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Mr. Kessler joined our Board in December 2005. Mr. Kessler served most recently as Chief Financial Officer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA, of New York, the largest regional transit provider in the Western Hemisphere, from April 2004 through July 2005. At the MTA, Mr. Kessler led the development of a three year balanced budget, instituted new financial planning models to address projected structural deficits, and initiated a shared services program to reduce duplicative administrative expenses.
Prior to the MTA, Mr. Kessler served as a management consultant through the Financial Executives Consulting Group, LLC, in Connecticut, from November 2001 through March 2004. Previously, Mr. Kessler served as CFO for Versaware Inc. and EverAd Inc., two high growth start-up companies that introduced electronic publishing and digital content technologies to the Internet, from July 1999 through August 2001.
Prior to these assignments, Mr. Kessler served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration for the McGraw-Hill Companies Construction Information Group, from February 1995 through July 1999. Before McGraw-Hill, Mr. Kessler held Chief Financial Officer and other senior management positions at Prodigy Services Company (a joint venture of IBM and Sears), Georgia Pacific Corporation, PepsiCo, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation, from 1967 through 1995.
Mr. Kessler received an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1967 and a B.S. in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon. | 