ASI Corporate Personnel


Jerry E. Polis has been President and a director since 1973. Since 1963 he has been self-employed primarily in real estate investment, and from 1964 to 2002 he owned and operated Polis Realty. From 1968 to the sale of his ownership in January 1997, he was active as a co-owner of the Taco Bell franchises for the State of Nevada (operated under privately owned Las Cal Corporation). In 1994, he co-founded Commercial Bank of Nevada, an unlisted publicly owned bank located in Las Vegas, Nevada, which was sold through a merger to a NYSE bank group in June 1998. He was a director of Commercial Bank from 1994 and Chairman from May 1996 until its sale. Mr. Polis graduated from Penn State University with a B.A. Degree in Commerce in 1953.

Eric M. Polis has been Secretary of the Company since July 2000. As a Nevada licensed real estate agent, he served as property manager and leasing agent for Polis Realty from 1993 to 2002. Mr. Polis is a private investor and serves on the board of several Las Vegas non-profit organizations. He obtained a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Arizona in 1993.

Dawayne R. Jacobs founded Jacobs Marketing Inc., a general merchandise manufacturing representative firm located in Plymouth, Minnesota in 1982. He has served as its President and CEO since 1982. He also founded The Accessory Group, Henderson, Nevada in 1995, a manufacturer and national distributor of proprietary products, and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. In 1993 he founded International Rainwear Inc., Henderson, Nevada, a national distributor of rainwear that was sold in 1997.

Gerald L. Ehrens has been a self-employed private investor since 1994. From 1992 to 1994 he was Chief Operating Officer of Inamed Corp., a Nasdaq medical device company. Previously he held senior executive positions at E.I. Dupont and Union Carbide with his last position at Union Carbide in 1992 being Vice President of New Business Development. In 1996, he was appointed as a director of unlisted publicly owned Commercial Bank of Nevada and served until its sale through merger to a NYSE bank group in June 1998. Mr. Ehrens received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1961 and a MS in Industrial Administration from George Washington University in 1965.

Richard A. Fait has been a self-employed investor since 2001. From 1966 to January 2001 he served as President of the Peoples Bank of Aberdeen, South Dakota and Chairman and President of its holding company, Investment Corporation of America. From the mid-1960's to 2001 he was an owner, officer and director of ten community banks in the Midwest. From 1972 to 2000 he was a practicing certified public accountant in South Dakota and Minnesota. Mr. Fait received a degree in Accounting from Nettleton College in 1958.