Team Helium

Bill was the President of the Boston Globe, a New York Times media company, from 1998 through 2001. Previously Bill rose from Controller to Vice President to Chief Financial Officer to Executive Vice President for Affiliated Publications, owner of the Boston Globe. Bill also serves on the Board of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries and The Parent Review and is a former President of The Wayland Public Schools Foundation. Bill possesses an MBA form the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

As an early Googler, Jeff has held various executive management positions within Google’s advertising sales organization since 2001. As Director, Global Industry Development and Marketing, Jeff currently leads three key areas for Google’s North American Media Sales Organization: (i) Industry Development, (ii) Sales Marketing and Strategy, and (iii) Global and Multicultural Development. Jeff’s teams represent Google’s industry expertise across all major business markets and are collectively responsible for Google’s revenue relationships with its largest advertising and media partners, both domestically and globally.

Jeff recently returned to the U.S. from London, where he was director of the European Vertical Markets Group and a member of Google’s senior management team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In that role, Jeff was responsible for Google’s pan-EMEA industry sales and strategy teams, which advise Google’s largest global clients across 12 countries and a range of industries, including financial services, retail, travel, entertainment, consumer goods, health care, technology and automotive.

Before joining the European team, Jeff ran Google’s Financial Services group in the US, where he was responsible for developing and managing Google’s relationships with North American financial services companies and publishers.

Jeff joined Google in 2001 from ClearGauge, a leading online business-to-business marketing consultancy, where he was the senior director of Strategic Alliances and General Counsel. Jeff led all of ClearGauge’s strategic initiatives involving external relationships and outsourced ventures. Specifically, Jeff negotiated and maintained relationships with the company’s key partners, including Reed Business Information and DoubleClick.

Prior to ClearGauge, Jeff was the vice president of business development at an online business-to-business portal for independent retailers and served as a corporate attorney at the international law firm of Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman in Chicago. Jeff holds a BA from New York University and a law degree from DePaul University in Chicago.

Steve Pogorzelski joined Monster in 1998 when Monster had $50 million in sales. He has held a variety of positions there, including President, Monster North America; Group President, International; and Executive Vice President, Global Sales. Prior to Monster, he had accumulated 14 years of advertising agency experience.

While Steve was President, Monster North America, revenues grew from $424 million in 2003 to $631 million in 2005. Operating margins also grew, including an increase of 58% in 2005.

As Group President, Monster International, he was responsible for Monster sites in more than 40 countries. Under his leadership, revenues grew from $187 million in 2005 to $488 million in 2007.

Steve is also the co-author of Finding Keepers, which was published in hardcover by McGraw-Hill in January 2008. He has been a frequent commentator on global labor markets and has appeared on CNN, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, ABC Nightly News, PBS News Hour, Fox News and numerous local television outlets. He has been quoted in dozens of newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Boston Globe. He has also offered commentary on NPR, Wall Street Journal Radio and AP Radio among others.

He is a board member and on the executive committee at Morgan Goodwill Industries. Other board affiliations include MLT (Management Leadership for Tomorrow) and the Worcester Academy Board of Visitors.

Steve has a BA in Journalism/Advertising from the University of Wisconsin.

Paula has extensive experience in technology companies, handling a variety of legal issues including patents and other intellectual property rights, as well as health care and technology licensing. Paula has worked in large law firms and as inside general counsel to technology companies in biotechnology, software, hardware, internet, medical device, wireless communications and healthcare. Paula earned a law degree from The University of Texas at Austin, following her completion of a Ph.D. in finance as well as a M.B.A. also from The University of Texas at Austin.

In addition to her legal background Paula has an extensive professional background in corporate finance, is a Chartered Financial Analyst (C.F.A.) and an arbitrator for the N.A.S.D.

Mr. Turner is Managing Director and co-founder of Signature Capital, an entrepreneurial venture capital firm that has guided and funded multiple internet-based businesses.

