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Kevin McKenzie

JiWire Founder & CEO (see Executive Bio)

Nihad Hafiz

JiWire President & COO (see Executive Bio)

Matthew Barzun

As the former Executive Vice President for CNET Networks' Business Technology group, Matthew Barzun was responsible for helping further cement the leadership position of CNET Networks' business technology brands, including News.com, ZDNet, TechRepublic, and Builder.com. Prior to this position, Barzun was chief strategy officer of CNET Networks, where he advised the CEO and the executive committee on business and organizational alignment across the company's divisions, including leading the efforts to define and communicate the company's mission, values, and corporate goals. Barzun was CNET's fourth employee, joining the company in 1993 as its director of innovation.

Scott Lenet

Scott Lenet is a founder and Managing Director of DFJ Frontier, a Draper Fisher Jurvetson affiliate and early stage technology venture capital fund focused on investments in the central valley and central coast of California. At Frontier, he leads fund management, fundraising and portfolio management efforts. Mr. Lenet has significant experience in the technology industry as an entrepreneur and as a venture capitalist. He was the founder and CEO of SmartFrog.com, purchased in 1999 by Cybergold (acquired by UAL). In 1992 Mr. Lenet was the first associate at Geocapital Partners, an equity capital investment firm affiliated with Broadview where he had responsibilities for fundraising, deal sourcing, and due diligence for successful investments including Netcom (acquired by ELNK) and Logic Works (acquired by CA). Mr. Lenet's enterprise software experience also includes a product marketing role at Trilogy Software. He received his MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an AB in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.

G. Scott Nirenberski, CFA

Mr. Nirenberski is the Founder of Mosaic Asset Management, LP. From 1999 until the founding of Mosaic, Mr. Nirenberski ran hardware and semiconductor investment research for Pequot Capital Management, Inc., a hedge fund complex focused on growth company investment management. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Nirenberski was the Senior Semiconductor Research Analyst with Deutsche Bank Securities and later at Credit Suisse First Boston where he was named to Institutional Investor's All American Research Team as a runner-up. Mr. Nirenberski began his professional investment career with Montgomery Securities LLC in 1995 as an Associate researching the Semiconductor Capital Equipment industry. Prior to Montgomery, Mr. Nirenberski held various positions in finance and treasury at Intel Corporation from 1992 to 1995. Mr. Nirenberski received his B.S. from the University of Toronto in 1987, an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992 and was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1997.

Jim Schraith

Jim's career in high technology spans 25 years and includes significant public and private company experience. Jim is an active angel investor in the Sacramento area and sits on the boards of several Sacramento area early stage companies. Jim's prior operating roles include CEO, COO and EVP roles at Quantum, ShareWave, Compaq and AST Research. As the leader of Compaq?s North American operations, he was responsible for over $10 billion in annual revenues and led a team of over 6000 people. At AST, Jim was president & COO and a member of the team that took AST to the Fortune 500 list in 1992.

Jim currently sits on the boards of Semtech Corporation, VisualCalc, Scope iT, eCullet, and Sierra Logic. Jim co-founded QTV Capital, a Bay area venture capital fund, in early 2000. Jim is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Golden Capital Network. A cancer survivor himself, Jim is an active fund raiser for the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

William Stewart

Mr. Stewart is the Founder and President of Asia Pacific Ventures and a General Partner and Co-Founder of Asia Pacific Ventures Technology Partners. Since 1995, Mr. Stewart has applied his skill set, experience, and global contacts in focusing on early stage Internet and IT investing for APV TP. Past APV TP investments in which Mr. Stewart has played a key role in securing additional investors and business partners include WebTV (sold to Microsoft), Fatbrain.com, ShareWave, 800.COM, SecureTax.com (sold to Intuit), Packet Engines (sold to Alcatel), and NetSchools. Mr. Stewart has extensive global contacts, and has played a significant role in raising the prior APV TP Funds.

As Founder of Asia Pacific Ventures, Mr. Stewart has worked with over 120 U.S. and Asia-based high technology companies acting as a strategic business advisor. Companies include Fortune 500 and Global 1000 firms such as Fujitsu, Toshiba, Sony, NTT, NEC, Itochu, Mitsui, as well as Lexmark, MicroAge, and AST (initiating and implementing the $392 million AST merger with Samsung). Mr. Stewart also played a central role in creating, negotiating, and structuring business and technology partnerships with Japan/Asia for over 75 Silicon Valley-based start-ups such as Intuit, RSA, Verisign, CyberSource, eShop (sold to Microsoft), Rational Software, Puma, Arbor Software, Proxim, and many others.

Prior to founding Asia Pacific Ventures in 1989, Mr. Stewart worked at NEC and was the first U.S. executive transferred to NEC headquarters in Tokyo in 1985. Mr. Stewart was involved in the global corporate planning of NEC's Computer and Communications (C&C) market expansion and systems implementation throughout the world. Mr. Stewart holds an MBA in Finance from Suffolk University, MA, and a BA degree in Economics from St. Anselm College, N.H. While living in Japan, Mr. Stewart conducted post-graduate work at Keio University in Tokyo, in the areas of Japanese history, politics, and business.