– USA, NY – Wright Investors’ Service Holdings, Inc. (OTC Markets:WISH) announced today that Marshall S. Geller has been appointed to its Board of Directors and Audit Committee effective January 14, 2015. Mr. Geller was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Scott Greenberg, who resigned for personal reasons.
Harvey P. Eisen, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, said, “Marshall is an accomplished leader in corporate finance and the business world. His public company and financial sector experience will be significant to the Board. As the managing partner of a private equity fund and a director of other public companies, Marshall brings to the Board his expertise as an investor in and advisor to companies in various sectors.”
Marshall Geller is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of St. Cloud Capital, LLC, a Los Angeles based private equity fund formed in December 2001. He has spent more than 45 years in corporate finance and investment banking, including 21 years as a Senior Managing Director of Bear, Stearns & Co., with oversight of all operations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Hong Kong and the Far East. Mr. Geller has served as a director of GP Strategies Corporation since 2002 and currently serves as a director of COR Capital LLC. He also serves on advisory boards to Banc of CA, Merriman Holdings, Inc. and UCLA Health Systems. Mr. Geller is on the Board of Governors of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles and also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Business & Economics at California State University, Los Angeles. During the past five years, Mr. Geller has also been a director of Guidance Software, Inc., National Holdings Corporation and California Pizza Kitchen.
Wright Investors’ Service Holdings, Inc. through its wholly-owned subsidiary Wright Investors’ Service, Inc., is an investment management and financial advisory firm that is known for its disciplined and quality focus. For more than 50 years, Wright has used well-defined and sophisticated investment strategies to help institutions, plan sponsors, bank trust departments, trust companies and individual investors achieve their financial objectives through a sensible approach to managing assets that balances risk and return. At the center of Wright’s investment process is the Wright Investment Committee. The Committee consists of a select group of senior investment professionals who are supported by an experienced staff. Founded as a research organization in 1960, Wright develops and publishes investment research reports on over 35,000 companies worldwide along with its established investment commentaries on the economy and investment markets.
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