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MANAGEMENT TEAM

David Paolo

David Paolo
President, Chief Executive Officer, Director and Co-Founder

David is a co-founder of GoGo Cast and currently serves as our President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, he was also most recently a founder of IPOWER Applications.

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With the vision of the future growth of the on-line and telecommunications industries, Mr. Paolo founded one of the region's most notable ISP's in 1992. While leading it through its early development stages, Mr. Paolo was appointed as Ambassador for the greater Providence Chamber of Commerce and was elected chairman of the NYNEX Advisory board. Mr. Paolo is credited with completing its initial public offering and listing on the NASDAQ national market system with the 5th best performing IPO (an initial first day increase of over 250%). Mr. Paolo also has to his credit the accomplishment of attracting over $120 million in capital, assembling one of the industry's most experienced executive teams and board of directors while leading the development and implementation of its North East network deployment and customer growth. Mr. Paolo was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2000 and currently serves as a member of the board of Regents for La Salle Academy in Providence, RI.

Greg Argyle

Greg Argyle
Chief Operating Officer, Director and Co-Founder

Greg has over 20 years of experience developing, managing and selling landmark internet application releases such as PC-based UNIX, Netscape Communicator, AOL Instant Messenger, Netscape 6 and AOL Communicator.

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Greg has developed or managed through development software that is in use by more than 60 million people across the globe. Greg has held senior management roles in product development, business development and sales for SCO, Netscape, AOL, Rent One Online, XTRM and the Kleiner Perkins/Mayfield startup GeoCAST. Greg was most recently founder and CEO of RSportz, the 'MySpace' for amature sports.

Mike Patnode

Mike Patnode
Technical Advisor

Mike was the first employee and VP of Technology at Centrify Corp., a Mayfield/Accel startup. While there he built the engineering team and delivered multiple products to over 1000 customers in 5 years and helped build the company into a profitable business.

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Previously he was Vice President of System Architecture at Wells Fargo and has held management and architect roles at Netscape and SCO. Mike received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly and spent a year at the MIT X Consortium developing multimedia network protocols.

Martin Lawyer

Martin Lawyer
Vice President, Technology

Martin Lawyer brings over 24 years experience in Silicon Valley, most recently as Director of Operations and Professional Services at XTRM Sports Network, a leader in the extreme sports online community space.

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At XTRM Sports, Martin was in charge of all operations including network operations and the technical support call centers, and professional services groups performing custom website development, on-site event services, and management of all athlete sponsorship programs. Prior to XTRM, Martin held various engineering management roles at AOL and Netscape. Martin managed the front end product development team for Groups@AOL, a dynamic website available to 30 million AOL members. His efforts leading a global team of developers culminated in the international release of Groups@AOL, making the product available to another 10 million users in 12 different countries, each in their own native language. Earlier in his career, as a Computer Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he designed and implemented an innovative network communications architecture for a complex military simulation. Martin’s career in the software industry has spanned the spectrum of the software development lifecycle, from product conception to customer acceptance and maintenance. Martin holds a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) from Oregon State University.

John Bordeleau

John Bordeleau
Vice President, Sales and Marketing

John Bordeleau, a nationally recognized digital media sales expert, comes to GoGo Cast with over 30 years of broad media sales experience in newspaper, radio, cable and broadcast television sales industries.

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Mr. Bordeleau was previously Divisional Vice President for Comcast Spotlight, the Advertising Sales unit of Comcast Corporation. Comcast Corporation is the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communication products and services.

“As GoGo Cast’s business broadens locally we realize we needed an operational leader who intimately knows the GoGo Cast’s business model and product architecture,” said David Paolo, CEO and President of Cranston based GoGo Cast. “With John’s proven track record of successfully building multi-product local, regional and national digital media sales organizations and GoGo Cast’s already seasoned executive team we look forward to bringing our unique communications opportunity to more of New England businesses,” concluded Paolo.

“I am thrilled to be joining a company that is truly changing the way people of all ages consume media. Advertisers and media content providers now have a medium to reach active consumers on the go.” said Mr. Bordeleau.

Jon Larson

Jon Larson
Senior Software Engineer

Jon T. Larson brings over 20 years of experience in enterprise and web software development. In this time he's worked in virtually all areas of software engineering, including advanced programming (embedded systems, all layers of Windows, Web 2.0, etc.), architecture and team management.

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Jon has held senior engineering and team lead and/or management positions at IBM, McAfee, Nokia and Rsportz.

Jon was one of the first employees at McAfee (formerly Network Associates) hired to build the initial network data management framework using Object Oriented System Analysis and Design. He later moved on to designing and developing McAfee's first web based commerce and software distribution system.

At Nokia, Jon was an integral part of the Nokia market leading SSL/VPN gateway team (developed from the ground up starting in May 2002), and later became the lead engineer on the Windows Client piece and a client program that would tunnel IP packets through an SSL connection to a back-end network through the gateway. The client portion included all facets of the Windows application layer from the kernel driver layer, to application and service layer.

While at Nokia Jon gained valuable experience in many facets of the wireless industry including making the Nokia portal work on hand-held devices. Jon became a respected expert in AMPS networks, 2G and the current 3G standards of EDGE and EVDO.

At Rsportz, Jon was the first and main engineer developing the first community based sports network for large sports organizations and sports facilities.

Jon graduated from Michigan Technological University with a B.S. in Computer Science.

Phillip Norton

Phillip Norton
Sales & Marketing

Phillip Norton brings to GoGo Cast an entrepreneurial spirit and a 25-year record of success in media sales, where he specialized in radio station startups and turnarounds.

