Worsley suit photo.jpgROBERT M. WORSLEY, 53, was Founder, Chief Executive Officer and President of SkyMall, Inc. since he founded the Company in 1989.

At SkyMall, Mr. Worsley saw an opportunity to synergistically bring together airlines, catalogers and airline passengers with their "downtime". SkyMall is now the largest in-flight catalog company in the United States. With catalogs in aircraft seatbacks, SkyMall offers in-flight shopping services to more than 95 percent of all domestic airline passengers each year through exclusive airline agreements including American, America West, Continental, Delta, Northwest, Southwest, United, US Airways and several smaller carriers.

Over 50% of the business is now conducted on-line via www.skymall.com.  In July 2001 Mr. Worsley sold SkyMall to Mr. Murdocks’ NewsCorp group that owned TV Guide and agreed to stay and run SkyMall for several years.  Mr. Worsley was successful in raising in excess of $100 million in the first 13 years of SkyMall's existence.

In 1999 Mr. Worsley was named Arizona's Retail Entrepreneur of the year by Ernst and Young.

Prior to founding SkyMall, from 1985 to 1989, Mr. Worsley founded ExecuShare, Inc., that provided time-shared CFO's for smaller companies.  From 1980 to 1985, Mr. Worsley was a CPA with Price Waterhouse, where he last held the position of Audit Manager. Mr. Worsley received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University in 1980.

Mr. Worsley retired from SkyMall in November 2003 to pursue the expansion and development of the New Mexico and Arizona Land Company, LLC's latent asset potentials.  The company was renamed NZ Legacy, LLC several years later.  Today the company is successfully taking advantage of uranium, travertine, cattle and land assets in Arizona and New Mexico.  Plans are underway to develop potash, salt, water, oil and gas, coal and other assets that have not been developed in the past.

Mr. Worsley served for several years on the Board of Directors for the United Families International; a humanitarian interest involved in the preservation of the family unit and currently serves on the executive board of the Institute for American Values in NYC.

In 2004 Mr. Worsley entered the renewable energy field after witnessing the largest forest fire in the history of the Southwest USA.  In October 2007, Mr. Worsley merged a $75 Million 25 megawatt biomass plant that he funded and built called Snowflake White Mountain Power with Catalytica Energy, to form a new company Renegy Holdings, Inc.  Mr. Worsley serves as CEO and Chairman of the Board.  Renegy also owns a biomass plant in Susanville, California which is being restarted.  Renegy is actively expanding its interests in the Renewable Energy field.  One of the most exciting new projects is Renegy @ StoneAxe, a campus of renewable energy power assets including solar, wind and clean coal with CO2 sequestration that may grow to total more than 3 Gigawatts in size.

Mr. Worsley has been successful in raising in excess of $125 million for Renegy and NZ Legacy to date.

Mr. and Mrs. Worsley have been married 32 years, have 6 children, 10 grandchildren and together enjoy their family retreat in the pines of Northeastern Arizona.

     
     
 

DUANE S. BLACK, 57, was owner and operator of a development company that developed and marketed approximately 400 residential custom home lots in ten Phoenix area locations. Mr. Black handled all land acquisitions, planning, zoning, financing, and development, marketing and business
management.


Mr. Black spent seven years as a custom home builder, building approximately 80 custom homes in the Phoenix area and four years as an electrical contractor installing electric wiring for residential and commercial construction. Mr. Black is a Licensed General Contractor in the state of Arizona.


From July 1989 to 2009, Mr. Black held the following positions with SunCor Development Company:


1989-1990 Assistant Project Manager
1990-1992 Vice President of Engineering and Construction
1992-1994 Vice President of Development
1994-2005 Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
2005-2009 Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Black was responsible for acquisitions, development, commercial, corporate operations, master-planned communities and home-building in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Idaho. At its peak SunCor had in excess of
50,000 acres in some form of planning or development and more than 800 employees. In 2006, SunCor had a before tax net profit of $100,000,000.

In his current position as President of NZ Legacy, LLC, Mr. Black is responsible for the development of Renegy @ StoneAxe, including planning, engineering, infrastructure, distribution, construction, staffing and project management. Through this endeavor, Mr. Black provides management consulting to Renegy Holdings, Inc.

Mr. Black attended Mesa Community College and Brigham Young University. He has attended numerous real estate, management, and personal development seminars over the years.

As the coauthor of ‘The Hands Off Manager’, Mr. Black effectively bridges the gap between management and workforce organizations. The book has sold more than 8,000 copies in the United States, and has been translated into several foreign languages, including Chinese.

 

Mr. Black has been married to his wife, Pam, for 26 years, has 4 children and 5 grandchildren.