Board of Directors

Experience of the Highest Caliber

Access Worldwide’s Board of Directors is comprised of eight people with backgrounds in a number of industries. No family relationships exist among the Directors and each serves a one-year term.

Shawkat Raslan
Chairman, President & CEO
Access Worldwide

Shawkat Raslan has been Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Access Worldwide since March 2002, and a director of the Company since May 1997. Since June 1983, Mr. Raslan has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of International Resources Holdings, Inc., an asset management and investment advisory service for international clients. Earlier in his career, he served as Vice President of TAIB Investment Bank in Bahrain from 1980 to 1983. From 1976 to 1980, Mr. Raslan was an engineer for Turner Construction, a construction management company. Mr. Raslan currently serves as a Director of Investor Select Inc., CF Global LLC, and is on the Board of Advisors of the Tiedemann Investment Group.

Michael Curcio
Director

Elected to the Board February of 2008, Mr. Curcio is Managing Director of the America’s for E*TRADE Financial Corporation (“E*TRADE”), responsible for the strategic direction, customer relationships and ongoing financial management of E*TRADE's North American retail operations, including the integrated investing, trading, banking and lending solutions. Mr. Curcio spearheaded the Company's integration of the Harrisdirect and BrownCo acquisitions and is responsible for leveraging the expertise gained from these companies to introduce advanced features geared to help investors better manage their portfolios. In addition, he leads E*TRADE's retail branch expansion, the growth of its wealth management organization and the evolution of the stock plan administration business. Mr. Curcio's expertise in developing and implementing innovative products and services is evident in the wide range of standard-setting initiatives that have been introduced since he joined E*TRADE Securities in 2002. Mr. Curcio played a central role in launching the flagship retail product, the E*TRADE CompleteTM Investment Account. Mr. Curcio was instrumental in delivering such industry leading initiatives as a 2-second trade execution guarantee, cash products offering some of the highest yields in the nation, and low-cost stock index funds. In addition, Mr. Curcio managed the Company's market making business. Mr. Curcio joined E*TRADE after a 15-year tenure at TD Waterhouse, where he last served as Executive Vice President, Customer Relationship Management. He serves as a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Board of Governors, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from State University of New York at Plattsburgh.

Michael Dornemann
Vice-Chairman of the Board

Mr. Dornemann is an entertainment & marketing executive that was unanimously elected to the Company’s Board in June 2004. He has more than 30 years of corporate development, strategic advisory, advertising and media experience. In 2001, he founded Dornemann & Co., LLC, a media consulting firm. Earlier in his career, Mr. Dornemann spent 18 years in the New York, Munich, and Luxemburg offices of media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG where he was an executive Board member for 16 years. Previously, Mr. Dornemann was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bertelsmann Entertainment Group and amassed several accomplishments. He oversaw the formation and operation of the Bertelsmann Entertainment Division which included BMG Music Group (RCA Records and Ariola Records), one of the world¹s largest music companies. In addition to his Board position with Access Worldwide, Mr. Dornemann serves as Chairman of the Board of Strenesse AG, a high-end German fashion house; Syntek Capital AG, an international investment company whose portfolio consists of companies in the media, advanced technology and software sectors; and Crossing Pictures GmbH, a firm that invests in the production and distribution of movies and TV advertising. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Directory M, an internet advertising company, and Columbia Music Entertainment, one of the largest independent music companies in the world based in Tokyo and trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Gregory Framke
Director

Elected to the Board February of 2008, Mr. Framke is the Chief Information Officer and Managing Director for E*TRADE Financial Corporation (“E*TRADE”) in charge of all global technology development and infrastructure for E*TRADE. Mr. Framke is charged with implementing and managing technology to maximize efficiency throughout E*TRADE, as well as leveraging technology to provide innovative financial services products for its customers. Mr. Framke has been recognized as one of InfoWorld’s 25 Most Influential CTO’s, as a ComputerWorld Honors Program Laureate, and as a two-time recipient of CIO’s Top 100 for Innovation. Mr. Framke’s career spans 20 years in both the financial services and technology industries with experience in sales, marketing and technology. Prior to joining E*TRADE in 2000, Mr. Framke was Director and Global Equity Technology Chief Operating Officer for Deutsche Bank Securities. From 1994 to 1999, he was a Principal with Morgan Stanley & Co. for equity technology in New York and London. Before moving to Wall Street, Mr. Framke worked in marketing and sales management positions at IBM, earning numerous awards and commendations. Mr. Framke holds a BA in International Finance, graduating with honors from The George Washington University.

