On June 19, 2017, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Baltia Air Lines, Inc. dba USGlobal Airways (the “Company”) appointed Ambassador Ned L. Siegel as a director of the Company.
Ambassador Siegel, 65, has had a long and distinguished career as a senior U.S. government official and over 30 years of business experience. He was appointed by then President George W. Bush as the U.S. Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas from October 2007 to January 2009. He was also appointed by President Bush to serve under Ambassador John R. Bolton at the United Nations in New York, serving as the Senior Advisor to the U.S. Mission and as the U.S. representative to the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Prior to his ambassadorship, from 2003 to 2007, Mr. Siegel was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).
Since 2009, Ambassador Siegel has served as Chairman of the board and President of The Siegel Group, a multi-disciplined international business management advisory firm specializing in infrastructure, real estate, ports, energy, technology, financial and cyber security services. Ambassador Siegel serves on several public company boards including as the Chairman of the board of Notis Global, Inc. (OTC Pink: NGBL), a company specializing in the hemp and marijuana industry; as director of Positive ID Corporation (OTCQB: PSID), a life sciences tools and diagnostics company that develops and markets advanced biological detection and molecular diagnostic systems; as director of HealthWarehouse.com, Inc. (OTC Pink: HEWA), a retail mail-order pharmacy. In addition, Ambassador Siegel is the Chairman of the board of Viscount Systems, a manufacturer of physical access control systems and telephone entry products, which protect buildings from unauthorized access. Ambassador Siegel also serves on various advisory boards, including that of Cardplatforms, a South Florida-based prepaid card and prepaid support services company, Secure Strategy Group, a boutique banking and advisory firm that backs emerging growth technology companies in the security, IT and communications sections, and TBG Holdings Corp., a financial consulting firm that works with public and private accounting companies. Ambassador Siegel graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Connecticut and received a Juris Doctor from the Dickinson School of Law in 1976. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina in December of 2014.
