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Robert Oesterlund, Chief Executive Officer

Robert Oesterlund, 35, founded Xacti Corporation in 2000 and serves as the company's Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Robert founded Xacti to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on the enormous potential and opportunity that existed online using his expertise in direct response marketing.

A lifelong entrepreneur, Robert started a bi-monthly real-estate publication in his teens, culminating in various multi-unit residential and commercial real estate projects in his early twenties. He serves on the boards of numerous companies.

Robert received a diploma in Business and Administration from Commercial College in Finland, where he also studied Business Economy and Marketing for Independent Entrepreneurs (Bachelor of Commerce). As a licensed helicopter pilot, Robert flew rescue and relief missions following Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast. He is happily married, and father of two beautiful girls.

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Skip Middleton, Executive Vice President

Skip Middleton, 41, is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Xacti in his position as Executive Vice President. Among his responsibilities, Skip oversees the work activities of all company employees and divisions, and is involved in and supervises the negotiation of major contracts.

Skip brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise and understanding about business operations and transactions, contracts, and insurance. Prior to joining Xacti, he gained over eleven years of experience in print and electronic Yellow Pages. He also has extensive experience in commercial negotiations, including mergers and acquisitions and regional and national marketing programs as an advisor to numerous companies, Skip helped form and assisted in the growth of several successful startups and turnarounds. With a keen eye for business synergies, and complementary talent, Skip has helped create strategic alliances that have realized double digit growth for the parties involved.

Skip holds two Bachelor degrees from Washington College, and currently sits on the board of a regional literacy foundation, the Russell Life Skills and Reading Foundation, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Pay It Forward Foundation. Outside of work, Skip enjoys spending time with his wife and son. One of the recipients of the Verizon Excellence Awards, Skip has been recognized both nationally and regionally for his work in sports marketing and public service.

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Barry A. Weiss, Senior Vice President Operations

Barry Weiss, 58, serves as Vice President of Operations and is responsible for all business operations, while working extensively with other core company products. His expertise is applied to new projects, concentrating on building vendor and customer relationships to facilitate a smooth transition from business model test phase to rollout.

Barry has extensive experience in direct response marketing that includes direct mail, telemarketing, print, and online media. His entrepreneurial history provides leadership and assistance on new business development concepts, testing, analyzing the results and conversion to operating unit. Barry has extensive knowledge of business analysis such as ROI, project scenarios analysis, break even analysis and life time value. With start up experience in direct response and premium incentive, Barry developed and then directed from business plan through to profitable operations. With a background in database analysis, data hygiene and target marketing, Barry's expertise has minimized customer acquisition costs.

Barry holds an MBA in Finance from Syracuse University. His other experiences include Professor of Finance and Marketing, University of Phoenix and DeVry University. Barry was keynote speaker at a DMA Conference, New Orleans, where he presented the effective use of compiled lists. In Florida, he was also a speaker on target marketing at a consulting prospects conference. Barry is a happy family man and enjoys cooking, music and movies.

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Zdenek Valach, .NET Director

Zdenek manages the imple­mentation of server side projects for USdirectory.com, Inbox.com, and all e-commerce sites. Zdenek brings Xacti exceptional expertise in analy­sis creation of new functionalities for these projects and the implementation of mission critical processes for per­formance optimization and financial operations.

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Radek Voltr, Client Development Director

Radek brings over 15 years of expertise to Xacti as a client applications developer. He has extensive experience as a Windows application developer and an independent developer. His work as a subcontractor produced applications used by companies like T-Mobile, HSBC, and Rexam among others. Radek now works hard to develop new and improve exist­ing Xacti products.

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Walter H. Messick, P.A., General Counsel

Mr. Messick is an experienced business lawyer who has been counseling small, medium and large companies for over 20 years. He is licensed to practice in Florida and Virginia. Prior to obtaining his law degree in 1986, Mr. Messick was employed by the Department of the Navy in a variety of positions, including Contracting Officer for the purchase of Tomahawk Cruise Missiles. From 1986 to 1992, Mr. Messick was Director of Contract Administration for a computer software company in the Washington, DC area, then became in-house corporate counsel with the large, international consulting firm which acquired the computer software company. From 1992 to mid-2001, Mr. Messick was the co-Managing Partner of Taylor, Messick & Tosti, P.C., with offices in the Washington, DC area and Boca Raton, FL. In mid-2001 he formed his own law firm, Walter H. Messick, P.A. in Boca Raton, FL.

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