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J. Lloyd Tomer |
| Director since December 2004 |
| Currently Serving until 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |
| Lloyd Tomer is Chairman of the Board of Directors. After spending thirteen years in the ministry, he became an agent of the A. L. Williams Company (now known as Primerica Financial Services (“Primerica”) in January 1981. He achieved the level of Senior National Sales Director in 1985 and maintained that position through 2001. While at A. L. Williams he built a successful sales organization numbering in the thousands, whose combined life insurance sales was measured in the billions, with assets under management of $750 million. He sold his agency in Primerica in January 2002. He attended Anderson College in Anderson, Indiana. |
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J. Scott Tomer |
| Director since December 2004 |
| Currently Serving until 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |
| J. Scott Tomer, Director and Chief Executive Officer, was employed at A. L. Williams (now known as Primerica Financial Services (“Primerica”)) from 1981-1993 where he earned the level of National Sales Director; he had the responsibility of field support and training for their sales force, where he trained over 2,000 sales personnel. He left Primerica to become a Certified Financial Planner, which he continued while specializing in real estate investing prior to co-founding YourTravelBiz.com in 2001. |
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J. Kim Sorensen |
| Director since December 2004 |
| Currently Serving until 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |
| J. Kim Sorensen, a Director and our newly appointed President of YTBTN, brings to YTB International, Inc. an extensive and successful business history. He has owned several businesses, and managed a multi-million dollar mixed real estate complex across from the Illinois state capital in Springfield. He joined A. L. Williams in 1981 and earned the Sr. Vice President position in 1985. In 1990, Mr. Sorensen partnered with J. Lloyd Tomer to provide technical and management support for his growing sales organization through 2001. He is a co-founder of YourTravelBiz.com. |
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Clay Winfield |
| Director since January 2005 |
| Currently Serving until 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |
| Clay Winfield, Director, is a principal in numerous business ventures, centered primarily in the real estate development and real estate management arenas, in both the St. Louis, Missouri and Naples, Florida markets. Mr. Winfield was an early builder and developer of premier communities in the Naples, Florida market and continues to develop communities there. Mr. Winfield also is a principal in Meridian Bank and Meridian Land Company, Inc., which has holdings in the St. Louis and Naples area. |
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Harold L. Kestenbaum |
| Director since December 1991 |
| Currently Serving until 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |
| Harold Kestenbaum, Director, graduated from the University of Richmond School of Law in 1975. Mr. Kestenbaum is engaged primarily in the independent practice of law, specializing in franchise and distribution law, representing franchisers only, both start-up and established from his Garden City, New York offices. He is, among other professional roles, a founding member of the New York State Bar Association’s Franchising, Distribution and Licensing Law Section. |
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Andrew Wilder |
| Director since January 2005 |
| Currently Serving until 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |
| Andrew Wilder, Director, is a licensed CPA and shareholder with the firm of Israeloff, Trattner & Co., CPAs P.C. in Garden City, New York. Mr. Wilder graduated from Monmouth University in 1972 and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. He also has served on various committees of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, including the Accounting and Auditing and the SEC committees as well as a former adjunct lecturer at Queens College. Mr. Wilder also serves on the Board of Directors of Napco Security Systems, Inc. IUS: NSSC), since 1995 and has been Chairman of its Audit Committee since 2001. Mr. Wilder also serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company. |
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Timothy Kaiser, M.D. |
| Director since January 2005 |
| Currently Serving until 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |
| Timothy Kaiser, M.D., Director, graduated with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma and magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kaiser is Chairman of the Board of Meridian Bank, an Illinois commercial bank, and is involved in several business interests as a principal, primarily involving real estate holding, sales, and development companies in the St. Louis, Missouri and Naples, Florida areas. |
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John Simmons, Esq. |
| Director since December 2006 |
| Currently Serving until 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |
| Mr. John Simmons, Esq., Director, was born and raised in Southern Illinois and served in the United States Army. He graduated college and law school and spent his first two years as a lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia. He returned to Illinois to establish his own firm now known as SimmonsCooper LLC. Mr. Simmons is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and the state bar associations of Illinois, Georgia, and Florida. In 2005, he organized a company that would unite his various interests under one umbrella, Hedgewood International, LLC. The companies under this umbrella include Alton Steel; the Savannah Sand Gnats, a Class A minor league baseball team now affiliated with the New York Mets; an independent recording label, Montage Music Group; a trucking parts supply business, Trans Supply, Inc.; a distributor of basketball training devices, Perfect Jumper; a sports and entertainment representation agency, Axcess Sports and Entertainment; two car dealerships and a leasing company, Subaru of Dallas, Subaru of Plano and Park Lease, Inc.; and other smaller interests. Mr. Simmons also serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company. |
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Lou Brock |
| Director since December 2006 |
| Currently Serving until 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |
| Lou Brock, Director, is one of Major League Baseball’s all-time hits and stolen base leaders. He was inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame in 1985. He was named one of the Top 100 Players of the 20th Century. Following his 19-year career in Major League Baseball, Lou Brock serves on the board of several universities and many local and national youth organizations, including Education Is Freedom Foundation, Variety Club for Children, Wyman Youth Camp, Old Newsboys Day Children’s Charities, ECHO Children’s Home and their own Lou Brock Scholarship Foundation. Mr. Brock holds honorary Doctorate degrees from Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA; and Missouri Valley College, Marshall, MO. He serves on the boards of Premier Bank, Missouri Valley College and Education is Freedom. Mr. Brock also serves as Chairman of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company. |
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Burt L. Saunders, Esq. |
| Director since December 2008 |
| Currently Serving until 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |
| Burt L. Saunders, Esq., Director, was elected to our Board of Directors upon its expansion in April 2008. He brings to YTB a wealth of experience in the public and professional spheres. Mr. Saunders has been a Florida State Senator for District 37 from November 1998 to the preset time, representing Collier and Lee counties. In addition, he has served an "of counsel" capacity for two law firms, currently for Gray Robinson, P.A., a Florida-based firm, since August 2004, and previously for Woodward, Pires & Lombardo, P.A., another Florida-based firm, practicing in the areas of land use, government and health care law. Mr Saunders received his B.A. from the University of SOuth Florida in 1972, his J.D. from College of William and Mary i 1975 and his L.L.M. in Ocean/Coastal Law from the University of Miami in 1978. |
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Paul A. Hemings |
| Director since December 2008 |
| Currently Serving until 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |
| Paul A. Hemings, Director, was elected to our Board of Directors in May 2008, following its expansion in April 2008. He brings to YTB a wealth of sales and marketing experience. in Addition to serving on our Board of Directors, Mr. Hemings is a Group Director of Sales for Energizer Holdings, Inc., where he leads the sales strategy development and is responsible for $200 million in annual sales. Prior to his appointment as Group Director, Mr Hemings served as Energizer's Director of Business Development, leading the annual business planning process. Before beginning his tenure at Energizer, Mr. Hemings held several sales and sales management positions at Procter & Gamble. He holds a BS from Bucknell University, which he received in 1985. |
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