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Jim Levinger, CEO

Mr. Levinger has 20 years experience in developing and managing technology solutions that solve complex business problems. Throughout his career, he has been a pioneer in developing interactive technologies for marketing, eCommerce, and education. He has been responsible for introducing innovative approaches to make computer and telecommunications technologies more accessible and useful for consumers.

Recently he was the VP of Client Services for International Wireless. There he was responsible for managing the design, development and implementation of products that enabled mobile devices with embedded digital cameras to read barcodes and other visual symbols.
Mr. Levinger was the founder and CEO of PixelDance Communications, Inc., an award-winning developer of interactive marketing, eCommerce and Internet systems for Fortune 500 and high technology firms. In March of 2000 he merged PixelDance with Lavastorm, Inc. where he went on to lead their user experience efforts.

Early in his career, Mr. Levinger was a member of the team that launched Times Mirror Corporation's first electronic publishing efforts. He also was responsible for managing DemoSoft, the first online service for promoting and demonstrating computer software.

Mr. Levinger has an MBA from Northeastern University.


Sanford Squires, VP Technology
Mr. Squires has twenty years of experience in a number of areas of high-tech and application software development. Most recently, Mr. Squires has been directly responsible for designing and implementing image based 1D and 2D barcode recognition systems on a variety of mobile phone, PDA, and general computer platforms. He has worked on analysis, design, and implementation of a number of Digital Signal Processing embedded systems, including work with a medical machine vision microscopy system, a custom hand-held sensor device, communication line test equipment, and a telephone based testing device simulating communications from different remote devices.

In prior work, Mr. Squires has led large technology initiatives such as design and development of a logic-programming based expert system tool, a half-terabyte commercial database system, a thousand end user Web to legacy mainframe interface system, and managed the maintenance and distribution of a software product with more than a million lines of source code, distributed monthly to hundreds of users on CD-ROM.

Mr. Squires holds a Masters degree in Physics from Brown University


Ashley Heather, VP Business Development
Ashley Heather was the CEO and founder of MusiKube, LLC, until December 2004 when it was purchased by For-Side, the Japanese based public company. MusiKube is a leading developer of mobile media and entertainment solutions based in New York. Heather founded MusiKube in July 2001 and was responsible for the company’s overall vision and strategy behind MusiKube’s success. An entrepreneur in innovative wireless media, Heather has over 10 years of experience in the development and marketing of leading technology solutions in the United States and Internationally.

Prior to founding MusiKube, Heather served as COO of Cast Technologies, an advanced wireless security company supporting firms such as American Express and Diners Club.

In addition to Cast Technology Solutions, Heather served as Principal Consultant for Impact Plus, a European management consultancy Heather led his practice to a number of honors, including “European eBusiness Consultancy of the Year” in 2001.


Amir Rozenberg, Director, Product Management
Amir Rozenberg has a unique technology and product management skill set in the wireless handset space. Previously Amir was a product manager at TTPCOM, the world’s leading supplier of software and silicon for digital handsets, where he successfully managed a number of strategic handset software products. He has a deep understanding of software solutions for cellular phones. Prior to TTPCOM, he worked for Intel Cellular Communications where he led development teams, architected software and was responsible for a range of software solutions. He has a M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University.


Bruce Radl, Director, Imaging and Optics
Mr. Radl is a photographic scientist with over 20 years experience designing optical system and camera products. His areas of expertise include geometrical/physical optics, digital photography, photographic hardware.

While working at photographic companies including Kodak,
Polaroid, Eikonix and Scitex, Mr. Radl has designed or invented numerous photographic and optical products including laser scanners, CCD cameras, optical viewers, illumination systems.

Mr. Radl has a BS and an MS in Photographic Science and Instrumentation
from the Rochester Institute of Technology. In the imaging sciences he
holds four patents and has one patent pending.


Tapio Anttila, Advisor
Tapio Anttila is a wireless industry expert who specializes in mobile entertainment and the entertainment and content industries and the wireless community.

In 2004 Tapio was responsible for the mobile content activity for Macromedia, defining the company strategy and key licensing relationships. Before that Tapio led the mobile entertainment practice at Brauning, a boutique wireless consultancy.

Earlier Tapio provided business development services for Crisp Wireless, a leading platform technology company in the mobile Java area. Prior to Crisp, Tapio spent 6 years as an executive at Ericsson, where he was the Director of Business Development of 3G Media for the US market focusing on mobile entertainment and Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) issues.

Tapio holds a Master of Science in Operations Research (Department of Technical Physics) from the Helsinki University of Technology. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and publishes his own newsletter at www.anttila.net.


Dave Bell, Advisor
Dave Bell has been involved in mobile entertainment and media since the seeds of the industry were first planted in the mid nineties. Dave is currently leading corporate business development and strategy at PlayPhone, a company pioneering new distribution channels and delivery vehicles for mobile content. PlayPhone currently distributes content for top publishers, including i-Play, Atari, Glu Mobile, Taito, inFusio, and many others.. It’s products can be found in many of North America’s largest retail stores including Wal-Mart, Target, EB Games and Best Buy, among others.

Before joining PlayPhone, Dave founded Chasma Interactive Publishing, one of the first publishers of branded, top-tier mobile games in North America. Under Dave’s leadership as CEO, Chasma pioneered innovative content for the CDMA BREW platform as one of QUALCOMM’s first ten content partners. Prior to the company’s sale to Kayak Interactive in 2005, the company had raised two rounds of venture capital from institutional and angel investors and launched more than a dozen branded and original products on hundreds of mobile devices.

Dave has been a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has delivered keynote addresses or has been a featured participant on panels at many major mobile industry conferences.

Todd M. Malan, Advisor
Todd M. Malan is President & CEO of the Organization for International Investment (OFII), a Washington D.C.-based business association representing US subsidiaries of overseas companies such as Nestle, DaimlerChrysler and SABMiller. OFII is the only association that exclusively represents firms that are "insourcing" into the United States. OFII promotes the economic benefits of insourcing, advocates a level playing field in US legislative and regulatory environments and hosts unique and focused conferences for particular functions (CEO, CFO, General Counsel etc)focused on operating in the United States. Malan is a regular public commentator on international business issues, having appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN and the Washington Post.

Malan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Washington in Seattle. Malan also attended the University of London, Birkbeck College as a Hansard.