BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Steven C. Barre
Lead Director

Steven C. Barre, 48, was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Jacuzzi Brands, Inc. (a New York Stock Exchange company with annual revenues in excess of $1 billion) from September 2001 until February 2007, when the company was sold to Apollo Management LLC, a leading private equity firm.  Mr. Barre served in various roles as in-house counsel from 1995 to 2001 for Jacuzzi Brands, Inc. (known as U.S. Industries, Inc. from 1995 to 2003) and from 1988 to 1995 for its former parent company, the U.S. arm of Hanson PLC, a Fortune 100 industrial management company.  Prior to joining Hanson, Mr. Barre was a corporate attorney with the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges.  Mr. Barre graduated from Cornell University in 1981 and Columbia Law School in 1984.

Frederick A. Cardin
Director

 2003, and since June 1996, has been managing director of Harvard Growth Strategies, a consulting firm which advises clients on business strategies, financing, and marketing. From 1974 to 1981, he was first a member and then a partner and a director of the Cambridge Research Institute, a strategic planning consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1985 he founded and acted as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of O'Deli Corporation, a publicly traded food franchiser. O'Deli grew to 50 franchisees before its acquisition by Pacific Equities. From 1970 to 1971 he held a faculty appointment in international finance at the Harvard Business School. Dr. Cardin earned his MBA with distinction and his Doctorate in Finance from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He earned a Bachelor's degree in economics Summa Cum Laude from Tufts University.

John F. Kane
Director

Mr. Kane joined the Whitney organization in 1987 and has served in many executive capacities over the years, including President and CEO of the predecessors of Whitney Information Network, Inc.; President of Mortgage Reduction System EquityCorp. (a financial services company); and President of Precision Software Services (a software development company). Mr. Kane was a co-founder and co-owner of Mortgage Reduction Systems EquityCorp and the President and Founder of Precision Software Services prior to Whitney Information Network, Inc.'s acquisition of these companies. During Mr. Kane's tenure at WIN, he has held the positions of Director of Student Services, Vice President of Marketing, Executive Vice President of Operations, and Executive Vice President of Real Estate Education Division, and currently serves on the Company's Board of Directors. He was appointed Interim President in December 2007 and was named President and Chief Operating Officer in June 2008.

Murray A. Indick
Director

Mr. Indick, co-founded Prides Capital Partners, LLC (“Prides Capital”) an investment firm specializing in strategic block, active ownership investing in the small- and micro-cap arena, in March 2004.  Mr. Indick is a managing member of the sole general partner of Prides Capital Fund I, LP, which, as of November 2007, owned approximately 14.7% of the Company's outstanding common stock.  Prior to joining Prides Capital, Mr. Indick was partner/general counsel at Blum Capital, which he joined in 1997.  Mr. Indick earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.  Mr. Indick also serves as a director of QC Holdings, Inc., a pay-day loan company, and Ameritrans Capital Corporation, a lender to and investor in small businesses, both public portfolio companies of Prides Capital, LLC.

Wallace L. Timmeny
Director

Wallace L. Timmeny, 70,  was a securities attorney in private practice from 1979 to 2007, most recently as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Dechert LLP, until his retirement from the law firm in April 2007.  Mr. Timmeny is a past chairman of the Executive Council of the Securities Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association.  From 1965 to 1979, Mr. Timmeny was an attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and ultimately the Deputy Director of its Division of Enforcement. Mr. Timmeny has served as an adjunct professor at American University School of Law, George Mason University School of Law and Georgetown University School of Law.  Mr. Timmeny serves on the board of directors for Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. (FBR) and Waste Services, Inc. (WSII).

Russell A. Whitney
Director

Russell A. Whitney is a recognized worldwide leader in the real estate investment and financial training fields, as well as the bestselling author of Building Wealth (Simon & Schuster), Millionaire Real Estate Mentor (Dearborn), and The Millionaire Real Estate Mindset (Doubleday). His passion for teaching others to duplicate his phenomenal success developed while he was still in his early 20s and drove him to create what would become Whitney Information Network, Inc. In addition to his flagship international financial education organization, Mr. Whitney's real estate and business empire includes full or partial ownership in a wide range of companies. A key to his consistent and remarkable success is his ability to assemble teams of top-notch professionals who identify opportunities, develop and manage projects, and drive profitability and investor returns.