Santa Monica, Ca., USA - November 15, 2010, Santa Monica, Ca., USA - Derycz Scientific, Inc., a software company, announced the appointment of former U.S. Air Force chief of staff General Merrill McPeak, Scott Ogilvie and Gregory Suess to its board of directors.
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Gnl. McPeak is President of McPeak and Associates, a company he founded in 1995. From 1990 until his retirement from active military service in late-1994, he was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he and the other service chiefs were military advisors to the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States.
Gnl. McPeak has sat on the boards of a dozen publicly traded companies, including long service with the airline TWA, and with the test and measurement company Tektronix. He was for many years Chairman of the Board of ECC, International, until that company was acquired.
Currently, Gnl. McPeak is a director of Del Global Technologies, a producer of medical imaging devices, Miller Energy Resources, an oil and natural gas exploration and production company, and Sensis Corp., a privately held manufacturer of air defense radars and air traffic control equipment. He also is Chairman of Ethicspoint, Inc., a relatively recent startup that has become the leading provider of software-as-a-service based governance, risk and compliance solutions.
Mr. Ogilvie is Founder and President of AFIN International, Inc. and formerly CEO of Gulf Enterprises International, Ltd., both of which companies have U.S. and Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf ("GCC") operating partners and strategic shareholders through which they bring GCC regional as well as U.S. and international expertise, investment capital and operating platforms to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) markets in areas such as Infrastructure, Industrial, IT, Energy, Entertainment, Healthcare and Real Estate.
Prior to forming AFIN and GEI, Mr. Ogilvie was the Chief Operating Officer for CIC Group of companies. Mr. Ogilvie received a BSBA-Finance degree from the University of Denver, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
Mr. Suess is a founding partner of Beverly Hills-based ROAR, an entertainment and media focused management and consulting company formed in 2005. Since 1997, Mr. Suess has practiced with the law firm of Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, LLP where he is currently Of Counsel and focuses on general corporate law, media and entertainment. ■