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Albert Gadbut - President and CEO

Albert Gadbut is the founder of AcquireWeb. Over the last 12 years, Gadbut has held management positions in both biotech and high-tech industries. Prior to founding AcquireWeb, Mr. Gadbut developed the product delivery and fulfillment process and best practices for Email Appending while employed at Responsys, an online direct marketing service provider. Prior to joining Responsys, Mr. Gadbut was the Director of Business Development for Bio-Protocol an online Bioscience information portal. Before his involvement with information technology companies, Mr. Gadbut held a Senior Scientist position in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at MetaXen, a company focused on streamlining the drug discovery process. Mr. Gadbut has held faculty positions in the Departments of Medicine, Cardiology at University of California at San Francisco and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Albert Gadbut holds a B.S. in Biology from Northern Illinois University, a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois and completed a Post Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard Medical School.

Richard Slater - Vice President of Sales

As an active member of the Direct Marketing Association, Mr. Slater serves on many committees setting new standards in the direct marketing industry. Mr. Slater was most recently Senior Vice President of Sales at iMatcher, Inc. an e-mail append firm. There his responsibilities included building a national sales force and directing the overall marketing effort. Mr. Slater joined iMatcher from Advansar / The Larkin Group, a publishing and trade show firm where he served as Director of Special Projects focusing on Business Development and serving on the Merger and Acquisition Team. Previously, Mr. Slater spent 22 years as a partner in Slater Publications and Expositions helping them become the largest regional trade show producer in the United States. Mr. Slater attended Marshall University majoring in engineering. He continued his education at Ohio State University where he majored in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and Business.

Brian Maniex - Chief Technology Officer

Over the last 13 years, Mr. Maniex has founded and started several start-up software and consulting ventures and software-consulting firm. Notably, he was founder and CTO of Hyperion Solutions e-Business Division. In addition, Mr. Maniex has architected and developed dozens of enterprise software applications and technologies for companies such as Chiat Day, Epsilon, Microsoft, Nissan, PeopleSoft and many others. Before starting his own technology business, Mr. Maniex held senior technology and marketing positions at Accenture, Glendinning Associates and Unilever. Mr. Maniex holds a B.A. in Accounting and Finance from Michigan State University, an M.B.A in Operations Research from Michigan State University and is a CPA