Prior to Signature, Mr. Turner formed Turner and Partners in 1989, a management services firm, specializing in the management of leveraged buy-outs. For one client, Forstmann Little, he served as Executive Chairman and/or Chief Executive Officer for over thirty separate business units with combined annual sales of over $2.5 billion. From 1983 to 1989, Mr. Turner served as President, COO and a director of Automatic Data Processing (ADP - NYSE), a computerized transaction processing, data communication and information services firm with 1989 annual revenues of over $2 billion. From 1979 to 1983, he served as the President of the Texas Instruments Consumer Products Division.

He served on the board of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac - NYSE) from 1990 to 2006 and currently serves on the boards of several private venture-funded companies, including OurStage, Inc., Acoustic Technologies, Inc., NetNumber, Inc. ZOUNDS, Inc., Tango Networks, Inc. and VIRxSYS Corporation.

Joe Trippi has been described by The New Republic as the man who “reinvented campaigning.” He pioneered the use of online technology to organize what became the largest grassroots movement in presidential politics.

Joe is an advisor to the John Edwards 2008 presidential campaign. He is an MSNBC political analyst and former Harvard University fellow. In addition, Joe currently heads the Washington, DC political consultancy, Trippi & Associates. He has been profiled in GQ, Wired, Fast Company, The New Republic and The New York Times Magazine.

Joe is the author of, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything.”

Andy has a proven track record in identifying and responding to the continually evolving needs of the technology marketplace. In 1977, Andy founded Miller Communications, now Miller/Shandwick Technologies, the first firm to specialize in public relations for the Information Technology industry. He led that firm from a one-person start-up to a $60 million, nine-office, global public relations network. Prior to founding Miller Communications, Andy served in various editorial capacities at Little, Brown & Co., as staff writer for the Associated Press, and as Associate Editor of The Harvard Business Review.

He is currently on the Advisory Board for the Internet Capital Group, VennWorks Inc., and Bullhorn, Inc., and is a member of Walnut Venture and Common Angels. Andy is also on the Advisory Council for Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School. And has served as a member of the Governor's Committee on Telecom Policy for the State of Massachusetts and is a Trustee of The Computer Museum.

Ajmal Rahman is an independent strategic advisor and private investor based in London. Since May 2007, Ajmal has served as the Chairman of Rainbow Rewards Holding, a merchant-funded paperless automated loyalty program.

Ajmal also serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of Artificial Life, Inc. (OTCBB: ALIF), a leading global provider of award-winning mobile technology, content, games and applications. He is currently involved in more than 10 different private- equity companies and is acting as an advisor to the board in five of them.

Before his current role, Ajmal worked for Merrill Lynch in several senior positions for more than 17 years, from 1986 until 2003. From 2001 to 2003, he was co-head of the Asia Investment Banking Group of Merrill Lynch, based in Hong Kong. Between 1996 and 2001, he was managing director and regional head of Merrill Lynch's Asian Equity Capital Markets group. Prior to that appointment, Ajmal worked in Equity Capital Markets for Merrill Lynch in London and New York. He has led many significant initial public offerings, secondary equity offerings and convertible bonds both from the corporate sector and from the public sector.

In the technology arena, Ajmal has managed multiple equity offerings for Korea's Samsung Electronics, a secondary equity offering from Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor and the initial public offering and subsequent secondary equity offering from India's Satyam Infoways. Under his leadership, Merrill Lynch was awarded both the Asian Equity and Equity Linked House of the Year in 2000.

Ajmal is a graduate of Law from Pembroke College at Cambridge University.

Bob serves as CTO and VP of Development at NetNumber, Inc. where he provides managerial and technical leadership to NetNumber's Development and Network Operations organizations. Prior to joining NetNumber in November 1999, Bob was a consultant at Cisco Systems working on the Cisco Network Registrar product. Prior to consulting at Cisco, Bob was VP of Architecture and Technology at UNIFI Communications. In this capacity, Bob was responsible for UNIFI's messaging services architecture and technology. Prior to joining UNIFI in August of 1997, Bob was lead architect on Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's Virtual Jet Engine program, a large scale, distributed object-oriented system involving the simulation and optimization of multi-dimensional jet engine propulsion systems.