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Board of Directors
Mr. Theisen is our President and Chief Executive Officer. He has been President of the Company since 2007 and was elected Chief Executive Officer in 2008. He previously was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company from 2003 to 2007 and Vice President of Operations from 2002 to 2003. From 1975 to 2002 he held various research and development, marketing, and management positions within the Company. Mr. Theisen is also a Director of Andersen Corporation.
Mr. Wulf is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. He has been Senior Vice President since 2006 and Chief Financial Officer since 2002. He previously was Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer from 2002 to 2006, Vice President and Controller from 1998 to 2002 and Vice President and Assistant Controller from 1997 to 1998. From 1975 to 1997, he held various financial positions within the Company. Mr. Wulf is also a director of A. O. Smith Corporation.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Bemis Company, Inc. |
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
Current |
| A.O. Smith Corporation |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Bemis Company, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| A.O. Smith Corporation |
Chairperson |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Bemis Company, Inc. |
Vice President, Human Resources |
Current |
| Curwood, Inc. |
Vice President, HR |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Bemis Company, Inc. |
Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary |
Current |
•Vice President, Operations, Bemis Company, the largest flexible packaging company in the Americas and a major manufacturer of pressure-sensitive materials used for labels, decoration and signage, since 2004.
•President and Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Adhesives Company from 2000-2004 prior to its acquisition by Bemis.
•Held various positions with General Electric Company from 1980-2000, culminating in General Manager, Switch Gear Business.
•Member of the Compensation, Governance and Executive Committees.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Bemis Company, Inc. |
Vice President, Operations |
Current |
| Tennant Company |
Board of Directors |
Current |
Mr. Curler is Executive Chairman of the Company and was elected to that position in 2008. He is also our Chairman of the Board and has served in that position since 2005. He was President from 1996 to 2007, Chief Executive Officer from 2000 to 2008, and Chief Operating Officer from 1998 to 2000. From 1973 to 1996, he held various management, research and development, and operations positions within the Company. Mr. Curler is also a Director of Valspar Corporation. He is Chair of the Executive and Finance Committee.
Ms. Johnson is the Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance for the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She has held that position since 2007. From 2004 to 2007 she served as a consultant for various institutions of higher education advising on financial and administrative matters. She previously was Vice President and Treasurer of Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota from 2000 to 2004. Prior to that she was Vice President for Finance and Administration of Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, North Carolina from 1997 to 2000 and Assistant Controller of The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio from 1990 to 1997. She is a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
David S. Haffner, age 56, was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company in 2006 and has served as President of the Company since 2002. He previously served as the Company s Chief Operating Officer from 1999 to 2006, Executive Vice President from 1995 to 2002 and in other capacities since 1983. Mr. Haffner serves as a director of Bemis Company, Inc., a manufacturer of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive materials. Mr. Haffner was first elected as a director of the Company in 1995.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Leggett & Platt, Incorporated |
President and Chief Executive Officer and Director |
Current |
| Leggett & Platt, Incorporated |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Bemis Company, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Leggett & Platt, Incorporated |
President & COO |
Former |
Mr. Perry has been engaged in the private practice of law in the Boston, Massachusetts area since 1982 and since 2008 has been Of Counsel to the law firm of Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP. He was a partner at Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP from 1990 to 2003 and was Of Counsel to Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP from 2004 to 2005, and to Sullivan, Weinstein & McQuay, PC from 2006 to 2008. He is a member of the Audit Committee, Executive and Finance Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Actuant Corporation |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Petroleum Geo Services ASA |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Capstone Turbine Corporation |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Bemis Company, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
Mr. Peercy, age 68, was appointed to Sonic Foundry’s Board as a class I Director in February 2004. Since September, 1999, Mr. Peercy has served as dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering. Since 2001 Mr. Peercy has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In 2000, then-Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson named Mr. Peercy to the Wisconsin Technology and Entrepreneurship Council. Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin in September, 1999, Peercy served as president of SEMI/SEMATECH, an Austin, Texas-based non-profit consortium of more than 160 of the nation's suppliers to the semiconductor industry since 1995. Prior to that position he was director of Microelectronics and Photronics at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author or co-author of more than 175 technical papers and the recipient of two patents. Mr. Peercy received a BA degree in Physics from Berea College and MS and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Sonic Foundry, Inc. |
Director, Dean, University of Wisconsin College of Engineering |
Current |
| Sonic Foundry, Inc. |
Director |
Current |
| Bemis Company, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Venture Investors LLC |
Advisory Board |
Current |
| Sandia National Laboratories |
Director of Photonics |
Former |
| University of Wisconsin |
Dean |
Former |
| Mediasite |
Board of Directors |
Former |
| Photronics, Inc. |
Director |
Former |
| Berea College |
BA in Physics |
Former |
Mr. O'Shaughnessy is President and Chief Executive Officer of Cardinal Glass Industries, Inc., a private manufacturer of glass, including insulating glass units for window manufacturers. He has held this position for more than five years. He is a member of the Compensation Committee, the Executive and Finance Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Ace Hardware Corporation |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Bemis Company, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Scholle Corporation |
Scholle Corporation Chairman and CEO |
Current |
| Bemis Company, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
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