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Management

Emerick Woods, CEO

Emerick Woods is a successful executive and entrepreneur having managed and founded several early stage high technology companies. Emerick is chief executive officer of V-Enable and responsible for leading V-ENABLE's vision, future capital expansion options, and strategic relationships. Previously, Emerick was chief executive officer at Aligo, Inc, another venture-backed company focused on the mobile space which was acquired in early 2007. Prior to that, Emerick served as president and chief executive officer of Vicinity Corporation, a publicly traded company acquired by Microsoft, where he completed its initial public offering and successfully raised over $140 million. Before Vicinity, Emerick held a variety of executive and general management positions at Coherity, CastBridge, TuneUp.com, HP, Quarterdeck, Symantec, Central Point and Microcom as well as consulting positions at McKinsey & Company and Booz Allen & Hamilton.

Emerick holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a B.Sc., Computer Science degree from Yale University. Emerick is a member of the World Presidents Organization. He also serves on the board or directors of Shelter Network, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization.

Dipanshu Sharma, Founder and CTO

Mr. Sharma, after leaving Nokia, founded V-ENABLE in Jan 2001. Today V-ENABLE is The Leader in Mobile Voice Search and Mobile-Multimodal Technologies. Mr. Sharma drives V-ENABLE's technology and strategic vision. He works with wireless operators and partners to deliver best-of-breed solutions.

While at Nokia, Mr. Sharma was part of several wireless initiatives for mobile handsets that included mobile browsers, phone user interface design, developer programs and research. He has delivered mobile handsets for CDMA/GSM markets. He published several patents (6,287,200; 6,892,067; 6,766,163; 6,801,793 European Patent: WO0143433, WO0193507) related to wireless technologies.

In Nov 2003, he was awarded "Technology Leader of the year" by TeleFusion and in 2005 was nominated for Ernst and Young "Entrepreneur of the year". He sits on the boards of OneTouchStar, KaDonk and advisory board of Veracity Wireless.

Mr. Sharma holds specialized management/entrepreneurship degrees from UCSD, San Diego and HUT, Helsinki, Finland. He holds M.S in Computer Science from DAVV, India and B.S in Computer Science from Delhi University, India.

Craig Hagopian, EVP & CEO

Craig Hagopian is responsible for driving V-ENABLE's daily operations, including sales, marketing and support operations as well as business development, product planning, and market communications. Mr. Hagopian brings a wealth of experience to the V-ENABLE management team with more than 18 years of sales and marketing leadership across hardware and service based companies in the personal computer, wireless and broadband Internet industries.

Craig received his BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and his MBA from Duke University. He and his wife Lisa enjoying raising their two children: Brittany and Cole.

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