Joseph J. Bianco

Mr. Bianco has been a highly successful entrepreneur for more than 40 years. After graduating from Yale Law School and teaching law for several years, Mr. Bianco founded British Performance Cars, Inc., the exclusive U.S. distributor of the Lotus Marque, which was eventually sold to General Motors. Subsequently, he formed Alliance Entertainment Corp., which was listed on the NYSE and was then the largest independent distributor of recorded music in the world. Alliance, which was eventually sold to a private equity fund, was the product of a "roll-up" of over a dozen smaller companies. Mr. Bianco has been the Chief Executive Officer of Whyte Lyon & Company, Inc. since 1984. Mr. Bianco also currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Oak Tree Education, and is also a Director and the Chairman of SkinScience Labs, Inc. and Experiential Teaching Online, Inc. (XTOL), which develops college and graduate-level online courseware.