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 Board of Directors and Advisory Board
Board of Directors

A. Hugo DeCesaris - Chairman of the Lealta Media Inc. Board of Directors
Mr. DeCesaris is the Region President for K. Hovnanian Homes, responsible for the Maryland, Delaware Shore and Pennsylvania markets. Prior to being the Region President of K. Hovnanian Homes, Mr. DeCesaris was company partner and member of the Board of Director of Sonny DeCesaris & Sons; a family home building business in collaboration with his father and four brothers since 1978. In 1988, Sonny DeCesaris & Son’s acquired Washington Homes off of the New York Stock Exchange and catapulted it to the 5th largest home builder in the Nation’s capital. Five years later, in 1993, the company went public with Mr. DeCesaris serving on the Board of Directors. In January 2001, Washington Homes, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of K. Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc which is ranked as the 6th largest home builder in the Nation. Mr. DeCesaris has over 30 years experience in the Homebuilding and Land Development industry.

In addition to his outstanding leadership with K. Hovnanian Homes, Mr. DeCesaris was also the President and Owner of Southern Maryland's largest Marina in California Maryland for more than 15 years. Mr. DeCesaris, an active board member of the Prince George’s County Crime Solvers, continues to be a leader in the community giving generously of his time and expertise both as a community advocate and an entrepreneur.

Mr. DeCesaris' distinguished affiliations also include: Member of the HBAM, NHAB; Howard County Chamber of Commerce; MNCBIA, Board of Director for Prince Georges Crime Solvers; Board of Directors of Lealta Media and the BBB.

Ken Thompson - President of Lealta Media Inc. Board of Directors
President and Co-founder of Lealta Media Inc

George Dunn - Chief Executive Officer, Heffron Industries
Mr. Dunn is the President of Heffron Company, Inc., an 83-year-old firm engaged in Mechanical Construction, Facility Management and Energy. Under Mr. Dunn’s leadership, Heffron Company has secured business relationships with significant clients such as: Human Genome Sciences, Novartis, Georgetown University, Fed Ex (Redskins) Stadium, Safeway, Intelsat, Rhein Mein Air Force Base, Aerospace Corp., American Institute Architects, National Institute of Health, and Potomac Electric Power. Mr. Dunn earned an OPM-1 from Harvard University in 1975, an engineering degree from a division of Georgia Institute of Technology in 1969, and a BA from the University of Notre Dame in 1967

Bruce Foster - President Foster Development
Bruce Foster is a highly experienced and respected executive who brings over 45 years of business success and company development to his role as Director of BondRewards®. Following active duty as an officer in United State Marine Corp, Mr. Foster began his business career in 1957 as a sales executive with National Steel Corporation where he acted as a regional and national sales manager. In 1978 Mr. Foster accepted the position as President of a division of the Olin Corporation that included noted subsidiaries Chesapeake Homes and the Yeonas Company achieving significant gains and successes under his tenure. An accomplished entrepreneur, Mr. Foster then founded Foster Communities in Baltimore, MD in 1985 where he continues to serve as President. Mr. Foster sits on various boards and investment counsels. Bruce received his undergraduate degree from Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA in 1954 and graduate studies were completed at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA in 1970. Mr. Foster resides in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife Mary Louise.

Thomas O. Bowersox, CPA
Since 1997, Tom Bowersox has been a Principal with Shreve Bowersox, P.C. in Rockville, MD, which provides quality, personalized financial and management services tailored to the sophisticated needs of high wealth individuals and growing entrepreneurial businesses. Clients include owners of commercial, residential, and retail real estate; family offices; hotel owners, operators and developers; golf course developers; computer software vendors; homebuilders; venture capital firms; and real estate developers. He has also served as CFO of such prestigious real estate developers as Lerner Companies and Washington Real Estate Investment Trust.

Mr. Bowersox also serves as Chairman of Audiopoint, Inc., a leading provider of innovative, voice services to consumer-oriented businesses. The company designs, develops and deploys large scale Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software and services. Since the establishment of Audiopoint in 1998, the company’s strategy has been built on continuous product innovation. Audiopoint developed and launched the industry’s first voice portal in 1999 and is currently releasing its newly developed Personal Voice Portal (PVP) platform.

Always community-minded, he and his wife, Christine Shreve, actively support several local charitable organizations including the Carl M Freeman Foundation.

Richard Morauer - Pegasus Resources, LLC
Mr. Morauer founded and is managing member of Pegasus Resources, LLC, based in Cary, North Carolina. Pegasus is involved in many varied activities including, but not limited to, the development and sale of commercial and industrial properties, the development and permitting of commercial waste and recycling facilities and has participated and advised on many difficult zoning, environmental and land use processes interfacing with all levels of local, state and federal departments and agencies. Additionally, Mr. Morauer has advised and structured numerous mid size corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Before, during and after his college years, Mr. Morauer worked in all phases of the family business, Morauer & Hartzell, Inc., founded in 1917, a major excavating contractor and ready-mixed concrete producer in the greater metropolitan Washington, DC area. As an extension of these activities, Mr. Morauer founded and operated Falcon Materials, Inc. in 1976, ready mixed concrete, and Goose Bay Aggregates, Inc. in 1980, construction aggregate mining, which were both later acquired in phases by a large national company in the early to mid 1990’s.

