Rajesh Navar Founded LiveDeal in 2003 and as its CEO built LiveDeal into one of the leading online classifieds and yellow pages websites. In June 2007, he merged LiveDeal with YP Corp, a publicly traded company.
Rajesh brings over 20 years experience building high technology and Internet companies. As an original member of the engineering and management teams at eBay and other Internet companies, Rajesh is one of the pioneers in e-commerce. Prior to founding LiveDeal, Rajesh was the 35 th employee and a senior member of the engineering team at eBay where he founded and built eBay's search team, helping build eBay into one of the world's most successful and profitable e-commerce companies.
Rajesh draws on years of experience in senior engineering positions at other startups. He led an engineering team at Integral Development Corporation in Palo Alto, Calif., a company focused on the development of software products that enables financial institutions to conduct web-based transactions in capital markets. He also served as a senior software engineer at Neural Applications Corporation in Coralville, Iowa, a start up involved in the development of Internet applications and software and hardware process control systems.
Rajesh holds a Master's in Business Management (Sloan Fellow) from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University in Bangalore, India.
Richard Sommer, former CEO of ZipRealty, had served on the Board of Directors of ZipRealty (http://www.ziprealty.com/) since September 2006. Prior to joining ZipRealty, Mr. Sommer was the Chief Executive Officer of HomeGain.com (http://www.homegain.com/). In addition to his leadership of HomeGain, Mr. Sommer served as president of the loanworks division of IndyMac Bank. He also served as president and managing director of International Real Estate Operations for Realtor.com. Prior to joining HomeStore (now move.com (http://www.move.com/)), Mr. Sommer was co-founder, president and CEO of Accordus, a technology infrastructure company serving the healthcare products industry. From 1988 to 1998, he was founder, president and CEO of De La Cruz Occupational Healthcare. He began his career with McKinsey & Co. He graduated cum laude in 1983 from Princeton University with a degree in politics and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned a master's degree in international political economy. In 1990, he earned a law degree from the Stanford Law School.
Mr. Butler has served as a director of our company since August 2006. From 2004 to the present, Mr. Butler has served as President of Ref-Razzer Company, which manufacturers and sells sports related products. From 1999 to the present, Mr. Butler has worked as an independent consultant, advising clients with regard to the creation, workout and restructuring of companies and providing access to capital through his capabilities in originating, structuring, and placing financing in a broad range of markets. Prior to that time, Mr. Butler served as the President of Aspen Healthcare, Inc., the Chief Executive Officer and President of Mt. Whitney Savings Bank, First Federal Mortgage Bank, and Trafalgar Mortgage, and he was an Executive Officer and member of the President's Advisory Committee at American Savings & Loan Association. Mr. Butler attended Bowling Green University in Ohio, San Joaquin Delta College in California and Southern Oregon State College
Mr. Clarke is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TheStreet.com (NASQ-TSCM). Prior to joining that company in 1999, Mr. Clarke was Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Financial Investor Relations. At that company, Mr. Clarke oversaw the sale of what was then Technimetrics Inc. from Knight-Ridder to Thomson Corporation in 1998. Mr. Clarke has also held management positions at companies such as McAuto Systems Corp. and Media Records.
Additionally, Mr. Clarke serves as a business information advisor for Plum Holdings L.P., an institutional venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments in media companies. He serves on the University of Albany's executive advisory board of the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics, and on the board of Standing Stone, Inc., developers of disease state management solutions. Mr. Clarke holds an MBA from Hofstra University and a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from St. John's University.
Greg A. LeClaire, currently is the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of the Board of Directors, CLEARONE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (NASDAQ: CLRO). Mr. LeClaire served as vice president of finance and administration with Livedeal.com from April 2006 to August 2006. Earlier, he held a 12-year career in a variety of senior finance and accounting positions with UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC. (NASDAQ: UTMD), rising to become vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to Utah Medical Products, he held audit and accountant positions with Zions Bancorporation and FMC Gold Corporation. Mr. LeClaire earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting from the University of Utah and a master of science degree in management from Stanford University.
Ms. Bolton is currently a director of Austhink Software, a private company that produces decision support software. From November 2007 to September 2008, Ms. Bolton served as a director of Bridge Capital Holdings (NASDAQ: BBNK), a commercial bank holding company. From 2005 to 2007, she was the founder and CEO of QUIXIT, Inc. From 1996 to 2002, Ms. Bolton was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Scientific Learning Corporation (NASDAQ: SCIL), a company that produces educational software designed to accelerate learning, which she led from start-up to IPO to sustainable growth. Ms. Bolton has also been President of The Indian Creek Group, a consulting firm that advises clients on domestic and international business strategy, and a director of several other public and private companies and mutual funds. After she took Scientific Learning Corporation public, Spring Board Women's Venture Capital Forum named Ms. Bolton to the first All Women's IPO Class as one of 11 women who successfully took companies public in 1998 and 1999. Ms. Bolton holds a Bachelor's Degree in English and a Master's Degree in Linguistics from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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