Stephen Antisdel

Managing Director

Mr. Stephen Antisdel is AVID Commerce e-Business Retail Strategy Analyst and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Antisdel earned an MBA from Leicester University, (England; www.le.ac.uk), and has completed the Center for Strategic Planning program in conjunction with Michigan State University. Mr. Antisdel is also an Adjunct Professor at Indiana Institute of Technology's College of Professional Studies.

Mr. Antisdel has over 20 years of retail store experience and was a co-founder and former CEO of FurnitureFIND Corporation; following the sale of the company to a venture capital group, he became a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of AVID Commerce. Mr. Antisdel's advancements in business have been covered by Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, Business 2.0, Newsweek, Furniture World, Furniture Today, In-Furniture and National Public Radio.

Chosen as an "Inc. 500" CEO in 2003, Mr. Antisdel is an accomplished public speaker sharing his perspectives on e-commerce and channel conflict issues with Hewlett-Packard, of Palo Alto, California, the International Conference of Better Business Bureaus, Nashville, Tennessee, the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association in Dallas, Texas, and the IQC Conferences in London and Atlanta.

Mr. Antisdel is a featured speaker for the 2007 Internet Retailer Conference in San Jose, California.

Via Mobile: 269-362-1957

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Stephen Antisdel

Managing Director

Mr. Stephen Antisdel is AVID Commerce e-Business Retail Strategy Analyst and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Antisdel earned an MBA from Leicester University, (England; www.le.ac.uk), and has completed the Center for Strategic Planning program in conjunction with Michigan State University. Mr. Antisdel is also an Adjunct Professor at Indiana Institute of Technology's College of Professional Studies.

Mr. Antisdel has over 20 years of retail store experience and was a co-founder and former CEO of FurnitureFIND Corporation; following the sale of the company to a venture capital group, he became a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of AVID Commerce. Mr. Antisdel's advancements in business have been covered by Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, Business 2.0, Newsweek, Furniture World, Furniture Today, In-Furniture and National Public Radio.

Chosen as an "Inc. 500" CEO in 2003, Mr. Antisdel is an accomplished public speaker sharing his perspectives on e-commerce and channel conflict issues with Hewlett-Packard, of Palo Alto, California, the International Conference of Better Business Bureaus, Nashville, Tennessee, the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association in Dallas, Texas, and the IQC Conferences in London and Atlanta.

Mr. Antisdel is a featured speaker for the 2007 Internet Retailer Conference in San Jose, California.

Via Mobile: 269-362-1957

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Jeffrey Antisdel

Information Technology Analyst

Mr. Jeffrey Antisdel currently leads the company's research, development and application of AVID Commerce technologies, with deep domain expertise in the fields of Marketing, Brand Developemnt, domestic Intellectual Property law and Securities Law, Business Development, Venture financing and a wide variety of technology related fields which include Biotechnology, Alternative Energy and Internet.

A self described "technology geek", Mr. Antisdel attended Grand Valley State College in Allendale, Michigan, and since that time has jointly participated in securing debt, equity, construction and project financing to date now approaching $100 million dollars. Subsequent to attending Grand Valley State College, Mr. Antisdel served as General Partner and Chief Research Analyst of D.R. Partners, LLP, a biotechnology hedge fund focused upon the development of Interleukin II. Through Mr. Antisdel's research activities and investment stewardship, D.R. Partners achieved a 20 fold return on behalf of the Fund. Subsequent to the winding down of the D.R. Partners hedge fund, Mr. Antisdel served in his capacity as a general partner of alternative energy partnerships and corporations, thereafter serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nevada Energy Company, a NASDAQ listed independent utility engaged in the development, financing, construction and operation of electric power facilities in Nevada and California.

