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In addition to Frederic Scheer, who serves as Chairman of the Board, Petros Kitsos, Jacques Vincent and Stee Hanni also serve on Cereplast's Board of Directors.
Petros G. Kitsos, Director
Mr. Kitsos is the managing principal of TBL Strategy/TBL, LLC in Los Angeles. TBL Strategy provides a unique suite of professional services to diversified industrial companies designed to facilitate strategy formulation and execution, and to illuminate and solve challenges facing industry, investors and government.
Prior to his establishing TBL Strategy, Kitsos had a distinguished 16-year career in investment banking with Citigroup and the predecessor companies where among other duties he was Citigroup’s Head of Western Region Mergers & Acquisitions, Head of Global Aerospace Group, Co-Head of Los Angeles Corporate Finance. As Citigroup’s Managing Director of Investment Banking he oversaw mergers, acquisitions and divestitures in the Western Region. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hamilton College where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees, and holds an MBA with honors from Harvard Business School.
Jacques Vincent, Director
Jacques Vincent was recently named vice chairman and advisor to the chairman and previously served as the vice chairman and chief operating officer at Groupe Danone. He began his career with Danone in 1970 and has since held various financial and overall management positions within the company. Vincent is a graduate engineer of the Ecole Centrale, Paris, holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Paris University and a master’s of science from Stanford University.
In addition to Vincent’s position at Groupe Danone, he is also the chairman of Daniel Carasso Research Center and Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, and a board member of Syngenta in Switzerland and Yakult Honsha in Japan.
Steve M. Hanni, Director and Chair of the Audit Committee.
Mr. Hanni is a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in Utah and Nevada. He graduated from Weber State University with both a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Accounting in 1994. He is a member of the Utah Association of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He also has served on the Practice Advisory Council and other committees for the Utah Association of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Hanni has taught auditing at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah and accounting at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Since 2001, Mr. Hanni has been engaged in public practice with the firm of Stayner, Bates & Jensen, PC, Certified Public Accountants, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Hanni was previously a partner with the firm of HJ & Associates, LLC, a public accounting firm also in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Hanni also serves on the audit committee of Amerityre Corporation (“AMTY.NASDAQ”) and serves as a part-time Chief Financial Officer for Medizone International, Inc. (“MZEI.OB”).
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