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Date:	March 2, 2010
Company:	Dapper
Executive:	James Beriker
Position:	Chief Executive Officer

Dapper, a leading dynamic ad creation and optimization company, has named James Beriker as President & Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Dapper, James was President & Chief Executive Officer of Efficient Frontier, a global technology leader in search engine marketing with over $750 million in global spend under management. Prior to Efficient Frontier, he held Vice President, Senior Vice President and General Manager positions at ValueClick [NASDAQ: VLCK], a provider of online marketing technology and services, and was the founder and CEO of Search123, one of the first pay-per-click search engine marketing platforms which was acquired by ValueClick in 2003. Dapper has received venture funding from Accel Partners.

Date:	March 2, 2010
Company:	SlideRocket
Executive:	Heidi Jackman
Position:	Chief Marketing Officer

SlideRocket, the first and only complete online presentation platform, has named Heidi Jackman as Chief Marketing Officer. Heidi is a senior marketing professional with twenty years experience in high technology marketing, e-commerce and product management. Heidi was most recently at Intuit and is recognized as one of the primary thought leaders for the online world, she created Intuit's first "Web Center of Excellence" and played an integral role in implementing Intuit's web first strategy. Prior to Intuit, Heidi was with Cruel World, an internet based recruiting company, where she was Vice President of Marketing Strategy. SlideRocket is venture backed by Azure Capital Partners and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

Date:	February 22, 2010
Company:	SocialVibe
Executive:	Jay Samit
Position:	Chief Executive Officer

SocialVibe, the leading social media utility that empowers people to benefit their causes by engaging with brands, has named Jay Samit as Chief Executive Officer. Jay joins SocialVibe with over 20 years of experience leading technology and media companies. He spent five years as Executive Vice President with Sony in charge of leading their digital strategy across all divisions globally. Prior he was with EMI Recorded Music as Senior Vice President of New Media where he built digital media profits from nothing to over $100 million. Prior to EMI, Jay was with Universal where he also built the business from start-up to a 140 person profitable division. He started his career with Jasmine Multimedia Publishing which he founded and successfully produced and marketed over 300 games and edutainment titles. SocialVibe is backed by venture capital firms JAFCO Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.

Date:	January 28, 2010
Company:	Adap.tv
Executive:	Toby Gabriner
Position:	President

Adap.tv, developer of a leading online video ad management platform, has named Toby Gabriner as President. Toby brings over 10 years of experience in the online advertising industry to his new role at Adap.tv. Most recently, he was President of Tribal Fusion, the digital marketing solutions company owned by Exponential Interactive. He has held executive leadership positions as the CEO of [x+1], a marketing optimization and media company, and President of Freestyle Interactive, an interactive advertising agency acquired by Carat Interactive in 2003. Toby served as COO before taking on the role of President of Carat Fusion, where he managed the interactive division of Carat in the U.S. market, including five offices, 275 employees and key clients including Adidas, Kodak, Pfizer, Philips and RadioShack. The company is privately held and backed by Spark Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and The Gemini Israeli Funds.

Date:	January 20, 2010
Company:	AccountNow
Executive:	James Jones
Position:	Chief Executive Officer

AccountNow, a leading Internet prepaid card issuer, has named James Jones as Chief Executive Officer. James brings to AccountNow 35 years of experience from the banking, consumer lending, payment processing and related financial services industry. He has garnered in-depth knowledge and expertise having served at Citigroup, Crocker, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Providian and GMAC-Residential Capital. In particular, Jones served as the President of Direct Banking at Bank of America. He was Vice Chairman at Providian and served as the CEO at GMAC-Residential Capital. AccountNow has received funding from Invesco Private Capital, Trident Capital and Venture Strategy Partners.

Date:	January 19, 2010
Company:	Fonality
Executive:	Dean Mansfield
Position:	Chief Executive Officer

Fonality, a leading provider of cloud-based business phone systems, has named Dean Mansfield as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Fonailty, Dean was with NetSuite from 1994 to 2004 and helped grow the business from $7 million to over $155 million. His last role was as President of Worldwide Sales and Distribution. Prior to joining NetSuite, Dean held senior management positions with Brocade Communications, where he was responsible for the sales organization’s international region. Previously he was with Plumtree Software where he was Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan, and led the product entry into the Asian markets. Fonality is venture backed by Azure Capital Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Intel Capital.

Date:	January 12, 2010
Company:	eBureau
Executive:	Chris Maher
Position:	Chief Executive Officer

eBureau, a leading provider of predictive scoring and information services for online advertisers, has named Chris Maher as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining eBureau, Chris was President of Hitwise, where he oversaw the company’s global operations and financial performance in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, working with over 1,500 clients worldwide. Chris was part of the executive team that was responsible for the $250 million sale to Experian in June of 2007. Prior to joining Hitwise, he was the Vice President of Sales at Internet measurement and analyst research firm, Jupiter Media Metrix. The Company is funded by Split Rock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures and Tenaya Capital.

Date:	January 11, 2010
Company:	Gilt Groupe
Executive:	David Zucker
Position:	Vice President, Customer Marketing

Gilt Groupe, the invitation-only luxury web-based retailer, has named David Zucker as Vice President of Customer Marketing, where he will be responsible for CRM & Analytics across Gilt's business units. Most recently, David was the Global Director of Customer Relationship Management & Implementation at Dell Inc, where he led Dell's CRM and analytics efforts in the B2C, SMB, enterprise, and public sectors. Prior to Dell, David was the Vice President of CRM at Home Shopping Network (HSN). He joined HSN from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia where he was AVP of Marketing, Analytics, and Internet Operations. Prior to Martha Stewart, David was Director of Database Marketing at Priceline.com, where he built CRM, customer analysis, and customer segmentation for Priceline from the ground up. Gilt's investors include leading venture capital firm Matrix Partners, and Kevin Ryan, former CEO of DoubleClick.

Date:	January 11, 2010
Company:	Tethys Bioscience
Executive:	Matt Ferguson
Position:	Chief Financial Officer

Tethys Bioscience, developer of novel tests that address the growing global healthcare challenge of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, has named Matt Ferguson as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Tethys, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Proteolix, a developer of novel drugs for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Proteolix was acquired in 2009 by Onyx Pharmaceuticals. Before Proteolix, Matt served as Chief Financial Officer at FoxHollow Technologies, where he was responsible for the company's 2004 initial public offering and played a significant role in the company's 2007 merger with ev3 Inc. Earlier in his career, he held a variety of financial, corporate development and operational positions at ChannelPoint and Hewlett-Packard. Tethys Bioscience is backed by aeris CAPITAL AG, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mohr Davidow Ventures and Wasatch Advisors.