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The PocketGear Team

• Jud Bowman

  President & CEO

  Jud is the President & CEO of PocketGear, and led the acquisition of PocketGear from Motricity in May 2008. Prior to PocketGear, Jud co-founded Motricity in September 1999 and was instrumental in raising $400 million of venture capital and growing Motricity to more than $100 million in annual revenues and 500 employees globally. As Motricity's Chief Technology Officer, Jud was the chief architect of one of the industry's leading mobile content delivery platforms that delivers more than $1 billion of content to mobile phones per year and was named the 2006 Best Service Delivery Platform by the GSM Association, Best Content Service Delivery Platform by Mobile Entertainment magazine and honored by Frost & Sullivan as the Premium Mobile Content Platform of the Year in 2005.

  Jud has spoken at conferences across 4 continents, including CTIA Wireless, CES, the Red Herring 100 Conference, European Technology Roundtable Exhibition (ETRE) in Athens, The Forum on Global Leadership, Wireless Strategy, Mobile Internet Summit and PCIA GlobalXchange, and is a frequent guest speaker at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. Jud has also spoken at venture capital and investment banking conferences, including the Goldman Sachs Internet Conference, Lehman Brothers Worldwide Wireless and Wireline Conference, and Pacific Crest Technology Forum. Jud has been featured in over 500 national media publications, including profiles in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNN/CNNfn, Red Herring, Financial Times, Wireless Week and a cover story in the December 2002 issue of Wireless Review.

  Jud has been named as one of the world's "Top 100 Young Innovators" by MIT's Technology Review and one of "Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs" by BusinessWeek in 2007. He was also recognized as a winner of the Carolinas' Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" award in 2001. Jud is currently on leave from Stanford University, where he has been named a President's Scholar, and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

• Slawek Pruchnik

  Chief Architect

  Slawek is Chief Architect and a founding member of the management team at PocketGear. As Chief Architect, Slawek heads technology strategy and development for PocketGear's smartphone application distribution network.

  In 1999, Slawek co-founded the original PocketGear.com and as Chief Technology Officer architected the mobile content delivery platform that delivered tens of millions of applications to smartphones and mobile devices, leading to the company's acquisition by Motricity in 2004. Following the acquisition, Slawek served as Vice President of Site Operations at Motricity where he was involved in architecting the smartphone application platform and managing deployments including PocketGear.com and the Palm Software Connection.

  Slawek received a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems degree with a specialization in software management from the University of Detroit Mercy. He is also a Microsoft Certified Professional and member of the Microsoft Software Developer Network.

• Matt Stein

  Vice President, Site Operations

  Matt is Vice President of Site Operations and a founding member of the management team at PocketGear, where he is responsible for site operations, marketing, developer relations and customer support.

  Matt joined the original PocketGear.com as its first employee in 2000 and played a key role in building the developer community and increasing revenues, leading to the company's acquisition by Motricity in 2004. Following the acquisition, Matt served as Developer Relations Manager at Motricity with responsibility for managing the smartphone developer community and later as Operations Manager with overall responsibility for Motricity's direct to consumer and smartphone application business.

• Ralf Ockenfelds

  Vice President, International

  Ralf is Vice President of International and a founding member of the management team at PocketGear, where he is responsible for driving PocketGear's international business. In 2001, Ralf founded the European mobile content portal Mobile2Day, growing it to one of the largest smartphone application distribution networks in Europe prior to its acquisition by Motricity in 2004. Following the acquisition, Ralf served as General Manager of Motricity Germany GmbH.

  Prior to founding Mobile2Day, Ralf was the Editor in Chief of one of the leading computer magazines in Germany, PC Magazin. Ralf also served as Editor of several European computer magazines including Level 16, Data Welt, and PC Praxis.

  Ralf is the author of five technical books, including "Tips and Tricks for your PC Printer," which was published in six languages.

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Board of Directors

• Jud Bowman

  President & CEO, PocketGear

• Mike Elliott

  General Partner, Noro-Moseley Partners

  Mike has more than 20 years of investment experience, most recently as a general partner with the Wakefield Group in Charlotte, North Carolina. Prior to that time, Mike served as Managing Director for NationsBank Capital (now Bank of America Capital Investors), where he led a number of private equity financings in companies in the cable, healthcare and financial services market segments. He was also a founding general partner of NCNB Venture Company.

