Eric A. Rose Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Eric A. Rose, M.D. was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors on January 25, 2007, and on March 1, 2007, became the Company's Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Rose has served as a director of SIGA since April 19, 2001 and served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of SIGA during April-June 2001. In April 2008, Dr. Rose assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Health Policy at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. From 1994 through 2007, Dr. Rose served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief of the Columbia Presbyterian Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Rose is a graduate of both Columbia College and Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. In addition to his roles at SIGA, Dr. Rose holds a position of Executive Vice President - Life Sciences at MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., a SIGA shareholder.
James J. Antal
James J. Antal has served as a director of SIGA since November 2004. Mr. Antal has been an active consultant and founding investor in several Southern California based emerging companies since his retirement from Experian in 2002. He has served as Chief Financial Advisor to Black Mountain Gold Coffee Co. (2003-2005), and as Chief Financial Officer of Pathway Data, Inc. (2005 to present). Mr. Antal joined the board of directors and serves as the Chairman of the audit committee for Cleveland Bio Labs, effective upon the completion of the Cleveland Bio Labs IPO, which occurred in July 2006. Mr. Antal was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer from 1996 to 2002 for Experian, a $1.6 billion global information services subsidiary of UK-based GUS plc. Prior to the GUS acquisition of Experian (the former TRW Inc. Information Systems and Services businesses), Mr. Antal held various finance positions with TRW from 1978 to 1996, including Senior VP of Finance for TRW Information Systems and Services and TRW Inc. Corporate Director of Financial Reporting and Accounting. He earned his undergraduate degree in accounting from The Ohio State University in 1973, and became a certified public accountant (Ohio) in 1974. He engaged in active practice as a CPA with Ernst & Ernst until 1978. Mr. Antal has served as a director of First American Real Estate Solutions, an Experian joint venture with First American Financial Corp.
Mr. Bayer has served as a director of SIGA since October 2008. Mr. Bayer has been a private consultant in the energy and national security sectors since 2003. Mr. Bayer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Dumbarton Strategies LLC, an energy and national security consulting firm. He is the Chairman of the U.S. Department of Defense's Business Board and a member of the Sandia National Laboratory's National Security Advisory Panel, the U.S. Department of Defense's Science Board and the Chief of Naval Operations' Executive Panel. Mr. Bayer serves as a director of Dyncorp International, Inc., Stratos Global Corporation and Willbros Group, Inc.
William C. Bevins has served as a director of SIGA since March 2011. Mr. Bevins has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Panavision Inc. since June 2009 and has been Senior Executive Vice President of MacAndrews Holdings since December 2010. Mr. Bevins was consultant to MacAndrews Holdings from 1997 to 2000. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer, as well as director, of Andrews Group Incorporated, an entertainment media holding company, from 1988 to his retirement in 1997, as well as of its two publicly traded operating subsidiaries, New World Communications Group Incorporated (from 1993 to 1997) and Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. (from 1989 to 1996). From 1979 to 1988, he was Chief Financial Officer of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a media and entertainment company. Mr. Bevins's long career in various management and financial positions provides the Board of Directors with valuable business, leadership and management insights into many aspects of our business.
Thomas E. Constance has served as a director of SIGA since April 2001. Mr. Constance is Chairman and, since 1994, a partner of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, a law firm in New York City, which SIGA has retained to provide certain legal services. Mr. Constance serves as a Trustee of the M.D. Sass Foundation and St. Vincent's Services. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Directors of Barington Capital, L.P.
Joseph W. "Chip" Marshall, III
Joseph W. "Chip" Marshall, III, has served as a director of SIGA since March 2009. Mr. Marshall is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Temple University Health System (2001-2008). In 2000, he became Chair of Temple University Health System and served in that capacity until 2007. Prior to 2000, Marshall was a founding partner at Goldman & Marshall P.C., Philadelphia, PA, a corporate health-care law firm. He received his B.A. & J.D. (1975, 1979 respectively) from Temple University. In 1990, he joined the Temple University Board of Trustees. He was a founding member of the Temple University Health System Board of Directors in 1995. He served on the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission in the 1980's and early 1990's, including as Chairman for a portion of that period. From 2005 - 2006 he served as a Member of the Federal Medicaid Commission. Additionally, from 2004-2006 he served as a Member of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.
Paul G. Savas has served as a director of SIGA since January 2004. Mr. Savas is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc. He joined MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc. in 1994 as Director of Corporate Finance, served in various positions of increasing responsibility and became Chief Financial Officer in 2007. He also serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of M&F Worldwide Corp. and serves as a director of Harland Clarke Holding Corp. and TransTech Pharma, Inc.
Bruce Slovin has served as a director of SIGA since October 2008. Mr. Slovin has been the President of 1 Eleven Associates, LLC, a private investment firm, for more than the past five years. From 1980 to 2000, Mr. Slovin was an executive officer of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., and various of its affiliates. Mr. Slovin is a director of Cantel Industries and M&F Worldwide Corp. Mr. Slovin was recommended to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee for inclusion as a director-nominee by the Chief Executive Officer.
Andy Stern has served as a director of SIGA since June 2010. Mr. Stern is the former president of the 2.2 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest union of health care, doctors, nurses, janitors, security officers, child care, home care, hospital, and state workers, and the fastest-growing union in North America. As both a labor leader, and a leader on major issues confronting American workers, Mr. Stern has been a leading voice and a prominent advocate for people who work. Mr. Stern was recommended to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee for inclusion as a director-nominee by the Chief Executive Officer.
Frances Fragos Townsend
Frances Fragos Townsend has served as a director of SIGA since March 2011. Ms. Townsend is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Government, Legal and Business Affairs at MacAndrews Holdings and has held this position since October 2010. Ms Townsend previously served as Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush from May 2005 until January 2008. She also served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism from May 2003 to May 2004. Prior to serving the President, Ms. Townsend was the first Assistant Commandant for Intelligence for the U.S. Coast Guard. Before that, Ms. Townsend spent 13 years at the U.S. Department of Justice under the administration of President George H.W. Bush, President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush. Ms. Townsend also currently is an on-air contributor for CNN as a counterterrorism, national and homeland security expert. She serves as director of DRS Technologies and Thomson Reuters in addition to numerous government advisory and nonprofit boards. Ms. Townsend is the chairperson of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Her extensive experience in government, combined with her legal acumen, is ideally suited for our business.
Michael A. Weiner, M.D. has served as a director of SIGA since 2001. Dr. Weiner is the Hettinger Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons since 1996. Dr. Weiner is also the Director of Pediatric Oncology at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Weiner was a director of Nexell Therapeutics, Inc. (f/k/a VimRx) from March 1996 to February 1999. Dr. Weiner is a 1972 graduate of the New York State Health Sciences Center at Syracuse and was a post graduate student at New York University and Johns Hopkins University.
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