Company: IWSH
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0001214659-25-006217
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Company: Wright Investors Service Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: 10-K/A
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 since July 2007. Mr. Eisen has served as a director of the Company since 2004. Mr. Eisen has served as Chairman and Managing Member of Bedford Oak Advisors, LLC, an investment partnership (“Bedford Oak”), since 1998 and was Chairman and Director of GP Strategies Corporation, a global performance solutions provider (“GP Strategies”) from 2004 to 2018. Mr. Eisen has also served on the board of directors of VerifyMe, Inc., a provider of physical, cyber and biometric security solutions from April 2018 through February 2019. Mr. Eisen was previously Senior Vice President of Travelers, Inc. and held various executive positions with Primerica, SunAmerica Corp., and Integrated Resources Asset Management. Mr. Eisen was president and portfolio manager of Eisen Capital Management for 10 years. He began his career as an analyst with Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. and Wertheim. Mr. Eisen has served on the Strategic Development Board for the Trulaske College of Business, University of Missouri from 1995 through 2020 where he established the first accredited course on the Warren Buffett Principles of Investing. He also serves on the University’s Investment Advisory Committee. Mr. Eisen is qualified to serve on our board of directors and brings valuable insight to our board of directors as a result of his broad range of business skills and his financial literacy and expertise and executive and management leadership skills. Mr. Eisen developed these skills and expertise during his long and successful business career as Chairman and Managing Member of Bedford Oak, a Senior Vice President of Travelers and Primerica, as well as his service on other public company and institutional boards. Lawrence G. Schafran, 86, is a private investor and has served as a director and chairman of the audit committee of the Company since 2006. Mr. Schafran also serves as a director of Glasstech, Inc., a manufacturer and seller of glass bending and tempering systems, and Federal Holdings Financial Services, LLC, a company operating in the financial services industry. Mr. Schafran also served as director of other public and private companies, such as Cupcake Digital, Inc., a developer of mobile applications focusing on the children’s market from 2013 to June 2019 and VerifyMe, Inc., a provider of physical, cyber and biometric security solutions from 2013 to June 2019. He also served as a Managing Director of Providence Capital, Inc., an investment and advisory firm from March 2003