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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 served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company from December 1991 until July 2001, as President of the Company from December 1991 through September 1996, and as Treasurer of the Company from inception through 2002. Mr. Jonas has also served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of IDT Telecom, Inc. since December 1999 and as a director of IDT Capital, Inc. since September 2004. Mr. Jonas served as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of IDT Entertainment, Inc. from November 2004 until August 2006. Since August 2006, Mr. Jonas has been 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. Mr. Jonas is also the founder and has been President of 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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James A. Courter joined the Company in October 1996 and served as President of the Company from October 1996 until July 2001. Since August 2001, Mr. Courter has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Courter has also been a director of the Company since March 1996 and has been Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since March 1999. In addition, since December 1999, Mr. Courter has served as a director of IDT Telecom, Inc. and as a director of Net2Phone, Inc., and has served as a director of IDT Capital, Inc. since September 2004. Mr. Courter served as the Vice Chairman of IDT Entertainment, Inc. from November 2003 to August 2006. Mr. Courter has been a senior partner in the New Jersey law firm of Courter, Kobert & Cohen since 1972. He was also a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand from January 1994 to September 1996. Mr. Courter was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years, retiring in January 1991. From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Courter was Chairman of the President’s Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. Mr. Courter also serves as a director of The Berkeley School. He received a B.A. from Colgate University and a J.D. from Duke University Law School. |
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Ira A. Greenstein joined the Company in January 2000 and served as Counsel to the Chairman until July 2001. Since August 2001, Mr. Greenstein has served as the President of the Company and served as a director of the Company 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 served as General Counsel and Secretary of Net2Phone, Inc. from January 1999 to November 1999. Prior to 1997, Mr. Greenstein was an associate in the New York and Toronto offices of 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 Board of Directors of Document Security Systems, Inc. (AMEX:DMC) and the Board of Advisors of the Columbia Law School Center on Corporate Governance. Mr. Greenstein received a B.S. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Columbia University Law School. |
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Stephen R. Brown joined the Company as its Chief Financial Officer in May 1995, a position he held until May 2006 and again from March 2007 through August 2007. Mr. Brown currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, positions he has held since January 2008. Mr. Brown also served as Chief Operating Officer of the Company from August 2007 through January 2008, as Senior Vice President of the Company from September 2007 through October 2007 and as Treasurer of the Company from March 2007 through August 2007, a position he previously held from June 2002 through May 2006. Mr. Brown has been the Chairman of IDT Carmel since June 2007. Mr. Brown served as a director of the Company from February 2000 through December 2006. He served as Co-Chairman of the Board of IDT Entertainment from November 2003, and as President and Treasurer of that division from December 2002, until its sale in August 2006. Mr. Brown was a director of Net2Phone, Inc. from October 2001 to October 2004 and the Chief Financial Officer of IDT Spectrum from June 2005 to November 2005. From 1985 to May 1995, Mr. Brown operated his own public accounting practice. Mr. Brown received a B.A. in Economics from Yeshiva University and a B.B.A. in Business and Accounting from Baruch College. |
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| Marc J. Oppenheimer has been the Chief Operating Officer of the Company since January 2008. He served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company from August 2007 through January 2008. He also served as a director of the Company from April 2006 through August 2007 and on either the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ boards since December 2002. Mr. Oppenheimer served as the Lead Independent Director of the Company’s Board of Directors and the Audit Committee’s financial expert from December 2006 through August 2007. Mr. Oppenheimer has been the President of Octagon Associates, Inc., a merchant banking and financial/strategic advisory firm, since 1994, and President and a director of its affiliate, LC Holdings Ltd., since its creation in 2007. Until mid-2006, he was Executive Vice President of Kenmar Global Investment Management, Inc., and a Managing Director of Kenmar-Nihon Venture Capital, LLC. Kenmar is a global asset management firm which, during his tenure, managed $2.4 billion in assets. He has held significant operating and financial positions throughout his 28-year career. Mr. Oppenheimer was previously the President and Chief Executive Officer of Crystallex International Corporation (AMEX: KRY), a publicly traded international natural resources company primarily focused in South America, from February 1995 to September 2003 and served as its Vice Chairman from September 2003 to May 2004. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Crystallex International Corporation and Vitacost.com. Mr. Oppenheimer started his financial career as a Credit Officer at The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. specializing in international lending and commodity financing. Mr. Oppenheimer also served as the Director of Trade and Merchant Banking for Midlantic National Bank, an institution with assets totaling approximately $29 billion. Mr. Oppenheimer has a B.S. with Honors in Management and Industrial Relations from New York University as well as an MBA with Honors in Finance from New York University. |
