| Liore Alroy |
Deputy Chairman
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| Age: 45 |
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| Liore Alroy has served as Deputy Chairman of the Company since October 28, 2011. Mr. Alroy served as an Executive Vice President of the Company from December 2007 to October 2011. Mr. Alroy has served as the Chief Executive Officer, President and Co-Chairman of IDT Telecom from April 2008 until October 2011. Since October 2004, he has served as the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Net2Phone, which was an affiliate of the Company that was fully acquired by the Company in March 2006. Mr. Alroy joined the Company in 2001 and has since served in various capacities with the Company and its affiliates, including as a Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Columbia University Law School. |
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| Menachem Ash |
Executive Vice President of Strategy and Legal Affairs
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| Age: 41 |
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Menachem Ash has served as the Company’s Executive Vice President of Strategy and Legal Affairs since October 2012. Mr. Ash served as the head of the Company’s legal department from June 2011 to October 2012. Mr. Ash has served as senior counsel to several IDT divisions since he joined the Company in July 2004, including IDT Telecom and IDT Carmel. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Ash served as General Counsel to Telstar International, Inc., a telecommunications services provider. Mr. Ash also worked at KPMG as a senior associate in its tax group focusing on financial services and technology companies. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. |
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| Marcelo Fischer |
Senior Vice President, Finance
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| Marcelo Fischer has served as the Company’s Senior Vice President–Finance (the Company’s principal financial officer position) since October 31, 2011 and as Chief Financial Officer of IDT Telecom since June 2007. Mr. Fischer has also served as the Company’s Senior Vice President of Finance from March 2007 to June 2007. Mr. Fischer served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer from June 2006 to March 2007, as the Company’s Controller from May 2001 until June 2006 and as Chief Accounting Officer from December 2001 until June 2006. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Fischer was the Corporate Controller of Viatel, Inc. from 1999 until 2001. From 1998 through 1999, Mr. Fischer was the Controller of the Consumer International Division of Revlon, Inc. From 1991 through 1998, Mr. Fischer held various accounting and finance positions at Colgate-Palmolive Corporation. Mr. Fischer, a Certified Public Accountant, received an M.B.A. from the New York University Stern School of Business and a B.A. from the University of Maryland. |
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| Ira A. Greenstein |
Counsel to the Chariman
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| 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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| Howard S. Jonas |
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
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| Age: 57 |
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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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| Samuel (Shmuel) Jonas |
Chief Operating Officer
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| Age: 31 |
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| Samuel (Shmuel) Jonas has served as Chief Operating Officer of the Company since June 2010. Mr. Jonas joined the Company in June 2008 and served as a Vice President until June 2009 when he was elected to serve as the Company’s Vice President of Operations. From 2004 to the present, Mr. Jonas has been the managing member of Arlington Suites, LLC, manager of a thirty million dollar mixed-use ground up development project in the Bronx, New York. From 2006 through 2008, Mr. Jonas was a partner in a 160 unit garden apartment complex in Memphis, Tennessee. Between 2004 and 2005, Mr. Jonas owned and operated various businesses in the food industry, including BID Distribution, a distributor and marketer of frozen desserts to grocery stores and food service operations. |
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| David J. Lando |
Chief Technology Officer
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| Age: 70 |
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| David J. Lando has served as the Company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) since September 2012. Dr. Lando has served as IDT Telecom’s Executive VP, Technology and CTO since March 2007. From 2002 until 2006, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Net2Phone, an affiliate of the Company that was fully acquired by the Company in March 2006. Prior to joining Net2Phone, Dr. Lando was the Engineering VP of Bell Labs - Lucent Technology. From October 1969 through December 2001, Dr. Lando held various research, development, management and executive positions in AT&T Microelectronics and Bell Labs. He also served as a board member of the Semiconductor Research Consortium and as the Chairman of NEMI (US National Electronic Manufacturing). Dr. Lando received a BA degree in Chemistry from Yeshiva University and MSc. & Ph.D. degrees in Physical chemistry from the University of Washington. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Business’s Boston, Massachusetts Advanced Management Program. |
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| Joyce J. Mason |
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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| Age: 53 |
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| Joyce J. Mason has served as an Executive Vice President of the Company since December 1998 and as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Company from its inception. Ms. Mason also served as a director of the Company since its inception until December 2006. In addition, Ms. Mason is currently a director of Zedge Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of the Company, and she also served as a director of IDT Telecom from December 1999 until May 2001 and as a director of Net2Phone from October 2001 until October 2004. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Mason had been in private legal practice. Ms. Mason received a B.A. from the City University of New York and a J.D. from New York Law School. |
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| Bill Pereira |
CEO, President and Co-Chairman of IDT Telecom
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| Age: 47 |
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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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| Mitch Silberman |
Chief Accounting Officer and Controller
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| Age: 44 |
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| Mitch Silberman has served as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer and Controller since June 2006. Mr. Silberman joined the Company in October 2002 as Director of Financial Reporting until his promotion to Assistant Controller in October 2003. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Silberman was a senior manager at KPMG LLP, where he served in the firm’s Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical practice. Prior to KPMG, Mr. Silberman worked for Grant Thornton LLP, serving in the firm’s Telecommunications, Service and Technology practice. Mr. Silberman, a Certified Public Accountant, received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Brooklyn College. |
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