  Prior to joining NMP in 2005, Mike worked extensively with the firm as a co-investor in numerous portfolio companies, including OpenSite (acquired by Siebel in 2000) and Cypress Communications (acquired by Arcapita in 2005).

  Mike received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar and Maurice Lee Fellow.

• Steve Nelson

  Managing Director, Wakefield Group

  Steve Nelson joined Wakefield Group in October 1999 as managing director and partner. He established the venture capital firm's Research Triangle Park, N.C., office. Nelson joined Wakefield after 19 years of executive and general management experience in technology, software and Internet-based businesses. During the last three years of his career before starting a venture capital career, Nelson was at Quokka Sports, a digital media company, in several executive roles. Quokka raised over $140 million in capital and successfully completed an IPO in July, 1999.

  Nelson served as chief executive of a joint venture company between NBC Sports and Quokka Sports, NBC/Quokka Ventures, LLC. Prior to Quokka, he served as a vice president with Informix Software, based in Menlo Park, C.A. His first business experience was 14-plus years at IBM, ultimately as vice president and general manager in San Francisco.

  Nelson is a member of the board of directors and chairman of the executive committee at Motricity and is also on the board of directors for APEX Analytix and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. He was a past chairman of North Carolina's Council for Entrepreneurial Development, is co-founder of North Carolina's Innovation Association and is a member of the Investment Advisory Committee for the State Treasurer's office of North Carolina and its $70 billion investment portfolio.

  Nelson received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Wake Forest University.

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Investors

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  Noro-Moseley Partners

  Founded in 1983, Atlanta-based Noro-Moseley Partners ("NMP") is one of the largest and most experienced venture capital firms in the southeastern United States. Since its inception, NMP has created five limited partnership funds totaling approximately $580 million in capital and has invested in approximately 160 companies.

  In 2000, NMP announced the closing of NMP V, a $320 million venture capital fund, the largest ever in the Southeast. Our mission over the last twenty-three years remains the same: to partner with strong management teams to build companies of significant value.

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  Wakefield Group

  Founded in 1988, Wakefield Group has provided growth capital to more than 40 companies, primarily in North Carolina. We manage more than $100 million of capital, operate offices in Charlotte and Research Triangle Park, NC, and are privately owned.

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Network

Direct Distribution

PocketGear powers smartphone application distribution for direct channels including:

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Direct Distribution Partners

PocketGear powers smartphone application distribution for more than 15 partners including:

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Advertising

Thank you for your interest in advertising on our leading network of mobile content sites!

PocketGear is one of the world's largest providers of mobile content. Through our network of consumer websites (PalmGear.com, PocketGear.com, Smartphone.net, eReader.com, SymbianGear.com and Mobile2Day.de) and channel partnerships including palmOne and PalmSource, PocketGear reaches over 10 million consumers worldwide. From games to business applications, and from ringtones to eBooks, PocketGear powers the entire spectrum of mobile content delivery solutions for consumers and business partners.

Our loyal site visitors are tech savvy gadget lovers with valuable discretionary income. Our visitors own mobile devices that they depend on, and choose our online brands to purchase premium applications to personalize and bring their handhelds to life.

The largest percentage of our site's visitors shop our sites on a daily basis. They are well-educated, high income earners and they hold a great deal of confidence in shopping online. Millions of visitors every day purchase downloadable games, business utilities, mobile accessories, enterprise applications, ebooks, as well as ringtones from the PocketGear network of sites and the storefronts of customers we power. Advertising on our network gets you in front of their valuable eyeballs and associates your brand or product with the device that they depend on for entertainment, organization and simplification of their lives.

Your product or content application should be in front of our premier online audience! Take advantage of our premium advertising opportunities now - gain greater visibility and earn higher sales returns from qualified consumers.

Please contact our Advertising Department to formalize an advertising campaign package that meets your objectives.

Advertising
+1-919-287-7400 ext 2104
advertising@pocketgear.com

Please click on the logos below for examples and details on all of the available advertising opportunities on each of our sites.

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Press

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