Committees

Chairman of the Board = Chairman of the Board Chair = Chair
Independent Director = Inside Director Committee Member = Member


  Audit Compensation Nominating and Corporate Governance Conflicts
Arthur Blasberg Jr. Committee Chair for Audit Committee Member of Compensation Committee Member of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Committee Chair for Conflicts Committee

Elected 2003

Mr. Blasberg's activities for the past five years include appointment by the Superior Court in Massachusetts to serve as a receiver of various businesses (including real estate investment companies), as a special master and as the trustee of a trust holding undeveloped land and a trust whose main asset was a limited partnership interest in a cogeneration plant. Mr. Blasberg serves as a director of several private companies and previously served as the receiver and liquidating trustee of The March Trust, Inc., a real estate investment firm which acted as the general partner and/or limited partner in over 250 limited partnerships. Mr. Blasberg is an attorney admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and previously served for five years in the general counsel's office of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Blasberg was a director and served on the audit committee of the Shelbourne Entities.

Talton Embry   Committee Chair for Compensation Committee Member of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Member of Conflicts Committee

Elected 2000

Mr. Embry has been the Chairman of Magten Asset September 2000 Management Corp. ("Magten"), a private investment management company, since 1998. Mr. Embry has been associated with Magten in various capacities since 1978. Mr. Embry is also a director of Imperial Parking Corporation and Orbimage, Inc.

Howard Goldberg Member of Audit Committee Member of Compensation Committee Committee Chair for Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Member of Conflicts Committee

Elected 2003

Mr. Goldberg has been a private investor and has provided consulting services to start-up companies since 1999. Mr. Goldberg presently serves as a part-time consultant to Laser Lock Technologies, Inc., a company in the security and advertising business, performing duties consistent with that of a chief operating officer. Mr. Goldberg also sits on the Advisory Board of WinWin, a company specializing in foreign charitable lotteries. From 1994 through 1998, Mr. Goldberg served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Player's International, a public company in the gaming business, prior to its being sold to Harrah's Entertainment Inc. In addition, from 1995 to 2000, Mr. Goldberg served on the board of directors of Imall Inc., a public company that provided on-line shopping and which was ultimately sold to Excite-at-Home. Mr. Goldberg has a law degree from New York University and was previously the managing partner of a large New Jersey law firm. Mr. Goldberg was a director and served on the audit committee of the Shelbourne Entities.

Steven G. Mandis   Member of Compensation Committee    

Elected 2005

Mr. Mandis is currently the Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Halcyon Structured Asset Management L.P. ("Halcyon"), an investment management firm based in New York City. Mr. Mandis joined Halcyon in 2004. Prior to joining Halcyon, Mr. Mandis who had worked at Goldman Sachs since 1992, acted as a portfolio manager in it Special Situations Investing Group, a multi-billion dollar proprietary investing area within Goldman Sachs' Fixed Income Division. Before joining the Fixed Income Division, Mr. Mandis worked in Goldman Sachs' Principal Investment Area and Mergers & Acquisitions Department.

Steven Zalkind Member of Audit Committee Member of Compensation Committee Member of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Member of Conflicts Committee

Elected 2008

Mr. Zalkind has been a principal of Resource Investments Limited, LLC ("Resource"), a real estate investment firm, since 1975 acting as either an officer of the General Partner or Managing Member in the acquisition of over 26,000 multi-family apartment units and 2,000,000 square feet of commercial shopping centers and office buildings. Mr. Zalkind currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Resource. Mr. Zalkind was a director of each of the Shelbourne Entities from August 2002 to their liquidation in April 2004 and a director of Newkirk from November 2005 until its merger with Lexington in December 2006.