BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Timothy Ryan
Chairman
Mr. Ryan incorporated Rhino Rubber LLC in September 2008. A manufacturing and distribution company, Rhino Rubber has brought a complete line of solid industrial tires and wheels to the US market serving the material handling industry. The company is also visible in Europe under the name Euromex Tyre.

Mr. Ryan served as President of Thule Trailers, Winslow, ME, an international manufacturer of aluminum and galvanized sport utility and cargo trailers targeting the US market, from June 2005 until July 2008. He was recruited by Thule, a Swedish company, to implement a national sales and distribution strategy for enclosed aluminum trailers along with introducing an innovative Thule European-designed galvanized trailer program. In that position he developed multi-location distribution and manufacturing capacity in the US market, as well as a multi-channel sales distribution initiative ranging from independent trailer dealers to national retailers such as ACE hardware, Balkamp/NAPA, Cabela’s, and U-Haul. He was also responsible for implementing extensive restructuring and business alignment initiatives within the US to introduce new trailer concepts and solutions consistent with trends driven by the automotive industry.

From June 1991 to Feb. 2005, Mr. Ryan worker for Trelleborg Wheel Systems Americas, Hartville, OH, as President. Trelleborg is an international company dealing in ISO certified industrial tires serving the global material handling industry with proprietary products. In that position, Mr. Ryan reported directly to the Business Unit President in Europe and was responsible for leading the Global Matrix Organization of 6 executives and 1800 employees in US, 8 executives and 700 employees in Sir Lanka, and 5 executive and 225 employees in Belgium.

Prior to that position, from 1986 to 1991, Mr. Ryan served as General Manager of Industrial Tires Division (formally Teledyne Monarch Rubber) where he managed the industrial tire division of Teledyne Monarch Rubber with full P&L responsibility. Mr. Ryan worked in various product support, sales representative, and regional and national sales management positions from 1979 to 1986. Mr. Ryan completed three years of study in Business Administration at the University of Texas, Austin, TX (1969-1972), a Dale Carnegie Institute program (1981), and the Trelleborg Intercultural Management Program at Lund University, Lund, Sweden (1998). Mr. Ryan served in the U.S. Air Force from 1967 through 1973.

Gary Tucker
Director
Mr. Tucker is the founder and served as president of Tire Enterprises, Inc., a manufacturers' representative company marketing passenger, truck, and industrial tires in the U.S. from 1984 until the sale of the company in January 2007 to Solideal USA. Under his leadership, from 1990 through 2006 Tire Enterprises was the holding company for various retail/wholesale industrial tire companies, including B&W Industrial Tire, Fork Lift Tires of Memphis, Fork Lift Tires of West Tennessee, Fork Lift Tires of Mississippi, and Fork Lift Tires of Arkansas.

Following the purchase of Tire Enterprises, Mr. Tucker acted as a consultant to Solideal from January 2007 until January 2009. Since January 2009, Mr. Tucker has been working as private consultant for the tire industry, including some work for Amerityre, and also has served as a member of the board of directors Delta Materials Handling, Inc., a private industrial equipment company in Memphis.

Prior to founding Tire Enterprises, Inc., from 1971 to 1984 Mr. Tucker served in various positions with TBC Corporation starting with Manager of Quality Assurance and Engineering and concluding as Vice President of Purchasing and Engineering. From 1966 to 1971, Mr. Tucker worked as a tire development engineer at B.F. Goodrich Co. He served as an industrial engineer from 1965 to 1966 for Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Mr. Tucker earned a Bachelor of Engineering Science degree from Marshall University (1965).

John Goldberg
Director
John Goldberg has worked in institutional investing since 1997. He is currently the Managing Partner of Goldberg Advisers, LLC, an advisor to a natural resource focused limited partnership, a position he has held since July 2004. Prior to Goldberg Advisers, Mr. Goldberg worked from October 2000 through June 2004 as a Portfolio Manager at Hahn Capital Management, a San Francisco based, mid-cap value, institutional and private client money manager. Mr. Goldberg worked as an Equity Research Analyst for Wells Capital Management from September 1997 through September 2000. Prior to his career in money management and equity research, Mr. Goldberg worked as a banker for Wells Fargo & Company from 1991 to 1997.

Mr. Goldberg received the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2000. He has completed course work in finance and accounting at the University of California at Berkeley and training programs at Wells Fargo Bank. Mr. Goldberg received a BA in Philosophy from Lehigh University in 1989.

Wayne Arnett
Director
Wayne Arnett is a financial executive with 30 years of experience in operations, finance, accounting, and computer technology. He has an in-depth knowledge of GAAP accounting and SEC reporting; forecasting and budgeting; policy and procedure development; human resources; risk management; banking and capital financing; account management; facility and operations management; and information systems.

Since October 2009, Mr. Arnett has operated his own consulting firm, Arnett & Company, providing a broad spectrum of business services and support to clients in various industries. From March 1997 to October 2009, he served as Senior Vice President - Finance & Technology / Chief Financial Officer for 30sixty Advertising & Design, Inc., an advertising agency that provided services to the major film studios. From December 1994 to March 1997, Mr. Arnett was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Hyperion Entertainment, a TV and feature-film production company. Prior to December 1994, Mr. Arnett held various Chief Financial Officer and Controller positions with The Valencia Consulting Group, PSI (a Kohlberg & Co. investment), Waste Management and Marshall Industries. From January 1981 to July 1987, he served in the Audit Division at Arthur Andersen & Co., Los Angeles and specialized in manufacturing clients.

Mr. Arnett earned a B.S. in Business Administration (Accounting) from California State University, Northridge in 1981. Mr. Arnett was accredited by the California State Board of Accountancy as a Certified Public Accountant, and is a veteran of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.