Sorry didn't get much more on these two in my brief look this am, although the S-1 form has a fair bit of info on them which i am sure you saw...i will include below. It looks like they will be making up a few of the committees which Sigma is now establishing at the close of the offering for it's governance
Audit Committee - O'Mara, Thacker and Bell
Compensation Committee - Thacker, Garofalo, Bell
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee - Thacker, Garofalo, Bell
Thacker, Bell and Garofalo are considered Independent
Director Nominees
Sam P. Bell
Mr. Bell will be appointed to our board of directors effective as of the closing of the offering. Mr. Bell was President of Los Angeles Business Advisors (LABA) from 1996 to 2004, at which time, LABA ceased operations. LABA was comprised of 30 chief executive officers of major companies in the Los Angeles region and focused on high impact projects where their collective resources could be utilized to positively influence the economic vitality of the area. Prior to joining LABA, Mr. Bell was Area Managing Partner of Ernst & Young, certified public accountants, for the Pacific Southwest Region, retiring in 1996 after 39 years with the firm.
Mr. Bell currently serves, or has served in the past, in high-level positions for numerous charitable and educational concerns. Since 2002, he has served on the board of directors of Point.360, a public company that is one of the largest providers of video and film asset management services to owners, producers and distributors of entertainment content. Mr. Bell also serves as the Chairman of Point.360’s Audit Committee of its Board of Directors, and as a member of its Compensation Committee, and Nominating and Governance Committee. He is also currently a board member, and Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the respective Audit Committee, of TCW Strategic Income Fund, Inc. and TCW Funds.
Our board of directors believes that Mr. Bell would be qualified to serve as a member of the board because of his extensive accounting experience, which will assist the board and the audit committee in addressing the numerous accounting-related issues, regulations and SEC reporting requirements to which public companies are subject.
Frank J. Garofalo
Mr. Garofalo will be appointed to our board of directors effective as of the closing of the offering. For more than three decades, Mr. Garofalo has been a management consultant and corporate finance advisor working on “special assignment” for chief executive officers and boards of directors, primarily in technology driven markets, assisting companies ranging from $10 million to over $10 billion in size. His career in professional services includes his serving as Vice President in the Investment Banking division of PaineWebber (now UBS) and as Vice President and Senior Consultant in Arthur D. Little’s Technology consulting practice.
While at Arthur D. Little, Mr. Garofalo was the lead manager on a number of major studies for Fortune 500 client organizations in product/market forecasting, technology trends assessments, market research, strategic business planning, evaluations of diversification and acquisition opportunities. He also assisted in the launch of CAD/CAM, CAE and advance manufacturing practice within the Technology group at Arthur D. Little. While at PaineWebber Corporate Finance Group, his assignments included dozens of business development, corporate development and corporate finance projects including private placements of equity financing, mergers, acquisition, divestitures and establishing joint ventures / strategic alliances.
Mr. Garofalo is an expert in strategic, competitive, and market analysis with an emphasis on business and corporate development and the maximization of shareholder value. He has served on a number boards. He was a Director of J.M. Lafferty Associates, Inc in Chicago, a financial analytics and portfolio research firm, when he acted as advisor in the sale of the business to Corporate Development Board. From 2000 until 2011, he was a Director of Dynagraf, Inc., one of the top Marketing Communications companies in New England, where he acted as advisor in the sale of the business to Universal Millennium.
Mr. Garofalo earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree in Computer Control Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University.
Our board of directors believes that Mr. Garofalo would be qualified to serve as a member of the board because of his extensive experience in rendering a wide variety of management and financial advisory services.
