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The following is an excerpt from a DEF 14A SEC Filing, filed by DALRADA FINANCIAL CORP on 4/6/2006.
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DALRADA FINANCIAL CORP - DEF 14A - 20060406 - PROPOSAL_1
PROPOSAL 1
ELECTION OF THE BOARD

Nominees For Election as Directors

The persons named below are nominees for director to serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified. Management has selected five nominees of which three are currently directors of the Company. Each person nominated for election has agreed to serve if elected, and management has no reason to believe that any nominee will be unavailable to serve. Unless otherwise instructed, the Proxy holders will vote the Proxies received by them for the nominees named below. The proxies received by the Proxy holders cannot be voted for more than five directors, and, unless otherwise instructed, the Proxy holders will vote such proxies for the nominees named below. The five candidates receiving the highest number of affirmative votes of the shares entitled to vote at the Meeting will be elected directors of the Company.

If, however, any of those named are unable to serve, or for good cause decline to serve at the time of the Meeting, the persons named in the enclosed Proxy will exercise discretionary authority to vote for substitutes. The Board is not aware of any circumstances that would render any nominee unavailable for election.

The following table sets forth certain information regarding the nominees for election as directors.

Name
Age
Since
Director Title
Brian Bonar
58
1995
Chairman and CEO
Richard H. Green
69
2000
Director
Eric W. Gaer
57
2000
Secretary and Director
David P. Lieberman
61
2006
Director
Stanley A. Hirschman
61
2006
Director

BRIAN BONAR Chairman of the Board of Directors Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Bonar has served as a director of the Company since August 1995 and became the Company's Chairman of the Board in December 1999. From August 1992 through April 1994, Mr. Bonar served as the Company's Director of Technology Sales and from April 1994 through September 1994 as the Company's Vice President, Sales and Marketing. In September 1994, Mr. Bonar became the Company's Executive Vice President and, in July 1997, was appointed as the Company's President and Chief Operating Officer. In April 1998 Mr. Bonar assumed the post of CEO. From 1991 to 1992, Mr. Bonar was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Bezier Systems, Inc., a San Jose, California-based manufacturer and marketer of laser printers. From 1990 to 1991, he was Worldwide Sales Manager for Adaptec, Inc., a San Jose-based laser printer controller developer. From 1988 to 1990, Mr. Bonar was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Rastek Corporation, a laser printer controller developed located in Huntsville, Alabama. From 1984 to 1988, Mr. Bonar was employed as Executive Director of Engineering at QMS, Inc., an Alabama-based developer and manufacturer of high-performance color and monochrome printing solutions. Prior to these positions, Mr. Bonar was employed by IBM, U.K. Ltd. for approximately 17 years.

DR. RICHARD H. GREEN has served as a director since September 2000. He is currently the President of International Power & Environmental Company (IPEC), a consulting company located in San Diego, California. From 1993 through 1995, he served as Deputy Secretary of the State of California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA). From 1988 through 1993 Dr. Green served as Manager of Program Engineering and Review Office in the Office of Technology and Applications at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, where he had held various management positions since 1967. From 1965 through 1967, Dr. Green served as Senior Engineer for The Boeing Company, Space Division. From 1983 through 1985, Dr. Green held the Corwin D. Denny Chair as Professor of Energy and Director of the Energy Institute at the University of LaVerne, and from 1961 through 1964 served as Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Environmental Sciences) at Washington State University. Dr. Green currently is a member of the Governing Board of Pasadena City College. Dr. Green completed his bachelor's degree at Whitman College in 1958, his Master of Science at Washington State University in 1961, and his Ph.D. at Washington State University, under a United States Public Health Services Career Development Award, in 1965.


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ERIC W. GAER has served as a director since March 2000. Since 1998, Mr. Gaer has been the President and CEO of Arroyo Development Corporation, a privately-held, San Diego-based management consulting company. From 1996 to 1998, he was Chairman, President and CEO of Greenland Corporation, a publicly-held company in San Diego, California. In 1995, he was CEO of Ariel Systems, Inc., a privately-held engineering development company in Vista, California. Over the past 30 years, Mr. Gaer has served in executive management positions at a variety of high-technology companies, including Imaging Technologies Corporation, Daybreak Technologies, Inc., Venture Software, Inc., and Merisel, Inc. He is also a licensed insurance and real estate broker in California. In 1970, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mass communications from California State University, Northridge.

