Board of Directors
Heidi Rozen | Managing Director, Mobius
Jim Feuille | Partner, Crosslink Capital
Robert C. Hawk | Hawk Communications, Inc.
Tom Peterson | General Partner, El Dorado Ventures
Steve Seabolt | VP Worldwide Marketing Operations, EA
John Taylor | President and CEO, Ecast

Advisory Board
Ted Cohen | Managing Partner, TAG Strategic
Joy Marcus | SVP Global Marketing, Time Warner
Dan Pelson | President and CEO, uPlayMe
Julie Shumaker | VP Worldwide Sales, Double Fusion
Brian Terkelsen | SVP Entertainment Marketing, MediaVest
David Wadhwani | VP, Product Development, Adobe

Investors
Mobius
Crosslink Capital
Doll Capital Management
El Dorado Ventures
Escalate Capital Partners
Focus Ventures


Board of Directors


Heidi Rozen | Managing Director
Mobius Venture Capital has helped great entrepreneurs build world-class companies--ones that have changed the way individuals and enterprises alike use technology to achieve their goals. Mobius Venture Capital exists to help build the leading technology companies of tomorrow.

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Jim Feuille | Partner
Since 1989, Crosslink Capital has been dedicated to helping build real businesses. Today, Crosslink Capital totals 17 senior investment professionals who are actively engaged in portfolio companies that manage over $1 billion.

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Robert C. Hawk | Hawk Communications, Inc.
Mr. Hawk is President of Hawk Communications, Inc., a telecommunications company, and retired President and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. West Multimedia Communications, Inc., where he headed the cable, data and telephone communications business from 1985 to 1996. Previously, he was President of the Carrier Division of U.S. West. Mr. Hawk also served as Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Planning for CXC Corporation, and as a director of Advanced Systems Development for AT&T/American Bell, a telecommunications company. Mr. Hawk currently serves on the boards of several private companies. Mr. Hawk holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Iowa and an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco.

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Tom Peterson | General Partner
Founded in 1986, El Dorado Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests across the technology sector and focuses primarily on semiconductors and systems, communications, software and services.

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ELECTRONIC ARTS
Steve Seabolt | VP Worldwide Publishing & Marketing Operations
Electronic Arts (EA) is the world's leading independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for advanced entertainment systems, PCs and mobile phone devices. EA has been a leader in its field since the company was founded in 1982. Since its inception, EA has been a creative leader, and today, the company continues to innovate and improve interactive gaming.

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John Taylor | President and CEO

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Advisory Board

time warner
Ted Cohen | Managing Partner
Integrating his widespread digital authority in music, mobile, IPTV and product & service development, Ted serves as the managing partner of TAG Strategic. Prior to TAG Strategic, Ted led next-generation digital business development as senior vice president of digital development & distribution for EMI Music. Previously, Ted was executive vice president of Digital Music Network Inc., where he co-founded the groundbreaking Webnoize conferences. Ted also led the new media consulting operations DMN Consulting and Consulting Adults where he attracted clients such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Universal Studios, DreamWorks Records, Liquid Audio and Wherehouse Records/Checkout.com. He has also held senior management positions at both Warner Bros. Records and Philips Media.

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time warner
Joy Marcus | Senior Vice President, Global Marketing
Joy joined Time Warner from Barnes & Noble.com, where she was on the management team that took the company public in 1999. She was in charge of the affiliate marketing team and of negotiating and implementing key online media partnerships with companies such as Yahoo! and MSN. Joy began her media career at MTV Networks, a division of Viacom where she served as Vice President, International Business Development for the MTV:Music Television channel.

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Dan Pelson | President and CEO
Dan is founder and CEO of uPlayMe, a social networking service that connects people through the digital media they consume. Previously, he served as CEO of Bolt, Inc., an ad-supported media portal that registered over 9 million members and generated over $50MM in revenue with ad clients including P&G, AOL, Ford, and ATT Wireless. Dan also started Concrete Media, a successful Internet services business that incubated online media properties such as Girls on Film, which sold to Oxygen Media in 1998. Dan began his career at Sun Microsystems, where he focused on breaking the company into the media industry.

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Julie Shumaker
| Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Julie is one of the best-known executives in the in-game advertising industry. Formerly EA's National Director of Sales, Videogame Advertising, she established EA as the number one seller of integrated advertising placements in games. Last year, Julie brought top-tier advertisers into thirteen videogames and their respective online community properties, capping a five-year tenure where she increased year-on-year revenues by more than 60%. Prior to her work at EA, Julie drove sponsorships and advertising sales on Yahoo! Inc.'s FIFA World Cup site. Before joining Yahoo, Shumaker was director of sponsorship sales for Quokka Sports and its joint venture with NBC, where she introduced advertising, product placement and branded entertainment programming through media vehicles like nbcolympics.com, usopen.com and finalfour.net. Julie currently serves as vice president of worldwide sales for Double Fusion.

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mediavest
Brian Terkelsen | SVP-Director of Entertainment Marketing

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adobe
David Wadhwani | VP, Product Development, Flex Product Line
David Wadhwani is the vice president of product development for Adobe Flex. Prior to joining Macromedia in 2002 he was the founder and vice president of product development at iHarvest Corporation. While at iHarvest, David led the development and deployment of a web-based knowledge management and collaboration system before selling it to Interwoven, Inc. He also spent four years at Oracle in the early 1990s where he was part of the core team that conceived, designed, and implemented Oracle's first business analytics software package.

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Investors


Mobius
Mobius Venture Capital has helped great entrepreneurs build world-class companies--ones that have changed the way individuals and enterprises alike use technology to achieve their goals. Mobius Venture Capital exists to help build the leading technology companies of tomorrow.

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Crosslink Capital
Since 1989, Crosslink Capital has been dedicated to helping build real businesses. Today, Crosslink Capital totals 17 senior investment professionals who are actively engaged in portfolio companies that manage over $1 billion.

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Doll Capital Management
DCM is a top-performing venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs building early stage technology companies. DCM funds leading technology companies and manages over $1 billion in capital. DCM offers hands-on operational guidance and access to an extensive network of resources, including close relationships with many of the Pacific Rim’s leading companies and investors.

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El Dorado Ventures
Founded in 1986, El Dorado Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests across the technology sector and focuses primarily on semiconductors and systems, communications, software and services.

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Escalate Capital Partners
Escalate Capital Partners is a private structured finance firm focused exclusively on providing capital to venture-backed expansion and late-stage companies within technology, life sciences and service based industries. The ECP team combines over 80 years of experience in venture capital and commercial finance to deliver a broad array of senior, subordinated and mezzanine debt solutions that are less dilutive than equity and provide more flexibility than conventional debt from banks or asset-based lenders.

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Focus Ventures
Focus Ventures is a top-performing venture capital firm that invests in expansion-stage leaders in the software, semiconductor and communications industries. The firm currently manages $830 million, having closed its first fund in October 1997, Focus Ventures II in December 1999 and Focus Ventures III in March 2006. Since the firm's inception, Focus Ventures has invested in 93 companies and has had 20 IPOs and 15 acquisitions by public companies.

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