Board of Directors
Richard E. Otto
Mr. Otto was elected as a director of the Company on May 6, 2003. He has been a consultant since June 2007. Beginning in January 2002, Mr. Otto served as the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Corautus Genetics Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, and its predecessor Vascular Genetics Inc., until June 2007 when Corautus merged with VIA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company (NASDAQ: VIAP). From June 1995 through April 1998, he was Chief Executive Officer and director of CardioDynamics International Corporation (NASDAQ: CDIS), which develops, manufactures and markets noninvasive heart-monitoring devices. Mr. Otto has served as a consultant to the founder of WebMD and Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (now a Guidant company). Mr. Otto also held positions at Intermedics, Inc., Medtronic Inc., and Eli Lilly and Company. Mr. Otto currently serves as a director and Chairman of ImaRx Therapeutics, a privately-held company engaged in medical technology development. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Georgia.
Lawrence M. Levy
Mr. Levy was elected as a director of the Company on March 15, 2007. He has been Senior Counsel at Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP, an international law firm, since February, 2005, and for more than 30 years before that, had been a partner at Brown Rudnick, specializing in Corporate and Securities Law. Mr. Levy is a director of Hologic, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLX), and was Secretary of Hologic from 1985 until 2005. Mr. Levy is also a director of Option N.V. of Belgium, and the Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation. Mr. Levy received a B.A. from Yale University and a LLB from Harvard Law School.
Anthony Giordano III
Mr. Giordano was elected as a director of the Company on March 15, 2007. He has been the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Central Jersey Bancorp since 1998, the inception of the bank. Before joining Central Jersey Bancorp, Mr. Giordano served at PNC Bank/Midlantic Bank from 1994 to 1998 and at Shadow Lawn Savings Bank from 1988 to 1994. Mr. Giordano has served as a Councilman for the city of Long Branch, NJ, from 1994 to the present. He also is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Kean University Foundation and the United Way of Monmouth County. Mr. Giordano received a B.S. in Finance from Kean University and an MBA from Monmouth University.
