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Michael Dering 

He is President and CEO of Servicebench, Inc. a privately held corporation focused on optimizing the delivery of post-sale service by integrating the service supply chain to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs. Prior to his tenure at Servicebench, Inc, he served as President and CEO of CrossAccess Corporation, a multi-national venture-funded software infrastructure company that focuses on integrating corporate business functions with new e-business applications.

Prior to joining CrossAccess, Michael served as president and CEO of two Bell & Howell companies. Under his leadership, Bell & Howell Mail and Messaging Technologies doubled its profits and grew its revenue to $500 million while cultivating a broad customer base that included telecommunications carriers. At Bell & Howell Publishing Services Division, he launched its European operation and implemented a focused sales program that resulted in increased market share. Previously he had a 20-year career at TAB Products Company, a $170 million publicly traded manufacturer of information storage and retrieval solutions for office environments. He initially served in a variety of sales and marketing positions, and, in his last five years, was TAB's president and CEO, helping turn around the company and making it the dominant industry leader.

Marty Frederickson

Marty is a Vice President at Sun Microsystems Inc., a publicly held company, ranked 173 on the Fortune 500 list. He is a veteran of over 20 years in technology sales, where his focus has been on team building, sales execution, and partner strategies that help bring startup companies into the mainstream markets. Currently, he leads Sun's software sales strategy and integration planning for newly acquired software assets. In this position he reviews new technology companies, participates in acquisition plans, and helps integrate the acquired companies into the Sun sales strategy.

Prior to this position, Marty was responsible for establishing and directing the sales and operations plan for Sun's Global Identity Management Practice, a business acquired by Sun in 2003 that he grew from $20 million to over $135 million in 18 months. Marty joined Sun through the acquisition of Waveset Technologies, a startup software company focused on security solutions, where he was the VP of North American Sales and Corporate Alliances. In his role there, he developed and executed a sales and alliance plan that contributed to Waveset becoming a market leader in Identity Management, and the subsequent acquisition by Sun.

Anthony Renzette

An accomplished Internet marketing executive, Anthony Renzette has worked in Internet product development and marketing since 1994. During this time, Mr. Renzette has worked for a variety of high tech firms including Current Analysis, a market intelligence firm focused on the high tech and telecommunications sectors, VeriSign, the world’s largest Internet infrastructure provider, and Network Solutions, the world’s first domain name registrar. Mr. Renzette’s work with these companies has included a wide array of services including Internet infrastructure application development, messaging applications product management, business development, fully-automated web site development and hosting applications, including the integration and rebuilding of Network Solutions’ and VeriSign’s acclaimed ImageCafe web site builder.

Currently, Mr. Renzette works with MITA Group clients in the high tech sector focused on new product development, go-to-market strategies, business development, Web services, Web 2.0 strategy and developing next generation messaging and collaboration tools across multiple technology platforms.

Ben Turner

Ben has over 11 years of experience as manager and operator in telecommunications and Internet product development, operational development and technology integration for industry leaders. He has had significant experience building new operations, including business plan development, hiring staff, launching and marketing new products and leading multidisciplinary teams. Ben's experience in management and execution will be available to assist our portfolio companies in business planning, customer acquisition and product development strategy, technology integration and technology mapping. Additionally, Ben has prior experience in government relations, and he has worked extensively in identifying and executing opportunities to partner with Federal and state governments in technology creation.

Ben is the founding partner of Navigator Strategies, a technology consulting and government relations group that provides technology, business and corporate development to major technology companies as well as emerging companies. From 2000 to 2004 he was a Vice President at Verisgn, where among other things he turned around a $200 million business unit and built a new $100 million business unit. From 1997 to 2000 he was a Vice President for Network Solutions, where among other things he managed the business operations for a $400 million mass-market division, including developing the annual P&L, sales forecast and capital plan and assessed new business opportunities. From 1993 through 1997 he worked for AT&T where he was an operations manager and accountant manager for various Internet businesses.