Investor Relations

Jeffrey D. Benjamin is a Senior Advisor to Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P. Mr. Benjamin is a member of the Board of Directors of Caesars Entertainment Corporation (formerly Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.), Exco Resources, Inc. and Chemtura Corporation, and is a trustee of the American Numismatic Society. He holds an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. and a BA from Tufts University. Mr. Benjamin was appointed as a director on May 22, 2009 and as Chairman of the Board on September 27, 2012.

 

Gregory N. Roberts was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and President on March 6, 2008. Mr. Roberts has been a director since February 2000 and has served as the President of Spectrum Numismatics and A-Mark Precious Metals since the Company acquired those businesses. He is a lifetime member of the Professional Numismatics Guild.

 

Joel Anderson is the Chairman and Director of Anderson Media Corporation, the country’s largest distributor and merchandiser of pre-recorded music and a major distributor of books, and is also the Chairman and Director of various affiliated companies, including TNT Fireworks, the country’s largest importer and distributor of consumer fireworks; Anderson Press, a major publisher of children’s books and associated children’s product; and Whitman Publishing Company, the leading publisher of books and related products for coin collections. Mr. Anderson has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Numismatic Society since 2006 and serves on its Nominating and Governance Committee. He is also a lifetime member of the American Numismatic Association. He is a principal of Stack’s LLC, the Company’s joint venture partner in Stack’s Bowers Galleries, its rare coin and currency coin auction house. Mr. Anderson was appointed to the Board on October 1, 2012.

 

Antonio Arenas was appointed as a director on December 5, 2006. Mr. Arenas is a Managing Director and the Chief Executive Officer of COALCA, S.A., a company involved in the sale and distribution of consumer and pharmaceutical products, and land development in the Canary Islands and Spain.  Mr. Arenas also has significant experience serving as an independent advisor with companies pursuing turnaround strategies. Recent projects include serving as the senior advisor to Papeteries de Gaves, serving as a part-time managing director of TACISA, and serving as a senior advisor and member of the board of Exclusivas Roca S.L.  Mr. Arenas received a degree in law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1977.

 

Appointed to the Board on October 1, 2012, Ellis Landau is President, Treasurer and Director of ALST Casino Holdco, LLC, the holding company of Aliante Gaming, LLC, which owns and operates Aliante Station Casino + Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Landau was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:PNK), a leading gaming company, where he served as Chairman of the Audit Committee and as a member of its Nominating and Governance Committee and its Compliance Committee. In 2006, Mr. Landau retired as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Boyd Gaming Corporation (NYSE: BYD), a position he held since he joined the company in 1990. 

 

William Montgomery is a private investor with a focus on equities and real estate. Previously, he was Executive Vice President in charge of principal investments for Libra Securities from 1999-2000. Prior thereto, he was a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers Inc. At Salomon, he was a member of the fixed income arbitrage group from 1993 to 1998 and was responsible for proprietary investments in high yield securities. He was previously a member of the Investment Banking department (1986 – 1991) and a distressed debt trader (1991 -1992). He is a graduate of the University of Virginia (1982) and the Columbia University School of Law (1986). 

 

John ("Jay") Moorhead, a director since June 2007, has been Managing Director of Ewing Bemiss & Co, an investment banking firm, since 2009. Prior to joining Ewing Bemiss, Mr. Moorhead was a managing director at Westwood Capital and MillRock Partners, boutique investment banking firms serving private middle market and public growth companies. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Moorhead was a corporate finance partner at CE Unterberg Towbin and for ten years prior to that, was a founding partner of the New York investment banking firm VM Equity Partners. Prior to co-founding VM Equity Partners, Mr. Moorhead was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and at E.F. Hutton. Mr. Moorhead received his B.A. degree from the University of Vermont, and attended the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School.

 

Jess M. Ravich is a managing director and head of capital markets of Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, Inc., an international investment bank. From 1991 through November 2009, Mr. Ravich founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Libra Securities LLC, an investment banking firm serving the middle market. Prior to founding Libra, Mr. Ravich was an Executive Vice President of the fixed income department at Jefferies & Company, a Los Angeles-based brokerage firm. Prior to Jefferies, Mr. Ravich was a Senior Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he was also a member of the executive committee of the high yield group and shared responsibility for running high yield trading from 1988 until 1990, when the firm closed. Mr. Ravich is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude, and Harvard Law School, magna cum laude and editor of Law Review. Mr. Ravich serves on the Board of Directors of The Cherokee Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHKE).