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Key People

Management

Celia Francis, CEO

Celia has worked within the consumer electronics, internet, media and wireless industries for over fifteen years, in a variety of marketing and leadership roles. Celia has a passion for product design. Throughout her career Celia has focused on making consumer interactions with products and services simple, fulfilling, and, most importantly, fun.

Before joining WeeWorld, Celia worked at T-mobile as UK Head of Product Marketing and then Executive VP of Marketing. Celia led teams which developed and marketed a number of first-to-market products and services throughout the UK and Europe. These included Picture Messaging, SMS and WAP Chat, Java Games, T-Mobile Hotspots and the RIM Blackberry.

Before moving to the UK, Celia's love of design found an outlet at IDEO, one of the world's leading product design consultancies. Previous positions before this included VP of Marketing at Xtime (raising Series B funding and growing the firm from 5 people to 50), Director of Marketing at AltaVista and Director of Compaq's Consumer Internet Division.

Celia received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her 'must have' WeeMee accessories are the light sabre and camera.

Ann Zitterkopf, President & COO

Ann Zitterkopf has been at the cutting edge of new technology since 1993 when she founded an IT company called WorldCom during her final year of college. WorldCom (renamed Interliant in 1995 after a cash deal to sell the name to Bernie Ebber's growing telecom company) became the leader in application hosting and led a US analyst firm to coin the term Application Service Provider.

Ann personally sourced dozens of multi-national clients for Interliant and led the international expansion, eventually moving to London to lead what became the most profitable business. When she left in 2000, 15 months after listing on NASDAQ, Interliant had 1,600 employees, $200 million in recurring revenue and a market cap in excess of $2.5 billion. Along the way, Ann was a contributing author to the "Internet Cookbook" (an intro to the web) and a frequent speaker on technology and the internet. She has been profiled by, among others, the "Sunday Times" and CNBC, and a business school case has been written about the founding of Interliant when Ann literally lived in a garage to save on rent while building the business.

After Interliant, Ann was the executive in residence at Sussex Place Ventures and was asked to take over one of their portfolio companies that was about to go into administration. As Chief Executive Officer, Ann built this software company into the second largest in its space and sold it for cash to the largest. Ann joined WeeWorld in June 2005.

Ann was a founder and, for three years, president of the UK chapter of The Entrepreneurs' Organisation. EO is the leading global community for entrepreneurs with more than 6,000 members worldwide.

Ann has a MBA from London Business School where she led the drive to create a permanent endowment (and occasionally sits in on the classes when the Interliant case is taught) and a BA from Rice University.

Ann reveals her true self with her tiara-wearing surfboard-weilding WeeMee.

Board of Directors

George Devlin

George is a successful business executive and entrepreneur. Having graduated from university in his native Scotland (Business Studies with a post-graduate program in Human Resources), George has spent more than 20 years working in the high technology industry.

Before embarking on his role as a transatlantic entrepreneur, George was the Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Operations for computer giant Compaq. Based in Houston, Texas, George ran an organization of over 20,000 people worldwide, with a budget of over $30 billion.

From there, George moved into the exciting world of the start-up company, moving immediately from business class to much further back in the plane. In the past five years, George's experience as an entrepreneur has included becoming the COO of e-business pioneer Converge, the CEO and now Chairman of supply chain risk management company Vivecon and, of course, joining the board of WeeWorld.

George is based in Silicon Valley, California. He has been married for 29 years and has three 'wee weans,' all of whom are studying or working in Scotland. In his spare time, George appreciates football (both real and 'American'), playing golf, Italian food and Californian wine.

His favourite WeeMee accessory is the glass of wine ... but admits that his most used WeeMee accessory is the laptop computer.

Bruce Golden

Bruce Golden has been focused on emerging markets and technologies since 1984, when he worked in the computer division at Lucasfilm. Bruce joined Accel in 1997 and specializes in enterprise and consumer software investments. Bruce currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at several private and public companies, including Amobee, comScore (SCOR), Qliktech, StreamBase and Super Derivatives. Bruce was responsible for Accel's investment in Ajuba Solutions (acquired by Interwoven, Inc.), eCommerce Industries Inc. (acquired by Insight Venture Partners), Exchange.com (acquired by Amazon.com), Itemfield, (acquired by Informatica), Offermatica (acquired by Omniture), and SupportSoft (SPRT).

Prior to Accel, Bruce held executive marketing and sales positions at Illustra Information Technologies, a pioneer in the area of object-relational databases. In 1996 Illustra merged with Informix Software, where Bruce became General Manager of the Data Warehouse Business Development Unit. Prior to Illustra, Bruce spent eight years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of entrepreneurial roles, including developing Sun's strategy for the financial services market, moving to Hong Kong to help launch the Sun Asia subsidiary, and managing Sun's market development organization.

Bruce holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Columbia University. Bruce currently lives in London with his wife and two children.

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