Board of Directors
Peter E. Salas
Peter E. Salas is ACT’s Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. He was appointed Principal Executive Officer by the Board in March 2007 and as Chairman in August 2005.
Mr. Salas has served as President of Dolphin Asset Management Corporation and its related companies since their founding in 1988. Dolphin Direct is a New York-based private equity fund that invests in micro-cap opportunities. He served as the lead investor in ACT’s August 2005 Series AA Convertible Preferred Stock offering.
Prior to establishing the Dolphin entities, Mr. Salas served in various capacities for ten years at J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Inc. He received an A.B. degree in Economics from Harvard in 1978. Mr. Salas also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tengasco, Inc., and on the Boards of Directors of Williams Controls, Inc. and Southwall Technologies Inc.
Malcolm M. Aslin
Malcolm M. Aslin has served as a member of ACT's Board of Directors since August 2004. Mr. Aslin is presently a director of and consultant to Marshall and Isley Corporation, Inc. (NYSE MI), a diversified financial services company providing comprehensive financial products and services to personal, business, corporate and institutional customers nationwide. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Gold Banc Corporation, a registered bank holding company, from March 2003 to April 1, 2006, and was President and Chief Operating Officer of Gold Banc from February 1999 to March 2003. From October 1995 until February 1999, Mr. Aslin served as Chairman of the Board of Western National Bank and Unison Bancorporation, Inc., and Chairman and Managing Director of CompuNet Engineering, L.L.C. Prior to Western National and CompuNet, Mr. Aslin spent more than 22 years in various positions with UMB Banks and United Missouri Financial Corporation, including President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of United Missouri Bancshares, Inc. and President and Director of UMB's Kansas City bank, United Missouri Bank of Kansas City, N.A. Mr. Aslin received his B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Clarke H. Bailey
Mr. Bailey joined Entertainment Distribution Co. in December 1990 and has served in a variety of positions, initially as President and Chief Executive Officer. In June 1999, he was named Chairman of the Board. Mr. Bailey serves on the boards of ACT Teleconferencing, Inc. and Iron Mountain Incorporated. He has served on numerous corporate boards, including Swiss Army Brands, Inc., Koret, Inc., and Pulse Engineering, Inc. He also served on the board of the Norman Rockwell Museum.
Born in Great Falls, Montana and raised in California, Mr. Bailey holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Rhetoric from the University of California, Davis and a Master of Business Administration degree from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Naomi Perry
Ms. Perry has served as a member of ACT's Board of Directors since 2005. Ms. Perry was a Client Industry Executive in EDS' Global Communications Industry Group until December 2007. She began her career with EDS as a Systems Engineer and served as a Technical Instructor for the company's European Systems Engineer Development Program. Previously, she served as the Senior Director for Network Services Engineering and Operations Support for a broadband fixed wireless carrier and as the Vice President for Information Systems Engineering for an optical network provider.
Ms. Perry earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University. She received an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and an MA from the Graduate School of Public Policy Studies.
Carlos P. Salas
Carlos P. Salas has served as a member of ACT's Board of Directors since August 2005. He is a principal of Dolphin Advisors, L.L.C., which manages a private-equity investment fund focused on middle-market opportunities. Before joining Dolphin Advisors, Mr. Salas led corporate finance and mergers-and-acquisitions advisory assignments for middle-market clients as an investment banker with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette ("DLJ") in Los Angeles, and later with Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation ("CSFB") when the latter acquired DLJ.
Prior to joining DLJ in 1999, Mr. Salas practiced law with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York, advising financial sponsors and corporate clients in connection with financings and cross-border mergers-and-acquisitions transactions. Mr. Salas received his J.D. from The University of Chicago and his B.A. in Philosophy from New York. Mr. Salas also serves on the boards of Williams Controls, Inc. and Tengasco, Inc.
Michael W. Shepherd
Mr. Shepherd is Vice President and Investments Counsel at Genworth Financial, Inc., having previously been a mergers and acquisitions attorney with First Data Corporation. Prior to joining First Data, Mr. Shepherd was General Counsel and Vice President of The Chotin Group, a company specializing in structured debt financings and asset securitization. From 1999 to 2003, he was a member of the corporate and securities group at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson, LLP. Before moving to Hogan, Mr. Shepherd spent several years at Rogers & Wells LLP (now Clifford Chance U.S. LLP) counseling clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions and securities transactions. Mr. Shepherd received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School.
Jami Dover Nachtsheim
Jami Dover Nachtsheim was a Corporate Vice President of the Sales and Marketing Group and Director of Worldwide Marketing for Intel, overseeing marketing operations including the Intel Inside® program, advertising, Internet marketing, branding, channel marketing, market research and corporate marketing communications.
Ms. Dover started at Intel after graduating from Arizona State University in 1980 with a BA in Business specializing in production planning. In 1985, Ms. Dover left Intel for a year (to Four Phase-Motorola), then returned to Intel in 1986 as Director of Operations in the newly created ASIC Division. In 1990, she moved to Intel Europe where she was promoted to Director of Customer Service and Logistics and was responsible for managing Business Planning, Logistics, and Information Technology for Intel’s European, Middle Eastern, and African operations.
Ms. Dover returned to the U.S. in 1994 to run the Intel Inside® program. Ms. Dover has also held a number of other positions within Intel in Sales and Marketing, Materials, and Production Planning and Control. She received three Intel Achievement Awards for her work on specialized marketing and channel development programs. She was appointed an Intel Vice President in 1997 and elected a Corporate Vice President in 2000.