Howard Jonas

Howard Jonas is the Founder and serves as Chairman of the Board at Genie Energy. He also serves as an Angel Investor at Howard S. Jonas. He is Chairman and also serves as Chief Executive Officer at IDT. Jonas has served as Chief Executive Officer of Genie Energy since January, 2014. Jonas is also the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of IDT Corporation, and has served as its CEO most recently through December, 2013. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of CTM Media Holdings, Inc. Jonas previously served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of IDT Telecom from December 1999 to April 2008, as Co-Chairman since April 2008, and as a director of IDT Capital since September 2004. Jonas served as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of IDT Entertainment from November 2004 until August 2006. Since August 2006, Jonas has been a director of Starz Media Holdings, LLC, Starz Media, LLC and Starz Foreign Holdings, LLC, each of which is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation. In addition, Jonas has been a director of IDT Energy since June 2007 and a director of American Shale Oil Corporation since January 2008. Jonas is also the founder and has been President of Jonas Media Group since its inception in 1979. Jonas was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Net2Phone from October 2001 to October 2004, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Net2Phone from October 2004 to June 2006, and has served as the Chairman of Net2Phone since June 2006. Jonas received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University.