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Josh Kopelman

Josh Kopelman has been an entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since he began his career in 1992 while at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company which went public in 1996. Following the success of Infonautics, Kopelman went on to be founder of Half.com in 1999 which was later acquired by eBay in 2000 and where he remained for three years running the business unit and growing eBay’s Media marketplace.

In late 2003 Kopelman was co-founder of TurnTide, an anti-spam company that created the world's first anti-spam router and was acquired by Symantec six months later.

In addition to being an active angel investor, Josh has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Comcast Interactive Capital - a $350 million venture capital fund affiliated with Comcast Corporation. Kopelman’s other experiences include five U.S. patents for his work in Internet technology and the Kopelman Foundation, a non-profit organization created by Kopelman and his wife in 2001.

Kopelman earned a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in entrepreneurial management and marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Rob Stavis

Rob Stavis is a general partner in Bessemer's Larchmont, NY office. He focuses on investments in the financial services sector as well as in emerging software technologies. Since joining BVP, Rob has invested in independent research companies Gerson Lehrman Group and Soleil Securities; pre-paid debit card provider PRE Solutions; CRM software developer AIT Group (LSE-AIM: AGP); and Skype Technologies, where he led the A-round financing. He also sits on the board of PXRE Group (NYSE: PXT), a Bermuda-based property and casualty reinsurance company. Until its 2004 acquisition by Vestmark, Rob was on the board of the financial services analytics company LifeHarbor.

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