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Chief Executive Officer - Nasser Gaemi
Nasser is responsible for overall company vision, management, strategic planning and growth.

Nasser has over 20 years of experience in the computer and internet related industries.  Founding BigDates.com in 1999, Nasser brings a strong entrepreneurial will and start up savy.  He founded Elite Information Systems (a database consulting company) in 1983, and co-founded ASAM International (a developer of logistics software) in 1986.  He successfully led ASAM to be acquired in 1995 by Neopost (formerly Friden Alcatel).  He founded BigDates.com, Inc. in October 1999, launched its first consumer site in 2000, and began licensing its technology in 2004.

He holds a B.A. in Business Administration and M.B.A. from California State University, Hayward.


President & Senior Vice President of Business Development - Paul Love
Paul is responsible for developing business alliances and establishing affiliate marketing programs and agreements.

Paul joined Nasser at ASAM International as General Manager in 1990, concentrating on business development, marketing and product development. He brings extensive experience with both start up ventures and large corporations in the high technology and Internet industries having worked with Quickfood.com, QWIP Technologies, Infogate, AOL and Hewlett Packard.

Paul earned his B.A. in Political Economics at University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an M.B.A. from UCLA.


Chief Financial Officer - Mike Fake
Mike brings a solid financial, management, operational and strategic foundation to BigDates obtained from his prior experience as CEO and President of Orbital Studios, Inc., a software game developer, CFO of Maxis Software, a software game developer/distributor and Audit Manager with Ernst & Young. As BigDates CFO, he will manage all financial aspects of the Company and assist other team members where needed.

Mike obtained his B.S. in Accounting and M.B.A. from the University of Utah graduating Magna Cum Laude.


Vice President of Engineering - Bryce Foster
Bryce, a former Technical Project Manager for Tefen (a worldwide operations consulting company), applies his skills in managing, designing and building software to develop the technology platform that drives the BigDates reminder and suggestions engine and website. As VP of Engineering he is also responsible for the BigDates' programming team.

He brings more than 10 years of technical, engineering, management and software development experience to BigDates. Additional to his software experience, Bryce worked as a Project Manager at high-tech businesses such as Genentech, Pfizer, Motorola and Intel applying his knowlege of Operations Research to their manufaturing operations.

He holds a Master's Degree in Operations Research and Statistics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in up-state New York. Bryce did his undergraduate work at the University of Arizona.


Director of Marketing - Mindy Rosso
Mindy is responsible for all sales and marketing activities which includes external communications, website design and corporate branding and design standards.

She brings 14 years of IBM sales and marketing experience. As Editor of IBM's North American RS/6000 Results customer publication (print and online) and managing sponsor of the RS/6000 direct catalog and Shop IBM (IBM's online store), her attention to consistent messaging & design and attention to detail is prevalent in BigDates practices. Additionally, her customer acquisition, retention and loyalty programs focus at IBM bring great value to BigDates with keen attention on customer care.

Mindy received her B. A. (Management Information Systems) and M.B.A. (New Venture & Small Business Management) from California State University, Hayward.



Key Advisors

Hilary Billings
Online shopping entrepreneur and Current Director of Peet's Coffee and Tea. Former Chairman and Chief Marketing Officer of Red Envelope and VP of Pottery Barn.

Dean A. Gilbert
Former Executive VP & General Manager, Excite (former CEO and chairman of the board for @Home solutions).

Omid Kordestani
Current Senior VP, Worldwide Sales and Field Operations @ Google. Former VP Sales of Netscape/AOL.

Fran Maier
Current Executive Director at TRUSTe. Former VP at Bluelight & Women.com (now a wholly owned subsidiary of iVillage).

Janine Popick
Current Co founder, CEO and President of Vertical Response (direct and Internet marketing). Former Officer as well as VP, Direct Marketing and Ecommerce at XOOM.com.

Josh Silverman
Current CEO of Skype. Former CEO of Shopping.com. Former CEO of Evite.

Daphne Carmeli
Former CEO/Founder Metreo (acquired by Symphony Technology Group), VP Marketing Netscape/AOL and Healtheon/WebMD.


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