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Mort Handel has held numerous corporate executive
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positions through the last five decades, including:
*President of S&H Consulting Ltd., a privately held investment and consulting company
*Director and Chairman of Concurrent Computer Corp.
*Director, Remington Products Co. (Electric shavers).
*Director of CompUSA Inc.
*Director of Linens 'N Things from 2000 to 2009.
*Director of Trump Entertainment Resorts
*Chief Executive Officer and President from July 1997 to February 2001 of Ranger Industries, formerly Coleco Industries Inc.
*Chair of the Marvel Entertainment Board of Directors since October 1998, being a director since June 1997
While with Marvel, Mr. Handel helped orchestrate its sale to Walt Disney for $4 billion in a blockbuster Hollywood deal which put Marvel's 5,000 characters to work for Disney in a union considered at the time to be one of the largest US corporate transactions of the year. It marked a stunning turnaround for Marvel, originally a comic book company, which filed for bankruptcy in 1996 under heavy debts as it faced a slump in comic book sales.
Additional, he has served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Hartford. Handel served as a director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra becoming a emeritus director, a Bushnell overseer, and a life regent at the University of Hartford. The University received a lead gift from the Handel's to help establish the Hartt School's "Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center."
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