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Troy McConnell

Troy McConnell has more than 20 years entrepreneurial experience in the areas of online advertising, video and music streaming and information technology.

He is the founder and former CEO of Batanga, an online music service for US Hispanics, which started in 1999. He sold his stake in Batanga in 2007 to a private equity group.

Prior to founding Batanga, McConnell co-founded in 1996 and served as CTO at OnePlace, an Internet webcasting company. Salem Communications purchased OnePlace in 1998. In 1988, McConnell co-founded Image Technology, Inc., a digital imaging company specializing in database publishing. Image Technology was purchased in July 1995 by MCI Communications and re-launched as Internet MCI.

McConnell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Florida State University and is the recipient of a patent in color technology. In his free time, he enjoys reading, running, international travel, and spending time with his family.

Joe Meyer

Joe Meyer is chief executive officer of HopStop.com, a web-based city transit guide located in New York City. Prior to HopStop.com, Joe was Vice President & General Manager of Publisher Services for Quigo Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL, Joe Meyer was responsible for on-boarding and proactively account managing hundreds of premium online publishers within the Quigo AdSonar ad network. In this role, Joe and his team were responsible for all business and partner development initiatives, and worked collaboratively with each of Quigo's publishers to optimize and scale their performance-based marketing revenue. Joe was also responsible for all white label ad sales and partner marketing efforts for Quigo, a leading contextual ad network that was acquired by AOL in December of 2007 for close to $400 Million. While at Quigo, Joe was instrumental in orchestrating a $100 Million revenue-generating partnership with Time Inc., as well as several multi-million dollar revenue-generating deals with ABC News, Career Builder, ESPN and FoxNews.

Joe has spent the majority of his professional career working closely with early-stage technology companies. Early in his career, Joe was a manager in the Emerging Company Services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco, and was most recently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Diamondhead Ventures, a $140 Million venture capital firm located in Silicon Valley that has since merged with Onset Ventures. Prior to Diamondhead, Joe was an operating executive at eBay at which he incubated and launched the company's co-op advertising program, and managed eBay's $1+ Billion sporting goods category. Joe's passion for entrepreneurship and scaling high-growth businesses was triggered by being the co-founder of eRIDE, a venture capital-backed technology start-up that partnered with many of the world's largest travel companies in its attempt to innovate the $25 Billion car rental industry.

Mr. Meyer graduated with a BA degree from Georgetown University where he played Division I Varsity Baseball, and earned his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania at which he was the recipient of the George A. Shirer marketing scholarship. Joe resides in Westchester Country just outside NYC with his wife and four kids.

Martin Sinozich

Sinozich’s background spans companies large and small, established and start-up, public and private, in operational, technology, and general management roles. Sinozich currently owns and operates several businesses including two Planet Fitness franchises and Venn Capital, an investment company with interests in real estate, construction, manufacturing, and biotech. He is an active member of the Piedmont Angel Network (PAN), a committed-capital angel investment fund. Prior to moving to Greensboro, Sinozich lived in New England where he served as Vice President for Operations at Engage Technologies and Navisite, both CMGI companies from 1999 to 2002. Prior to CMGI, Sinozich worked in technology management positions at Fidelity Investments, MBNA America, and Prudential Home Mortgage.