Company: BKTI
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-012867
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Company: BK Technologies Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 21
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insurance and financial services company, from May 2018 through its merger with FG Group Holdings Inc. in February 2024. He is a prior chairman of the board of the Marine Corps Association and Foundation and served on the Advisory Council of Marstel-Day, LLC. He received a B.S. in Economics from North Carolina State University and a M.S. in Strategic Studies from U.S. Army War College. A member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, he has also earned the Professional Director designation from the American College of Corporate Directors.

Lloyd R. Sams served as a Managing Principal of BIA Digital Partners, a private equity group that was focused on investments in the media, telecommunications, business services and information segments, as well as on numerous boards, from 2000 to 2019. From 2020 to 2021, Mr. Sams was a Director of Aceyus Inc., a private software company. From 2018 to 2019, he was the President of Every Income Holdings, LLC, a financial services holding company. Mr. Sams was Managing Director of MoonSail Capital, a private equity group, from 2017 to 2018. From 2013 through 2015, he was a Managing Director and Head of Lower Middle Market Investing at Business Development Corporation of America, a non-traded BDC headquartered in New York. Previously, Mr. Sams had an 18-year banking career, principally with First Union (now Wells Fargo) and First Chicago (now J.P. Morgan) where he specialized in communications services. Mr. Sams received his B.S. in Business Administration from Washington and Lee University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

John M. Suzuki has served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company since July 2021 and as President since October 2023. From May 2019 until accepting the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Mr. Suzuki served as Chief Strategy Officer of Imperium Leadership, where he oversaw the development and growth of the business. From May 2015 through May 2019, he served as President and CEO of EFJohnson Technologies, a two-way radio manufacturer. From 2011 through 2015, Mr. Suzuki served in a variety of leadership positions, including as Senior Vice President of Sales for AVTEC Incorporated, and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for 3E Technologies International, a subsidiary of UltraElectronics. From 2004 through