DAVID LIEBERMAN has been the Chief Financial Officer for John Goyak & Associates, Inc., an aerospace consulting firm located in Las Vegas, NV since 2003. Previously, Mr. Lieberman was the President of Lieberman Associates from 2000 to 2003 where he acted as the Chief Financial Officer for various public and non-public companies located in NV and CA. Mr. Lieberman has over thirty years of financial experience beginning with five years as an accountant with Price Waterhouse from 1967 through 1972

STANLEY HIRSCHMAN   has been President of CPointe Associates, a Plano, Texas based executive management and consulting firm since 1997. CPointe specializes in business solutions for companies with emerging technologies and is well-versed in the challenges of regulated corporate governance. He is also Chairman of the Board of Bravo Foods International, a director of Bronco Energy Fund, Energy & Engine Technology, GoldSpring, and 5 G Wireless Corporation and is a former chairman of Mustang Software, Inc. While at Mustang, Mr. Hirschman took a hands-on role in the planning and execution of the strategic initiative to increase shareholder value resulting in the successful acquisition of the company by Quintus Corporation. Prior to establishing CPointe Associates, he was Vice President Operations, Software Etc., Inc., a 396 retail store software chain, from 1989 until 1996. He also held senior executive management positions with T.J. Maxx, Gap Stores and Banana Republic. Stan is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and participates regularly in the KMPG Audit Committee Roundtable. He is active in community affairs and serves on the Advisory Board of the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Centers.

The Board and Its Committees

The Board has met and discussed the governance practices followed by the Company in order to assure that the Board will have the necessary authority to review and evaluate the Company’s business operations as needed and to make decisions that are independent of the Company’s management. These discussions are intended to align the interests of directors and management with those of the Company’s shareholders. The nature of these discussions deal with the practices the Board will follow with respect to board composition and selection, board meetings and involvement of senior management, Chief Executive Officer performance evaluation and succession planning, and board committees and compensation. The Board is mindful of the changes in the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the implementation of the Sorbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Board has two committees: an Audit Committee and a Compensation Committee. The entire Board acts in relation to corporate governance and nominating.

The Board of Directors met ten times during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005. All directors attended at least 90% of the Board meetings and meetings of the committees on which they serviced during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005.

The Company's audit committee (the " Audit Committee "), composed of Messrs. Richard Green and Robert Dietrich, met twice during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005, to review the Company's financial statements and to meet with the Company's independent auditors. The Audit Committee currently consists of Mssrs. Richard Green and Stanley Hirschman.

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The Audit Committee assists the Board of Directors in its oversight of the quality and integrity of the accounting, auditing, and reporting practices of the Company. The Audit Committee’s role includes discussing with management the Company’s processes to manage business and financial risk, and for compliance with significant applicable legal, ethical, and regulatory requirements. The Audit Committee is responsible for the appointment, replacement, compensation, and oversight of the independent auditor engaged to prepare or issue audit reports on the financial statements of the Company. The Audit Committee relies on the expertise and knowledge of management, the internal auditors, and the independent auditor in carrying out its oversight responsibilities. The Board of Directors has determined that each Audit Committee member has sufficient knowledge in financial and auditing matters to serve on the Committee.

The Company's compensation committee (the "Compensation Committee"), composed of Messrs. Eric Gaer, and Richard Green, met once during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005, to review executive compensation and the status of the Company's employee stock option plans. The primary responsibilities of the Compensation Committee are to (1) review and recommend to the Board the compensation of the Chief Executive Officer and other officers of the Company, (2) review executive bonus plan allocations, (3) oversee and advise the Board on the adoption of policies that govern the Company’s compensation programs, (4) oversee the Company’s administration of its equity-based compensation and other benefit plans, and (5) approve grants of stock options and stock awards to officers and employees of the Company under its stock plan. The Compensation Committee’s role includes producing the report on executive compensation required by SEC rules and regulations.

The entire Board acts in relation to corporate governance and nominating, with responsibilities including (1) determine the slate of director nominees for election to the Company’s Board of Directors, (2) identify and recommend candidates to fill vacancies occurring between annual shareholder meetings, and (3) review, evaluate, and recommend changes to the Company’s corporate governance, including periodic review of the compensation paid to non-employee directors. The Board also meets to annual review the Chief Executive Officer’s performance. The Board of Directors will consider shareholder recommendations for candidates to the Board. The name of any recommended candidate for director, including the candidate’s willingness to serve, if elected, should be sent to the attention of the Secretary of the Company.

None of the members of the committees above was an officer or employee of the Company at any time during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005, or at any other time with the exception of Eric Gaer, who was employed by the company in the 1980’s.

No current executive officer of the Company has ever served as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee of any other entity that has or has had one or more executive officers serving as a member of the Board or Compensation Committee with the exception of Brian Bonar who also serves as the CEO and Chairman of Warning Management Services, Inc. (“WMNI”).

Code of Ethics
 
The Board adopted on October 12, 2004, a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to each of the Company’s directors, officers and employees. The Code of Business Conduct and Ethics sets forth the Company’s policies and expectations on a number of topics, including: Compliance with laws, rules and regulations; Conflicts of Interest; Insider Trading; Corporate Opportunities; Competition and Fair Dealing; Discrimination and Harassment; Health and Safety; Record-Keeping; Confidentiality; Protection and Proper Use of Company Assets; Prohibitions Against Payments to Government Personnel; Waivers of the Code of Business Conduct of Ethics; Amendments; Reporting any Illegal or Unethical Behavior; and Compliance Procedures.
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