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Michael Fisher - Chief Executive Officer

As CEO, Michael is responsible for the overall business strategy and day-to-day management of the company's operations.

A seasoned operator with a track record of building successful online enterprises, Michael was most recently General Manager of performance marketing network Traffic Marketplace (TMP), a division of Vendare Media. There he supervised all technical development and advertising operations and evaluated corporate development opportunities for TMP and its parent.

Prior, he served as Senior Vice President of Operations at Vivendi Universal Net (VUN), where he oversaw all engineering, product development, customer service, and advertising operations. He joined VUN after engineering the acquisition of Uproar, Inc. where he was Director of Advertising Operations.

Michael holds a B.A. in Government from Harvard College.

Ben Widhelm - President and Chief Technology Officer

As President and CTO, Ben is responsible for the crafting the vision and managing the implementation of ElephantDrive's product and technology.

He joins ElephantDrive from Critical Section, where as President he led the development of secure, proprietary Customer Relations Management and Content Management System enterprise applications for brick and mortar casinos.

Prior, he served as Vice-President and CTO at VUN. At VUN, Ben was tasked with setting global technology strategy for the multinational internet games division, and managed the development and infrastructure design for web distribution of a vast array of gaming and entertainment content, work recognized by awards from the Microsoft Developers Network and the International Game Developers Association. Ben also held lead software engineering positions at Checkout.com and Sun Microsystems.

Ben received a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA.

Jaideep Dharap, Director of Software Development

As Director of Software Development, Jai is tasked with optimizing ElephantDrive's distributed software solutions.

Previously, Jaideep was worked with the research team at Hewlett Packard Labs where he developed software for management of virtualized environments for Xen as well contributing to OpenSSI, a open-source clustered operating system. Jai also engaged in original research in the PhD program at the University of California at Los Angeles, with a focus on self-organizing storage systems. While at UCLA, Jai also taught classes in computer science.

Jaideep holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Vera Iskandar-Tipton, Director of Web Development and Release Engineering

As Director of Web Development and Release Engineering, Vera is charged with managing all aspects of the delivery of new software to end users, as well as ElephantDrive's web-based interfaces.

She was most recently Director of Quality Assurance at Vivendi Universal Net. There her team managed the quality assurance and release engineering aspects of all engineering divisions, including performance marketing network Traffic MarketPlace (TMP) and the vast array of gaming and entertainment content Flipside Entertainment.

Vera holds a B.S. in Computer Science from New York Institute of Technology.