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He was most recently Cable Manager of Rhode Island News Channel 5, where he distinguished himself as part of a team that reversed prior decline and drove back-to-back 30 percent revenue growth years. Prior to that, he was especially instrumental in TowerStream’s early days, helping to eventually develop the company into the nation’s leading fixed-wireless broadband service provider.

Phillip holds his bachelor’s degree from Bentley University.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

David Paolo

David Paolo
President, Chief Executive Officer, Director and Co-Founder

David is a co-founder of GoGo Cast and currently serves as our President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, he was also most recently a founder of IPOWER Applications.

Read more

With the vision of the future growth of the on-line and telecommunications industries, Mr. Paolo founded one of the region's most notable ISP's in 1992. While leading it through its early development stages, Mr. Paolo was appointed as Ambassador for the greater Providence Chamber of Commerce and was elected chairman of the NYNEX Advisory board. Mr. Paolo is credited with completing its initial public offering and listing on the NASDAQ national market system with the 5th best performing IPO (an initial first day increase of over 250%). Mr. Paolo also has to his credit the accomplishment of attracting over $120 million in capital, assembling one of the industry's most experienced executive teams and board of directors while leading the development and implementation of its North East network deployment and customer growth. Mr. Paolo was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2000 and currently serves as a member of the board of Regents for La Salle Academy in Providence, RI.

Greg Argyle

Greg Argyle
Chief Operating Officer, Director and Co-Founder

Greg has over 19 years of experience developing, managing and selling landmark internet application releases such as PC-based UNIX, Netscape Communicator, AOL Instant Messenger, Netscape 6 and AOL Communicator.

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Greg has developed or managed through development software that is in use by more than 60 million people across the globe. Greg has held senior management roles in product development, business development and sales for SCO, Netscape, AOL, Rent One Online, XTRM and the Kleiner Perkins/Mayfield startup GeoCAST. Greg was most recently founder and CEO of RSportz, the 'MySpace' for amature sports.

Paul Hummel

Paul Hummel

Mr. Paul Hummel has over 30 years experience in the communications industry and is recognized as one of the most respected and successful information technology leaders in the sector.

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Most recently, Mr. Hummel was CEO and President of AudioAudit, a company that provides advertisers, ad agencies, and broadcasters with a breakthrough capability to perform real-time broadcast performance management and tracking of television commercial schedules. Between October 2002 and March 2003, Mr. Hummel led the way in securing $15 million in Series A financing for the company. Recently, AudioAuditwas successfully sold to Nielsen, the industry leader.

Before joining AudioAudit, Paul was Co-founder, President, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of BeechwoodData Systems, a full-service consulting and systems development firm specializing in the development and implementation of innovative connectivity solutions for the Telecommunications industry. Beechwoodwas sold to the Cap Gemini Group, a global Information Technology consulting firm, for approximately $200 million in April 1999, providing shareholders with an excellent return.

Prior to Beechwood, Mr. Hummel held programming and systems development positions with IBM, where he was originally involved in the research and development of that company's 1970's "Study of the Office of the Future," and also served as an independent consultant with a number of major U.S. corporations in the pharmaceutical, financial, and telecommunications industries, including Bell Labs.

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Kent P. Hitchcock

Kent P. Hitchcock
Advisor — Managing Director, Chairman of Global Infrastructure and Transportation Group, Morgan Stanley

As the Chairman of the Global Infrastructure and Transportation Group in Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division, Mr. Hitchcock is heavily involved in the rapidly growing global market for infrastructure concessions and asset monetizations.

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Mr. Hitchcock is advising the State of Indiana in exploring the private operation of its Lottery system, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on exploring a privatization of the PA Turnpike, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in its exploration of strategic alternatives.

Mr. Hitchcock joined Morgan Stanley's Transportation Group in 1993. During his tenure, Mr. Hitchcock has worked on a broad variety of strategic and financing assignments, including serving as team leader for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's recent exploration of PPP alternatives for the Pennsylvania Turnpike, advising Northwest Airlines on its merger with Delta, the $3.5 billion sale of Swift Transportation, the $3 billion sale of Florida East Coast Industries, the initial public offering of UPS; the current lease process for the Indiana State Lottery; privatizations of China Eastern, Aeroport de Paris, and the sale of Air Express to Deutsche Post; and various sell-side mandates including Comair, Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Ryder's school bus division, Rollins Truck Leasing, Arnold Industries and Coach USA. Mr. Hitchcock has also raised capital and provided strategic advice to CP Ships, CNF Transportation, AMR, Northwest Airlines, USAir, America West, Atlantic Coast Airlines, American Trans Air, Teekay Shipping, OSG and Stelmar.

Mr. Hitchcock is a graduate of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Eric Decker

Eric Decker
Co-Founder and Advisor

Eric did undergraduate training at Case Institute of Technology/Case Western Reserver University and Iowa State University (B.S Iowa State University, 1980). Was recruited out of college by HP Labs, worked for 8 years at HP, Information Networks Division in computer architecture, new computer development, and computer bring up and deployment.

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Left HP Labs to join a startup as employee number 16 at Cisco Systems. Responsible for major development in the early IOS operating system. John Chambers, CEO for Cisco Systems said, "If it wasn't for Eric Decker, Cisco would not be where it is today", due to Eric's ability to take customer ideas and requests and then build them exactly what they want and then some. Eric is currently getting his PHD in computer engineering at UCSC. He is working on a marine mammal tag that records information 3D underwater trajectories to enable more in depth research into the prebehavior of these animals. Eric's son Morgan (killed by a drunk driver in 2007) originated the concept of GoGo Cast and did much of the early development work of the business.

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