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Steve Adelman
Steve Adelman was most recently vice president of Corporate Development at Novell. He joined Novell in 1998 was responsible for all of the company's initiatives with its strategic partners. He also oversaw the company's acquisitions and investments, including the Novell Internet Equity Fund.
Prior to joining Novell, he served as an independent consultant to a wide variety of companies doing business on the Internet. Previously, he was president of GTS, a streaming media startup, and was executive vice president for Reuters NewMedia, with responsibility for investments and acquisitions. Prior to that, he served as a strategy consultant with Gemini Consulting and Booz Allen & Hamilton and as chief operating officer for Trademark Research Corporation, a subsidiary of Commerce Clearing House, a leader in accounting and legal publishing. He started his business career at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Adelman holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Columbia University and a master of business administration degree from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He also served as a non-commissioned officer in the Israeli Defense Forces.

Ankesh Kumar
President and CEO, AppMail
Ankesh was the cofounder of Personic Software, Inc. Personic was considered by many to be the leader in the applicant tracking space, with over 60,000 users worldwide and customers like Wal-Mart, Cnet and Accenture. Ankesh as CEO took the company from conception to $20m in revenue and left in April 2000. Prior to Personic, he founded ATsystems, an IT consulting firm based in the SF bay area. As CEO, Ankesh took that company from conception to $25 million in 4 years. It was sold it to SystemOne Technical, which is now a division of TMP worldwide.

Robert Largen
Principal, The Symbiotic Group
Robert Largen is a seasoned entrepreneur and marketing executive having been a partner at Bustin and Company and Chief Strategic Marketing Officer for Tracy-Locke, DDB Dallas and D'Arcy McManus & Masius Worldwide.

Kathy Lane
Kathy Lane co-founded WorkCard, a collaborative e-procurement ASP platform managing the purchase and payment of the contingent workforce. In 2002, Adecco, the worlds' largest staffing vendor, acquired the Company. Prior to that, she has held numerous executive positions within the software industry and created Dataquest's PC Software Services division.

Randy Whiting
Managing Partner, Brownstone Ventures
Randy Whiting founded Brownstone Ventures in 1999 to provide a vehicle to work with entrepreneurs and investors to develop exciting new business concepts. Since its founding, Brownstone has created a number of new businesses, worked with over 20 exciting early start-up ventures and consulted with some of the leading innovators in the digital economy.

Randy was the President and CEO of CommerceNet, a pioneering research and development consortium that lead development of many currently used eCommerce technologies and business models. He helped found the organization in 1994 while he was director on Internet marketing anc commerce services for Hewlett-Packard. He was named to CommerceNet's board in 1995 and then went to become president and CEO in 1996. During his four years as President and CEO of CommerceNet, he helped set the industry agenda for interoperable eCommerce and the development of eCommerce trading communities. He worked with leading eCommerce companies such as CommerceOne, VISA, Nokia, NTT, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco and Netscape on establishing new models for doing business over the Internet.