Dann V. Angeloff
As President and founder of the Angeloff Company since 1976, Dann Angeloff advises top management of
medium-sized public and private growth companies in the areas of public and private finance, merger/acquisitions,
investment banking and investor relations. He also provides financial advisory services including valuations,
fairness opinions and expert witness testimony.
He currently is and has recently served on the following boards: Bjurman Barry Funds, Electronic Recyclers
International, Nicholas-Applegate Growth Equity Fund, Public Storage, Ready Pac Foods, Retirement Capital
and SoftBrands, Inc. He has served on over 50 corporate boards during his career.
Since the early days of his career, he has been very interested in board activity both as a director of many
public and private companies as well as being a founding member of the National Association of Corporate
Directors (NACD), a 11,000 membership group headquartered in Washington D.C. He is Chairman Emeritus of
the Southern California Chapter of the NACD, after serving as President and Chairman.
Mr. Angeloff received his B.S. and M.B.A. degrees at the University of Southern California where he was a
Trustee and President of the Alumni Association. He is a director of Marshall Leaders, Founding Chairman
of Marshall Partners and President-Elect of the Half Century Trojans.
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Kevin J. Anton
Kevin Anton was named Chief Sustainability Officer for Alcoa in August 2010. In this role, he is responsible for developing a comprehensive strategy that integrates all of the Company’s sustainability efforts. Kevin has been the leader of the Alcoa Sustainability Steering Committee for the past year. He is also a vice president of Alcoa and sits on the Alcoa Executive Council, the senior leadership group of the company that sets strategic direction for the company.
Kevin has worked more than 30 years in the metals and mining industry. Most recently, he served as Vice President, Finance and Strategy for Alcoa Global Primary Products. Kevin joined Alcoa in 1998 as vice president of Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals. He then became vice president, Finance for Alcoa’s Primary Products organization. In 2001, he became president of Alcoa Materials Management, which involves purchasing and the physical and financial trading activities of primary and scrap aluminum, electricity trading, and transportation purchasing for the Primary Products business. In 2006, he was elected a vice president of Alcoa, and a year later became Chief Financial Officer for Global Primary Products, while still maintaining responsibility for Alcoa Materials Management. As CFO, Kevin oversees financial activities and strategy for Alcoa’s nine alumina refineries, bauxite assets in Australia, Brazil, Jamaica, Suriname and Guinea, and the company’s worldwide smelting system.
Before joining Alcoa, Kevin held senior management positions at Alumax, serving as vice president and controller for its primary aluminum group and director of business planning. Alcoa acquired Alumax in 1998. Earlier, Kevin held various financial positions, including director of Business Planning and Development, for AMAX Inc., a diversified mining and metals company based in New York City.
Kevin is the past chairman of the U.S. Aluminum Association. He graduated from the University of Bridgeport in 1986 with a degree in accounting. He and his wife, Irene, have two sons.
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Keith D. Bronstein
Keith D. Bronstein is President of Tradelink LLC, a trading and investment management firm based in
Chicago with offices in London and Honolulu. He has served as chairman of the Board for SLIL Biomedical
and served on the Board of American Ecology Corporation.
Bronstein did his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in Economic History and
his graduate work at The University of Chicago. In 1971, he joined the Chicago Board of Trade. He served
on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade from 1977 – 1980. He was a Governor of the
Chicago Board of Trade Clearing Corporation from 1980 – 1984.
Bronstein has been a member of The Chicago Options Exchange, The International Monetary Market of The
Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Comex Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. He is also a
member of the Chicago Climate Exchange and the Chicago Sulfur Futures Exchange and has lectured on a
number of occasions at the Kellog School of Business Management at Northwestern University. He has
also given presentations at the GRANTS conference in New York.
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Yong-Seok Jeong
Yongseok (YS) Jeong is a representative of LS-Nikko Copper Inc. in Korea which is the third biggest copper smelter in the world. LS-Nikko Copper owns a minority interest in Electronic Recyclers International. From 2010 January he has been working as a Liaison of LS Nikko Copper at ERI, Fresno.
In 1988 he has started his work at Korea Mining & Smelting Co. which was current LS-Nikko Copper, he has worked in fields of Engineering, Quality Management and ESH Management. During last ten years he has worked as a manager of ESH Team and Process Technology and Engineering Team. He has majored electrical engineering at Inha University in Korea.
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Matthew McGovern
Matthew McGovern is a clean technology investor and a corporate financial advisor. From 2001 through
2008, he was an officer and Managing Director of the SBI Group, an investment banking and asset
management firm. In this role, he oversaw the management of investment banking, principal trading
and asset allocation.
Before joining SBI, McGovern was a member of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's corporate venture capital
arm, the New Ventures Group. In this role, he was involved in the deployment of firm capital,
structuring of corporate investments and market research.
McGovern holds a master's degree in Organizational Behavior and a doctorate in Organizational
Development from the College of Organizational Studies at CSPP. McGovern received his BS from Miami
University, in Oxford, Ohio.
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Alexander Ruckdäschel
Alexander Ruckdäschel is a venture capitalist and co-founder of Blue Rock-AG, a Swiss-based
investment manager. From 2002 to 2006 he was a Fund Advisor at DAC-FONDS, a European Investment
company specializing in clean tech and small-cap equities worldwide.
Since 2003, Ruckdäschel has also served as an investment advisor to Nanostart AG. Founded in
2003, Nanostart quickly became the leading European venture investment firm in the area of
nanotechnology. Ruckdäschel also has extensive experience in the European clean tech
industry. He also serves on the Board of Directors for several small cap companies.
Prior to 2003, Ruckdäschel was a research analyst with Dunmore Management, a global hedge
fund, and Thieme Associates, an investment advisor. From 1992 to 2000, Ruckdäschel served in
the German military, participating in United Nations missions around the world.
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John S. Shegerian
John S. Shegerian is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Recyclers International®.
Established in 2002, Electronic Recyclers International® is an Electronic Waste collector and
recycler, specializing in the environmentally safe and socially responsible dismantling of
CRTs. Electronic Recyclers International® is recognized as the Number One Electronic Waste Recycler in the
state of California and one of the largest in North America.
Shegerian serves on the Fundraising Committee and as an Ambassador of Education at California
State University at Fresno. Shegerian also serves on the Board of the Boys and Girls Club of Fresno.
Shegerian is a cum laude graduate of New York University and also, at 17, was the youngest harness
racer to set a World Record for the fastest 5/8-mile dash on a 5/8-mile track.
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