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The following is an excerpt from a 10KSB SEC Filing, filed by TARGITINTERACTIVE INC on 3/31/2003.

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ITEM 9. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, PROMOTERS AND CONTROL PERSONS;
         COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 16(A) OF THE EXCHANGE ACT

The following table sets forth the names, ages and positions of the Company's
officers and directors.

NAME                   AGE      POSITION

Aaron Gibitz            38      Principal Executive Officer, Chairman, Director
Noel J. Guillama        43      Director
David Smith             58      Director
James D. Baker          59      Director
Guenther Reibling       50      Director

Pursuant to the Company's By-Laws, the directors of the Company are elected annually by the shareholders, and the officers are appointed annually by the board of directors. All directors of the Company hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are elected and qualified.

The business experience of each director and officer is as follows:

AARON GIBITZ, PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CHAIRMAN, DIRECTOR. Mr. Gibitz joined the Company in September, 2002 and serves as the Principal Executive Officer and is a Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors. From March 2002 to the present, Mr. Gibitz has been consulting with Taurus Investment Group, a firm engaged in placing equity mainly in real estate investments. From 1997 through March 2002, Mr. Gibitz was an executive with Zaremba, a real estate development and management organization, also diversified in start-up entities, of which he was responsible for startup activities, promotion, operations audits and technology management. Prior to 1997 Mr. Gibitz consulted in technology and operations audits for turnaround, profitability and efficiency for technical manufacturers and retail to OEM consumer products companies.

NOEL J. GUILLAMA, DIRECTOR. Mr. Guillama formally served as Chairman and CEO of TargitInteractive from May 2001 to October 2001. He also served as a director of Williams Software, Inc., from October 2000 to May 2001. Mr. Guillama in the past has been founder, officer or director of numerous, private and publicly traded companies involved in broadcasting, cable, healthcare, real estate, construction and technology. From 1996 to February 2000, he was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc., West Palm Beach, Florida; a healthcare service organization serving over 45,000 patients. Prior to that, he was Vice President of MedPartners, Inc., a physician practice management company based in Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Guillama has been non-executive chairman of Tektonica, Inc. a diversified services company located in Jupiter, Florida, since 1984 and in addition serves on the board of Quantum Medical Technologies, Inc. located in Miami, Florida.

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DAVID SMITH, DIRECTOR. Mr. Smith served as Executive Vice President (May 2001 through February 2002) and Chief Strategy Officer (June 2002 through November 2002) of TargitInteractive. He has been in the venture capital industry since 1979 and has run corporate venture funds for Control Data Corporation and BMW of Germany and has been a partner in three private funds, the largest being Hambrecht & Quist Venture Partners. Mr. Smith spent eight years in the computer industry with Control Data Corporation in various financial functions and was Vice President of Sales/ Marketing for Airtech Corporation, an air-pollution control spin-out company from MIT's Draper Laboratories. He began his career as an economist with the International Division of First National Bank of Chicago, working in the London and Frankfurt branches.

JAMES D. BAKER, DIRECTOR. Mr. Baker formerly served as President and Chairman of TargitInteractive from July 2001 until September 2002. He became a director and president upon the closing of the FirstPop transaction. He served as Chairman and CEO of FirstPop from its inception in 2000. Mr. Baker has been involved with integrated computer systems for over 25 years. After working for IBM from 1967 - 1981 in Security Systems Development, he left IBM to form his own company, Computer Application Systems, Inc. ("CASI") that commercialized computer-based security systems. CASI was sold to Figgie International Inc. in September 1987. Mr. Baker worked with Figgie as a Vice President of Strategic Business Development through 1991. From 1991 through 1995, he served as a consultant to the security industry and assisted several start up and early stage companies by developing strategic business plans, alliances with more mature companies, raising capital, and at the Board level. In 1995, he founded RAPOR, Inc. and is currently on the Board of Directors. RAPOR is a manufacturer of computer-controlled doors for the security industry. Most recently, Mr. Baker was CEO of AegiSoft, an Internet company that provides software and digital content publishers the technology to rent their products, such as software, music, movies and electronic books. AegiSoft was sold in December 2000 to RealNetworks, Inc.

GUENTHER REIBLING, DIRECTOR. Mr. Reibling became a director upon the closing of the FirstPop transaction. Mr. Reibling has been Executive Vice President of Taurus Investment Group, a real estate investment and development company with operations in the U.S. and Germany, since 1976. Taurus is general partner of over 45 commercial real estate projects in the U.S. Mr. Reibling oversees leasing, management and development activities of the various projects, as well as the acquisition and underwriting of new projects. He is also an owner/developer of commercial real estate in his own right and has been involved with real estate sales, management and development since 1969.

The Company has established an Audit Committee chaired by Guenther Reibling. Aaron Gibitz also serves on the committee. The Company has identified Mr. Reibling as the financial expert as defined in the Exchange Act and Regulation S-B thereto. The Company believes that Mr. Reibling's experience overseeing the operations of Taurus Investment Group as well as its principal accounting functions provides the required expertise to advise the Company on issues likely to arise during the audit process. Mr. Reibling is not an independent expert as defined under the Exchange Act. However, the Company is in the process of identifying an independent financial expert to serve on the Audit Committee. Other than the Audit Committee, there are no committees of the Board, which acts as the full Board with respect to any matter.

The Company's By-Laws eliminate the personal liability of officers and directors to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware Law. The effect of such provision is to require the Company to indemnify the officers and directors of the Company for any claim arising against such persons in their official capacities if such person acted in good faith and in a manner that he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was lawful.

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Compliance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act

Based solely on a review of Forms 3, 4 and 5 furnished to the Company and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under Rule 16a-3(e) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, to the Company's knowledge, all directors, officers and beneficial owners of more than 10% of any class of equity securities filed on a timely basis the reports required by Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act during the most recent fiscal year.

Code of Ethics

The Company currently has no formal code of ethics that applies to the principal executive or financial officers or the Board of Directors. There was no such code in the original By-laws of the Company and this oversight has yet to be corrected. The Company intends to redraft the corporate By-laws and include such a code of conduct in the immediate future.