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Charles Jones
Chief Executive Officer

Charles Jones has been a visionary technologist since the early eighties. Beginning at the University of Michigan, Jones researched the relationship between cognition and social networks and foresaw a future in which networked computers would become a dominant social medium. In 1986, Charles joined Action Technologies, a pioneer of PC-based email and workflow. Six years later, Jones used this technology to help IBM cut its Engineering Change Management process time in half, saving IBM millions of dollars. In 1994, Jones joined forces with QDM, a Lotus Notes business partner, to create "Quality at Work" -- winner of IDC's "Best Ad-Hoc Work Management Product". Jones went on to design IBM's eCommerce Extranet, enabling business partners to order IBM PC products over the Internet. Seizing an historic opportunity to bring personalization to the masses, Charles left IBM to co-found Yo.com in 1999. Charles has a Bachelor�s degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Michigan.

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Lixuan An
President

Lixuan brings over 12 years of experience in strategic sales and marketing, in consumer marketing, direct marketing, electronic commerce and B2B technology. Prior to joining Yo.com, Lixuan was Senior Vice President of Marketing at LivePerson, a leading provider of online customer service solutions. Taking the company from the first round of financing to going public, she oversaw all aspects of marketing and business strategies, including branding, advertising, public relations, and sales support. Prior to Liveperson, Lixuan was Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Interactive Services at Blau Marketing Technologies, one of the country's largest direct marketing agencies. Previous to working at Blau, Lixuan worked as Managing Director of Worldwide Marketing and Product Development for Atlas Editions, overseeing over $450 million of direct marketing revenue from 18 countries, and building out the company's highly profitable e-commerce division. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration.

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Peter Ferns
Vice President of Engineering

With over 12 years of software development, networking and management experience, Peter brings a wealth of talent and knowledge to his role of VP of Engineering and co-founder of Yo.com. Prior to Yo.com, Peter was an AVP at Lehman Brothers, Inc., where he led the software development of systems performing both electronic trades and data warehousing. As an architect and lead developer for IBM's Internet Division, he designed and developed electronic-commerce offerings. From 1994 to 1996, Peter worked at IBM Global Services as a Distributed Systems Architect where he designed and led high-profile networking and development projects for Fortune 500 companies; receiving certifications from IBM in both Client/Server Technical Solutions Architecture and Multi-Vendor Networking. In 1998, as an independent contractor, Ferns designed and developed version 1.0 of CertifiedMail.com. Peter is a graduate of the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a Bachelor�s degree in Computer Science.

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Ilya Pevzner
Vice President of Technology

An entrepreneur by temperament, whose passion for science and technology developed early in life, Ilya, a co-founder of Yo.com, leads the research and development efforts of technologies and applications. Combining a strong academic background in computer science with substantial experience in developing innovative software applications, Ilya Pevzner earned both BA and MS degrees in Computer Science, and is currently completing his Ph.D. requirements from New York University. Mr. Pevzner's academic investigations have included research on optical multi-stability systems in quantum electronics, development of a neural network-based image recognition system, and work on systems for caching dynamically generated web pages. Ilya has developed enterprise software applications for companies such as Spectrum Concepts, Inc., Legent Corporation, Computer Associates International, Inc., Discus Data Solutions, LLC, as well as Prodigy Communications Corporation, where he made major contributions to the design and development of an intelligent agents system, and a web site personalization system.

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