In the 1990's, Mr Antisdel led the leveraged buy out of the Bookout Furniture Company, therefater participating as co-founder of FurnitureFIND.com, where his aptitude for technology was leveraged in his role as primary architect of the AVIDcommerce technologies, processes and methods that helped drive the company's long-term growth and success from 1996 through 2003. Following the sale of majority interests in FurnitureFind.com, Mr. Antisdel served as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of AVID Commerce, and continues serving the firm as Chief Opertaing Officer.

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Patrick McIntire

Project Development Leader and Creative Director

Patrick McIntire joined the AVID Commerce team during the 2006 fiscal year as Creative Director and Project Development Leader. With a career background in web design, print, rich media, and commercial film and video production, Mr. McIntire formerly served as Unit Production Manager at New Dawn Films (Chicago), and Buddha on the Mountain Films (Los Angeles) and at TechniArtist Media, a firm focused on corporate branding and web site development.

Beyond the realm of design and production capabilities, Mr. McIntire proves his hybrid nature of tech-creative with expertise in Linux, Apache, Java, AJAX, CSS2, PHP, MySQL, as well as e-commerce payment, shopping cart systems and GUI design.

Mr. McIntire also brings a strong focus on Web 2.0 design and related customer interactive systems supporting the social commerce movement. These interactive technologies include customer ratings, reviews, dynamically generated testimonials, images and related content, live chat and click to call technologies.

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Daniel Carey

eCommerce Systems Integration Analyst

Mr. Carey attended Brown Mackie College with a career focus in Computer Sciences and Networking Technologies. Mr. Carey's expertise is wide ranging, and spans multiple technologies such as Linux, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL and HTML. Mr. Carey also has extensive expertise within the Search Engine Optimization field, as well as a number of Internet marketing related technologies.

Throughout the ninties and to date, Mr. Carey served in a management capacity in both the Business and Online Marketing Divisions of FurnitureFind.com, a leading e-commerce retailer specializing in the sale of furniture and home furnishings throughout North America, where he co-managed a number of online marketing initiatives, including search engine marketing, email marketing, search engine marketing, data compilation and web site analysis.

From 2004 through 2007, Mr. Carey has served as e-Commerce Systems Integration Analyst to AVID Commerce, managing and integrating critical software systems, development and production environments, and a wide variety of campaign management tools on behalf of AVID Commerce Clients.

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Joshua Pennington

Joshua Pennington joined the AVID Commerce team in 2007 after graduating from Davenport University with a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems. Mr. Pennington has focused on core programming as his career passion and specialty.

Mr. Pennington is a third generation computer programmer, following in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather. He discovered his love for programming at the early age of 11. Writing his first computer programs on a TRS-80, Mr. Pennington enrolled in every programming class available in order to learn a large variety of languages and all the associated advanced concepts. Mr. Pennington's programming expertise includes various forms of BASIC, C++, Java, Visual Basic.net and PHP. He also has a strong understanding of other technologies including HTML, CSS2, AJAX, SQL, and XML.

With a strong background in object orientated concepts and data structures, Mr. Pennington now creates electronic data interchange protocols using SOAP and XML, as well as a variety of custom applications.

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Chris Kubin

Chris Kubin joined AVID in 2007 as a software developer and database integration specialist. Mr. Kubin attended Central Michigan University and received a B.A. in Computer Science and Information Technology, focusing on technologies related to the Internet and e-Commerce applications. Mr. Kubin has extensive experience in e-Commerce site development, as well as a lengthy operational experience in the Internet Service Provider sector.

Mr. Kubin has a very wide range of e- commerce work experience and skill sets, including, but not limited to, multiple programming languages, web related computer science implementations and operating systems. Examples include Linux, Apache, PHP, SQL, MySQL, XML, PERL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash and Java. Mr. Kubin also has supplemental experience with image manipulation and creation with software systems such as Adobe Photoshop, the GD graphics library and Image Magick.

In addition, Mr. Kubin has created upper tier e-commerce implementations that includes secure online payment system integrations, custom data feed processing, customer interfaces, e-commerce fraud prevention and customer protection systems.

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