Board of Directors

The Board of Directors for Conversion Services International, Inc., represents the owners' interest in perpetuating a successful business, including optimizing long-term financial returns. The Board is responsible for determining that the Corporation is managed in such a way to ensure this result. This is an active - not a passive - responsibility.

Thomas Pear, named interim CEO in 2011, has been a member of CSI’s Board of Directors since 2006, is Chair of the Compensation and Stock Option Committee, and member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Pear is a principal in Saw Mill Sports Management and a management consultant. From 1993 to 2006, Mr. Pear served as chief financial officer of The Atlantic Club, and served as its president from 2002 to 2006. Prior to this, Mr. Pear served as vice president and general manager of DM Engineering, vice president and chief financial officer of Tennis Equities, and staff accountant at Malkin, Studley and Ramey CPA, PC. Mr. Pear holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Nichols College in 1974.

Lawrence K. Reisman, a member of CSI's Board of Directors since 2006, serves as Chair of the Audit Committee, and member of the Compensation and Stock Option Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Reisman is a certified public accountant who has been the principal of his own firm, The Accounting Offices of L.K. Reisman, since 1986. Prior to forming his company, Reisman was a tax manager at Coopers & Lybrand and Peat Marwick Mitchell. He routinely provides accounting services to small and medium-sized companies, including auditing, review and compilation of financial statements, corporate, partnership and individual taxation, designing accounting systems and management consulting services. Reisman holds an M.B.A. in finance and taxation from St. John's University.

Brian Walton, elected to CSI's Board of Directors in 2010, is a veteran of more than three decades in the information technology industry. He retired in June 2008 after 30 years with the IBM Corporation, having served in numerous marketing, product development and technical sales executive roles both in the Americas and globally. Mr. Walton has experience with complex global IT enterprises down to small businesses in both direct client-facing and business partner sales and support models. The Connecticut resident holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.