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From: Nadia
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These are the guys I might be working with. I only met with Doug Kitani so far. He is now the VP/CFO of
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. The next person I am to meet this week is Dan Beldy, Disney's
venture capital guy. And the third is Chuck Wallace, the co-founder of Esurance. They all work for AOPA
now. (AOPA - htto://www.aooa.ora/info/) Dan and Chuck have consulting contracts at the moment,
getting the new companies ready for launch, and once that happens they are to assume executive
positions in these new startups. Doug suggested the same for me. I would need to sign an NDA.
,,,You sounded skeptical about the opportunity...am I missing something that does not sound right?
DOUGLAS KITANI
Partner @ Calder Capital Partners
Douglas L. Kitani has twelve years of experience including private equity and mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to joining CCP, he was Head of Alternative Investments for Honeywell International's $23 billion
pension fund. At Honeywell, Mr. Kitani held responsibility for all aspects of the $1 billion alternative asset
investment program, including identification, due diligence, negotiation, structuring and monitoring. Prior
to Honeywell, Mr. Kitani was a Principal and senior direct investment professional at Quadrant Capital
Group, a private equity firm founded by the Scripps-Harvey family. Previously, Mr. Kitani worked in
investment banking for JP Morgan H&Q and SG Cowen. He started his business career at GE Capital after
serving three and a half years in the US Army as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot and platoon leader. Mr.
Kitani graduated the United States Military Academy, West Point with a BS in Law/Systems Engineering.
He also holds an MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
DAN BELDY
Managing Director of Steamboat Ventures.
Dan has spent the last 20 years in technology and finance as an investor, entrepreneur and operator.
Dan currently serves on the boards of Fanzter, Move Networks, Baynote, Greystripe, Passenger, and
Vobile, and is actively involved with FreeWheel . Dan's prior investments include Playdom, acquired by
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS).
Prior to Steamboat, Dan was a co-founder and Managing Director of Plainview Capital, an innovative
family of fundamental value investment funds that leverage a proprietary software platform, Plainview
AnalyticsTM. Before Plainview, Dan was an associate and partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
Focusing on early stage software investments, Dan was involved with several successful, growing
companies as an investor / advisor / board member including Employease, acquired by ADP (NASDAQ:
ADP), Technorati, Starmine, Method Home and Maxion Technologies.
Early in his career Dan was an officer and an F/A-18 Hornet jet instructor pilot for the U.S. Navy,
completing over 275 aircraft carrier landings in tours of duty with the Atlantic Fleet.
Dan received a BS in Computer Science as a distinguished graduate of the US Naval Academy and
received an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School from The Wharton School.
CHUCK WALLACE
Co-founder & senior executive @ Esurance
Few entrepreneurs can say they founded an Internet business that grew from zero to a billion dollars in
revenue. Chuck Wallace is one of them. In 1999, a year before the dot com implosion, Chuck co-founded
Esurance. It not only survived the bubble burst, but through innovation and unheard of customer service
strategies, Esurance aggressively grew by introducing a new business model to the stale, unimaginative
world of insurance. Chuck helped build Esurance into the fastest growing auto insurance company in the
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US with revenues approaching $1 billion, 500,000 current customers, 2,000 employees, and 11 offices
nationwide. Today, Chuck is bringing the same vision and expertise in building innovative ecommerce
companies to Upstream Worldwide. As President and COO of Upstream, Chuck is helping to create the
first true Consumer Cash Commerce Platform - a new category of business enabling consumers to
exchange everything from cell phones and consumer electronics to precious medals for much needed
cash. And like Esurance, Upstream is changing the game by elevating service levels to a new high
through its 100% Max Cash Guarantee. At Upstream, Chuck oversees every department that impacts a
customer's experience — marketing, customer care, operations, technology and operational finance. In
between Esurance and Upstream, Chuck served as CEO of Ustream TV, the leader in live interactive
video broadcasts, enabling anyone with a camera and an internet connection to broadcast easily to a
global audience. As Upstream's CEO, Chuck led the company through 30% monthly growth and angel,
venture debt and private equity financings by top funding partners.Chuck started his career as an Air
Force instructor pilot, first teaching young men and women to fly at undergraduate pilot training in
Lubbock Texas, and then flying the C-130 Hercules in Frankfurt Germany and Willow Grove
Pennsylvania.
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