Irvine, Ca., USA - October 7, 2014, Irvine, Ca., USA - DecisionPoint Systems, Inc., an IT company, announced a restructuring of its board of directors, including the resignations of five former directors and the appointment of five new directors.
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Effective as of the close of business on October 3, 2014, James DeSocio was appointed to the Board and five of the Company's incumbent directors, Lawrence Yelin, Jay B. Sheehy, David M. Rifkin, Marc Ferland and Donald Dalicandro, resigned from the Board, leaving incumbent director Robert Schroeder and Mr. DeSocio on the Board.
Thereafter, Mr. Schroeder and Mr. DeSocio appointed four additional new directors, Michael N. Taglich, John Guttilla, Stanley P. Jaworski, Jr., and Paul A. Seid.
James DeSocio has more than 20 years of international enterprise software sales experience. As the current Executive Vice President of Field Operations at XRS Corporation, he is responsible for enterprise license revenue, professional services sales and implementation and business development and partner programs.
Prior to XRS, Mr. DeSocio served as Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development at Antenna Software. From Dec 2007 through June 2012, he grew Antenna's annual bookings fourfold. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Riskclick Inc., a venture-funded startup focused on developing a cloud-based underwriting solution for the property and casualty insurance market, which was sold to Skywire Software in 2007; the combined company was sold to Oracle in June 2008.
Mr. DeSocio also held various roles with Lawson, now Infor, and was leader of its successful IPO. Mr. DeSocio holds a business administration degree from Rutgers University.
Michael N. Taglich is the Chairman and President of Taglich Brothers, Inc., a New York City-based securities firm that he co-founded in 1992. Mr. Taglich serves on the Board of Directors of Air Industries Group, an aerospace and defense company, of which he is Chairman of the Board, and Bridgeline Digital, Inc., a technology company that enables its customers to maximize the performance of their mission-critical websites, intranets and online stores.
He also serves as a director of a number of private companies, including BioVentrix, Inc., a privately owned medical device company whose products are directed at heart failure treatment, and Caldera Pharmaceuticals Inc., a drug screening company. Mr. Taglich brings extensive professional experience, which spans various aspects of senior management, including finance, operations and strategic planning.
John Guttilla is a Partner in the accounting firm of RotenbergMeril where he is a member of the firm's management committee and the firm's director of Financial Services Department. RotenbergMeril are the independent registered public accountants' for Air Industries Group where Mr. Guttilla serves as the engagement partner. He is also a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Orchids Paper Products Company.
Mr. Guttilla is a certified public accountant and holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Fordham University and a Masters in Taxation from St. John's University.
Stanley P. Jaworski, Jr. has been Vice President Marketing for the Americas of Motorola Solutions, Inc. since 2009. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Jaworski was Chief Marketing Officer of VBrick Systems, Inc., which provides enterprise Internet protocol (IP) video solutions for corporate, education, worship, media and government markets worldwide, and from 2005 to 2007, he was Vice President, Worldwide Channel Marketing, of NetApp, Inc., a computer storage and data management company. ■