin. Mr. Hecht has served as Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of publicly-traded Quantech Electronics Corp. and was a Founding Principal of Xerox Development Corp. He began his career in 1961 at IBM Corporation and moved to investment banking in 1969 as a Vice President of Corporate Finance at Cantor Fitzgerald & Company and as a consultant. Mr. Hecht received a B.B.A. from City College of New York and attended New York University’s School of Law.
Kevin R. Keating, Director
Mr. Keating has served on the Company’s Board of Directors since January 2005 and prior to the consummation of our exchange transaction with Antik, served as our sole officer and director. Mr. Keating is an investment executive and for the past nine years has been the Branch Manager of the Vero Beach, Florida, office of Brookstreet Securities Corporation. Brookstreet is a full-service, national network of independent investment professionals. Mr. Keating services the investment needs of private clients with special emphasis on equities. He is currently a director of public companies including 99 Cent Stuff Inc., Catalyst Lighting Group, Inc., Wentworth I, Inc., Qorus.com, Inc., Multilink Telecommunications, Inc., and Century Pacific Financial Corporation. For more than 35 years, he has been engaged in various aspects of the investment brokerage business. Mr. Keating began his Wall Street career with the First Boston Company in New York in 1965. From 1967 through 1974, he was employed by several institutional research boutiques where he functioned as Vice President Institutional Equity Sales. From 1974 until 1982, Mr. Keating was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Douglas Stewart, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange member firm. Since 1982, he has been associated with a variety of firms as a registered representative servicing the needs of individual investors. Mr. Keating is also the manager and sole member of Vero Management, LLC, which had a management agreement with Marine that was terminated effective as of the Closing.
