INVESTOR RELATIONS

Michael C. Jonas served as our Interim Chief Executive Officer from August 2019 until November 7, 2019. He has been our Executive Chairman since October 2017. Michael Jonas has been the Chairman of our Board of Directors since November 2016 and a member of our Board of Directors since May 2016. He also served as Executive Vice President of Genie Energy from May 2014 until November 2018, and Director of Global Exploration and Business Development from August 2014 until November 2018, and Chief Executive Officer of Genie Oil Development from May 2015 until November 2019. From November 2005 through December 2011, Michael Jonas served IDT Corporation in various positions such as analyst, vice president and manager of international business. Michael Jonas is a founding member of Mongolian Oil Shale Association. Michael Jonas is our controlling stockholder, and the son of Howard Jonas, Vice-Chairman of our Board of Directors.

Howard S. Jonas has been the Vice-Chairman of our Board of Directors since November 14, 2016. He was our Chairman of the Board from June 2, 2016 until November 14, 2016 and has been a member of our Board of Directors since May 23, 2016. Mr. Jonas founded IDT Corporation (“IDT”) in August 1990; and has served as its Chairman of the Board of Directors since its inception. Howard Jonas served as Chief Executive Officer of IDT from October 2009 through December 2013 and from December 1991 until July 2001. Mr. Jonas is also the founder and has been President of Jonas Media Group (formerly Jonas Publishing) since its inception in 1979. From January 2014 until November 2017, Mr. Jonas served as the Chief Executive Officer of Genie Energy Ltd, a former subsidiary of IDT that was spun off to stockholders in October 2011; and has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Genie Energy since the spin-off. Howard Jonas also serves as the Chairman of the Board and, until April 2020, the Chief Executive Officer of IDW Media Holdings, Inc., a former subsidiary of IDT that was spun off to stockholders in September 2009. Mr. Jonas also has served as the Chairman of the Board of Rafael Holdings, Inc., a former subsidiary of IDT that was spun off to stockholders in March 2018, since the spin-off, and also as the Chief Executive Officer until May 2021. Howard Jonas received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University.

Mark Ghermezian has served as a director since May 23, 2016. Mr. Ghermezian has been the Executive Strategic Advisor of American Dream since March 2022, and prior to that was its co-Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Ghermezian has been the Managing Partner of T5 Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on early stage technologies across verticals, since January 2011. Mr. Ghermezian is also the Co-Founder of Braze, Inc. (formerly known as Appboy, Inc.), an intelligent CRM for mobile marketers, founded in 2011. He served as Executive Chairman of Braze from January 2017 until January 2018 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 2011 to 2016. Additionally, Mr. Ghermezian regularly speaks, writes, and presents about the future of mobile, investment strategy, and the startup landscape.

Elliot Gibber has served as a director since August 5, 2020 and was also a director from January 17, 2018 until November 7, 2019. Mr. Gibber served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer from November 7, 2019 to August 5, 2020. Mr. Gibber is President and Chief Executive Officer of Deb El Food Products, a significant company in the egg products business in the United States and worldwide. Mr. Gibber was also Chairman of the United Egg Association, keeping in constant communication with its membership and pushing initiatives that were good for the U.S. egg products industry. He has lent his egg product expertise to the American Egg Board as a Board Director and as a member of the Food Technology Advisory Council. Over the last ten years, Mr. Gibber has become an active investor in the real estate, high tech and medical technologies markets. Mr. Gibber is also actively involved in numerous non-profit organizations, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the OU, Yeshiva University, RIETS and Albert Einstein School of Medicine. In 2008, Elliot was awarded with an Honorary Doctorate degree from Yeshiva University.

Paul Packer has served as a director since April 1, 2020. Mr. Packer founded Globis Capital Advisors LLC, an investment advisory, in 2001. Globis invests in startups, micro- and small-cap companies with a focus on hi-tech. Paul Packer was appointed and designated as Chairman of The United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad by President Donald J. Trump in 2017 and reappointed in 2019. Mr Packer also serves as a director on the board of Elementor Ltd., a privately held company that offers an intuitive, front-end site builder for WordPress and had served as a director on the board of Wakingapp Ltd. prior to its sale to Scope AR in 2019. Mr. Packer previously served on the board of directors of Penguin Digital before it was acquired by Shutterfly.

Gregory Suess has served as a director since August 5, 2020. Mr. Suess is a founding partner of Activist Artists Management, LLC (“Activist.co”), a full-service management and consulting company. Prior to Activist, Mr. Suess co-founded ROAR, which was one of Hollywood’s leading entertainment management companies while under his leadership. Since February 2022, Mr. Suess has been a Senior Advisor at the law firm of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, and prior to that was with Glaser, Weil, Fink, Howard, Avchen & Shapiro, LLP for more than 24 years. Mr. Suess holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern California (Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies) and holds a JD/MBA from Pepperdine University.