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Paul Martino, CEO

Paul Martino is CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, and was the founding CTO of Tribe.net and founding CEO of Ahpah Software, a Java security company. He previously held business development positions at Intertrust and SkyPilot.

Kristopher Wehner, CTO

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Steve Pantelick, CFO

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Kurt Buecheler, SVP Sales & Business Development

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Dave Peterson, Chief Marketing Officer

San Mateo, CA—June 4, 2007—Aggregate Knowledge Inc., the leader in the new category of online discovery, today announced that Dave Peterson has joined as chief marketing officer. Peterson, the former Mercury Interactive Corporation vice president marketing, will lead Aggregate Knowledge’s go-to-market strategy and planning, corporate and brand marketing, corporate communications and field marketing.

"Dave brings deep experience across all areas of marketing strategy and execution from companies of all sizes," said Paul Martino, Aggregate Knowledge CEO and founder. "Dave will extend our leadership position in Discovery, differentiate our market-leading offerings and drive Discovery to millions more users worldwide."

Prior to joining Aggregate Knowledge, Peterson was vice president of marketing for Mercury Interactive Corporation (acquired by HP), one of the world's fastest growing and largest software companies. Peterson also served as vice president corporate communications for Mercury and was part of the leadership team responsible for positioning Mercury as the leader in the business technology optimization category. During his tenure at Mercury from 2003 to 2007, Peterson was responsible for global marketing operations, strategic go to market and category planning, and leading public relations and analyst relations for more than 20 countries worldwide.

Prior to Mercury, Dave served as managing director at LOCHHEAD Corporation, a strategic marketing consulting firm. Dave also served in senior corporate, product and field marketing positions at Cybrant, a sales configuration software company. Prior to Cybrant, Dave co-founded and served as vice president of marketing at GiveMeTalk!, the first web broadcasting service that allowed any Internet user to produce and broadcast their own talk radio shows. Dave was vice president of marketing at Pangaea Software, a start-up sales configuration software company and spent two years in the marketing team at Vantive Corporation (acquired by PeopleSoft). Prior to Vantive, Dave served in public relations and marketing management positions at agencies in Silicon Valley and the mid-west. Dave is an original mid-westerner and received his BA in Communications and Public Relations from the University of Northern Iowa.

"Aggregate Knowledge is leading the way in helping millions of people discover the information, content, and products they love in a completely new and different way," said Peterson. "I am excited to join Aggregate Knowledge, execute our growth plan, and be the first to bridge the worlds of offline and online Discovery."

Aggregate Knowledge recently released its five-point strategy for leading the Discovery market. This strategy is built upon driving Aggregate Knowledge Discovery™ services and offerings to the world's leading brands, media companies, and retailers across a wide range of environments including the Internet, mobile, and offline devices. Aggregate Knowledge plans to unveil its Collective Discovery Network™, the industry's first service to enable discovery across multiple online sites in the forth quarter of 2007.

About Aggregate Knowledge

Aggregate Knowledge offers the industry's first online Collective Discovery Services that emulate the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline. Built on top of a sophisticated, super computing architecture, Aggregate Knowledge harnesses the behavior of users to fundamentally change the way people navigate and engage online. Aggregate Knowledge delivers significant revenue enhancement to site owners by providing real-time, collective merchandising and navigation capabilities. Aggregate Knowledge was recently acknowledged as an AlwaysOn Media 100 winner as well as selected by The Wharton School's Kevin Werbach and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington’s as a Supernova Top Connected Innovator. Funded by premier venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DAG Ven

John Sanders, VP Operations

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James Riding, Media Business Development

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Chris Law, VP Products

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Tim Vogel, Chief Scientist

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Joe Ghazal, VP Engineering

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David Cavander, retail business development

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Board of Directors

Paul Martino

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Randy Komisar

Randy Komisar has served as a director of TiVo since March 1998. Mr. Komisar has been a Partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, a venture capital investment firm, since April 2005. Prior to that position, Mr. Komisar had been a strategic business advisor and director to various emerging companies. Mr. Komisar also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Crystal Dynamics Inc., a video game development and publishing company, between May 1995 and June 1996. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of LucasArts Entertainment Company, a digital entertainment company, between January 1994 and May 1995. Mr. Komisar holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Brown University and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.

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