MANAGEMENT TEAM

Pamela Roussos
President and CEO

Responsible for setting 555-1212.com's strategic direction, Pamela leverages her career-long experience in leading teams of engineers and marketing professionals and growing successful businesses. Immediately prior to joining 555-1212.com, she served as vice president and general manager of the Rose Technical Business Unit at Rational Software (symbol: RATL), a Cupertino, California-based company with more than $500-million in revenue in its latest fiscal year and a current market capitalization of $7.3 billion. She and her team were responsible for introducing a new product into the market, Rational Rose RealTime, recently touted by International Data Corp. as "the de facto standard for real-time embedded system development."

Earlier, she served in a variety of capacities at Pure Atria (now Rational Software), including product manager, director of product marketing, and vice president and general manager of the company's Developer Tools Business Unit. In these roles, she helped build and run the successful Purify/Quantify/PureCoverage development tools business on Unix. She also introduced the product line, which was instrumental to Pure Software's IPO, to Windows NT. Prior to joining Pure Software (now Rational Software), Pamela spent eleven years at Amdahl Corporation, where she held a variety of engineering, engineering management and technical marketing positions.

Pamela earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of New Hampshire. Her passions include outdoors activities and helping women succeed.

Richard Bogan
Vice President, Engineering

Charged with 555-1212.com's technical direction, Richard brings to the company more than 30 years of software development experience, including designing and building monolithic and n-tier client/server architectures employing relational data bases and transaction monitors. His skills include Object Oriented Design and system development on Unix, Windows and MVS platforms.

From 1998-2000, Richard served as the principal in his own consulting firm, assisting major enterprises as well as medium-sized organizations to develop leading-edge architectures with state-of-the-art web technologies. Prior to starting his own company, he was a systems architect with Perot Systems in San Francisco, capping an eight-year career with the company that took him to Dallas, Texas and Paris, France, as a project manager and systems manager. Richard has also worked as a consulting engineer for Bank of America.

Richard has a background in political activism and community service. He has recently become a long-distance runner and adds that to a lifelong love of the outdoors.

Lisa Gaynes
Vice President, Business Development

Lisa Gaynes is responsible for business development and strategic partnerships. She brings 12 years of expertise to the 555-1212.com team from both the funding and receiving side of venture capital and start-ups. In the early 90s, she was director of business development for Counterpart Ventures, a venture capital fund based in Sacramento, California. In the late 90s, Lisa was director of marketing for Course Manager International, a start-up specializing in digital technology. As lead developer of one of Northern California's first start-up conferences, Access, she assisted in creating strategic relationships between pre-IPO companies and venture capitalists. Level One Communications, a pre-IPO conference participant, was later acquired by Intel in 1999 for $2.2 billion.

Over the course of 15 years as principal of Gaynes & Associates, Lisa has earned broad recognition as a successful creator of integrated marketing programs and sales campaigns. Past clients of Gaynes & Associates represent some of the world's largest media organizations, from Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal to Cox Communications and Warner Brothers.

Lisa's educational background includes graduate work in reproductive biology at the University of California at Davis. She spends her free time raising Thoroughbred horses, growing organic oranges, and exploring the outdoors with her son, Nate.

Martin Ogawa
Vice President, Marketing

Martin brings extensive experience in the marketing of computer software products, both with start-ups and more-established companies, to his position with 555-1212.com. In addition to developing 555-1212.com's marketing strategy, he leads a team implementing marketing plans to advance the company's strategic goals. Martin formerly worked in business development and product marketing for O'Reilly & Associates, a well-respected publisher specializing in computer and Net-related books. Other previous assignments were product manager for legal publisher CCH Computax, Inc., and marketing director for Windows software publisher Binar Graphics, Inc. (subsequently sold to Diamond Multimedia). He has also worked for IBM Corporation and Memorex, Inc.

Martin earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration from San Jose State University, with course work at the University of California at Berkeley. He is an MBA candidate at Golden Gate University with an emphasis in marketing, and is a member of the Association of Internet Professionals and the American Marketing Association.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Rob Dickerson
Board Member, Inprise Corporation

Rob has served as a director of Inprise since June 2000. Currently an independent investor, Rob served as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Products for Rational Software, an Internet software company, from 1997 to 2000. From 1995 to 1997, he was Vice President of Marketing and a General Manager for several business units at Pure/Atria Software, a primarily UNIX software company. From 1988 to 1995, Rob was Vice President of Product Marketing and later Senior Vice President for Database and Connectivity Products for Inprise Corporation, which was then known as Borland International, Inc.

Jonathan Glaser
Co-Owner, Pacific Asset Management, LLC
Founder, Triton JMG Capital Management, LLC

Jonathan has engaged in securities investments and trading since 1987, when he formed Glaser & Company, a California limited partnership. Glaser & Company acted as a broker-dealer and market maker on the Pacific Exchange and American Stock Exchange. The company ceased active operations in early 1992 when Mr. Glaser formed JMG Capital partners, LP, the investment partnership he currently operates.

David Hytha
Vice President of Marketing, Silicon Wave

David has 18 years of experience in communications ranging from wireless systems design to sales, and from marketing to engineering management. David's background includes assignments as leader of both the Lucent Microelectronics Operations in Japan and the first permanent Bell Laboratories operations overseas. He was also the General Manager of Motorola's Japan Handset Division, CEO of a Bay Area cellular equipment company, Chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association, and co-founder and co-chairman of the US-Japan HDTV committee. Silicon Wave is a leading company for Bluetooth wireless technology, the mobile Internet access medium.

Pamela Roussos
President and CEO, 555-1212.com

Andrew (Drew) Sobel
CFO, Arden Realty, Inc.

Drew serves as CFO of Arden Realty, Inc., the largest landlord of office buildings in Southern California, with a market capitalization of more than $1.4 billion. Drew was part of the vision and management team that started Arden in the early '90s and led the company to its IPO in 1996. An attorney with 11 years of experience in the practice of real estate law, Drew has served as General Counsel at Pacific Park Associates, LLC and as an associate with the law firm of Pircher, Nichols & Meeks.

Chuck Ziegler
General Partner, Lomita Capital Management, LLC

Chuck has been in the investment business for 18 years. From 1981 until 1993 he was a member of both the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. In addition, he has maintained his broker-dealer on the Pacific Exchange, where he has been a member since 1987. Chuck is founder and co-manager of the Lomita Capital Fund in San Francisco as well as a general partner of the Lomita Capital Management Company. Chuck is a founder and major shareholder of 555-1212.com, Inc., and a principal investor in InfoCiti/LocalEyes, Inc., a developer of sophisticated Internet technologies for targeted search applications.

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