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• B.Sc. (Eng.) in Chemical Engineering and M.Sc. degree, with distinction, in Management Studies from Imperial College, London University, as well as Dr.sc.techn. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
• was Senior Vice President of Swiss Bank Corporation and Executive Director of Swiss Bank Corporation International before taking a senior appointment with an Australian conglomerate, Elders IXL
• has also been Vice-Chairman of the Australian Merchant Bankers Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the Swiss Private Equity and Corporate Finance Association
• is, and has been, a board member of many private and public companies such as Cosa Liebermann SA, Elsevier Holdings SA, Leica plc., Quadriga Worldwide Ltd and Saurer AG
• Executive Chairman of Adinvest AG and specializes in promoting rapidly growing internet / mobile / digital media businesses
• Chairman of Adconion Media Group Limited and Xing AG

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Dr. Neil V. Sunderland is Chairman of Adconion Media Group Limited and Xing AG (DAX). He is, and has been, a board member of many private and public companies such as Cosa Liebermann SA, Elsevier Holdings SA, Leica plc., Quadriga Worldwide Ltd and Saurer AG. He is Executive Chairman of Adinvest AG and specializes in promoting rapidly growing internet/mobile/digital media businesses. Dr. Sunderland holds a B.Sc. (Eng.) in Chemical Engineering and a M.Sc. degree, with distinction, in Management Studies from Imperial College, London University, as well as a Dr.sc.techn. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. He was Senior Vice President of Swiss Bank Corporation and Executive Director of Swiss Bank Corporation International before taking a senior appointment with an Australian conglomerate, Elders IXL in Melbourne, Australia. He has also been Vice-Chairman of the Australian Merchant Bankers Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the Swiss Private Equity and Corporate Finance Association.

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• educated in Paris, France and has a BA in Mathematics from Cornell University and a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University
• founded Santa Monica Networks / Keyword Marketplace, which was subsequently sold to Kanoodle
• also the founding investor of TrafficMarketplace, one of the largest ad distribution Networks on the Internet today
• lead investor and founder of five successful technology and Internet Ventures
• Founder, Chairman and CEO of Tagworld, an online ecosystem and leading social web platform

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Mr. Krueger is currently the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Tagworld, Inc., an online ecosystem and leading social web platform. Prior to Tagworld, Fred was the lead investor and founder of five successful technology and Internet Ventures. His first venture, Fauve Software, a maker of image processing software, was sold to Macromedia (NASDAQ: MACR) in 1995. His next venture, Random Noise, Inc., was one of the leaders in Java technology and was sold to Vignette Corp (NASDAQ: VIGN) in 1998. His third company, iWin.com, was one of the largest free games and prize Websites on the Internet. The company was sold to Uproar for over 80 Million dollars in 2001, and the merged company was subsequently sold to Vivendi Universal (NYSE: V). Mr. Krueger was also the founding investor of TrafficMarketplace, one of the largest ad distribution Networks on the Internet today. Most recently, Mr. Krueger founded Santa Monica Networks / Keyword Marketplace, which was subsequently sold to Kanoodle. Mr. Krueger was educated in Paris, France and has a BA in Mathematics from Cornell University and a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University.

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• BA from the University of Essen and the University of Toronto
• more than eight years experience in technology investment banking at J.P. Morgan in New York, London and Frankfurt and advised customers such as IBM, Bertelsmann and Siemens on numerous merger and acquisition mandates and accompanied the NASDAQ listings of technology companies like EIDOS, Iomega and Dassault Systems
• member of the supervisory boards of Astaro, Safe ID Solutions, Swyx and Wazap
• focuses his investment activities on the fields of Software and Services
• General Partner at Wellington Partners with responsibility for several successful exits

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Mr. Bohnke joined Wellington Partners as a General Partner in January 1998. Since then, he has been responsible for several successful exits, including ACG (IPO at Neuer Markt), alando.de (sold to eBay Inc.), webmiles (sold to Bertelsmann), Cobion (sold to Internet Security Systems Inc.) and SAF (IPO at the Prime Standard). Frank's investment activities focus on the fields of Software and Services. He currently holds seats on the supervisory boards of Astaro, Safe ID Solutions, Swyx and Wazap! Prior to joining Wellington Partners, Frank spent eight years in technology investment banking at J.P. Morgan in New York, London and Frankfurt. He advised customers such as IBM, Bertelsmann and Siemens on numerous M&A mandates and accompanied the NASDAQ listings of technology companies like EIDOS, Iomega and Dassault Systems.

