Chairman of the Board

Stanley P. Gold is President and Chief Executive Officer of Shamrock Holdings, Inc., a privately owned Burbank, California-based investment company.

Prior to joining the Shamrock companies, Mr. Gold was a managing partner of Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Inc., a prominent Los Angeles law firm he joined in 1968. For a number of years, he specialized in corporate acquisitions, sales and financing. During his business career he served as President of Shamrock Broadcasting, Inc., President and then Chairman of Central Soya Company, Inc., Chairman of Enterra Corporation and Chairman of Koor Industries Ltd., Chairman of Tadiran Communications, director of The Walt Disney Company, and Ansell, Ltd.

A native of Los Angeles, California, Mr. Gold first studied at the University of California at Berkeley and subsequently graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with an A.B. degree in political science. After receiving his J.D. degree from the University of Southern California Law School in 1967, he then attended Cambridge University in England for postgraduate work.

Mr. Gold's professional and civic affiliations include memberships on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Chairman of the Board of Governors from 1991 to 1996); the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California; the USC Law Center Board of Councilors; and the USC Keck School of Medicine Board of Overseers.

He and his wife, the former Ilene Carol Glasberg, live in Beverly Hills, California. They have two adult children, Charles and Jennifer.