Daniel C. Staton has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our Board of Directors since our inception. Mr. Staton has served as Managing Director of Staton Capital LLC, a private investment firm, since 2003 and as President of The Walnut Group, a private investment firm that has made over 20 private equity and venture capital investments, from 1997 to January 2007. Prior to forming The Walnut Group, Mr. Staton served as General Manager and partner of Duke Associates from 1981 to 1993. With its initial public offering, Mr. Staton became Chief Operating Officer and a director of Duke Realty Investments, Inc. (NYSE: DRE), a real estate investment trust, from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Staton served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Storage Trust Realty, a real estate investment trust, from 1997 to 1999, and led its merger with Public Storage (NYSE: PSA), where he has served on the Board of Directors since 1999. The Walnut Group was an initial investor and Mr. Staton served as director of Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW), a specialty retailer with over 300 stores, from 1998 until its initial public offering in 2004. The Walnut Group was an initial investor in Deal$: Nothing Over a Dollar, a specialty retailer which grew from one location to sixty-seven locations until its sale to Supervalu Inc. in 2002. In connection with other investments by The Walnut Group, Mr. Staton served as a director of Ameristop, a convenience store operator with over 140 locations, from 1998 to 2003, as a director of Skylight Financial, a credit card company for the “underbanked”, from 1998 until its sale in July 2007, and as a director of Changing Paradigms, a leader in private-label household products, from 1999 until its sale in 2006. Mr. Staton has also served as the Chairman of the Board of FriendFinder Networks Inc., a branded multimedia group, since 2004. Mr. Staton also invested in and served as a director of United Sports Ventures, owner of three minor-league baseball and four minor-league hockey teams, from 1997 to 2002. Mr. Staton has co-produced or invested in numerous successful Broadway musicals, including The Producers, Hairspray, Jersey Boys, which won the Tony Award for “Best Musical,” and Smokey Joe’s Café, Broadway’s longest-running musical revue. Mr. Staton majored in Finance at the University of Missouri and holds a B.S. degree in Specialized Business from Ohio University and a B.S. degree in Business (Management) from California Coast University. Mr. Staton has served as Executive in Residence at both the University of Missouri and Ohio University. Mr. Staton is the spouse of Maria Balodimas Staton, our Corporate Secretary.

Marc H. Bell has served as our Chairman of the Board of Directors and Treasurer since our inception. Mr. Bell has served as Managing Director of Marc Bell Capital Partners LLC, an investment firm which invests in media and entertainment ventures, real estate, and distressed assets, since 2003. Mr. Bell has also served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of FriendFinder Networks Inc. since 2004. Previously, Mr. Bell was the founder and President of Globix Corporation, a full-service commercial Internet Service Provider with data centers and a private network with over 20,000 miles of fiber spanning the globe. Mr. Bell served as Chairman of the Board of Globix Corporation from 1998 to 2002 and Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2001. Globix, which went public in 1996 under the name Bell Technology Group, Ltd. and was renamed Globix Incorporated in 1998, offered Internet connectivity and sophisticated Internet-based solutions to large and medium size companies, through a host of vertically-integrated businesses originally established or acquired by Mr. Bell or his affiliates. Globix was also an initial investor in NetSat Express, a satellite communications joint venture with Globecomm Systems, Inc. and Reuters, which was later sold to Globecomm. Globix filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in January 2002, which included a pre-packaged plan with its creditors. The plan, which was lead by Mr. Bell, was confirmed by the bankruptcy court in March 2002. Mr. Bell remained the Chairman of Globix until 2003. Mr. Bell was also a member of the Board of Directors of EDGAR Online, Inc., an Internet-based provider of filings made by public companies with the SEC, from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Bell has also been a co-producer of successful Broadway musicals, including Jersey Boys, which won the Tony Award for “Best Musical.” Mr. Bell is a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University and New York University School of Medicine. He is also Chairman of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and was an adjunct instructor at the Global Entrepreneurship Center of Florida International University, where he taught graduate courses in Entrepreneurship. Mr. Bell holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Babson College and an M.S. degree in Real Estate Development from New York University.

Ezra Shashoua has been our Chief Financial Officer since January, 2008. Mr. Shashoua has also served as the Chief Financial Officer of FriendFinder Networks Inc. since September, 2007. Previously, from June 2003 to May 2007, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Cruzan International, Inc., a Florida based publicly held spirits company which owned the Cruzan Rum brand and various manufacturing plants. Prior to his employment at Cruzan, Mr. Shashoua served as Executive Vice President from 2001 to June 2003 at NationsRent, Inc. a publicly-held NYSE equipment rental company. NationsRent filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in December 2001. The plan of restructure, which was led by Mr. Shashoua, was confirmed by the bankruptcy court in May 2003. Mr. Shashoua had previously been at 7-Eleven, Inc. where he served in various roles of increasing responsibility over 18 years culminating in his appointment as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Shashoua started his career as an attorney at the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal in Chicago. He holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology-Chicago Kent College of Law.

