Tabreez Verjee, President and Director

Tabreez has been President of Betawave since 2007. He has directed more than $500 million in committed assets across multiple venture capital funds and over 40 portfolio companies in the U.S. and Europe. and he has helped raise more than $150 million in capital for media financings. He co-headed Sonique (IMDI) and successfully negotiated its sale for more than $70 million to Lycos. Tabreez is also an early investor and member of the board of directors at Kiva.org, the world's first peer-to-peer microfinance platform. He is also a charter member of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs, a global, non-profit network dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. Tabreez started his career at Bain & Company and received a bachelor of science in Engineering with honors from University of California at Berkeley.

Lori Macias, VP & GM

Lori is responsible for overseeing the company's business, sales and publisher operations, research initiatives and product strategy. Lori was a Co-Founder and former VP of SlingShot Media, a Los Angeles based company that collaborated with the professional entertainment community to develop, produce and distribute original programming online. Lori spent over five years at Yahoo! Inc. where she was responsible for the development of marketing programs and execution of all paid promotion on the Yahoo! Front Page. Over a two year period, Lori effectively grew revenue on the product over 650%. Lori graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with honors and a dual major in Economics and Psychology.

Pete Auerbach, Vice President of Sales

Pete is a seasoned digital media professional, who has spent most of his career focused on sales for family and kids. Prior to joining Betawave, he was Vice President of Ad Sales at ZAM where he sold video and custom integration for the large online video game network. Previously, he spent five years as Executive Vice President of SD Media, a leading west coast rep firm where he sold several top brands, including Nat Geo Kids, and managed sellers on other premier brands, such as Marvel. Prior to joining SD Media, Mr. Auerbach owned his own independent rep firm. Earlier in his career, he was Vice President of Sales & Business Development for a children's internet venture and spent six years with G+J USA Publishing where he served as the Western Sales Manager for Parents and Child magazines, and as G+J's Corporate Sales Manager for the Western region.

Jim Moloshok, Executive Chairman and Director

Jim served as President of Digital Initiatives for Home Box Office where he was responsible for exploring new opportunities, focusing on innovative content and fast-changing technology. Before joining HBO, Jim was senior vice president, Entertainment and Content Relationships at Yahoo! building partnerships with movie studios, TV networks and producers. While at Yahoo!, the areas under his supervision included Kids, Movies, TV, Games, Sports, Health and News. Prior to joining Yahoo! Jim was president of Warner Bros. Online and president and CEO of Entertaindom.com, an original entertainment destination for Time Warner. Under Jim's leadership, Warner Bros. was named by Variety as the "Most Aggressive of All Studios on the Web," and in its debut month, the independent Entertaindom eclipsed other more established entertainment sites. Warner Bros. Online was the first studio site to accept advertising and evolve into an online business with its own sales and marketing team separate from any other sales efforts of the company.

John Durham, Director

John has served on Betawave's Board since 2007. He is chief executive officer and managing partner of Catalyst, which specializes in connecting emerging technology companies, publishers and brand marketers facilitating the integration of paid media, non-paid media and emerging media. Prior to Catalyst, John served as President of Sales & Marketing for Jumpstart Automotive Media and on the Jumpstart Board of Directors, prior to its acquisition by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S in 2007. From 2004 to 2006, John served as the Executive Vice President, Business Strategy at Carat Fusion, for Carat's offices across the country including New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles. Before that, he was a founder of Pericles Communication, a political digital firm that helped advocacy and political groups tap into interactive marketing.

In 2003, John was Chief Operating Officer of Interep Interactive which, under his direction became the largest independent online ad sales company in the United States, and through co-marketing agreements, the largest Internet rep company in the world. In 2000, John helped engineer the acquisition of Winstar Interactive Media from Mandalay Entertainment Group. John had joined Winstar Interactive in March of 1998 as Vice President of Advertising Sales. Prior to Winstar, John was the founding Sales Manager for Mapquest.com (Denver) which he joined in the fall of 1996. Before that, he was Sports Sales Manager for San Francisco’s KRON TV. John , a long-time resident of San Francisco, has been teaching advertising and marketing classes since 1992 and currently teaches advertising in the MBA program at the University of San Francisco. He also founded the Bay Area Interactive Group, an Internet industry-networking group. John has also handled the online advertising strategy for five victorious political candidates, including the President and four Senators.

Riaz Valani, Director

Riaz joined our board of directors in 2006. Riaz is currently a General Partner at Global Asset Capital, LLC, where he has worked since 1997. He previously served as Chairman of Viventures Partners SA and President of IMDI/Sonique. Riaz was a Managing Director of Global Entertainment Capital and was with Gruntal & Co. focused on private equity and asset securitizations. Riaz was one of the two investment bankers that engineered the acclaimed David Bowie Bonds, which was awarded Euromoney's Deal of the Year in 1997. Riaz also privatized Quorum Growth Capital, one of Canada's leading publicly traded venture capital firms in a successful management led buyout. Cumulatively he has several billion dollars of transactional expertise across structured finance, real estate, and private equity. He currently serves as a director of Maritz Properties, Inc., Avex Funding Corporation and is a Charter Member of TiE.

Michael Jung, Director

Michael joined our board of directors in 2008. Michael was part of the founding team of Panorama Capital in late 2005, where he is a partner. Panorama is the successor to the venture capital program of JPMorgan Partners, which Michael joined in 2003. Prior to working in venture capital, he was vice president of corporate strategy and development at the Exigen Group, an enterprise software and services company where he managed the company’s day-to-day business development activities. He also served as vice president of strategic corporate development at Ask Jeeves, leading the company’s mergers and acquisitions and strategic partnership efforts. Early in his career, Michael advised a variety of high technology companies both as an investment banker with BancBoston Robertson Stephens and as an attorney with Gunderson Dettmer. He holds a JD and an MBA from the University of Michigan and bachelor’s degree in political economy of industrial societies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mark Menell, Director

Mark joined our board of directors in 2008. Mark has been a partner at Rustic Canyon Partners since January 2000. From August 1990 to January 2000, Mark was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, including as principal and co-head of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Mergers and Acquisitions Group, in Menlo Park. Mark is also a member of the board of directors of GSI Commerce, Inc. (NASDAQGS: GSIC).

Richard Ling, Director

Richard joined our board of directors in 2008. Richard founded Rembrandt Venture Partners in 2004. Prior to co-founding Rembrandt, Richard was the founding CEO and Chairman of MetaLINCs Inc., an e-mail search and analytics company acquired by Seagate in 2007. Prior to MetaLINCs, Richard was the co-founder, President and CEO of AlterEgo Networks Inc., a wireless infrastructure company, acquired by Macromedia Inc. in March 2002. Before AlterEgo, Richard led the e-Commerce product organization at Inktomi, where he was responsible for overseeing all areas of the group’s engineering and operations, including site and network operations and product development. Richard was a co-founder, VP of Products and Engineering, and acting CTO at Impulse Buy Networks Inc., leading the development, operations and product management groups. Impulse Buy Networks was acquired by Inktomi in 1998.