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William Mobley: Chairman, CEO, & CoFounder
William Mobley currently serves as Chairman & President of Global Portals Online, Inc. (formerly Personal Portals Online, Inc.) and its subsidiary Websiteowner, Inc. Mobley is the Founder and President of Nextelligence, Inc., a privately held company, which provides various levels of assistance to dynamic Internet entrepreneurs. Nextelligence transforms these entrepreneurs’ ideas and/or concepts into successful enterprises.

Mobley previously founded and served as the Chairman of MegaMedia Networks, publicly traded Internet broadcasting and distribution company that delivered popular music, sports and entertainment through its online portal, MegaChannels.com. Megachannels.com became the number #1 male 18-35 destination site in the world, 8 weeks following its launch in March 2000. Megachannels.com held that position for months serving some 800,000+ unique visitors daily prior to the online advertising and dotcom fall-out in the late summer of 2000. Mobley also served as a principal investor to ImageCafe sold to Network Solutions 11/99.

Mobley also founded and served as President of World Commerce Online (WCOL) from 1994-1999, a publicly traded company and recognized leader in e-commerce business-to-business and industry based solutions. World Commerce Online, became an I2 Technologies powered solution and provided services to such clients as; GE Global Exchange Services, Dole Foods, Acosta, IBM and others. Wall Street was quick to see the investment potential. World Commerce Online gave investors over a 2000% percent return in the months following its debut on NASDAQ (WCOL went from .50 to over $28.00) prior to Mobley’s departure in the spring of 1999.

Mobley graduated from the University of Florida in 1984 with a Business degree in International Business Development and Marketing.


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Andre F. Forde: Director, President, CoFounder
Andre Forde currently serves as Director and President of Global Portals Online, Inc. formerly Personal Portals Online, Inc. He conceived the idea of Personal Portals in December 1999 upon departure from ImageCafé www.imagecafe.com (acquired by Network Solutions, Inc., a VeriSign, Inc. company in Nov. 1999 for $25M.) where he was the Founder and visionary of that company. Forde sought William Mobley's interest to partner on Personal Portals Online, compounded by a need to develop a more extensive “consumer version” of Image Cafe and together founded Personal Portals Online, Inc. in April 2000.

Prior to Image Café, Forde worked with Mobley on commercial designs for World Commerce Online and various other brand organizations. Forde has been in the technology industry since 1988 developing interactive multimedia applications for IBM, AT&T, MCI, NASA, and various other Fortune 500 companies.

Forde attended Morgan State University in Baltimore and was sponsored by NASA to study Electrical Engineering, but found the profession didn't allow him to be artistically creative. He changed his major to Mass Communications so he could hone his abilities in interactive design and communications, and balanced his creative abilities with a minor in Physics and Math.

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Lori J. Whitted: Director
Lori Whitted is Vice President of Marketing & Business Development for the VeriSign, Inc. Regsitry Division. Ms. Whitted joined VeriSign, Inc. in June 2000.

Prior to joining VeriSign, Ms. Whitted amassed more than 15 years of finance, strategy, marketing and business development experience concentrated primarily in high tech B2B and consumer marketing organizations. She began her career at General Electric Co. where she spent 5 years in financial management. After completing graduate studies, Ms. Whitted joined The Boston Consulting Group as a consultant in the telecommunication/high tech and consumer marketing practice groups where she was actively involved in helping long distance carriers compete effectively in the newly deregulated environment and in exploring the strategic implications of emerging wireless technologies.

In 1994, Ms. Whitted joined the Washington Post Company as Director of Corporate Development and was a founding team member of WashingtonPost.com where she served as Vice President of Finance and Business Development. Most recently, she was a partner in a regional investment bank.

Ms. Whitted has significant leadership experience in early-stage companies including serving as vice president of Marketing & Business Development for LocalEyes.com (1997) and as co-founder of ImageCafe.com (acquired by Network Solutions/VeriSign in 1999 for $25M)

Ms. Whitted earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a graduate of Duke University where she studied biomedical engineering and economics and was recognized as an Angier Biddle Duke Memorial Scholar - one of the university's highest academic awards.




 
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