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Adam Lilling, Co-Founder/CEO

Adam Lilling is an entrepreneur and digital media innovator who has been creating pioneering entertainment and technology companies for more than a decade. As CEO of BiggerBoat (which he co-founded in 2003 with Barbara De Lury), he oversees all of the company's sales, business development and financing activities.
This is Adam’s third Internet venture. In 1999 Adam founded Pazanga, a worldwide entertainment e-commerce services company whose clients included the Virgin Megastores. Pazanga was formed when Richard Branson and Virgin purchased a stake in Pentagon CDs & Tapes, which Adam founded in 1994.
Adam started Pentagon after spending several years in leading sales and marketing roles within the entertainment industry, including working for the legendary Miles Copeland at IRS Records.
In 2000, VARBusiness named Adam to their “30 Before 30” list of Internet entrepreneurs transforming the online world. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

Barbara De Lury, Co-Founder/CTO

Barbara De Lury is an entrepreneur and technology innovator who has spent most of her professional life at the intersection of technology and entertainment. As CTO of BiggerBoat (which she co-founded in 2003 with Adam Lilling), she oversees all aspects of technology and product development.
Barbara’s last decade in the industry was focused on large-scale technology infrastructure in support of entertainment and online media, most recently representing the Universal Music Group in a Recording Industry Association of America-sponsored project to develop a global infrastructure for online music sales.
This is not the first time Barbara has worked with Adam. Barbara was CTO of Panzanga, where she transformed the technology platform of a single-purpose retailer into a worldwide e-commerce services company for major entertainment brands, including Virgin. Barbara joined Pazanga after serving as the Director of Technology for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, where she designed many of the storage and retrieval technologies that still manage more than 400 terabytes of video-taped interviews from over 50,000 holocaust survivors.
Early in her career, Barbara was instrumental in forming Cambridge Technology Partner’s Los Angeles-based entertainment technology practice. During her time with CTP, now part of Novell, Barbara developed several of the Internet’s first entertainment properties, including the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Barbara holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola Marymount University.

Board of Directors

Adam Lilling

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Barbara De Lury

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Frank Creer

Mr. Creer is an experienced venture capitalist and finance executive who has been involved in the starting of, and investing in dozens of new technology based companies. He has worked in management consulting for small to medium size technology businesses and has also placed financing for a diverse range of real estate developments.
Mr. Creer is a Managing Director of Zone Ventures and a Partner in the Wasatch Venture Fund which he also co-founded in 1994. He currently sits on the Boards of Directors for Akimbo, DivX, OnMeta (BiggerBoat.com), emWare, Inc., e-Style Inc., and Vizional Technologies. Mr. Creer also sits of the Board of Directors for the Lassonde New Venture Development Center at the University of Utah. Mr. Creer has a degree in Finance from the University of Utah.

Howard Morgan

Howard Morgan
, Ph.D. has been a Director of Idealab since March 2002. Dr. Morgan was President, Idealab New York from March 2000 to June 2001 and was a Vice Chairman until December 2002. Since 1989, Dr. Morgan has served as President of Arca Group, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in the areas of computers and communications technologies. Dr. Morgan was a Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1986. He serves as a Director for a number of public companies, including Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., Predictive Systems and Segue Software, Inc. Dr. Morgan received his Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University and his B.S. in Physics from the City University of New York.

Ravi Ahuja

Ravi Ahuja is the Chief Financial Officer of Virgin Entertainment Group North America. Prior to becoming CFO, Ravi held positions as the Head of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning for Virgin Entertainment Group Worldwide in London, and as the head of Business Development in the United States. He joined Virgin in 1999 from McKinsey & Company, where he focused on entertainment companies in both the New York and Los Angeles offices.
Ravi graduated from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with both B.S. and M.B.A. degrees. Between degrees, he worked in investment banking, completing several IPO’s, corporate financings and mergers & acquisitions.