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Antonio Fernandez (Chair) Miguel Rosenfeld (Chair) Joseph Wright (Chair)
Miguel Rosenfeld Antonio Fernandez Antonio Fernandez
Rodolfo Ruiz Rodolfo Ruiz Miguel Rosenfeld
 

Joseph R. WrightJOSEPH R. WRIGHT, JR., Vice-Chairman
Joseph R. Wright has served as our Vice Chairman of the Board since April 28, 2000.  He is currently Chairman of the Board and Director of Intelsat Ltd., the world’s largest provider of satellite/fiber services to over 200 countries.  Prior to that, he was CEO and Director of PanAmSat, a public satellite and network services business, which was combined with Intelsat in 2006.  Before PanAmSat, he was Chairman and Director of GRC International Inc., a public company providing advanced IT services to government and commercial customers, which was sold to AT&T in 2000.

From 1995 to 2003, Mr. Wright was Co-Chairman and Director of Baker & Taylor Holdings Inc., an international book and video distribution company and Vice Chairman of Jefferson Consulting group, a Washington D.C. Consulting firm.  From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Wright served as Executive Vice President, Vice Chairman and Director of W. R. Grace & Company, Chairman of Grace Energy Corporation and Chairman of Grace Environment Company.  From 1982 to 1989, Mr. Wright held the positions of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, The White House, and was a member of President Reagan’s Cabinet. 

Before 1982, he served as Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Commerce, was President of Citicorp’s Retail services and Retail Consumer Service companies, held senior management and economic posts in the United States Department’s of Commerce and Agriculture and was Vice President of Booz Allen & Hamilton, a Management Consulting firm. 

In addition to the Boards mentioned above, Mr. Wright also serves on the Board of Directors of Scientific Games and is a member of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, The Department of Defense’s Business Board, the FCC’s Network Reliability and Interoperability Council. the FCC’s Media Security and Reliability Council, the Council on Foreign Relations and the New York Economic Club.

Antonio S. FernandezANTONIO S. FERNANDEZ, Director
Antonio S. Fernandez, 65, was elected to our Board Directors in September 2003. In 1970, Mr. Fernandez worked as a Systems Engineering Manager at Electronic Data Systems (EDS). In 1971, Mr. Fernandez joined duPont Glore Forgan as a Vice-President in Operations. In 1974, he joined Thomson McKinnon as Director of Operations and Treasurer. In 1979, he worked at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. as Director of Operations and Treasurer where he also served as Chief Financial Officer from 1987 until 1994 and as a member of the Board of Directors from 1991 until 1998. In 1991, Mr. Fernandez founded and headed the International Investment Banking Department at Oppenheimer & Co. and served in that capacity until 1999. Mr. Fernandez served on the Board of Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones from 1992 until 1999. He also served as Trustee of Mulhenberg College, PA from 1995 until 1998. Since June 2004, Mr. Fernandez has been a director of Spanish Broadcasting Systems, an operator of radio stations in the U.S. He graduated from Pace University, NY in 1968 with a B.B.A.

Miguel J. RosenfeldMIGUEL J. ROSENFELD, Director
Miguel J. Rosenfeld, 55, has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2000. Since November 1991, he has also served as a Senior Vice President of Delia Feallo Productions, Inc., where he has been responsible for the development of soap opera productions in Latin America. From January 1995 until May 1998, he was the Director of Affiliates and Cable for Latin America for Protele, a division of Televisa International LLC. From December 1984 until September 1998, he was a sales manager for Capitalvision International Corporation. Mr. Rosenfeld holds a Bachelors degree in Administration from the University of Buenos Aires which he earned in 1975.

Rodolfo A. RuizRODOLFO A. RUIZ, Director
Rodolfo A. Ruiz, 57, has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2003. Since 2004, Mr. Ruiz has served as Executive Vice President - Spirits for Southern Wine and Spirits of America, Inc. From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Ruiz served as the President and CEO of Bacardi U.S.A. and held a series of senior management positions within the Bacardi organization since 1979, inclusive of having served as President and CEO of Bacardi Global Brands, President and CEO of Bacardi Asia/ Pacific Region, and several senior executive sales, marketing, financial and operations positions within Bacardi USA.

Prior to joining Bacardi, from 1966 to 1979, Mr. Ruiz, in his capacity as a certified public accountant, served as a Senior Auditor, Senior Internal Auditor, and Audit Manager with Price Waterhouse & Co. for a wide variety of public and private clients and projects in the United States and Mexico, as well as throughout Latin America, interspersed by a term, from 1973 to 1975, with International Basic Economy Corp, otherwise known as IBEC/Rockefeller Group. Mr. Ruiz holds a Bachelor of Business degree, Cum Laude, from the University of Puerto Rico.

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