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Management

Shampa Banerjee, VP of Engineering & Products

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Yaniv Levi, Director of Product Development

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Ido Shilon, Director of Engineering

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Jonathan Barker, EVP Business Development

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Gil Dudkiewicz, President/CEO/Chairman/Founder

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Baruch Eshkanese, VP Engineering

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John Gilles, Director of Product Marketing

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Lisa Smith, Director of Human Resources

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Board of Directors

Brian is currently the Chairman at Pandora International. Prior to that, Brian held the position of President, International, Yahoo! Search Marketing. He was with Yahoo! for three years, following its 2003 acquisition of Overture (previously GoTo.com). Prior to Overture/Yahoo!, Brian was a Managing Director of Idealab, which created GoTo.com, and also President and CEO of Idealab Silicon Valley. While associated with Idealab, Brian also served on the boards of directors for a number of Idealab companies, including Airwave Wireless, Cooking.com, Cars Direct, Commission Junction, Desktop.tv, eVoice, Omnilux, Scan Mobile, Sameday Technologies, and Spun.com, as well as non-Idealab companies such as Discern Communications and Swell.com. Before joining Idealab, Brian served as president, chief operating officer, and director for On Command Corp., the world's largest provider of information and entertainment services to the lodging industry. Previously, Brian held senior executive positions at SBC Communications and Shearson Lehman Brothers.

Brian holds a B.A. in economics and conducted graduate work in corporate strategy at Duke University, international marketing and finance at the Pacific Asian Management Institute, and negotiation at Harvard University.

Larry Kubal

A Managing Partner at Labrador Ventures, Larry has invested in seed and early stage information technology companies for the last seventeen years. He is a founder of Labrador Ventures and serves as a managing partner of Labrador Ventures III, IV and V. Larry is the Labrador representative with portfolio companies Aperto Networks, MeeVee, Proficient Systems, Pandora, Soligence, and Teraburst Networks.

In addition to his investment experience, Larry was a management consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, a global strategy and technology consulting firm. Prior to consulting, Larry worked extensively in computerized database publishing for McGraw-Hill Publications Company and for the Academy for Educational Development. Larry was also a founding executive with a venture-backed PC software company, Avalanche Technologies, ultimately acquired by Microsoft.

Larry received his undergraduate degree from Duke University, cum laude with departmental distinction, and his MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Larry Marcus

A General Partner at WaldenVC, Larry is focused on investments in digital media, ecommerce and technology enabled services. Larry has 18 years of consumer technology and media experience and is currently a Director of MeeVee, Pandora and the JazzSchool (Berkeley, CA) and on the advisory board of IBDNetwork.

Previously Larry was at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown where he was Director of New Media, Broadband, and Enhanced TV equity research and prior to that, Robertson Stephens & Company. Over his research career, Larry followed companies in interactive entertainment, consumer and business software, cable infrastructure, new media, and the Internet, leading numerous IPOs and follow-on offerings for companies such as CBS MarketWatch, Terayon, Women.com, Edmark, Maxis, Wink, and Softnet. His coverage also included Intuit, Electronic Arts, Sierra On-line, Broderbund, CNET, Activision, Learning Company, Softkey, Acclaim, RealNetworks, Excite@Home, General Instrument, Scientific Atlanta, Gemstar, and OpenTV. He was an early backer of Netflix and Virage. Before working in research, Larry served as a consultant for Digidesign and Maxis, ran a computer store, and worked as a media planner at Jordan, McGrath, Case and Taylor Advertising.

Larry received both his bachelor’s and MBA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.

Ian Aaron

As President of the TV Guide Television Group, Ian oversaw TV Guide-branded businesses in cable and satellite including: TV Guide Channel, the leading television entertainment and guidance network in nearly 80 million homes; TV Guide Interactive, North America’s leading interactive program guide; and TV Guide’s new short form On Demand network “Big Guide,” providing television, movie and music previews, reviews and recommendations for Cable, DBS, Broadband and Mobile platforms.

A telecom and cable industry veteran, Ian is President and Chief Executive Officer of Waat Media, the world leader in late night mobile entertainment. Ian's experience includes Gemstar-TV Guide, where he was president and chief executive officer, and six years as president of SoftNet Systems, Inc. and its Broadband Cable Modem subsidiary ISP Channel. He began his career in R&D and Product Development at GTE and for GTE’s international Joint Venture Fujitsu/GTE Business Communication Systems both domestically and in Japan.

Zara Haimo

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George Hara

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Ron Loewen

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Lars Axelsson

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Marc Tayer

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Bob Luff

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John Kueneke

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Mario Rosati

Mr. Rosati has served as a director of our company since 1997. He has been a member of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation since 1971. Mr. Rosati is a director of Aehr Test Systems, a manufacturer of computer hardware testing systems, Genus, Inc., a semiconductor equipment manufacturer, Symyx Technologies, Inc., a combinatorial materials science company, and Vivus, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, all publicly-held companies.