Gary L. Allee has been a director of the Company since May 1998. Dr. Allee is professor of Swine Nutrition at the University of Missouri. Dr. Allee has served as President and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Midwest Section of the American Society of Animal Science. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Animal Husbandry and Swine Nutrition from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Illinois.
Gary R. Goodwin has been a director of the company since November 2006. Mr. Goodwin is a Principal and Vice President - Crude Oil Marketing of Texon, L.P., a privately held crude oil marketing company.
Paul M. Kearns has been a director of the Company since June 2001. Mr. Kearns is Director - Marine at Price Forbes Ltd., a London-based insurance brokerage firm which is the successor to Prentis, Donegan & Partners, Ltd., an insurance brokerage firm which Mr. Kearns co-founded in 1993. Mr. Kearns has more than 20 years of experience in the global risk management and insurance industries. Mr. Kearns is a citizen of the United Kingdom.
William E. M. Lands has been a director of the Company since May 1998. In February 2002, Dr. Lands retired as Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a position he assumed after serving as head of the Department of Biological Chemistry at the University of Illinois Medical Center. Dr. Lands has a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the University of Illinois.
Harry O. Nicodemus IV has been a director of the Company since April 2004. Since November 2006, Mr. Nicodemus has served as a Director at Outsource Partners International, a leading business process outsourcing firm. From November 2003 to October 2006, Mr. Nicodemus served as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Secretary, and Compliance Officer of Equus Capital Management Corporation, a financial advisor for Equus II Incorporated which is a publicly-traded business development company with investments in privately owned businesses and venture capital firms. From October 1999 to December 2002, Mr. Nicodemus was Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of US Liquids, Inc., a national provider of liquid waste management services. Prior thereto, Mr. Nicodemus held senior financial and accounting positions with various public companies and also practiced accounting with a national accounting firm. Mr. Nicodemus is a certified public accountant.
Joseph L. von Rosenberg III has been President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company since July 1997 and Chairman of the Board since November 2006.
OFFICERS
Joseph L. von Rosenberg III has been President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company since July 1997 and Chairman of the Board since November 2006.
Robert W. Stockton has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer of the Company since July 1997. He has also served as Secretary of the Company from January 2000 to September 2002.
John D. Held has served as the Company's General Counsel since March 2000, as Vice President of the Company from April 2002 to September 2002, and as Senior Vice President and Secretary since September 2002 and as Executive Vice President since 2005. Mr. Held also served as a consultant to the Company from December 1999 to February 2000. From March 1996 until October 1999, Mr. Held was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of American Residential Services, Inc., a then publicly traded residential and commercial heating, air conditioning, plumbing and electrical services company. Prior thereto, Mr. Held practiced with a large law firm in Houston, Texas.
J. Scott Herbert has served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing since June 2007. Prior thereto, Mr. Herbert served as Vice President - Agriproducts since September 2002 and served as Vice President - Feed Ingredient Marketing of the company's principal subsidiary, Omega Protein, Inc., since March 1998. Mr. Herbert also served as Director of Fish Meal Sales and in various other sales capacities with the company since 1992.
Thomas R. Wittmann has served as Vice President - Operations since October 2002. Prior thereto, Mr. Wittmann served as the General Manager of the Company's Abbeville, Louisiana facility since 1997 and served in various other Company positions since 1985.
Michael E. Wilson is President of the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Omega Shipyard, Inc., a position he has held since June 1997. Since July 1998, he has also served as the Company's Vice President C Marine Operations and, prior thereto, served as the Company's Coordinator of Marine Engineering and Maintenance. Mr. Wilson joined the Company in 1985 and served in various operating capacities until 1996.
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