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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Ian H. Stewart: - Chairman of the Board
Ian H. Stewart, Q.C. is a retired member of the Law Society of British Columbia, President of Appin Investments Limited., and other B.C. companies. Mr. Stewart is a former alderman of the City of Victoria, a former member and longtime Chair of the Board of Governors of the University of Victoria, an Honorary Patron of the University of Victoria, a past member of the British Columbia Achievement Foundation, President of Metrocan Holdings Limited doing business as Honda City the largest Honda Dealership on Vancouver Island, a director of Thirfty Foods of Victoria and is a past president of the BC Automobile Dealers Association. He is a well known community leader in Victoria and has been actively involved with many charitable and philanthropic organizations. Mr. Stewart has a long record of service as a director of many other Canadian companies including Rogers Communications Inc. He is a recipient of the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, The Order of St. John, and the Queens Jubilee Medal. Mr. Stewart holds BA and LLB degrees from the University of British Columbia and an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Victoria.

Rhys T. Eyton: - Chairman of the Audit Committee
Mr. Eyton is a corporate director and currently serves as a director of the Vancouver International Airport Authority, Trimac Transportation Services Inc., and as a trustee of Trimac Income Fund and the Canadian Hotel Income Properties Real Estate Investment Trust. He has previously served on numerous corporate boards including Clarica Life Insurance Company, Brascan Ltd., IBM Canada Ltd., WIC - Western International Communications Ltd., and Prudential Steel Ltd. Mr. Eyton Served as Chairman and Executive Officer of Canadian Airlines International from 1987 to 1989 at which time he became Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer and director of both the airline and the holding company in 1995.

Jim H. Reed: - Chairman of the Governance Committee
Mr. Reed is the principal of two management-consulting firms, JH Reed & Associates, Ltd., specializing in governance and strategy, and Synachor Management Inc., which concentrates on business development, strategy, marketing, and change. His clients include a wide range of public and private organizations, such as major crown corporations, universities, colleges, and national companies in the retail and service sectors. Since 1999 he has been a senior advisor on strategy for the CEO of Hudson's Bay Company. He has assisted these organizations by developing strategies to improve capacity, sustainability, and market position. In addition, Mr. Reed provides strategic advice to corporations interested in major sponsorship opportunities with domestic or international sporting events.

David H. McMillan: - Chairman of the Compensation Committee
Mr. McMillan is the recently retired Chief Executive Officer of Island Farms Dairies Ltd., a position he held for 14 years. He attended the University of British Columbia and has accumulated over 30 years experience as a senior executive in organization and management in the packaged food industry and as the Chief Executive Officer of a number of significant Canadian companies including Associated Biscuits of America and William Nielson Limited. Currently Mr. McMillan serves on the board of Jace Holdings Limited doing business as Thrifty Foods, the largest food retailer on Vancouver Island, B.C. He also serves on the boards of a number of cultural and charitable boards in Victoria.

Robin H. French: - Board Member
Mr. French's background is in the motion picture and TV industry. He attended the California Institute of Technology in California, is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has an honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps. His career began in artist's management, as the co-founder of The Hugh French Agency, Inc. and the Executive VP of its successor company, Chartwell Artists Ltd. In order, he later served as the VP in charge of domestic production for Paramount Pictures, President of Distribution for Tandem/TAT Productions, Chairman of Hal Roach Studios, and founder/president of a private major market TV station management company.

Alex A Campbell: - Board Member
Entering the grocery industry in 1956 as a young student, Alex A. Campbell worked his way up to become District Manager for Shop Easy stores in Vancouver. He moved to Vancouver Island in 1973 to open the 49th Parallel Grocery in Ladysmith. In 1977, in conjunction with friend and business colleague Ernie Skinner, he acquired the space vacated by a closing Safeway outlet to open the first Thrifty Foods store which grew to be the market leader on Vancouver Island and expansion to the lower Mainland. Alex A. Campbell has received countless awards for entrepreneurship and extensive community involvement. The Western Canadian food industry bestowed him the Astra Award in 1994, and he was acknowledged as Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997. In 1999, he received the Order of BC, the highest recognition in the province. The Food Industry Association of Canada honored Alex with the Knight of the Golden Pencil in 2000, and Royal Roads University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree that same year. He is also Chairman Emeritus of Thrifty Foods.

Brent Sternig: - Board Member
Mr. Brent Sternig is the Acting President and CEO of the Innovation and Development Corporation, the University of Victoria's (UVic) Industry Liaison Office. He has over 12 years experience in the area of intellectual property protection, technology licensing and new enterprise development. Mr. Sternig manages a portfolio of over 95 patents and has been involved with the creation of over a dozen spin-off companies. In his role with IDC he is responsible for marketing UVic technologies to the private sector, negotiating University licensing agreements, and developing industrial collaborations. Mr. Sternig has been actively involved in assisting new ventures through mentoring, involvement in BC business plan competitions, and most recently through the creation of a IDC Victoria Angel Forum. He current serves as a director on the boards of five local companies. Mr. Sternig earned his Masters of Business Administration from Royal Roads University in 2003 and his Diploma of Marketing Management from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in 1991. He is a member of the Association of University Technology Managers and the Licensing Executives Society.

Fred Speckeen: - CEO, Board Member
Speckeen brings two decades of VP and CEO level experience gained internationally across the technology, media and semiconductor fields in hands-on roles spanning product management, sales, marketing, and technology licensing. He was most recently Director of Business Development -- a global role with TC Group A/S, providing digital audio technologies, products and IEEE1394 chip solutions for professional and commercial audio markets.

Anthony E.R. Sukow: - EVP Business Development, Co-Founder, & Board Member
Following the completion of an applied science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997 at Okanagan University College Anthony Sukow worked as a project manager on various engineering and manufacturing projects, including the set-up of a multi-million-dollar fuel-tank-manufacturing facility for Volvo trucks. Subsequent to three years of project management, he returned to the University of Victoria to pursue a degree in Finance and Economics. Anthony has built and continues to build relationships with the company's most important clients and is the driving force behind expansion and growth.

Andrew E.R. Sukow: - CTO, Co-Founder, Vice President, & Board Member
dddd Mr. Sukow is the systems architect, leveraging experience from his studies of computer science at the University of Victoria. Andrew provides leadership for the continued development of the Terapeak system and has demonstrated proficiency with one of the world's largest data sets from eBay. The architecture he has developed is scalable, dynamic and extremely fast. To meet the challenge presented by the vast eBay dataset, Andrew conceived and implemented a hybrid solution of best practices for handling and processing over a billion transactions. Andrew has led his development team to create an elegant solution to provide analysis of e-commerce data with extraordinary speed and depth of research.