Maria Balodimas Staton has served as our Corporate Secretary since our inception. Mrs. Staton has served as a Managing Director of Staton Capital LLC since January 2003. Mrs. Staton founded Ariston Capital, an early stage investment company, where she served as Chief Executive Officer from 1999 to January 2003. Prior to founding Ariston, Mrs. Staton was an Associate at Blue Chip Venture Company, a venture capital and leveraged buyout fund based in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1998 to 1999. Prior to Blue Chip Venture Company, Mrs. Staton was an Associate in the Financial Institutions Group at A.T. Kearney, a management consulting firm, in New York from 1995 to 1997. Prior to A.T. Kearney, Mrs. Staton was an Institutional Salesperson in the Fixed Income group at Union Bank of Switzerland in New York from 1992 to 1994 where she specialized in trading derivatives and structured products with U.S. branches of foreign commercial banks. Mrs. Staton began her career at Nomura Securities International, where she worked as a Quantitative Analyst on the equity derivatives trading desk from 1991 to 1992. Mrs. Staton holds an M.B.A. and M.S. degree in Real Estate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College. Ms. Balodimas Staton is the spouse of Daniel C. Staton, our President and Chief Executive Officer.

Stewart J. Paperin has served as a member of our Board of Directors since our inception. Mr. Paperin has served as Executive Vice President of the Soros Foundation, a worldwide private philanthropic foundation, since 1996, where he oversees financial, administrative and economic development activities. From 1996 to July 2005, Mr. Paperin served as a Senior Advisor and portfolio manager for Soros Fund Management LLC, a financial services company, and since July 2005 has served as a consultant to Soros Fund Management LLC. From 1996 to 2007, Mr. Paperin served as a Director of Penn Octane Corporation (Nasdaq: POCC), a company engaged in the purchase, transportation and sale of liquefied petroleum gas. Prior to joining the Soros organizations, Mr. Paperin served as President of Brooke Group International, an investment firm concentrated on the former Soviet Union, from 1990 to 1993, and as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Western Union Corporation, a provider of money transfer and message services which was controlled by Brooke Group, from 1989 to 1991. Prior to Western Union Corporation, Mr. Paperin served as Chief Financial Officer of Timeplex Corporation, a telecommunications equipment provider, from 1986 to 1989 and of Datapoint Corporation, a computer equipment manufacturer, from 1985 to 1986. Prior to Datapoint Corporation, Mr. Paperin served as a financial officer of Pepsico Corporation from 1980 to 1985 and as a management consultant at Cresap McCormick & Paget from 1975 to 1980. Mr. Paperin currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Community Bankers Acquisition Corp., a blank check company formed to acquire an operating business in the banking industry (AMEX: BTC). Mr. Paperin holds a B.A. degree and an M.S. degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is a member of the Council for Foreign Relations and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by the State University of New York.

Richard Steiner has served as a member of our Board of Directors since our inception. Since 1985, Mr. Steiner has been a Broadway theatrical producer. Of the ten musicals he has co-produced, Jersey Boys, Hairspray, The Producers and Big River have won the Tony Award for “Best Musical”. Mr. Steiner has also co-produced Smokey Joe’s Café, Broadway’s longest-running musical-revue, and Top Dog/Underdog, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Mr. Steiner is an owner of Desiree Productions, an in-theatre merchandising company. Mr. Steiner was a member of the initial investor group in the Chi-Chi’s restaurant chain and Dr. John’s Spin Brush, which was subsequently sold to Procter & Gamble. Mr. Steiner served as director for Cap Toys, Inc. from 1988 to 1996 and currently sits on the ownership bench of the Cincinnati Reds. Mr. Steiner was previously a co-owner and director of United Sports Ventures from 1997 to 2002. Mr. Steiner holds an M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago and a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and is the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award in Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Jordan Zimmerman has served as a member of our Board of Directors since our inception. Mr. Zimmerman is Founder and Chairman of Zimmerman Advertising, the 15th largest advertising agency in the country, with published annual billings in excess of $2 billion. Since its founding in 1984, Mr. Zimmerman led his agency from its origin as a regional automotive advertising agency into a national retail firm, with more than 1,000 associates and 22 offices, serving clients in virtually every retail sector, including: fast food, sports, real estate, spirits, furniture, financial services, office supply retailers, travel and retail discounters. Zimmerman Advertising clients include: HH Gregg, Longs Drugs, Crocs, Six Flags, Miami Dolphins, Papa John’s, Fris Vodka, AutoNation, Nissan, Lennar Homes, ShopKo, Value City, Mattress Firm, Vitamin Shoppe, Wickes Furniture, S&K Men’s Warehouse and Office Depot. In 1999, Mr. Zimmerman sold Zimmerman Advertising to Omnicom, a leading global marketing and corporate communications company and a premier holding company for such top advertising agencies as BBDO, DDB, TBWA Chiat and others. Mr. Zimmerman was recognized as the University of South Florida Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year in 1991. In 2004, he was one of ten people honored with South Florida Business Journal’s Diamond Award. Most recently, South Florida CEO Magazine honored Mr. Zimmerman as their “One Hundred Most Powerful People in South Florida”. Mr. Zimmerman has supported and led many local and national non-profit organizations and charities, including: Make a Wish Foundation, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation and Songs for Love. He is a member of the board for Take Stock in Children, Pine Crest School of Boca Raton and the Cleveland Clinic Florida. Mr. Zimmerman is also a co-owner of the Florida Panthers, an NHL hockey team. Mr. Zimmerman holds an M.B.A. degree from the University of South Florida.