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FTUSQ very thin!
Same as TWAIQ!
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FTUSQ @ .0039!
FTUSQ @ .0023!
FTUSQ @ .004!
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08/09/11
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| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
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Norman Plotkin | 50 | 2004 | Chief Executive Officer, Director |
Norman Dowling | 41 | 2004 | Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President |
Alphonse Nepa | 52 | 2003 | Executive Vice President and General Merchandise Manager |
Ronald Rashkow | 70 | 2002 | Lead Director |
Peter Handal | 65 | 1997 | Director |
Robert Wright | 36 | 1998 | Director |
| Name | Description |
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Norman Plotkin | Norman G. Plotkin has been a director since March 2004 and has been Chief Executive Officer since December 2003. Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Plotkin was Executive Vice President, Store Development, Human Resources and General Counsel in 2002. Mr. Plotkin joined the company in July 1998 in the position of Senior Vice President, Store Development and General Counsel. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Plotkin was the President of Normark Real Estate Services, Ltd., a commercial real estate firm based in Des Plaines, Illinois. Prior to that, from 1988 until 1996, Mr. Plotkin was the Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration and General Counsel of Handy Andy Home Improvement Centers, Inc. Additionally, Mr. Plotkin was engaged in the private practice of law from 1980 to 1988. |
Norman Dowling | Mr. Dowling is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Dowling joined us in March 2004. Prior to joining us, Mr. Dowling served as Vice President, Finance of PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc., from November 1999 to March 2004. Prior to joining PETCO, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of CinemaStar Luxury Theaters, Inc. from 1997 to 1999. CinemaStar Luxury Theaters, Inc. filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in January 2001. Previously, Mr. Dowling was Director of Finance at Advanced Marketing Services, Inc. from 1993 to 1997. From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Dowling was Controller and then Director of Mergers & Acquisitions at Medical Imaging Centers of America, Inc. |
Alphonse Nepa | Mr. Nepa is Executive Vice President and General Merchandise Manager. Mr. Nepa joined us in November 2003. Prior to joining us, Mr. Nepa was the General Merchandise Manager for Forman Mills, a privately held off-price retail chain headquartered in Pennsylvania. He previously served as Senior Vice President and General Merchandise Manager of One Price Clothing Stores from 1998 to 2000 and General Merchandise Manger for It's Fashion, a division of Cato Stores, from 1992 to 1998. |
Ronald Rashkow | Ronald Rashkow was appointed by the Board of Directors to the position of Lead Director in November 2002. Mr. Rashkow has been a director since February 1997. He has been a principal of RPMS, Inc., an investment banking firm, since January 2004. Prior to that, he was a principal of Chapman Partners, L.L.C., an investment banking firm, from September 1995 to December 2003. For more than five years prior to that, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Handy Andy Home Improvement Centers, Inc. (a building supply retailer started by his family in 1946). |
Peter Handal | Peter V. Handal has been a director since February 1997. Mr. Handal is President and Chief Executive Officer of Dale Carnegie & Associates. Since 1990, he has been President of COWI International Group (a management consulting firm). Mr. Handal is also Chief Executive Officer of J4P Associates LP (a real estate developer). He serves on the Board of Directors of Dale Carnegie & Associates and Cole National Corporation. |
Robert Wright | Wm. Robert Wright II has been a director since November 1998. He has been a managing partner of Grey Mountain Partners, LLC, a private equity firm that invests in middle market companies, since its founding in January 2003. Prior to that, he was employed by Three Cities Research, Inc., a firm engaged in the investment and management of private capital, from 1992 through 2002, except for a period from July 1993 to August 1995 when he was in a graduate program at Harvard University. His last position with Three Cities Research, Inc. was "managing partner", a title he held from 1999 to 2002. |
