INX Inc. (OTC: INXI; the "Company”; or "INX”) today announced that its
Board of Directors has expanded the size of its Board of Directors, and
has nominated the slate of directors that will stand for election to the
Board of Directors at the 2011 Annual Stockholders Meeting, which the
Company anticipates holding in mid-July.
EXPANSION OF SIZE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
The Company announced that its Board of Directors has expanded the
number of board seats from four to eight and upon the recommendation of
the Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors has nominated the
slate of eight directors to stand for election at the 2011 Annual
Stockholders meeting.
DIRECTOR NOMINEES:
The Nominating Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors has
nominated for re-election all four of the current board members,
including:
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James H. Long - Mr. Long, age 52, is the Company’s founder,
Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Directors, and the
Company’s largest shareholder with a beneficial ownership of
approximately 20.2% of the Company’s outstanding shares. He has served
on the board of directors since founding the Company in 1983.
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Donald L. Chadwick - Mr. Chadwick, age 67, is an independent
director and has served as a director of the Company since 1996, and
currently serves as the chair of the Nominating Committee of the Board
of Directors. He served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer from
1992 until his retirement in 1999.
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John B. Cartwright, CPA - Mr. Cartwright, age 64, is an
independent director and has served as a director of the Company since
2001, and currently serves as the chair of the Compensation Committee
of the Board of Directors.
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Cary M. Grossman, CPA - Mr. Grossman, age 57, is an independent
director and has served as a director of the Company since December
2004, and currently serves as the chair of the Audit Committee of the
Board of Directors.
To fill the four newly created board seats, the Nominating Committee has
nominated the following individuals:
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Mark T. Hilz - Mr. Hilz, age 52, is the Company’s President and
Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Hilz has served as the President and
Chief Executive Officer of the Company since November 2010 and as its
President and Chief Operating Officer since 2005. Prior to his
executive officer roles with the Company, Mr. Hilz served since 2000
as the President and CEO of Internetwork Experts, Inc., the Company’s
subsidiary that was merged into and with the Company in 2005. His
prior experience includes serving as President and CEO of PC Service
Source, a NASDAQ-listed technology service logistics company.
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William M. Sams - Mr. Sams, age 73, began his investment career
in 1966 as a portfolio manager at Crown Western Mutual Funds. In 1969,
he was recruited by First Pacific Advisors, Inc. to become one of six
co-managers of its Enterprise Fund. He began a ten year stint as
manager of the Pace Fund in 1971. In 1981 he became President and
Chief Investment Officer of FPA Paramount Fund serving until his
departure in 2000. Among his professional accomplishments, he was a
member of Forbes Honor Roll in 1994. Lipper Analytical Services ranked
the FPA Paramount Fund first among 81 funds tracked for the 15 year
period ended 1996. Also, according to Lipper Analytical Services, FPA
Paramount Fund ranked second among 123 growth-and-income funds for the
ten year period ended 1996. Morningstar, Inc. ranked FPA Paramount
first among all growth-and-income funds in its universe from 1981
through 1997. He is currently a Managing Partner and Principal of the
Marlin Sams Fund, LP. He presently serves on the board of directors of
America’s Car-Mart, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRMT) and Unifi, Inc. (NYSE: UFI).
He is presently the second largest shareholder of the Company, with a
beneficial ownership of approximately 8.7% of the Company’s
outstanding shares.
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Tilman J. Falgout, III - Mr. Falgout, age 61, is currently the
Chairman of the board of directors of America’s Car-Mart (NASDAQ:
CRMT), a position he has held since 2004, and has been a director of
that company since 1992. He served as the CEO of America’s Car-Mart
from 2002 until 2007 after serving in various capacities, Executive
Vice President and General Counsel since 1995. During his tenure at
America’s Car-Mart, the company has successfully grown from less than
40 to over 100 dealerships in eight states. Prior to joining America’s
Car-Mart, Mr. Falgout practiced corporate and securities law at Stumpf
& Falgout, where he was a founder and managing partner of the firm.
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Robert D. Repass, CPA - Mr. Repass, age 50, is currently a
partner with Maxwell, Locke & Ritter, a privately held business
services consulting and professional services firm. He started his
career in public accounting with Price Waterhouse (now PwC) in 1982,
where his most recent position was as managing partner of the Austin,
Texas office, an office focused on the technology and venture capital
markets, from 1997 to 2000. He also served as the Southwest Region
Managing Partner and Practice Leader - Technology, Information,
Communications and Entertainment. He was a partner with TL Ventures,
an Austin, Texas-based technology-focused venture capital investment
firm with over $1.5 billion under management, in 2000 and 2001. He
served as Chief Financial Officer for Motion Computing, Inc., a
rapidly growing venture capital-backed ultra-mobile computing devices
company between 2002 until 2009. He has served as a director and as
the audit committee chair for numerous public and private company, as
well as non-profit organizations. He formerly served as the chair of
the audit committee of Bindview Development (NASDAQ: BVEW) from 2003
to 2006 when it was acquired by Symantec Corporation. He currently
serves as the audit committee chair for Multimedia Games, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MGAM), a software and systems company. He has also served on
the boards of numerous civic organizations.
Commenting on the expansion of the Company’s Board of Directors, James
Long, the Company’s Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of
Directors, said, "INX has grown tremendously over the past five years
and we are looking forward to further growth opportunities. I am pleased
to announce that the Company’s Nominating Committee has nominated Mark
Hilz, an individual that has been critical to our success, to the Board
of Directors. I am also pleased to be able to announce that three
outstanding individuals that bring a wealth of important knowledge and
experience to the INX Board of Directors have been nominated and have
agreed, if elected, to join our Board as independent board members. Bill
Sams is a very successful investor who brings his many years of
evaluating public company performance both as an outside investor and as
a board member. Skip Falgout brings his recent experience growing and
operating a very successful publicly traded company, and substantial
business legal experience. Rob Repass brings a broad array of
experience, including deep audit and accounting experience within the
technology industry, finance experience, experience as a chief financial
officer of operating companies, and experiences gained from serving in a
governance capacity with numerous organizations. Together, our director
nominees have a depth of knowledge and experience that I am confident
will help successfully guide INX’s future and increase shareholder
value.”
ABOUT INX INC.:
INX Inc. (OTC: INXI) is a leading U.S. provider of IP
communications and data
center solutions for enterprise organizations. INX offers a suite of
advanced technology solutions focused around the entire life-cycle of
enterprise IP network communications and data center infrastructure.
Solutions are centered on the design, implementation and support of network
infrastructure, including routing and switching, wireless, security,
unified communications, and data center solutions such as storage and server
virtualization. Customers include enterprise organizations such as
corporations, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, and
federal, state and local governmental agencies. Because of its focus,
expertise and experience implementing and supporting advanced technology
solutions for enterprises, INX believes it is well positioned to deliver
superior solutions and services to its customers. Additional information
about INX can be found on the Web at www.INXI.com.
