Brian Ross served as Senior Vice President of Business Development for iMALL, Inc. in 1994 and became Director of Investor Relations in June 1997. iMALL, Inc. was acquired by Excite@Home in October 1999 for $565 million. Mr. Ross served as a Business Development Manager in Excite@Home’s E-Business Services Group. After the sale of iMALL, Mr. Ross became a founding investor of GreatDomains Inc. which was sold to Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) for approximately $100 million. From March 2000, he was Director of Business Development for Prime Ventures Inc., a leading Venture Partner firm focusing on early stage companies in Southern California. In July, 2004 Mr. Ross became a founding investor in E-force Media, a diversified online marketing company where he acted as interim Director of Business Development. Mr. Ross attended University of California at Santa Barbara.

Chris Meredith brings over twelve years of product development and management experience in the financial, competitive intelligence, marketing and telecommunications industries. Mr. Meredith founded Accelerize New Media in 2001 to develop ecommerce initiatives including its core consumer product EDGAR Index, an RSS-based SEC Filing alert service, and MapGUI Flash Maps. Prior to his work at Accelerize New Media, Mr. Meredith led product development at competitive intelligence data provider Intelligence Data, a division of Thomson Financial. Mr. Meredith also served as Product Development Manager at mBLAST marketing portal and Senior Technical Lead at TNCI, a leading telecommunications provider. Mr. Meredith attended University of Massachusetts and Massachusetts College of Art.

Dan Goldberg has served as our Chief Marketing Officer since January 2007, overseeing online marketing efforts, branding, and business development. From February 2002, through January 2007, Mr. Goldberg served as Chief Marketing Officer and President of TDRG, which was acquired by Accelerize New Media. Mr. Goldberg was a founder and partner of TDRG, overseeing marketing, online initiatives, business development, and operations. Before founding TDRG Mr. Goldberg was a founding member and partner of NetStar Ventures, a $20 million venture capital fund investing in early stage Internet and technology companies. Mr. Goldberg was responsible for growing the portfolio’s companies, raising capital, investment selection, and business development initiatives. Prior to joining NetStar, Mr. Goldberg was Director of Business Development for Excite@Home's EBusiness Services division. He was responsible for developing distribution for EBS’ proprietary E-commerce solution. Mr. Goldberg came to Excite@Home through its $560 million acquisition of iMALL where he was responsible for its retailing division and managed its joint venture with Universal Studios. Prior to joining iMALL, he was the basketball product manager for Upper Deck Authenticated, the leading sports memorabilia company. Mr. Goldberg received a BA from Rutgers University and earned an MBA in Marketing and Finance from Drexel University.

Damon Stein has served as our General Counsel since January 2007. He worked as Director of Marketing/Player Affairs at Beach Sports Group, LLC, a successful sports agency, from 1997 through 2001. After working as a sports agent, Mr. Stein served as a Contract Lawyer for Alschuler, Grossman, Stein and Kahan before joining TDRG in 2002. Mr. Stein was a founder and partner, and served as General Counsel/President for TDRG until it was acquired by Accelerize New Media. Mr. Stein was integrally responsible for growing TDRG from a startup company to a prominent debt negotiation and Internet marketing firm. While at TDRG, Mr. Stein was responsible for legal and financial affairs, while also aiding in many marketing initiatives. Mr. Stein received his BA from the University of California at Berkeley. He was then awarded a partial academic scholarship to Pepperdine University where he received his JD/MBA. Mr. Stein is licensed to practice law in California.

Daniel Minton started in the world of new media in the late 1990s as lead programmer for Watershed Consulting. In 2002 Watershed Consulting was hired by The Coleman Company to develop an Outdoor Recreation Community on the Internet. He was instrumental in architecting, developing and launching the National Recreation Database which was published as the Coleman Outernet. From 2004 until he joined our company, Mr. Minton served as Vice President of Seed Advertising where he was responsible for all lead generation initiatives, sales, and interactive marketing. Mr. Minton attended Washington State University, where he studied English and Philosophy. Mr. Minton’s responsibilities at Accelerize New Media include managing and overseeing the ongoing development and growth of the Accelerize Financial Network.

Jeff McCollum brings over a decade of Internet sales and marketing experience. From 1995-1998 at Netscape Communications he sold enterprise software to Fortune 500 companies. From 1999-2001, he was Director of Business Development at NBCi where he identified, negotiated and closed numerous deals and managed relationships with NBC broadcasting and studio operations. At ICM/Breakpoint, a transactional business development company with access to media, information, entertainment and technology-related entities, he closed strategic deals on behalf of clients. Mr. McCollum was co-founder of Ecological Technologies where he was Vice President of Business Development and Sales. Most recently he was Vice President of Sales for eForce Media from 2004-2007. At eForce he was responsible for creating a market, understanding the technology, and generating demand for sales leads within several industries. Mr. McCollum developed business rules and practices that have become standards within Lead Generation. He has served as Head of Lead Generation at Accelerize since March 2007. Mr. McCollum attended University of Southern California.