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ABOUT DANKA
Board of Directors
Danka's board of directors has changed significantly in recent years. In addition to several new members, the size of the
board was increased to 10 directors. Directors serve on four committees: Audit, Human Resources, Nominating, and Executive.
Click on the links below for a brief biography or download
Danka's Board of Directors biographies. (PDF - 77 Kb)
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Executive Directors
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A.D. Frazier
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Non-Executive Directors
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W. Andrew McKenna
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Dr. Kevin C. Daly |
J. Ernest Riddle |
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Jaime Ellertson
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Christopher B. Harned
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David Downes
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Erik Vonk
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Joseph
E. Parzick
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A.D. Frazier
Chairman
Mr. Frazier is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
Officer of Danka effective March 14, 2006.
Before joining Danka, Mr. Frazier held a number of
corporate leadership positions in the for– profit,
not-for-profit and Government sectors. He was Chief
Operating Officer of a large pharmacy benefit management
company, Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Chicago
Stock Exchange, President and CEO of a large institutional
asset management company, EVP in charge of Corporate
Banking for a large money center bank, and Chief Operating
Officer for the Atlanta Olympics Games. Mr. Frazier
also worked in the White House of President Jimmy Carter.
Mr. Frazier received his undergraduate and law degrees
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
and attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced
Management Program.
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W. Andrew McKenna
W. Andrew McKenna has been a Director since February 2002
and was appointed Chairman March 2005 until March 13, 2006.
He is a private investor. Until his retirement in 1999, he
held various positions with The Home Depot, Inc., including
Senior Vice President-Strategic Business Development from
1997 to 1999; President, Midwest Division from 1994 to 1997;
and Senior Vice President-Corporate Information Systems from
1990 to 1994. He was President of SciQuest.com, Inc. in 2000.
He is also a Director and Audit Committee Chairman of AutoZone,
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Dr. Kevin C. Daly
Dr. Daly was appointed as a non-executive director to our board of directors in January 2002. From July 2002 until June 2005 Dr Daly was the chief executive officer of Avamar Technologies Inc., a data protection solutions company. He was previously chief technical officer of Quantum Corporation’s Storage Solutions Group, and prior to that he was chief executive officer of ATL Products, Inc from its foundation in 1993 until 2001. Dr. Daly also served as chief technical officer of Odetics, Inc. from 1985 until ATL’s separation from Odetics in 1997.
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Jaime W. Ellertson
Mr. Ellertson was appointed to our board of directors in November 2002. Mr. Ellertson has more than 20 years of experience in leading high-growth software companies in demanding markets and managing their corporate operations toward long-term success. Currently Mr. Ellertson holds the position of Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors for Gomez Incorporated. He served as chief executive officer of S1, a Nasdaq National Market listed software company, from November 2000 until July 2005. Prior to joining S1, Mr. Ellertson served as executive vice president and general manager of worldwide strategic operations for BroadVision, Inc., a provider of self-service applications, from April 2000 until November 2000. From January 1997 until April 2000, Mr. Ellertson held the executive positions of chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Interleaf, Inc., a Nasdaq listed provider of software tools for e-content management that was acquired by Broadvision, a Nasdaq National Market listed software company. From 2001-2004, Mr. Ellertson was a director of Trigo Technologies, Inc., a privately held software company and Apropos Technology, Inc., a Nasdaq National Market listed software company.
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Christopher B. Harned
Mr. Harned was appointed as a director in March 2002. Mr. Harned has been a managing director of The Cypress Group L.L.C., a private equity fund, since November 2001. From 1985 to 2001, Mr. Harned was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as head of the Global Consumer Products Merger and Acquisitions division. Mr. Harned also served as a member of Lehman Brothers’ Investment Banking Business Development Committee. Mr. Harned also serves on the board of directors of The Meow Mix Company and Quad/Graphics, Inc. Mr. Harned was designated by the owners of the participating shares as one of their nominees to serve on the board of directors.
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J. Ernest Riddle
Mr. Riddle was appointed as a director in January 1998. Mr. Riddle is currently Chief Executive Officer of GrowthCircle LLC, a management and technology consulting firm. From March 1997 to July 1999, Mr. Riddle was president and chief operating officer of Norrell Services, Inc., an outsourcing information technology and staffing services company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Before joining Norrell, Mr. Riddle spent four years with Ryder System, Inc., a logistics and transportation group, serving as President, Ryder Logistics International Group. Mr. Riddle served Xerox Corporation for 26 years in a variety of positions which included Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of Field Operations for the United States operations and Vice President of Marketing and Sales for the European operations. Mr. Riddle serves on the board of directors of AirNet Systems, Inc, a provider of time-sensitive small package delivery services. He also serves as a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Loyalty Point, Inc.
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Erik Vonk
Erik Vonk was appointed as a director in February 2004. Mr. Vonk was elected to the board of the CBRL Group, Inc. in August 2005, and also has served as chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Gevity, a Nasdaq National Market listed services company since April 2002. Mr. Vonk was retired from February 2001 to April 2002. Mr. Vonk was formerly president and chief executive officer of Randstad North America from 1992 through 2001, a subsidiary of Randstad Holding NV, a worldwide staffing services provider, where he was responsible for organizing the North American operations. In addition, Mr. Vonk served as a member of the Executive Board of Bank Cantrade AG from 1989 to 1992.
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David Downes
Mr. Downes was appointed as a non-executive director to our
board of directors in January 2005 and is a financial expert
pursuant to Item 401(h)(2) of Regulation S-K. Mr. Downes was
the Finance Director of Shanks Group PLC from 1993 until 2006.
He has previously held Finance Director positions with Hunter
Saphir PLC, MBS PLC and with the brewing division of Grand
Metropolitan PLC and trained as a management accountant with
Chrysler in Detroit before taking up financial management
positions in their European operations and then held various
controllerships within Air Products Europe. Mr. Downes is
an engineering graduate of Kings College, London University
and obtained his MBA from Stanford University, California
. He is also a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Management
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Joseph E.
Parzick
Mr. Parzick joined The Cypress Group as Managing Director
in June 2003. He spent the previous four years as a Managing
Director in Morgan Stanley's financial sponsor group, where
he led client teams for a number of the largest U.S. private
equity funds. Immediately prior to this, he was a Managing
Director of EXOR America Inc., a merchant banking affiliate
of the Agnelli Group. In this capacity, he worked on new acquisitions,
monitored existing portfolio companies and served on several
boards, including Riverwood International. Mr. Parzick spent
the first 12 years of his career at Lehman Brothers, where
he was named a Managing Director and the co-head of the financial
sponsor group. He holds a BS from The University of Virginia
and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Mr. Parzick is also a Director of the Meow Mix Company, Republic
National Cabinet Corporation, and Stone Canyon Entertainment
Corporation.
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