Board of Directors
Gary Atkinson
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Gary Atkinson has served as our Chief Executive Officer since May 2012 and as a member of our board of directors since August 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Atkinson served as our Interim Chief Executive Officer from November 2009 to May 2012 and as our General Counsel from January 2008 to November 2009. Mr. Atkinson is a licensed attorney in Florida and Georgia. He graduated from the University of Rochester with a bachelor’s degree in economics and received a Juris Doctorate and Masters in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Weatherhead School of Management.
Bernardo Melo
Chief Revenue Officer and Director
Bernardo Melo has served as our Chief Revenue Officer since April 2022 and served as our Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing from 2008 to April 2022. He has also served as a member of our board of directors since July 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Melo held dual roles with us managing the operations, licensing and sales of the music division while concentrating on hardware sales for the Latin America and Canadian market as well as key U.S. accounts such as Walmart.
Harvey Judkowitz
Director
Harvey Judkowitz has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2004 and serves as the Chairman of our Audit Committee. He is licensed as a certified professional accountant in New York and Florida and has owned his own accounting firm since 1988. He also served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our board of directors of UniPro Financial Services, a diversified financial services company, up until the company was sold in September 2005. Prior to that he served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Photovoltaic Solar Cells, Inc., a producer of photovoltaic solar cells.
Joseph Kling
Director
Joseph Kling has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2017. Mr. Kling has spent his entire career in the toy industry. Mr. Kling most recently served as an M&A consultant and served as a member of the board of directors of Russ Berrie & Co (currently known as Kids Brands, Inc.), a designer, importer, marketer and distributor of infant and juvenile consumer products, for 21 years advising on the acquisition of several toy companies. Mr. Kling also served as a member of the board of directors of Crown Crafts and Lancit Media Entertainment. Prior to that, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of View-Master Ideal, which was acquired by Tyco Toys in 1989. Notably, Mr. Kling has been involved in many major toy company acquisitions of brands such as Melissa & Doug and Brio.
Mathieu Peloquin
Director
Mathieu Peloquin has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2021. Mr. Peloquin has served as the Senior Vice-President, Marketing and Communications at Stingray Group since 2013 and oversees marketing, communication strategies, content and investor relations. Prior to joining Stingray Group, Mr. Peloquin served as the Vice President of Marketing at Transcontinental Media Inc. and Vice President of its Digital Marketing Solutions Group. He also held several executive positions at Reader’s Digest Magazines Canada Limited and co-founded Equinox Marketing Services. Mr. Peloquin is a certified public accountant and certified management accountant with a Bachelor of Commerce from the School of Management of the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Jay B. Foreman
Director
Jay B. Foreman has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2022. Mr. Foreman has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Basic Fun! since founding the company in 2009. He previously founded several toy companies, including Play-By-Play Toy’s and Novelties and Play Along Toys, the latter of which was sold to Jakks Pacific in 2004. He chairs the Toy Industry trade show committee and has served on the boards of the Toy Association and Licensing Merchandisers Association.
Ajesh Kapoor
Director
Ajesh Kapoor has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2025. He is the Chief Executive Officer of SemiCab Holdings LLC and founder of SemiCab, Inc., established in July 2018. From 2015 to 2018, Mr. Kapoor served as the Vice President of Product Management of GT Nexus, and previously as a Senior Director. Earlier, he was Global Head of Supply Chain Advisory Services at Wipro Technologies and co-founded GEOCOMtms, a fleet routing optimization software company. He brings deep logistics and technology expertise to the board.