Admiral (Ret.) Archie Clemins has served as a director of Cyalume since August 2005. Admiral Clemins has been President of Caribou Technologies, Inc., an international consulting firm he founded, since January 2000. Since January 2005, he has also been a Venture Partner with Highway 12 Ventures. Admiral Clemins retired from the U.S. Navy in December 1999 after serving as the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet; previous commands included Command of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, Command of the Pacific Fleet Training Command, Command of Submarine Group Seven and Command of the submarine USS Pogy (SSN 647). Admiral Clemins currently serves on the Board of Directors for Global Crossing, Ltd. (Nasdaq: GLBC), Extended Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: XNTD), Healthwise, the Software Revolution and Advanced Electron Beams. Admiral Clemins received a Bachelors of Science degree and Masters of Science degree from the University of Illinois.
Andrew Intrater has served as a director of Cyalume since September 1, 2009.
Mr. Intrater is CEO and Senior Managing Partner of Columbus Nova and serves on the Executive and Investment Committees for Columbus Nova. Prior to Columbus Nova, Mr. Intrater served for 15 years as President and Chief Operating Officer of Oryx Technology Inc., a scientific test equipment and advanced materials design and manufacturing company, headquartered in San Jose, CA. While at Oryx, he led the company's 1994 IPO and oversaw two strategic acquisitions, including the purchase of Zenith's power converter division. Mr. Intrater is still a major shareholder and serves as a member of their Board of Directors.
In his role as head of Columbus Nova's private equity effort, he completed a $51-million equity/debt investment in 2005 for a controlling stake in Moscow CableCom, the Moscow-based broadband MSO. He served as Chairman of the Board of this NASDAQ-listed company help realizing a gain of over 250% in share price before the company was sold to the controlling shareholder.
Mr. Intrater also serves on the Board of Directors for White Energy, Inc., a leading ethanol producer in the U.S. Mr. Intrater completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the Rutgers University College of Engineering and graduate studies in Materials Science at the Columbia University School of Mines
Thomas G. Rebar has served as a director of Cyalume since August 6, 2007. Mr. Rebar has been a Partner of SCP Private Equity Management, LLC since 1996. Mr. Rebar is currently a director of several companies, including Magnolia Broadband, Vis.align, LLC, and Pentech Financial Services, Inc. Prior to joining SCP, Mr. Rebar was a Senior Vice President at Charterhouse Inc. from 1986 to 1996, the U.S. investment banking arm of Charterhouse PLC, a U.K. merchant bank. Before joining Charterhouse, Mr. Rebar was a member of the corporate finance department at Bankers Trust Company from 1987 to 1989. Mr. Rebar received his B.S. summa cum laude from the University of Scranton and an M.B.A. from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration.
Doron Cohen has served as a director of Cyalume since August 6, 2007. Mr. Cohen is the founder and has been a Senior Partner of Doron Cohen & Co. Law Offices since 1985. Mr. Cohen is also a member of the Executive Committee and is Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1999. Mr. Cohen received his LLB from Tel Aviv University.
Joseph T. Gorman has served as a director of Cyalume since August 2005. Mr. Gorman is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TRW Inc. (NYSE: TRW), a provider of advanced technology products and services. He joined TRW in 1968, becoming President and Chief Operating Officer in 1985 and serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from December 1988 through January 2001. Mr. Gorman is a past chairman of the U.S.-Japan Business Council and received Japan's 1994 Prime Minister's Trade Award for his contributions to promoting improved U.S.-Japan trade relations. He has also served on the boards of the U.S.-China Business Council and the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum and was a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Gorman currently serves on the board of directors of Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) and is a recently retired director of Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG), Imperial Chemical Industries, and National City Corp. (NYSE: NCC). Mr. Gorman received a bachelor's degree from Kent State University and a JD from Yale Law School.
Jason Epstein has been a director of Cyalume since December 19, 2008 and is now also a director of CTI, a position held since 2007. Mr. Epstein has been a Senior Partner of Columbus Nova Partners since 2002. Cova Small Cap Holdings LLC is a subsidiary of Columbus Nova Partners. Mr. Epstein is a member of Columbus Nova's Executive and Investment Committees and co-leads Columbus Nova's three primary investment vehicles: Columbus Nova Credit Investment Managers ("CNCI"), CN Private Equity and Columbus Nova Real Estate Acquisition Group. Prior to Columbus Nova, Mr. Epstein co-founded eLink Communications and served as its Chief Executive Officer for three years from 1998 to 2001. While at eLink, Mr. Epstein was twice a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was named one of the "Forty Under 40 Rising Stars", by The Washington Post's annual Business Forward. Mr. Epstein received his B.A. from Tufts University in 1996 and currently serves on the Tufts Board of Overseers.
Frank R. Kline has been a director of Cyalume since December 19, 2008 and is also a director of CTI, a position held since January 23, 2006. Mr. Kline founded Los Angeles based venture capital firm Kline Hawkes & Co. in 1994 to manage investment capital for institutional investors, and has been its managing partner since that time. Some of Kline Hawkes' largest limited partners include CalPERS, LA County, and Pennsylvania State Employees'. Mr. Kline serves as Managing Partner of Kline Hawkes California, L.P.; Kline Hawkes California SBIC, L.P.; and Kline Hawkes Pacific, L.P. Mr. Kline directs the firm's venture investments in communications, information technology, healthcare services and enterprise solutions. Prior to forming Kline Hawkes & Co., Mr. Kline was the West Coast General Manager of Lambda Funds, a private equity fund based in New York and Los Angeles. Earlier, he was a Partner at Pacific Technology Venture Fund, which he co-founded with Patrick J. McGovern, founder of IDG and publisher of Computerworld. Mr. Kline is currently a member of the boards of Rayne Corporation; and Newbridge College. For many years he served as a member of the Board of Governors for the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies. (NASBIC). Mr. Kline received a Bachelor's degree from Rider College, Lawrenceville, N.J. in 1972 and a Masters Degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1974.
