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Peter Tsepeleff, President and CEO
Peter Tsepeleff founded NETmachines in March 1999. Prior to founding NETmachines, Mr. Tsepeleff served as Vice President of World Wide Sales for Smart Link, Ltd., an Israeli software communications company with 90 employees and sales of $25 million. At Smart Link, Mr. Tsepeleff managed world wide sales of dial up modems, including the creation of U.S. sales and distribution operations. From 1979 to 1986 Mr. Tsepeleff became a Product Manager, Product Line Manager and International Marketing Manager at Shugart Corporation, a $240 MM storage subsidiary of Xerox Company. After Shugart, he served as Director of Sales for both Trident Microsystems and TeleVideo. Mr. Tsepeleff began his career in high tech as a Program Manager for the VHS Products at Memorex. Mr. Tsepeleff is a former Adjunct Faculty Member at Golden Gate University, where he taught a Graduate Seminar in International Distribution and Marketing. Mr. Tsepeleff is listed in Who's Who in California and Who's Who of World Business Leaders. He has a Bachelors and Masters of Arts degrees in International Relations from San Jose State University and an MBA from Golden Gate University.

Bob Evans, Chief Technical Officer
Mr. Evans has served as CTO of NETmachines since June 1999. In 1993, Mr. Evans founded MediaCity World, one of the first Internet Service Providers in Silicon Valley. Mr. Evans became a pioneer in the Broadband TCP/IP cable market when MediaCity World helped to develop and launch one of the first successful cable modem networks in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1996, MediaCity World was sold to Softnet Systems, (Nasdaq: SOFN) a public company. From 1996 until 1999, Mr. Evans served Vice President of New Business Development and subsequently Chief Technical Officer for Softnet. Once Cable Modems and Broadband Network equipment became available MediaCity created the ISP Channel and partnered with Cable Operators. Today, the ISP Channel connects about 2 million homes and is the 3rd largest Cable Internet Provider in the United States.

From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Evans founded and served as President and CEO of Autotalk, Inc., which invented Second Audio Program (SAP, MTS) channel television transmission servers and receivers. Autotalk began in the SF Bay Area broadcasting continuous regionally coded traffic information over Channel two and thirty six.

From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Evans founded and served as President and CEO of International Teletext Communications, Inc, where he invented, developed, manufactured and sold various Television data imbedding transmission and receiving devices. Teletext created a network of data content transmissions on 3 satellite video uplink feeds and 30+ TV stations nationwide.

During the early 1980's Mr. Evans held technical and management positions with Helgesons Nuclear Services and Data Point, a communications and telephony company. He is experienced with Satellite Modulation and Networking, RF Devices and Routers, and has extensive software experience includes FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux and Windows NT.

Rod Beckwith, Vice President, Technical Operations
Mr. Beckwith has served as VP, Technical Operations of NETmachines since June 1999. Mr. Beckwith has over fifteen years engineering experience in Internet backbone and networking. From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Beckwith served as Vice President of Technical Operations for the ISP Channel Inc., a division of Softnet (Nasdaq: SOFN). As Vice President of Technical Operations Mr. Beckwith was responsible for a staff of 50 engineers and technicians. During his tenure at the ISP Channel, Mr. Beckwith built and designed a Network Operations Center (NOC) and Data facility to accommodate 1 million customers for the company. Mr. Beckwith migrated the ISP Channel's infrastructure from an Ascend to Cisco Networks.

Mr. Beckworth was one of the founding Engineers at Netscape, where he worked as a Senior Network Engineer from 1994 until 1998. In this position, Mr. Beckwith designed and implemented all of Netscape's internal as well as external networks.

In 1994 (working long nights and finding Yahoo and then Playboy as his strategic customers) Mr. Beckwith co-founded Internet Systems, Inc., an Internet Service Provider, where he worked as SVP Engineering until 1996. In 1997, Internet Systems was acquired by Frontier Global, one of the world's largest Internet Service Providers, for $180 million.

Prior to starting Internet Systems Inc, Mr. Rod Beckwith was employed by Silicon Graphics from 1991 to 1994, where he designed and deployed much of Silicon Graphics modem and internal backbone and frame relay infrastructure

Pat Dane, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Mr. Pat Dane has over 25 years experience in the high technology industry as a manager, consultant, entrepreneur and senior executive. Mr. Dane is considered an Internet "guru," and had a syndicated Internet radio talk show called the Pat and Mike's World Wide Web Radio Show from 1996 to 1998. His sponsors included CompuServe, Yahoo, Ziff Davis, Hewlett Packard, Office Depot.com and USA today. In 1995, Mr. Dane formed Dane Interactive, which helps select a group of well managed Internet companies find distribution for new media content and technologies. The company's client list includes Softbank, Hewlett Packard, Compuserve, Big Planet, the Learning Company, Microsoft, Quarterdeck and Compaq. While working at Dane Interactive, Mr. Dane successfully founded and sold several companies, including Tuneup.com (in 1996) and Cyber-movers.net, the world's first "virtual moving" company which helps companies move information and materials onto their website in 1998.

From 1972 to 1987, Mr. Dane served as marketing manager at Xerox. Mr. Dane conceived the award winning tag line "Team Xerox," which is still used by Xerox. At Xerox he was responsible for bringing the Alto Computer and file, print and Communication Servers out to the public from the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

From 1992 to 1993, Mr. Dane served as President and CEO of Sofnet.com, creator of the award winning FaxWorks for Windows program. In 1994, Mr. Dane the co-founded PipeLine Communications, the first company in the world to introduce on line registration.