| Howard S. Jonas |
Inside Director
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| Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board |
| Age: 57 |
| Director Since: 1990 |
IDT Corporation Committee Membership:
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| Howard S. Jonas founded IDT in August 1990, and has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since its inception. Mr. Jonas has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company since October 2009 and from December 1991 until July 2001. Mr. Jonas served as President of the Company from December 1991 through September 1996, and as Treasurer of the Company from inception through 2002. Mr. Jonas serves as the Chairman of the Board of CTM Media Holdings, Inc., a former subsidiary of the Company that was spun off to stockholders in September 2009. Mr. Jonas has served as the Co-Vice Chairman of Genie Energy International Corporation since August 2009 and, since January 2011, as the Chairman of the Board of Genie Energy Ltd., a former subsidiary of the Company that was spun off to stockholders in October 2011, and is now a public company whose share are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Jonas has also served as the Vice Chairman of the board of directors of IDT Telecom from December 1999 to April 2008, as Co-Chairman since April 2008, and as a director of IDT Capital since September 2004. Mr. Jonas served as Co-Chairman of the board of directors of IDT Entertainment from November 2004 until August 2006. From August 2006 until August 2011, Mr. Jonas served as a director of Starz Media Holdings, LLC, Starz Media, LLC and Starz Foreign Holdings, LLC, each of which is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation. In addition, Mr. Jonas has been a director of IDT Energy since June 2007 and a director of American Shale Oil Corporation since January 2008, each subsidiaries of Genie Energy Ltd. Mr. Jonas is also the founder and has been President of Jonas Media Group (formerly Jonas Publishing) since its inception in 1979. Mr. Jonas was the Chairman of the board of directors of Net2Phone from October 2001 to October 2004, the Vice Chairman of the board of directors of Net2Phone from October 2004 to June 2006, and has served as the Chairman of Net2Phone since June 2006. Mr. Jonas received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University. |
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| Lawrence E. Bathgate, II has been a director of the Company since December 2009. Mr. Bathgate co-founded and has been a partner at the law firm Bathgate, Wegener & Wolf, P.C. in Lakewood, NJ since 1970. Mr. Bathgate has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal. Mr. Bathgate served as Parliamentarian of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1969 through 1970, with the distinction of being the youngest person ever to hold that position. Mr. Bathgate currently serves on the Board of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and as a Council Member of The Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Mr. Bathgate is a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Liberty Science Center (Jersey City) and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newark Boys & Girls Clubs and of the Board of Directors of the Ocean County College Foundation. Mr. Bathgate also served as Republican National Finance Chairman from the end of 1987 until September 1992. In the past, Mr. Bathgate has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Allaire State Bank (then Community National Bank, and now Bank of New York) and served as a member of the Board of Directors of Atlantic State Bank (now TD Bank North). Mr. Bathgate was also a member of the Board of Directors of Carson, Inc. (NYSE) and has served on the boards of several private companies. Mr. Bathgate received a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law in 1964 and a B.S. in Economics from Villanova University in 1961. Mr. Bathgate also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Monmouth College. |
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| Eric F. Cosentino has been a director of the Company since February 2007. Rev. Cosentino has been a director of Zedge Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of the Company, since September 2008 and a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors since March 2009. Rev. Cosentino served on IDT Entertainment’s Board of Directors until it was sold to Liberty Media in 2006. Rev. Cosentino has been the Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Divine Love in Montrose, New York, since 1987. He began his ordained ministry in 1984 as curate (assistant) at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Ridgewood, Bergen County, New Jersey. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Evangelical Fellowship Anglican Communion of New York. Rev. Cosentino has published articles and book reviews for The Episcopal New Yorker, Care & Community, and Evangelical Journal. Rev. Cosentino received a B.A. from Queens College and a M.Div. from General Theological Seminary, New York. |
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| Judah Schorr has been a director of the Company since December 2006. Mr. Schorr founded Judah Schorr MD PC in 1994, an anesthesia provider to hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and medical offices, and has been its President and owner since its inception, as well as the President of its subsidiary, Tutto Anesthesia. Dr. Schorr is the Director of Anesthesia Services at Bergen Regional Medical Center, the largest hospital in the state of New Jersey, and the Managing Partner of Chavrusa Realty Corp., a commercial real-estate company in Long Island, New York. Dr. Schorr received his B.S. in Psychology from Brooklyn College and his M.D. from the University of Trieste Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Italy. |
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| Bill Pereira |
Inside Director
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| Director and CEO, President and Co-Chairman IDT Telecom |
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| Bill Pereira has served as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors and as the Chief Executive Officer, President and Co-Chairman of IDT Telecom since October 31, 2011. Mr. Pereira served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company from January 2009 until October 2011, and served as the Treasurer from January 2009 to December 2010. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President of Finance for the Company from January 2008 to January 2009. Mr. Pereira initially joined the Company in December 2001 when the Company bought Horizon Global Trading, a financial software firm where he was a managing partner. In February 2002, Mr. Pereira joined Winstar Communications, a subsidiary of the Company, as a Senior Vice President of Finance. Mr. Pereira was promoted to CFO of Winstar Communications, a position he held until 2006 when he was named a Senior Vice President of the Company responsible for financial reporting, budgeting and planning. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Pereira worked for a number of companies in the financial sector, including Prudential Financial, SBC Warburg and UBS. Mr. Pereira received an M.B.A. from the New York University Stern School of Business and a B.S. from Rutgers University. |
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| Ira A. Greenstein |
Advisor
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| Counsel to the Chairman |
| Age: 53 |
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Ira A. Greenstein has served as Counsel to the Chairman of the Company since December 2011. Mr. Greenstein joined the Company in January 2000 and served as Counsel to the Chairman until July 2001. From August 2001 to December 2011, Mr. Greenstein served as the President of the Company. He also was a Director from December 2003 until December 2006. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Greenstein was a partner in the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP from February 1997 to November 1999, where he served as the Chairman of that firm’s New York Office’s Business Department. Concurrently, Mr. Greenstein was General Counsel and Secretary of Net2Phone from January 1999 to November 1999. Prior to 1997, Mr. Greenstein was an associate in the New York and Toronto offices of the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Mr. Greenstein also served on the Securities Advisory Committee and as secondment counsel to the Ontario Securities Commission. Mr. Greenstein serves on the Boards of Directors of Document Security Systems, Inc. (AMEX:DSS), Ohr Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC:OHRP.OB), NanoVibronix, Inc. and Regal Bank of New Jersey. Mr. Greenstein received a B.S. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Columbia University Law School. |
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