Following the sale of these operating companies, Mr. Morauer served as regional vice president of Aggregate Industries, Inc., a large multi-national construction materials company for three years, where he was in charge of consolidating and managing numerous acquisitions the company had made in the region. Mr. Morauer holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from The George Washington University, 1976.

Stan Rapp - Chairman, ENGAUGE Marketing
Stan Rapp is a marketing world icon who has twice served as Chairman/CEO of global advertising agencies with revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars.  Rapp was recognized by Advertising Age and the Advertising Club of New York as one of the 101 individuals who shaped advertising in the 20th Century.   He is co-founder and former CEO of Rapp Collins Worldwide, the largest marketing services company in America with over $500 million in revenue worldwide.  While he was CEO of McCann Relationship Marketing (MRM) and served on the Board of McCann Erickson WorldGroup, the MRM agency’s revenue increased seven-fold in five years.  He is co-author of the bestselling book, MaxiMarketing, which first predicted the change from mass marketing to one-to-one marketing a generation ago. 

In his latest endeavor as Chairman of the newly-established Engauge enterprise, he is partnering with Halyard Capital to create a 21st Century agency solutions model built around today’s most vital marketing disciplines – digital interactive, direct marketing and brand creative.

 
Advisory Board

Steven M. Markowitz - Chairman of the Lealta Media Inc. Advisory Board
From 1996 to 2001, Steve was founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MyPoints.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYPT), the first and largest online loyalty program. Steve led the company to annual revenue of $64 million and consumer membership of 16 million, and he spearheaded the Company’s joint ventures and licensing in Europe, Japan and Latin America. Under Steve’s leadership, MyPoints raised more than $260 million through an initial public offering and secondary public offering of shares. The Wall Street Journal ranks MyPoints’ public offering as one of the Top 20 performing IPOs of 1999. MyPoints was acquired by a unit of UAL Corp. in 2001. Prior to founding MyPoints, Steve worked as an analyst with Fidelity Investments and a financial journalist for Dow Jones & Co., both in Tokyo. Steve is fluent in Japanese. He holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business and an A.B. in East Asian Languages (high honors) from the University of California at Berkeley.

Maurice W. Hart Jr. - Strosniders Hardware
Maurice Hart, Partner and Operator of Strosniders Hardware in Maryland, began his career as a member of the Army National Guard and went on to manage Strosniders Hardware. Within 10 years he purchased Strosniders Hardware, expanding the company to two other locations while growing sales volume by a multiple of 30 times the starting volume. Mr. Hart is a member of the Montgomery County Bethesda – Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce as well as a Sunday school teacher since 1988 at the Riverdale Baptist Church. Mr. Hart resides in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife Christine of 39 years.

Scott Cohen - CEO, Dime Store Media
Scott Cohen is currently spearheading development of a newly funded venture in interactive advertising, as CEO of Dime Store Media. He is also a founding Partner in the Red Tie Media Group, consulting with Internet companies in both initial and growth stages. From 2004-2006, Cohen served as President of Game Trust, a leading platform for Internet skilled gaming. Prior to that, as a co-founder and senior level executive, Cohen was critical to the success of two IPO's: LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN), and 24/7 Media (NASDAQ: TFSM). Together with the senior management team, he worked to raise more than $150 million from the public markets and private investors. With a combined market cap at IPO over $700 million and subsequent growth, both continue to be viable and very successful enterprises.

Cohen has over 30 years of experience in strategic deal making, negotiation and leadership, playing a major role in developing businesses during the growth of the Internet in the US and Europe. He has demonstrated success in both corporate and entrepreneurial environments, most recently in media, interactive marketing, and entertainment. Cohen has worked with high-level management at leading corporations including the New World Communications Group, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Revlon, Marvel and Coopers & Lybrand.

Cohen began his career in real estate and opened his own firm in 1981. In the late 1980's, he founded a network of commercial real estate affiliates, which grew to encompass over forty major US cities, handling multi-million dollar transactions. Cohen earned his Masters in Business Administration in 1988 from the University of Rochester, William Simon School of Business, after ten years of professional experience. Cohen currently serves on the Board of Directors for Double Trump, LeadFusion, and Active Response Group.

Lawrence E. Phillips - Managing Director, Mooreland Partners
Larry has more than 15 years of Information Technology investment banking, venture capital and operating management experience. He joined and helped build Mooreland Partners in 2003.

As an investment banker, Larry has executed numerous corporate financings and merger & acquisition transactions at Mooreland and at two predecessor firms ― Brown Brothers Harriman and Unterberg Harris. Larry has built long-standing relationships and experience in the enterprise software and services sectors, as well as in the Internet media and marketing services sectors.

Before joining Mooreland, Larry was the founder of PRIMEDIA Ventures, a corporate venture fund. Beginning in 1998, he raised two funds for PRIMEDIA (NYSE:PRM) totaling $70million, backed by its control investor, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Larry recruited a team and successfully led investments which collectively generated top quartile returns. In many investments, Larry led the financing and played an active role as a board member in building value at portfolio companies.

When Larry first joined PRIMEDIA in 1995, he conceived and launched an Interactive division for the company, making him one of the early Internet entrepreneurs. He was responsible for building a web presence across the company, forming a division from scratch, hiring staff and launching numerous web sites. Larry brings operating experience to Mooreland in the software industry, having served as a CFO of three start-up companies.

Larry holds an AB from Cornell University, where he graduated with Distinction in Mathematics and Physics, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
 


 
 
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