Handal has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Singing Machine since June 21, 2007. Mr. Handal is also the founder and principal of Handal & Associates. Mr. Handal has extensive practical business experience. He has negotiated, documented and closed a myriad of business transactions and has managed several mergers, acquisitions and reverse mergers. Mr. Handal, together with a close group of financial and accounting affiliates, has structured corporate finance transactions, managed due diligence assignments and negotiated purchase and sale agreements. He has also overseen corporate due diligence, licensed Intellectual Property and negotiated vendor/supply agreements. Mr. Handal has negotiated and acted as lead counsel in business transactions exceeding $130,000,000 in value.
Mr. Handal has also extended his own personal time, and directed members of his firm to contribute to the community by actively pursuing pro bono work for and on behalf of several non profit and community based organizations.
Mr. Handal, between 1995 and 1999, had served as CEO of a start-up technology company, secured patents, raised capital and handled communications with shareholders/investors. Since 1998, he has acted as U.S. legal counsel for our affiliate Starlight International, the parent company of a major shareholder of the Company. He has also served as a member of the Villa View Hospital board of directors, former member of the Board of Trustees of the San Diego Railroad Museum and was counsel to the San Diego Fire Youth Soccer Team. In addition to his strong dedication to the firm and his community, Mr. Handal has acted as counsel to the San Diego Convention Center Corporation. He has actively engaged in fundraising and supporting local, statewide and national political candidates.
Mr. Handal is a member of the California and Florida State Bars; Federal District Court Bar of the Northern, Southern and Central Districts of California and Florida and also a member of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) school of Economics and received a Juris Doctorate degree from Southwestern University School of Law.
This excerpt taken from the SMD 10-K filed Jun 29, 2009.