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• BA in Corporate Finance from Bocconi University in Milan and MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business
• consultant with McKinsey & Company in several European offices where he advised several major corporations on a number of strategic and organizational matters including European entry strategies, strategic positioning, marketing, and new product introductions
• Director of several companies and he was involved with several of the prior investments
• has an investment focus on ecommerce, services, and advanced communication components and devices
• co-founder and Partner of Index Ventures

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Giuseppe co-founded Index Ventures in 1996 and is a Partner. His investment focus currently includes ecommerce, services, and advanced communication components and devices. Giuseppe serves as a Director of several companies including Telegent Systems, Ozon.ru, Artimi, Certess, and VirtualLogix. He was involved with several of the prior investments, including Virata (now Conexant, NASDAQ:CNXT), Ciao (now Greenfield, NASDAQ:SRVY), Numerical Technologies (now Synopsis), and Digiquant (now Intec, LSE:ITL.L). Prior to founding Index Ventures, Giuseppe spent five years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in several European offices. During his career at McKinsey, Giuseppe advised several major corporations on a number of strategic and organisational matters including European entry strategies, strategic positioning, marketing, and new product introductions.

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• engineering degree from Supelec
• more than 10 years experience in product marketing and business development roles in the telecom and smart card industries in France, the United States and Asia
• was a partner at Banexi Ventures in Paris, where he led investments in a number of companies
• was Managing Director at Kelkoo where he drove the company's transformation from a small team with no revenues to Europe's preferred shopping search engine
• was the CEO of Yahoo! Europe
• Partner of Index Ventures

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Prior to joining the London office of Index Ventures as a Partner in September 2007, Dominique was the CEO of Yahoo! Europe from 2004 to 2007. He joined Yahoo! from Kelkoo, when Yahoo! acquired the company in March 2004. At Kelkoo, where he was Managing Director from 2000 to 2004, Dominique drove the company's transformation from a small team with no revenue to Europe's preferred shopping search engine with 400 employees and revenues of $100 million per year. Prior to Kelkoo, Dominque was a partner at Banexi Ventures in Paris, where he led investments in a number of companies including Kelkoo, Algety and In Fusio. He began his career at Schlumberger where he worked for 10 years in product marketing and business development roles in the telecom and smart card industries in France, the United States and Asia.

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…is responsible for setting the corporate vision and strategy, and oversees product innovation, technology and corporate development.

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• BSBA with a concentration in Marketing from Fort Lewis College
• Seed investor and responsible for Business Development at aQuantive
• Co-founder and COO of TrafficMarketplace
• Founded Adconion Media Group in 2005

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Tyler started in the internet space over 10 years ago when he joined and invested in the first and second round of funding in aQuantive, the world’s largest digital media agency that sold to Microsoft for $6.6 Billion dollars in 2008. He was responsible for Strategic Partnerships for the Agency that included becoming the partner to Yahoo!, MSN and AOL. After aQuantive went public on the NASDAQ he left to start up one of the first Ad networks, Traffic Marketplace, which is still one of the largest networks in the US. Traffic Marketplace became the first company to exclusively represent MSN’s unsold ad inventory. Tyler put in place similar partnerships with Yahoo! and AOL and in 6 months built the 4th largest website in the world behind Yahoo!, AOL and MSN. Due to Traffic Marketplace’s dominant position in the US market Vivendi Universal, who were launching into the US, acquired the business to become the platform and technology provider to launch their US internet business. Tyler became the youngest SVP at Vivendi and was responsible for the daily operations reporting to the head of North America at Vivendi. In 2005 Tyler moved to Munich, Germany to begin his 3rd venture EuroClick (later re-branded to Adconion) with the vision to build the world’s largest network.

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