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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 and held various positions, including Director of Financial Reporting and Assistant Controller, until June 2006. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Silberman was a senior manager at KPMG LLP. Mr. Silberman, a Certified Public Accountant, received a B.S. in Accounting from Brooklyn College and has over 17 years of accounting and finance experience. |
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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 since its inception. Ms. Mason also served as a director of the Company since its inception until December 2006. In addition, Ms. Mason served as a director of IDT Telecom, Inc. from December 1999 until May 2001 and as a director of Net2Phone, Inc. 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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| Douglas W. Mauro has been Chief Tax Officer of the Company since March 2005. He joined the Company in 1999 and is responsible for all tax matters for the Company. Mr. Mauro has over 25 years experience in corporate taxation. Mr. Mauro’s prior experience includes serving as Vice President, Tax for ICN Pharmaceuticals in Costa Mesa, California and extensive experience in international taxes at various pharmaceutical companies where he served as the top tax officer. Mr. Mauro received a B.B.A. in Accounting from Hofstra University and an M.B.A. in Tax from New York University Stern School of Business. |
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| Liore Alroy has served as an Executive Vice President and as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Company since January 2008. Since 2004, he has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Net2Phone Inc., 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 Law School. |
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| Marc E. Knoller has been an Executive Vice President of the Company since December 1998 and served as a director of the Company from March 1996 to August 2007. Mr. Knoller joined the Company as a Vice President in March 1991 and also served as a director of its predecessor. Mr. Knoller has served as Vice President of Jonas Publishing from 1991 until the present. Mr. Knoller received a B.B.A. from Baruch College. |
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| Bill Pereira has served as Executive Vice President of Finance for the Company since January 2008. 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 eventually promoted to CFO of Winstar Communications, a position he held until 2006. From 2006, Mr. Pereira has been 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 a M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a B.S. from Rutgers University. |
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Moshe Kaganoff has served as the Company’s Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning since January 2000 and served as a director of the Company from March 1999 until December 2006. Mr. Kaganoff has served as a director of IDT Capital, Inc. since September 2004. From April 1994 through July 1998, Mr. Kaganoff served as the Company’s Manager of Operations. From August 2001 through December 2004, Mr. Kaganoff also served as Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning for IDT Telecom, Inc. Mr. Kaganoff holds a B.A. in Economics from Yeshiva University. |
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| Morris Lichtenstein has served as the Executive Vice President of Telecom of the Company since October 2007. Prior to that position, Mr. Lichtenstein served as Chief Operating Officer of the Company from January 2006 until October 2007. Mr. Lichtenstein has also served as the Chief Executive Officer of IDT Telecom since October 2007. Prior to that, Mr. Lichtenstein served as the Company’s Executive Vice President of Business Development from January 2000 until January 2006, and as the Company’s Controller from January 1999 to December 1999. Mr. Lichtenstein also served as the Chief Executive Officer and Treasurer of IDT Telecom, Inc. from May 2001 until December 2005 and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of IDT Telecom, Inc. from May 2001 until June 2007. Mr. Lichtenstein received a B.A. from Touro College. |
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Ely D. Tendler currently serves as the Company’s Executive Vice President of Telecom Legal, a position he has held since October 2007. Prior to that position, Mr. Tendler served as the Chief Legal Officer of the Company from June 2005 until October 2007. He first began working for the Company’s subsidiary, IDT Telecom, Inc., as Senior Vice President and Senior Corporate Counsel in January 2003, and in March 2004 became IDT Telecom’s Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Tendler was an attorney with the New York office of Kramer Levin since 1994, specializing in M&A and securities transactions. Mr. Tendler received a B.A. from Yeshiva University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. |
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Mikhail Leibov initially joined the Company in 2000 when the Company bought Corbina Telecom, the Russian telecommunications company he founded in 1995. From the acquisition of Corbina until its sale by the Company in March 2006, Mr. Leibov served as Corbina's Chief Executive Officer. He rejoined the Company in December 2006 and was named as Chairman of IDT Telecom. Mr. Leibov currently serves as the President of IDT Telecom and as Executive Vice President of Telecom Business Development of the Company, positions he has held since October 2007. Mr. Leibov served as Executive Vice President of Business Development of IDT Corporation from June 2007 through October 2007. Prior to joining IDT, Mr. Leibov worked for a number of companies in the telecommunications and technology industries, including IBM, AT&T, Bellcore and Prodigy. Mr. Leibov received an M.S. degree in applied mathematics from Moscow University. |
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