DIRECTORS
Thomas J. Berardino
Sanford J. Hillsberg
Dan Moskovitz
Rudolph Nisi, M.D.
Michael G. Pappas
Burton 'Skip' Sack
Barney J. Guarino
 
OFFICERS
Barney J. Guarino
R. Peter Lake, CPA
Cullen M. Sabin, Ph.D.
Jay Messer
 
   

Thomas J. Berardino has been a director of the Company since April 2001. He has served as the general partner of Saugatuck Capital Company since 1998. From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Berardino co-founded and acted as the Managing Director of The International Harvest Group Ltd. and Meridian Capital Management Inc., private investment banks serving middle market clients and acting as equity sponsors in management buyouts. From 1982 to 1989 Mr. Berardino was employed as a Corporate Vice President and Corporate Senior Vice President for the electronic materials and services business at Olin Corporation, a leading North American basic materials company. From 1965 to 1982 Mr. Berardino worked in several capacities, including General Manager of U.S. Distribution and Engineering, at Exxon Corporation. Mr. Berardino is a Vice Chairman and a Director of Alarm Security Group, Inc. and a Director of American Pipe and Plastics, Inc. Mr. Berardino obtained an MBA in finance from the Columbia Graduate School of Business and a Bachelors Degree in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College.

 

Sanford J. Hillsberg has served as a Director of the Company since 1997. Mr. Hillsberg has been an attorney employed with Troy & Gould Professional Corporation, which serves as counsel to Tempra, since 1976 and Managing Partner of that firm since 1980. From 1983 to 1993, Mr. Hillsberg served as a director and Vice-President of Medco Research, Inc., which subsequently became a New York Stock Exchange-listed pharmaceutical research and development company that was acquired by a major pharmaceutical company. He is a founder and director of Duska Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Hillsberg holds a JD degree from Harvard Law School.

 

Dan Moskovitz was elected to Tempra’s Board of Directors in June 2004. Since 1996 and during 1981 through 1992, Mr. Moskovitz has served as President of D.M. Operations Management, Inc. a global consulting company providing services to the beverage, food and packaging industries in identifying new business opportunities, technology development and providing strategic planning. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Moskovitz was President of Enterprises Consulting, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. a $14 billion Fortune 100 Company and the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world. He was responsible for the company’s total engineering and technology requirements which included 48 plants and more than 200 sales and distribution centers. From 1974 to 1980, Mr. Moskovitz served as Senior Vice President of The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Miami, Inc. The corporation operated 23 sales and distribution centers including six production centers throughout the U.S. From 1967 through 1974 held several prominent positions with The Central Bottling Co. Ltd., the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Miami, Inc. affiliate in Israel. Dan Moskovitz holds a M.B.A. from the University of Miami and a B.Sc from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He is a Director- Automated Merchandising Systems, Advisory Board Member – Fizzion, Advisory Board Member – Anetomy and a Consultant to the office of the Chairman-The Coca-Cola Company.

 

Rudolph Nisi, M.D. has served as a Director of the Company since November 1997. Mr. Nisi has been an Active Attending Physician at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Cardiology since 1981 and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine since 1981. Dr. Nisi has held various positions at Westchester Square Medical Center of Internal Medicine and Cardiology including Active Attending Physician since 1963, Director of Medicine since 1975, Chief of Cardiology since 1975, Chairman of Medical Critical Care Unit since 1975, President of the Medical Board from 1977 to 1978, Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1983 and from 1976 to 1978, Chairman of the ER Committee since 1984, and Vice-President of Medical Affairs since 1993. In 1997, Dr. Nisi was an Assistant Attending Physician at New York Hospital and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cornell University Medical College. From 1980 to 1987, Dr. Nisi served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Medco Research, Inc. He currently serves as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Duska Therapeutics, Inc.

 

Michael G. Pappas was elected to Tempra’s Board of Directors in June 2004. Mr. Pappas is a principal in Torridon Corporation, which provides corporate and venture capital advisory services to U.S. and overseas clients. Mr. Pappas is also a member of Frontier Capital LLC, a venture capital management company. From 1983 to 1991 Mr. Pappas was a Vice-President with NationsBank Investment Company specializing in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Mr. Pappas obtained a Degree in Law from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 1977 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (equivalent to U.S. C.P.A.) with Peat Marwick in 1981.

