Rory Stear

Executive Chairman

Rory is the Executive Chairman of Flambard Holdings, a privately held international investment company and is Chairman of New York based Minlam Asset Management LLP. He is the co-founder of the award winning Lifeline Energy (formally Freeplay Foundation). Stear has extensive experience in building businesses, corporate social responsibility, raising capital and leading organizations. He has operated globally for the last 17 years especially in the USA, UK, Africa and Asia. Prior to being sold in July 2008, Freeplay Energy was a role model for corporate social responsibility, including being showcased in the Agenda issue of Fast Company Magazine and in numerous other publications around the world. In 1998, Stear founded the independent Freeplay Foundation, since renamed Lifeline Energy, today a registered charity in the UK, USA and SA, which itself has become a highly respected international charity. Rory is a frequent speaker at dinners, business schools and conferences around the world on his vision of business being a force for social responsibility. Stear is a member of the Dean's Council at Harvard's John F Kennedy School of Government and a member of the advisory board at the Business School at Nelson Mandela University. He is a member of the Renewable Energy Council for the Global Agenda at the World Economic Forum and a fellow of the Schwab Foundation at the World Economic Forum. In 2009 he was a judge in the WEF Technology Pioneers program. He is a member of the London Chapter of the Young President's Organization and of the WPO. Stear was named an Entrepreneur of the Year by BusinessWeek Magazine in January 2000 and was featured in the Agenda Issue of Fast Company; was a 2007 TIME/CNN/FORTUNE Principal Voice and a 2007 TIME "Hero of the Environment". He is a recipient of the Theodor Herzl Award from the Jerusalem Fund and twice traveled (to the USA and the UK) as a member of delegation with then South African President, Nelson Mandela. In 2010 he has accompanied South African President Jacob Zuma to the United Kingdom and to India as a member of his business delegation. He is featured in Who's Who in South Africa and Who's Who in the UK.

Kurt Pakendorf

CEO

Kurt is the group CEO and director of MobileWave Group Plc. Kurt has 20 years of extensive multinational business and legal experience across a broad range of industry sectors, including operations, regulatory activities, M&A, software and services. Most recently Kurt was Vice president & General Counsel at Havok, an Intel owned and separately operated company, where he was a member of the Management Team and was responsible for the company’s legal activities and supported corporate development, the sales contracting process, alliances, marketing, business development, human resources, facilities and information systems and managed and protected Havok’s patent and trademark portfolio. Prior to Havok Kurt was the Assistant General Counsel of i2 Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITWO), a public supply chain software and services company based in Dallas, Texas, USA, where Kurt first headed up the EMEA legal team, from Brussels and later London, and then was the EMEA and Greater Asia Pacific General Counsel, a member of the Management Teams for both EMEA and Greater Asia Pacific, before becoming the Assistant General Counsel at the corporate HQ. Kurt has served with the United Nations as a Legal Officer for the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, worked in London and Brussels for the international law firm Denton Wilde Sapte LLP and practiced as an attorney in South Africa. Kurt holds a law degree from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and is an admitted attorney of the High Court of the Republic of South Africa. He is co-author of the UK Current Law Statutes, Petroleum Law 1998.

Andy Polansky

Non-Executive Director

Andy has extensive experience in a broad range of communications disciplines, including business-to-business and consumer product marketing, corporate communications and issues management. Andy led the development of Weber Shandwick‟s Client Relationship Leader (CRL) program, which has been featured as a Harvard Business School case study. He serves as a senior strategist on a number of corporate and business-to-business client engagements, and has particular expertise working with consumer electronics, financial services, consumer products, telecommunications and technology clients. PRWeek US has featured Andy in its “Who to Watch” issue and earlier in his career he was named “All Star of the Future” by Inside PR magazine. Programs he has developed have won numerous industry awards, and in 2010 he was named to the PR News Hall of Fame. Currently, Andy is chair of the Council of Public Relations Firms, which seeks to advance the business of public relations firms by building the market and firms‟ value as strategic business partners. He sits on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Public Relations (IPR), an independent foundation in the field of public relations focusing on research and education. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Business Marketing Association‟s New York chapter. Andy also has served as a non-executive director of Freeplay Energy, a leading global supplier of clean, off-the-grid energy products, and of MobileWave Group plc. Prior to joining Weber Shandwick (as a member of a firm then known as Bozell Public Relations), Andy was a municipal reporter for the Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, PA, a business and feature writer for the Princeton Packet in Princeton, NJ, and a sportswriter at The Trentonian in Trenton, NJ. Andy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from The College of New Jersey, for which he serves as a strategic adviser to its School of Culture and Society.

Vivake Gupta

Non-Executive Director

Vivake is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Lab49, a technology consulting firm, building advanced solutions for the financial services industry based in New York and London. Previously, Vivake was a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, where he advised senior executives of large financial institution clients on technology operations. Vivake also co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer for Simile Software, where he led the development of the company’s unstructured data and content management technologies, ran technology operations, and directed original research initiatives in the area of statistical natural language processing. Prior to starting Simile, Vivake was a Research Associate at the University of Chicago doing work on scientific parallel computing. Vivake holds a B.A. in the Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago and an M.B.A. in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Arthur Holcombe

Chief Revenue Officer

Arthur is the Chief Revenue Officer of MobileWave Group Plc. Arthur has an accomplished track record building and scaling businesses in the Internet, CRM and mobile wireless sectors. Prior to MobileWave, Arthur was Co-Founder and CFO of Coordinate Technologies, a China based Telecom VAS Company servicing China Mobile and China Unicom and providing wireless data connectivity services to over 20 global leading Telecom Operators. Prior to Coordinate Technologies, Arthur was a Co-Founder and Sales Director for Coremetrics, a Web marketing optimization and customer analytics platform that was later acquired by IBM. Arthur started his career in China where he built up the Dow Jones Online Interactive Services division. Arthur is tri-lingual, speaks English, Spanish and Chinese, is an MBA graduate from Thunderbird and has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s, Walsh School of Foreign Service. Arthur grew up in the developing world, and has lived 10 years in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and the Fiji Islands.

Amit Goenka

Managing Director Ariose Software

Amit provides leadership to Ariose Software and its business initiatives. Amit brings to Ariose Software close to fourteen years of experience and accomplishments in leading positions in software development. He has extensive experience in driving products and solutions from concept to actual product delivery. An engineering graduate from BITS-Pilani, Amit brings to Ariose Software a unique blend of software product and services experience. Prior to Ariose, Amit was Engineering Manager at iPolicy Networks where he was the lead manager for development of the enterprise series of security appliances. He has an extensive knowledge of networking & security protocols, mobile and value added services, embedded systems, device drivers across variety of operating systems. He has been managing and executing offshore initiative for product ancillary developments, design and implementation and customer support.