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Myron A. (Mike) Wick III became a Director of Citizens Communications Company in March 2005. He also serves as a Director of Modtech Inc. StoryFirst Communications Inc. and MicroIslet. He is Chairman of The Hoffman Institute The Natural Step and the Tanager Foundation.
Mr. Wick served as COO CEO and Chairman of a variety of enterprises spanning aquaculture biotech education television broadcasting and investment banking. He served as President and CEO of International Oceanographic Corporation in the early 1970s followed by CEO posts for Cox Hobbies Inc. and Werner Erhard and Associates a network of companies offering educational courses in more than 34 cities in the United States and 18 cities around the globe.
In the mid-80s Mr. Wick focused on biotech as COO of California Biotechnology playing a major role in raising $64 million in a secondary public offering and later creating three joint ventures. In 1988 Mr. Wick co-founded the investment banking firm McGettigan Wick & Co. Inc. providing financial services to small private and public companies. Wick and McGettigan later formed Proactive Partners L.P. in 1991 with Jon Gruber and Pat McBaine a merchant banking fund investing in and providing advisory services to "micro cap" public companies. In 1989 Mr. Wick co-founded StoryFirst Communications serving as Chairman of the Board from 1993 through 2003. StoryFirst is the largest privately owned television and radio broadcast company in Russia.
He received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from The Harvard Business School. | 