Yair Shamir has been a director of Cyalume since December 19, 2008. Mr. Shamir is the Chairman and Managing Partner of Catalyst Investments and the Chairman of IAI, Israeli Aerospace Industries. From 2004-2005, Mr. Shamir was Chairman of El Al, Israeli Airlines and lead the privatization process of the firm. From 1997-2005 Served as Chairman and CEO of VCON Telecommuni¬cations Ltd. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Shamir served as executive vice president of the Challenge Fund-Etgar L.P. From 1994 to 1995, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Elite Food Industries, Ltd. From 1988 to 1993, Mr. Shamir served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Scitex Corporation, Ltd. Mr. Shamir served in the Israeli Air Force as a pilot and commander from 1963 to 1988. During his term in the Air Force, Mr. Shamir attained the rank of colonel and served as head of the electronics department, the highest professional electronics position within the Air Force. He currently serves as a director of DSP Group Corporation and also serves as director of a few private hi-tech companies. Mr. Shamir holds a B.Sc. Electronics Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
Mr. Shamir also served as a member of the board of directors of Mercury Interactive, LLC from 1997 to 2005. In September 2008, Mr. Shamir settled a complaint filed by the SEC which alleged that certain independent directors of Mercury (including Mr. Shamir) recklessly approved backdated stock option grants and reviewed and signed public filings that contained materially false and misleading disclosures about the company's stock option grants and company expenses. Without admitting or denying the allegations in the SEC's complaint, in order to settle the charges against them, each of the independent directors implicated (including Mr. Shamir) agreed to permanent injunctions against violating certain provisions of the securities laws, paid a financial penalty, and retained the ability to serve as a director or officer of U.S. public companies.
General (Ret.) Jack Keane has been a director of Cyalume and CTI since December 19, 2008. General Keane is the Senior Managing Director and co-founder of Keane Advisors, LLC. He has been elected to the Board of Directors of MetLife, General Dynamics and Allied Barton Security. He is a senior advisor to Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts, one of the nation's largest private equity firms and is an advisor to the Chairman & CEO of URS Corporation. He is also a member of the Secretary of Defense's Policy Board, a trustee of the Rand Corporation, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, director of the George C. Marshall Foundation, Chairman of the Knollwood Foundation and chairman of Senior Execu-tive Committee, Army Aviation Association of America. General Keane, a four-star general, completed 37 years in public service in December 2003, culminating as acting Chief of Staff and Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army. As the chief operating officer of the Army for 4.5 years, he directed one million five hundred thousand soldiers and civilians in 120 countries, with an annual operating budget of 110 billion dollars. General Keane was in the Pentagon on 9/11 and provided oversight and support for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He serves as a national security analyst for ABC News and speaks throughout the nation on national security and leadership. Still active in national security, General Keane conducts frequent trips to Iraq for senior defense officials having completed multiple visits in 2007 and 2008. General Keane is a career paratrooper, a combat veteran of Vietnam, decorated for valor, who spent much of his military life in operational commands where his units were employed in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo. He commanded the famed 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and the legendary 18th Airborne Corps, the Army's largest war fighting organization. General Keane graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from Western Kentucky University. He is a graduate of the Army War College and the Command and General Staff College.
Winston Churchill has been our Chairman of the Board since May 31, 2006 and was our Secretary from June 22, 2007 through December 19, 2008. Mr. Churchill is also a member of the board of directors of CTI. Since 1996, Mr. Churchill has been a member of SCP Private Equity Management, LLC. From 1993 to the present he has been the Co-Chairman of CIP Capital Management, Inc., a management company, and a director of CIP Capital, Inc., an investment company. He is currently a director of Innovative Solutions and Support, a company engaged in the design, manufacture, and sale of flight information computers, flat panel displays, and monitoring systems; Amkor Technology, Inc., a subcontractor of semiconductor packaging and test services; Griffin Land & Nurseries, a real estate and landscape nursery business; and Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company that develops and commercializes pharmaceutical products for urologic and sexual health disorders. Mr. Churchill holds a B.S. in Physics, Summa Cum Laude, from Fordham University, an MA in Economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a JD law degree from Yale Law School.
Yaron Eitan has been our Vice Chairman of the Board since December 19, 2008 and was our Chief Executive Officer and President from May 31, 2006 through December 19, 2008. Mr. Eitan is also a member of the board of directors of CTI. Mr. Eitan founded Selway Partners LLC, a holding company focused on early stage technology investments, in 1998 and has been its President and Chief Executive Officer since that time. From December 2003 to the present, Mr. Eitan has been a member of SCP Private Equity Management Company, LLC, a private equity and venture capital management company. From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Eitan was the Chief Executive Officer of Geotek Communications, Inc., a wireless technology and services company. Mr. Eitan is a director of Clearstory Systems Inc., a provider of flexible, on-demand digital asset management and enterprise content management solutions. Mr. Eitan holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.