Mr. Prosser joined Arete's Board of Directors September 2003, serving as Director and member of the Company's Compensation, Audit, Policy, and Compensation Committees. He serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee and the Company's Financial Expert under the Sarbanes Oxley Act.
Mr. Prosser is a professional CPA, specializing in tax and securities accounting, and has represented a number of private and public companies serving in the capacity of CPA, member of boards of directors, and as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Prosser brings to the Company his great depth of expertise in tax and securities compliance and accounting, corporate finance transactions and turn-arounds.
From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Prosser served as CFO and Director for Chartwell International, Inc, a public company publishing high school athletic information and providing athletic recruiting services. From 1999 to 2000, he served as CFO and Director for Anything Internet, Inc. and from 2000 to 2001, served as CFO and Director for its successor, Inform Worldwide Holdings, Inc., which is a publicly traded company. From 2001 to the present, Mr. Prosser serves as CFO and Director for Net Commerce, Inc, a public company selling internet services. Since November 2002 through the present, Mr. Prosser has served as a director and CFO of VCG Holding Corp., a public company engaged in the business of acquiring, owning and operating nightclubs, which provide premium quality entertainment, restaurant, and beverage services in an up-scale environment to affluent patrons. His accounting firm performs accounting service for VCG Holding Corp.
Mr. Prosser has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1975, and is licensed in the state of Colorado. Mr. Prosser attended the University of Colorado from 1970 to 1971 and Western State College of Colorado from 1972 to 1975, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in both accounting and history (1973) and a Masters degree in accounting - income taxation (1975). |