Mr. Thomas A. Hyde, Jr., is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of the Company. Mr. Hyde has been the Principal, Managing Partner and Director of Red Shark Investments, LLC, since August 2013. Prior to founding Red Shark Investments, Mr. Hyde served on the Board of Directors for publicly held Teletouch Communications, Inc., also having served variously as CEO, President and COO since 2004. In 2002, Mr. Hyde was President of Teletouch's affiliate, privately held, Ft. Worth, TX-based financial subsidiary, State Hawk Security, Inc. and GM of the related PCI-Hawk Electronics Home & Commercial Services operating group. Mr. Hyde merged all of the companies into Teletouch in 2006. Prior to this., Mr. Hyde was CEO of San Diego, CA-based Greenland Corporation, originally a financial services systems development company and supplier to his previous employer, Dallas, TX-based, Affiliated Computer Services (subsequently sold to Xerox Corporation for $6 Billion). While at ACS, Mr. Hyde served in a number of senior management roles, including Corporate VP for ACS’ Financial Services and Telecom divisions, and later, for ACS Retail Solutions, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ACS, providing large-scale enterprise retail information systems and technical help desk support. Also while at ACS, Hyde developed and was awarded U.S. Patent #6,038,553 for the self-service check cashing and automated financial services technology platform now known as Vcom™ and installed in approximately 2,200 7-11 stores. A 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominee and 2009 Metroplex TBC Tech Titans Award winner, Mr. Hyde is a principal in NVRDUL Management LLC, and has previously held board positions on Mobui, Inc. in Redmond, WA, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Fort Worth Airpower Council/Foundation, as well as on the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee. Mr. Hyde holds a B.A. degree in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.
