Committees

Chair = Chair
Committee Member = Member


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

Howard Goldberg Member of Audit 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.

Thomas F. McWilliams   Member of Compensation Committee Member of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Committee Chair for Conflicts Committee

Elected 2008

Mr. McWilliams is currently the managing partner of the investment committee of Court Square Capital Partners, a private equity company that manages approximately $6 billion in capital, a position he has held since 2006 when Court Square Capital Partners was formed. From 1983 to 2006, Mr. McWilliams held a similar position with Citigroup Venture Capital, the private equity arm of Citigroup.

Lee Seidler Committee Chair for Audit Committee Member of Compensation Committee   Member of Conflicts Committee

Elected 2009

Dr. Seidler is currently a private investor. Dr. Seidler serves frequently as an expert witness in accounting and finance cases for various plaintiffs and defendants as well as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He testified in 2002 before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on regulation of the accounting profession and consulted with staff drafting Sarbanes-Oxley which produced the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board(PCAOB). He was a member of the PCAOB's Standing Advisory Group. Mr. Seidler served as a General Partner and Senior Managing Director of Bear, Stearns & Co. from 1981 to 1989. Dr. Seidler was elected to Institutional Investor's "All Star" first team of financial analysts for 14 consecutive years (until his retirement) for his analysis of the impacts of accounting and financial reporting and taxes on the decisions of investors. He was also director of the firm's 55 person internal audit staff for two years and represented Bear, Stearns in Washington D.C. on legislative issues. Dr. Seidler is a CPA and has been a member of the boards of directors of numerous public and private companies and has served as chair of the audit committees of these companies. Dr. Seidler was a professor of accounting and the Price Waterhouse professor of auditing at New York University Graduate School of Business Administration for 22 years.

Steven Zalkind   Committee Chair for 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.