Board of Advisors

Seasoned Executives Bringing Experience In
Consumer Software, Consumer Hardware and Mobile Markets

Bob Dusté, Charles Schwab, former CEO Charles Schwab Europe

Tim Koltek, Terrapin Energy, CEO

Richard Mosher, SNOCAP, General Counsel

Roger Politis, Avanquest, Co-Founder and Group CTO

Richard Walker, HP, Senior VP - Consumer PC Business Unit (CPC)

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Bob Dusté, Charles Schwab, former CEO Charles Schwab Europe

During a 20 year career at Schwab, Bob held a variety of executive positions. From 1998-2001, Bob was CEO of Schwab Europe during a time of frenetic growth and industry change. Under his leadership, Schwab Europe launched an internet trading system and an end-to-end electronic execution platform, achieved 35% market share of online trading and became #1 in the UK Private Client industry.

Bob's first day as CIO of recently acquired U.S. Trust, the nation’s oldest trust company, began on 9/11. During the tumultuous time that followed, Bob successfully led a complete makeover of antiquated systems infrastructure to lift a previously imposed Federal Reserve cease and desist order.

Today, Bob and his wife, Sharon, run Shasté Vineyard, where they grow and sell premium wine grapes in the Sonoma Valley of Northern California. The wines of Shaste Vineyard recently received a Double-Gold medal at the 2006 California State Fair. Bob graduated from San Jose State University in 1980.

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Tim Koltek, Terrapin Energy, CEO

Terrapin Energy is an oil and gas production and exploration company. Prior to leading Terrapin, Tim was CEO of itrezzo, a wireless software company with the most popular software download for the RIM BlackBerry.

Prior to itrezzo, Tim was CEO of LovedYourGift.com, an online gift registry with affiliate partnerships including LL Bean, Disney and Martha Stewart. Tim earned a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX.

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Richard Mosher, SNOCAP, General Counsel

Rich Mosher became General Counsel of SNOCAP in 2006. Prior to SNOCAP, Mosher served for 5 years as General Counsel at Intellisync, a leading provider of platform independent wireless messaging and mobile software company. Rich oversaw all aspects of Intellisync's worldwide legal function including SEC reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, mergers and acquisitions, technology and software licensing, and management of the company's intellectual property portfolio. In addition, Rich was a lead representative on behalf of Intellisync for the company's acquisition by Nokia in 2006.

Prior to Intellisync, Rich was an associate with the law firm Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley where his practice focused on the representation of corporate clients. Rich holds a juris doctorate from the University of Pacific's McGeorge School of Law and a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of California at San Diego.

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Roger Politis, Avanquest, Co-Founder and Group CTO

Roger Politis oversees global business operations and leads Avanquest Software’s extensive R&D resources deployed in Asia, North America and Europe. Roger Politis also has day-to-day responsibility for managing the worldwide headquarters with its 130 employees and supervising its Human Resources policy.

Avanquest Software is a leading developer and global publisher of best-selling mobility, communications and productivity software. Headquartered in Paris, the Company has offices in the US, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Japan, China and Korea. Avanquest Software products are translated up to 26 languages and marketed in over 100 countries, through e-commerce, OEM partnerships and IT resellers. Avanquest is listed on Euronext (ISIN FR0004026714), and forms part of the Eurolist, NextEconomy segment and SBF 250 index.

Prior to Avanquest, Roger worked as a sound engineer in a famous Parisian recording studio, recording several well-known French and English artists. Roger was also a freelance journalist who co-authored 12 popular IT books that were published by Editions Eyrolles in Paris.

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Richard Walker, HP, Senior VP - Consumer PC Business Unit (CPC)

Richard Walker is responsible for a global business unit that provides desktop PCs, personal storage products, calculators and plasma TVs to consumer markets. This portfolio of products incorporate the latest innovations in technology packaged to deliver value at a broad range of price points to meet consumer needs.

Immediately prior to his current position, Richard was VP of the Emerging Countries Group responsible for developing long term strategic plans for HP's targeted list of emerging countries, with an initial focus on Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC).

Richard joined HP in 1983 and has held various senior sales and marketing management roles in Europe, US and Asia Pacific. He was a founding member of the team that launched the HP Pavilion into the consumer PC marketplace - a business that achieved market share leadership among PCs sold through the retail channel within two years. He was also the worldwide marketing manager for the handheld PC business based in Singapore, where he helped craft the strategy that lead to the introduction of the HP Jornada based on Microsoft Windows CE operating system. Earlier at HP, he was responsible for managing the commercial PC and networking businesses for the Asia-Pacific region.

From 1998-2003, Richard left HP and was VP of Marketing for TeraStor, an optical storage start-up company. He also founded TapCast which delivered services to the youth market via wireless and the internet. Additionally, he served as VP and GM at Pumatech, a leader in software synchronization.

Richard received his bachelor’s degree in business with honors from Sheffield Polytechnic, now Sheffield and Hallam University, Sheffield, England. He also serves on the Advisory Board for SPRIE (Stanford Projects on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship) at Stanford University and on the Advisory Board for R&D Logic, a San Mateo based life sciences company.

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