Memeo - Corporate Overview

CEO and President – George Northup is a seasoned executive with more than 25 years of experience in e-commerce and software products. George has been involved in the building of four successful venture backed companies. During his career, he has raised more than $500 million of capital and he has built companies with more than $1 billion of cumulative revenues. He recently served as President & CEO of AuctionDrop, Inc. Previously, he was CFO of LiveCapital, a financial software analytics company that was sold to D & B. Prior to that, George was CFO of Online Resources, an online banking company (NASDAQ: ORCC, Russell 2000) which he took public in 1999. George started his career at Deloitte & Touche.

EVP of Business Development - Steve Owens, was most recently the General Manager/Vice President of the Netscape Internet Service from America Online where he was responsible for the development and successful launch of the value-priced ISP. His background includes 10 years of Internet and software industry experience at top companies including America Online, Netscape, and CompuServe. Steve has held numerous executive positions in operations, development, ecommerce, and marketing.

CTO - Chris Halim has over 15 years of experience in software engineering and management. He was Chief Architect at Pumatech (Intellisync, now acquired by Nokia), a maker of mobile and carrier class synchronization software solutions. He co-founded Real World Solutions (acquired by Pumatech in 1997), a developer of wireless and reliable message delivery server solutions for mobile devices. Chris has held a variety of engineering and technical leaderships positions at EasyReach, Twin Communications, and Apple Computer.

Vice-President of Operations – Ross Eltherington is an expert in field of networking and advanced data center technologies. Co-founding Lipstream (a pioneering VoIP service provider) in 1998, Ross began building scalable, redundant data centers to lay the foundation of bandwidth and data intensive applications. He is credited for building the Mirra service infrastructure, which was later acquired by Seagate Technology in 2005. Prior to that, Ross held various engineering and management leadership positions at Apple Computer.

Director of Marketing – Robert Phillips has spent 15 years managing marketing for a variety of consumer products and services. Robert led worldwide member acquisition for PeoplePC (acquired by Earthlink) and managed the company’s global expansion team in Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific in support of deals with the Ford Motor Company and Delta Airlines. He also worked at online DVD rental company Netflix where he helped build the company’s fast growing member base. Robert began his career at Ogilvy and Mather and DDB Worldwide advertising working with premium brands such as American Airlines, GTE (now Verizon), Embassy Suites Hotels and Level 3 Communications.

Director of Business Development – Ted Sanchez has over 20 years of combined channel sales and channel marketing experience. Ted spent 12 years with Intellisync where he led worldwide channel sales. He was employee number 9 at Intellisync and helped establish Intellisync as the number one personal information management sync solution for PDAs in the market place. Intellisync was acquired by Nokia in 2006. Prior to Intellisync, Sanchez held various marketing positions at Apple USA, Apple Latin America and Hewlett-Packard.

Investors
Established in 2003 and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA, Memeo is backed by G51 Ventures and Foundry Group.

Rudy Garza
General Partner G51 Capital Management
Mr. Garza founded G-51 Capital in late 1996 and began investing in technology companies in early 1997. Since that time, he has co-invested with numerous angel investors, institutional and corporate venture capital firms including: Austin Ventures, AV Labs, Crosspoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Polaris Ventures, Techxas Ventures, TL Ventures, Dell Ventures, Intel Ventures, Hewlett Packard Ventures, and others.

Scott Petry
Product Management Director, Google Enterprise Apps Group
Petry was named Product Management Director for Google's Enterprise Apps Group in after Google acquired Postini, a company that Scott founded in March of 1999. Postini was the innovator and leader in SaaS-based messaging security and compliance solutions. At Postini, Petry served as the Founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Executive Vice President of product development and was responsible for helping to guide product development from initial product launch to a diversified product line deployed across all industries and sectors. Prior to Postini, Petry was Vice President and General Manager at Cygnus Solutions, an open source tools and RTOS vendor, which was acquired by RedHat. Before Cygnus, Petry led the Advanced Products Group at SkyTel, the pioneer in 2-way PCS and text messaging. Petry began his career at Apple Computer, where he held product management positions in the Networking group and was an original product manager on the Newton platform.

Ryan McIntyre
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Foundry Group
McIntyre co-founded Excite in 1993, where he held the position of Principal Engineer and was a key contributor to the company’s search engine, content management tools and community and shopping sites. After leaving Excite in late 1999, McIntyre joined Mobius Venture Capital, where he was an early investor and board member in pioneering consumer electronics company Sling Media and email security company Postini.

Hong Q. Bui,
Founder, Memeo, Inc.
Mr. Bui is a consumer software veteran with over two decades of experience leading and developing technology for top consumer brands that focus on usability and mass market acceptance such as Amazon.com, Visto.com, JavaSoft, and Apple. While at Amazon.com, Hong’s division was the driver for development of their award winning consumer shopping experience used by millions each day. His division also helped develop Amazon’s platform that has been a model of worldwide scalability. Prior to Amazon.com, Hong co-founded Visto and was instrumental to creating widely accepted mobile computing technology to compete with the Blackberry. At JavaSoft, he is credited with development of the Java Servlet standard that has since been adopted industry wide. Hong spent 7 years at Apple where he led teams to develop highly regarded workgroup software solutions and networking technology that is today’s standard for consumer excellence.