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SCOTT K. GINSBURG |
Mr. Ginsburg is the founder of Evergreen Media Corporation. Evergreen Media is the owner/operator of 34 radio stations (following the completion of the Pyramid acquisition), with a presence in all of the nation's top ten radio markets and duopolies in five of the nation's top ten markets. Mr. Ginsburg has been a licensee of the FCC since 1974. Between 1981 and 1995, he has purchased and operated radio stations in a diverse group of markets including Buffalo, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Charlotte, Honolulu, St. Louis, Miami, Boston,Houston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Dallas, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Chicago, NewYork and Los Angeles. In May, 1993, Evergreen Media Corporation completed an initial public offering and in July, 1995, the company completed a secondary offering. In October, 1993, Evergreen Media completed a convertible preferred offering. Both issues trade on the NASDAQ under the symbols EVGM and EVGMP.
Mr. Ginsburg received a B.A. Degree from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. in 1974. He is also a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center where he received a Juris Doctor Degree in 1978. He has been married since 1980, and he and his wife have two children.
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JAMES E. de CASTRO |
Jimmy de Castro has a habit of turning, things around quickly.
A business and marketing graduate of University of Colorado, Jimmy immediately exhibited superior marketing and management skills. Moving from his successful account executive position with Peak One Marketing in Denver to Golden West Broadcasting's KSFO in San Francisco proved a pivotal decision. Joining KSFO in 1976, Mr. de Castro started as a retail salesperson and in his first year became the station's top direct biller. He was immediately' promoted to agency level responsibility. By 1978, his sales performance and hard driving style won him the coveted job of KSFO National Sales Manager, the youngest person to hold a management position at Golden West. In 1979, he joined Heftel Broadcasting as General Sales Manager of Boston's WXKS AM/FM. In his first year, Mr. de Castro developed an outstanding sales force which tripled the station's billingand firmly entrenched him as an executive on the move in the radio industry. His success in Boston led Cecil Heftel to promote him to General Manager of WLUP-FM in Chicago, a position he held from 1981 to 1989. Jimmy assembled a new format with creative programming and management elements which turned things around. WLUP went from ranking 20th in market billing to 2nd, with #1 ranking in all key demographics. Mr. de Castro was promoted to Chief Operating Officer and Director of Evergreen Media Corporation (formerly H & G Communication, Inc.) in 1989. In the summer of 1989, Evergreen Media purchased a failing classical station in the Los Angeles market. As General Manager revitalized the format and staff and within two years KKBT jumped from the last place to the number one ranking radio station (88th position to 1st-Birch ratings,spring 1991). The station made a twelve million dollar profit swing in that same period. KKBT was honored as Billboard Magazine's Station of the Year for 1991 in the Urban contemporary format. Mr. de Castro has been President and Chief Operating Officer of Evergreen Media Corporation since 1993 and has seen the Company through its initial public offering in May of 1993, a secondary offering in July, 1995. To enhance his education over the years, he completed the NAB course at the Harvard BusinessSchool and is a graduate of the "Sterling Management by Objectives" program.
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MATTHEW E. DEVINE |
Mr. Devine is a 1970 Accounting major from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.Upon graduation, Mr. Devine joined the firm of Peat, Marwick, Main, and Company("PMM") In their New York corporate offices and within five years earned his CPA and was promoted to the Supervising Senior position within the firm. The products of his audit reviews included audited financials, letters to management on internal control deficiencies and tax return preparation for a wide variety of clients.
In January, 1975, Mr. Devine joined American Airlines internal audit department as Senior auditor and for two and a half years assumed responsibilities for both corporate department and field station operational reviews. Mr. Devine was then promoted into American Airlines Corporate Treasury Department located in Dallas, Texas, where for the next decade his responsibilities included maintaining bank relations with over 200 domestic and international institutions, negotiating and administering short-term borrowings/investings, generating cash forecasts and maximizing the efficiency of corporate cash bows. In 1987, Mr. Devine and two of his colleagues founded an investment management subsidiary of AMR (parent company of American Airlines), which began offering fund management services to institutions. Mr. Devine's duties as Vice President/Treasurer included responsibilities for all back office functions such as accounting, budgeting, forecasting as well as overall marketing and investing performance responsibility for the short-term cash products. In July, 1988 Mr. Devine joined Evergreen as CFO/Treasurer, Mr. Devine is a member of the AICPA, New York state society of CPA's, Dallas CMA Association, National Association of Corporate Treasurers and has authored several articles for the Journal of Cash Management.
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