Newark, NJ, USA - December 2, 2013, Newark, NJ, USA - Genie Energy Ltd., an independent retail energy provider, said that it has appointed chairman Howard Jonas to assume the additional role of chief executive officer, effective January 1, 2014.
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Mr. Jonas is the founder of Genie Energy and has served as the Chairman of its Board of Directors since it was spun off from IDT Corporation in October, 2011. Mr. Jonas is also the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of IDT Corporation.
Mr. Jonas has served as Chief Executive Officer of IDT since October 2009 and from December 1991 until July 2001. He has served as the Chairman of the Board of CTM Media Holdings, Inc. since August 2009 and as the Co-Vice Chairman of Genie Energy Corporation since September 2009.
Mr. Jonas has also served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of IDT Telecom from December 1999 to April 2008, as Co-Chairman since April 2008, and as a director of IDT Capital since September 2004. Mr. Jonas served as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of IDT Entertainment from November 2004 until August 2006.
Since August 2006, Mr. Jonas has been a director of Starz Media Holdings, LLC, Starz Media, LLC and Starz Foreign Holdings, LLC, each of which is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation.
In addition, Mr. Jonas has been a director of IDT Energy since June 2007 and a director of American Shale Oil Corporation since January 2008. Mr. Jonas is also the founder and has been President of Jonas Media Group since its inception in 1979.
Mr. Jonas was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Net2Phone from October 2001 to October 2004, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Net2Phone from October 2004 to June 2006, and has served as the Chairman of Net2Phone since June 2006.
Mr. Jonas received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University.
Claude Pupkin, Genie's current CEO, will remain at Genie and continue to serve as President of Genie's American Shale Oil subsidiary and Senior Vice President of Business Development. ■