Company: HGBL
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-056713
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Company: Heritage Global Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: DEF 14A
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. Together with his brother, Kirk Dove, Mr. Ross Dove joined our company when HGI acquired HGP in February 2012. Mr. Dove began his career in the auction business over thirty years ago, beginning with a small family-owned auction house and helping to expand it into a global firm, DoveBid, which was sold to a third party in 2008. The Messrs. Dove remained as global presidents of the business until September 2009, and then formed HGP in October 2009. During his career, Mr. Dove has been actively involved with advances in the auction industry such as theatre-style auctions, which was a first step in migrating auction events onto the Internet. Mr. Dove has been a member of the National Auctioneers Association since 1985, and a founding member of the Industrial Auctioneers Association. He served as a director of Critical Path from January 2002 to January 2005 and has served on the boards of several venture funded companies. Ross Dove is the brother of Kirk Dove and uncle of Nicholas Dove.

Brian Cobb, age 41, currently serves as our Chief Financial Officer and has served in such capacity since May 2022. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Cobb served as the Company’s Vice President of Finance and principal financial officer, and held the positions of Corporate Controller and Director of Financial Reporting since starting with the Company in July 2017. Before joining the Company, Mr. Cobb was a manager in the assurance practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Cobb received a Bachelor of Science from the College of Business Administration at California State University San Marcos.

James Sklar, age 59, currently serves as our Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary and has served in such capacities since May 2015. From June 2013 to May 2015, Mr. Sklar served as the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Heritage Global Partners, Inc. Mr. Sklar has more than three decades of relevant legal expertise serving leading worldwide asset advisory and auction services firms. Throughout his career, Mr. Sklar has played a key role in establishing relationships with global alliance partners and implementing international contracts as well as expanding the adoption of the auction sale process in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Mr. Sklar is responsible for all of the Company’s legal matters including negotiating global transactional business alliance documents, managing relationships and contracts with worldwide clients and business partners, and providing legal representation for all of the Heritage Global companies. Mr.