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Tony Philipp,
Director, CEO and President, UpSNAP, Inc.
Former Chief Operating Officer of Lycos Europe (IPO 2000 $5 billion).
Tony has successfully grown several Internet companies to significant revenues including:
Vivisimo, Lycos Europe, and Magellan. Tony served as advisor or board member to Mobileway,
Mobile Commerce and Motricity, responsible for strategic partnerships with: Overture/Yahoo,
Lycos, MSN, Looksmart, EBay, Infospace, AOL, Findwhat, Bertelsmann, Grolier, etc.
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Mark McDowell,
Director, UpSNAP, Inc.
Co-founder and Partner of Acta Wireless, LLC, which provides wireless investment and advisory firm
to clients such as Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, Hewlett-Packard, and AOL since Nov 2004. Mr. McDowell
served as President of McDowell Technology Ventures from Sept 2002 - Oct 2004, and was President and
COO of Invertix Corporation, a global pioneer in wireless instant messaging from 1997 until August 2002.
Mr. McDowell previously served as co-founder and director of TeleCorp PCS, (acquired by AT&T Wireless
Services in February 2002) and holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Richard von Gnechten,
Director, UpSNAP, Inc.
President & CEO of Ravon Corp., which provides corporate financial advisory services. He also serves as
Managing Director of GrowthFinance and CFO or board member for several public and private companies.
Mr. von Gnechten joined Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) in 1991 and served as Financial Vice President
& CFO from 2000 to 2004, managing/implementing Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC and NYSE compliance. During his tenure,
Hawaiian Electric was recognized by a Dow Jones public company survey as a top 5 company for corporate
governance and 9th for disclosure transparency. He has an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business,
Financial Management Program graduate from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor's in
Economics from the University of Denver.
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