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.
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.
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.