Advisors

Gokul Rajaram is founder of Chai Labs, a Silicon Valley, Calif.-based Internet solutions start-up. Prior to Chai Labs, Gokul, a graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management, was product management director and engineer for Google AdSense. He helped conceive and build AdSense in early 2003 and played a key role in its launch and growth into a multi-billion-dollar product line. Gokul also captained acquisitions for Google, including DoubleClick, AdScape and dMarc. Gokul assists us with due diligence on technology, product and monetization.

Michael Dolan was most recently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Viacom where he led the spin-off of Viacom from CBS. Prior to Viacom, Michael was Chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam, the diversified marketing services company. He began his career at Young & Rubicam in 1995 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and he led the 1996 recapitalization of the company with Hellman & Friedman. The company successfully went public in 1998 before its sale in 2000 to WPP. Michael has also been an advisor to KKR and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Mattel, Inc. and Bacardi, Ltd.

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Roland DeSilva co-founded DeSilva+Phillips in 1996 and since then the firm has become a leading investment banking boutique in the media industry. To date, the firm has completed more than 150 transactions. DeSilva has held numerous operating positions within the publishing industry including CEO, COO, and international director with U.S. Business Press, International Thomson and The Chilton Company (a division of Capital Cities/ABC). Roland assists us with customer introductions, portfolio company exit strategy and general thought leadership.

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Geoff Judge co-founded 24/7 Media. He helped take 24/7 Media public in 1998 and sold for $649 million in 2007. Previously, he spent nine years at American Express in several roles, including vice president and general manager of the travel and corporate insurance group and vice president of marketing for the new card member group. Geoff assists Metamorphic with deal sourcing and vetting around monetization and customer acquisition.

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David Nussbaum is chairman and CEO of F+W Media, a $300 million online and offline publisher of special interest and professional content. He is formerly CEO of Penton Media, where he is credited with turning the company around and spearheading the successful exit to ABRY. David is a proven operator and at Metamorphic he will assist us with due diligence, portfolio strategy and business development. David loves to experiment with new technologies and often tests many of the products on behalf of F+W.

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Mr. Proto joined Transactis as its chairman in 2006 and became CEO in 2007. Mr. Proto has been in the billing and payments industry since 1982 serving many of the country's largest corporations and financial institutions at two firms he started. In 1996, Mr. Proto founded REMITCO, the nation's largest traditional payment processor which was acquired by First Data in 2000 and he stayed on until 2006. Prior to First Data/REMITCO, Mr. Proto was a co-founder of Financial Telesis, a holding company for several businesses providing payment and data processing services to large banks and major corporations. Financial Telesis was acquired in 1992 by CoreStates Financial, which is now part of Wells Fargo Bank. For nearly 3 decades, Mr. Proto has been a prominent member of various financial services associations and has been a frequent speaker at conferences in the payments industry.

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Marta Wohrle was most recently with Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., where she served as senior vice president of digital media. There, her strategic leadership over the digital extensions of all HFM publications and her eye for new media business opportunities grew the company's digital revenues by 850% in just two years. In 2007, Marta was honored as one of Advertising Age's "Women to Watch" and Min Magazine's "21 Most Intriguing People." Marta assists us with due diligence and operating strategies for portfolio companies.

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David E. Weisman is the President and CEO of InSite Wireless Group, a telecommunications tower and infrastructure company headquartered in Alexandria, VA. He was previously President, CEO and founder of Mountain Union Telecom, also a tower operator from 1999 until its sale in 2006 to Crown Castle International for $300 million. David assists us with our mobile opportunities.

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Bill Hernandez brings more than 28 years of experience in the transaction processing industries. Currently, Bill consults with some of the largest credit card issuers and processors. Previously he was Executive Vice President of First Data Corporation in charge of their US card processing and output services and before that was Senior Vice President of MasterCard where he was responsible for their 50 largest US bank issuers. Prior to joining MasterCard, Bill held various senior executive positions at Citibank where he spearheaded global consumer banking and card product including Asia, Latin America and Europe.

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Erik Matlick is the CEO and founder of Madison Logic, a Lead Generation ad-serving company that is part of the Metamorphic portfolio. Prior to starting Madison Logic, Erik started Industry Brains, a business-to-business performance-based ad network that was sold to Marchex for $35 million in 2005. Erik has created more than 100 partnerships with major media companies, marketers and publishers.

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