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Before founding Dealstruck, Ethan ran Internet marketing for a lead generation startup � Ampush Media � growing annual spend to $15M in less than two years. Prior to Ampush, he worked as a distressed credit analyst at Lehman Brothers and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Wharton Business School.

Larry Chiavaro is a Principal and the Executive Vice President at First Associates, the fastest growing loan servicer in the country with a $9 billion dollar portfolio under management for various asset classes including marketplace lending.� Chiavaro is a dynamic sales and business development executive with an outstanding 25-year track record of identifying and developing growth financial services markets. Prior to joining First Associates, he developed the Loan Servicing Business for CSC, managed divisions for NovaStar, HSBC/ Household, and GE Capital, working with banks, investment banks, finance companies, and credit unions on a national level. Larry is a graduate of the GE Management Institute and GE Six Sigma program.

If, indeed, creativity comes from the right side of the brain, then that part of Michael Welsh�s cerebral hemisphere must get an incredible workout. For 20 years, Welsh lent his expertise in strategy, design, marketing and user experience to various companies and many clients. As Mobiquity�s creative director, he leads a team producing award-winning mobile solutions that consumers want and increase revenue for clients.Prior to joining Mobiquity, Welsh was vice president, group director of experience architecture at eBay Enterprise. Earlier, he held key strategic and design roles at Expensewatch.com, The Vanguard Group, ActivityOne.com, Universal Health Services and Hanson Associates.Welsh received a Bachelor of Science in graphic design from Drexel University. He�s a basement D.J. and audiobook fan. Not unexpectedly, he has a crayon fixation, feeling they have the smell of creativity.

Mr. Allaire brings two decades of experience building and leading global Internet software platform and online service companies, including Allaire Corporation, where as co-founder and CTO he led the company�s product and GTM strategy. The company was a pioneer in the use of the Web as a platform for commerce and business applications, and grew to serve over a 1M customers around the world, and as a profitable $120M revenue NASDAQ public company, until the company was sold to Macromedia in late 2000. At Macromedia, Mr. Allaire became the company�s Chief Technology Officer, and co-led products and strategy focused on re-inventing the experiences and rich, transactional applications that were possible on the Web with the Flash Platform, which became the most widely adopted piece of software in the history of computing. After leaving Macromedia in 2003, Mr. Allaire embarked on building Brightcove, a new online service aimed at disrupting the traditional television and video distribution industry. Brightcove grew rapidly adding thousands of major enterprise customers around the world, and today powers video operations on nearly 25% of the top 10,000 websites in the world, reaching ~250M unique viewers each month, and operating as a cash-generating $100M+ revenue company. Mr. Allaire brought Brightcove public on NASDAQ in February of 2012, and after promoting his President and COO to the CEO role, became Chairman in January of 2013. For the past 10 years, Mr. Allaire has also been a Director at Ping Identity Corporation, a high-growth, industry leading software and online service provider for securing identity on the Internet, whose clients include many of the largest financial institutions in the world.

A Yale College graduate, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and New York State Bar-certified lawyer, prior to joining Bitreserve, Parsa lived for twelve years in Mexico City starting and running tech, media, and telecom businesses for Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas-Pliego.Parsa received a B.S. in Biology from Yale College and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. His Peace Corps service was in Guatemala.