 

Burton 'Skip' Sack is Chairman of the National Restaurant Association’s Board of Directors. Sack currently is the chairman and partner of Classic Restaurant Concepts, which operates Irish pub-style restaurants in the Boston area. Sack was elected as a voting director to the Association’s board in May 1995 and served in that position continuously until he was tapped for officer service in 2002, ascending through the officer ranks, serving as treasurer and vice chairman. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, Sack entered the School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration at Cornell University. After graduation, Sack joined the Howard Johnson Co. working his way up to senior vice president for corporate development, real estate architecture, design and construction. In 1983, Sack left Howard Johnson’s and acquired the Red Coach Grill division, a chain of 15 dinner-house restaurants. In 1984, he gained the New England franchise rights for Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar restaurants and in 1986 opened the first Applebee’s and inn October 1994 merged his company with Applebee’s International Inc. At the time, his company, Pub Ventures of New England Inc., operated in New England. After the merger closed, Skip became executive vice president of Applebee’s International. Today, he is a member of the company’s board of directors.

 

Barney J. Guarino is a founder of the Company. He has been a director since the Company's inception in 1991, served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer until January 2000, as President since February 1994 and as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since November 1998. From May 1991 to January 1993, Mr. Guarino also served as Vice President of The Financial Investment Group Inc. From 1986 to 1991, he was employed with Merrill Lynch working with the divisions of Investment Banking, Business Brokerage and Valuation, Venture Capital, Insurance, Retail, Institutional Sales, Asset Management and Financial Planning. Prior to 1986, he served as a Financial Consultant at Shearson-Lehman Bros. and was responsible for retail and institutional sales including managed commodities futures and securities accounts. Mr. Guarino holds a Bachelors Degree from St. John’s University.

 

R. Peter Lake, CPA has served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer since January 2000. Mr. Lake has run his own CPA firm and consulting practice since 1992. From 1987 to 1992 he was Vice President of Finance, then President, of Cymbolic Sciences Inc., a multinational manufacturing company in the laser imaging industry. Prior to 1987, Mr. Lake held various financial positions for Wausau Paper Mills Company, Dataproducts Corporation and Kimberly-Clark Corporation.

 

Cullen M. Sabin, Ph.D. is a co-inventor of the Tempra technologies. He has been Senior Vice President of Research and Development since April 1997. From 1992 to 1997, Dr. Sabin was consulting for several organizations on various projects. From 1988 to 1992, he was a Director and research engineer for International Thermal Packaging, Inc. From 1963 to 1989, Dr. Sabin served as Vice President of Geoscience Ltd. of Solana Beach, California where he researched ocean thermal energy heat transfer, solar energy heat transfer, boiling heat transfer to liquid metals and organics, dynamics of compact power systems, hypersonic heat transfer, thermal and electronic instrumentation, heat flux, vaporizer design and electronic instrumentation standards. Prior to 1963, Dr. Sabin was a research assistant at Stanford University (where he received his Ph.D.) studying turbulent free shear flows, hot wire anemometry and electronics instrumentation. From 1957 to 1960, he was an aeronautical engineer for General Dynamics Corporation in specialty shock tube dynamics, shock wave instrumentation, and free molecular flows. Prior to 1962 Dr. Sabin was a project engineer for Ballistics Research Laboratories researching aerodynamics of projectiles, interior ballistics of guns and ballistic range instrumentation, and a research engineer for Ames Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) specializing in ballistics of hypervelocity guns. Dr. Sabin has written a book and has published more than 70 scientific memos, bulletins and reports.

 

Jay Messer has served as Senior Vice-President/Corporate Development since October 2001. Prior to joining Tempra, from 1983 to present, Mr. Messer was President of Stonearch Corporation, a consulting firm that specialized in raising venture capital and developing strategic business alliances. He has served as a business consultant to such companies as USAA, Ford Motor Company, Arthur Andersen & Company and a number of Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Stonearch Corporation, from 1975 to 1983, Mr. Messer was Chairman of United Trust Fund, a leading real estate investment fund that developed in excess of two billion dollars of commercial real estate. From 1963 to 1975 Mr. Messer was Vice-President, Director of Corporate Development for the Howard Johnson Company. During that period he directed the strategic and tactical planning for the development and licensing of hundreds of restaurants and hotels across the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Messer holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence from New York Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University.