Frederick Thorne
Director

A financial management executive with more than three decades of business experience, Mr. Thorne was elected to Access Worldwide’s Board of Directors in August 2003. Since 2002, Mr. Thorne has been the Principal in Frederick Thorne, LLC, a consulting company. Prior to that, he held a number of positions with Harbor Capital Management Co., Inc., the investment firm he founded in 1979. Harbor Capital has more than $10.5 billion in assets under management. He started the company as President, CEO and Director, and became Chairman and Chief Investment Officer in 1993. Harbor Capital was sold to Fortis Investment Management, a European based investment firm. After completion of the transaction, he remained with the firm as a consultant for three years. Previously, Mr. Thorne was President, CEO and Director of Phoenix Investment Counsel of Boston, Inc. Earlier in his career he was CEO and Director for John P. Chase, Inc. In addition, Mr. Thorne is a trustee, committee member or director for a number of colleges, organizations and institutes, including Bowdoin College, an independent, undergraduate liberal arts institution; the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a specialty hospital providing patient care for disorders of the eye, ear, nose, throat, head and neck, and a teaching partner of Harvard Medical School and Northeast Health Systems, a network of hospitals, long-term care organizations, behavioral health services and clinicians.

Carl Tiedemann
Director

Elected to the Board in December 2002, Mr. Tiedemann is an investment executive with more than three decades of business experience. He is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Tiedemann Investment Group (TIG), a privately held investment partnership with assets in excess of $2 billion. Prior to founding TIG in 1980, he was one of the initial founders of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) and served as President and Chairman of DLJ Securities, subsequently served as President of DLJ Inc., and remained as a Director of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette until 1985. Mr. Tiedemann has served on a number of Boards, including the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange; Lexington Management Corporation, a mutual fund management company; Piedmont Management Company, a publicly traded reinsurance company; Kleinwort Benson Mutual Funds, a London-based asset management firm; Curtice Burns, a large food processing company; National Medical Care, a U.S. kidney dialysis company; Alltel, a communications company with more than 12 million customers; and Nikko Securities International, a Japanese investment banking firm. Mr. Tiedemann is currently on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Medical School.

Charles Henri Weil
Director

Mr. Weil is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Intergestion, an investment banking company based in France. From 1990 to 2000, he was also a self-employed financial consultant located in Paris, France. Mr. Weil also serves as director for certain European companies, including Dawnay Day & Co. Ltd., an investment and advisory services company based in Great Britain, and Europeenne de Distribution Luxembourg and Europeenne des metaux Luxembourg, both industrial conglomerates located in Luxembourg.

Alfonso Yuchengco III
Director

Mr. Yuchengco has been a director of the Company since March of 2005. Mr. Yuchengco has extensive experience in the financial services and the Business Process Outsourcing (“BPO”) industry. He is currently a Partner of Argosy Advisers, a boutique Financial Advisory firm, Chairman of Prople, Inc. a BPO Company and Chairman of the Testech Group, a back-end services company for the semiconductor industry. He was previously Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation, the 4th largest Bank in the Philippines. Prior to that, he served as President and CEO of the Yuchengco family office which has investments in consumer finance, construction, power generation, and banana plantations. He has also served on the Board of several companies as Chairman, Vice-Chairman or Director involved in various industries form credit cards, automotive manufacturing and distribution, education, real estate, pharmaceutical and memorial parks. Mr. Yuchengco was also responsible for setting up joint ventures in the Philippines with Honda, Isuzu, Enron and the Government Investment Corporation of Singapore.