Henry Luken serves as chairman of Covista Communications and has extensive business and telecommunications experience. Prior to purchasing a major interest in Covista, Mr. Luken founded Telco Communications and Long Distance Wholesale Club in1993 and was a pioneer in dial-around long distance service. Mr. Luken built this into one of the most successful telecommunication companies of its kind in the United States with over half a billion in revenues. Mr. Luken sold his interest in 1997.
Most recently Mr. Luken moved the company headquarters from Little Falls, New Jersey to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mr. Luken is intimately involved in the strategic growth plans and operations of the company. Mr. Luken also owns interest in several TV and Radio Stations and serves as chairman of the board of ACNTV, a television home-shopping company.
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Esq. has served as a Director since 1983. He has been a practicing attorney for more than 40 years in New York. He is Chairman of the Board of AmTrust Pacific Ltd., a New Zealand real estate company. He is also a director of Technology Insurance Company, Inc., a provider of workers’ compensation as well as various insurance products to the technology industry, and certain of its affiliates. Mr. Miller has performed legal services on behalf of Covista. See “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.”
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Recently retired from his position as Senior Vice President for Chapter Services of the American Red Cross, for which he worked since 1991. Prior to joining the Red Cross, Mr. Jones was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy. Mr. Jones served in the United States Army for over 35 years and retired in 1991 with the permanent rank of Lieutenant General.
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Currently serves as President of Mt Vernon Investments, LLC, an investment company, which he has served as President since January 2002. Mr. Merrick served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Telergy, Inc., a high-speed fiber optic communications network company, from May 2000 to July 2001. Telergy filed for reorganization under the bankruptcy laws in October 2001 and has liquidated. Prior to joining Telergy, Mr. Merrick was Chief Executive Officer of Up2 Technologies, Inc. and Executive Vice President of Excel Communications, each of which was a subsidiary of Teleglobe, Inc. (global communications, e-business services), from 1998 until 2000. From 1996 to 1997, he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Telco Communications Group, Inc., and from 1985 to 1996, he was Vice President of Corporate Finance at the Robinson-Humphrey Company, Inc. and Managing Director of R-H Capital Partners.
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is Managing Director of Pointer Management Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee, which he co-founded in 1990 to invest in hedge funds and similar types of partnerships utilizing a fund of funds approach. From 1982 until 1990, he was a private investor in New York City, and a director of several public and private companies. From 1980 until 1982, he was founding general partner of TIGER, a global hedge fund. From 1971 until 1980, he was a Vice President of Kidder, Peabody, & Co., Inc. in New York. McKenzie is a graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and the Wharton Graduate division of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is currently a director of Novestra AB, a publicly traded venture capital investment firm located in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Joined the company in December 2002 and was appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer in July 2003. Mr. Pazera brings extensive public and private sector financial management experience to the company. Prior to joining Covista, Mr. Pazera held a variety of Executive Financial Management positions at companies that includes, AirGate PCS, Inc., a publicly traded wireless services company and Network One, a privately held regional Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. In addition, Mr. Pazera has held executive and management positions at Turner Broadcasting, MCI Telecommunications, and Arthur Andersen & Company. Mr. Pazera holds an MBA in Finance from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta and his BBA in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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