From the June 15, 2005 press release announcing his appointment as CEO:
Most recently at Herold & Sager, and during the past decade, Pohl advised clients on legal and financial issues as well as strategic considerations affecting business and marketing decisions; created licensing agreements and dealt with strategic intellectual property issues for software manufacturing and sales. In addition he worked with the licensing of rights to use proprietary technology for telecommunications, marketing and e-commerce companies.
Pohl has a strong background in areas of financial corporate governance and leadership in entrepreneurial organizations, with specific focus on corporate financial responsibility, as well as business acquisitions. In the height of the last decade's high-technology growth Pohl served as Special Counsel to the Attorney General of Ohio. In that role, he advised the state's elected leaders on issues regarding entrepreneurial investments by state pension funds. Based on his leadership role and experience in financial services and governmental affairs, he has testified before Congress on behalf of the American Financial Services Association and helped to shape lending laws and regulations at both the state and Federal levels.
Previously Pohl helped lead members of publicly-traded Security Pacific Financial (now part of Bank of America) and the Gibraltar Financial Group (OTC.GFCN.PK) - both as they evolved out of traditional industry roles and into more multi-market financial organizations.
This is the man some are attempting to portray as incapable of directing and leading us into the future. You decide...