Rhythm New Media

	The Carlyle Group The Carlyle Group is one of the world's largest private equity firms with $44.3 billion under management and current investments in more than 80 companies. Carlyle generates extraordinary returns for its investors by employing a conservative, proven and disciplined approach. Carlyle has more than 689 employees including 357 investment professionals in 16 countries. William E. Conway, Jr., Daniel A. D'Aniello and David M. Rubenstein founded Carlyle in 1987. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., former Chairman of IBM, is Carlyle's Chairman.

	Lightspeed Venture Partners Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm with over $2 billion of committed capital under management. Lightspeed’s investment professionals and advisors are located in Silicon Valley, China, India and Israel. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed more than 150 companies, many of which have become leaders in their respective markets, including Blue Nile, Brocade, Calista, Ciena, DoubleClick, eHealth, Galileo Technology, Growth Networks, Informatica, Kiva Software, LightLogic, Maker Communications, Metasolv, Openwave, Quantum Effect Devices, Riverbed, Sirocco, Virsa Systems and Waveset.

	Morgenthaler Ventures Morgenthaler is a leading venture-capital and buyout firm with offices in Boston, MA; Boulder, CO; Cleveland, OH; Menlo Park, CA; and Princeton, NJ. The firm has approximately $2.5 billion under management and has funded more than 250 companies over its 38-year history. Its IT team has made a number of investments in Internet consumer services, new media, and wireless companies, including Rhythm New Media, NexTag, SNOCAP, ORB Networks, IGA Worldwide, imeem, Digital Railroad, Peregrine, Paratek, Crossbow, and Intelliflex.

	Rembrandt Venture Partners Rembrandt Venture Partners, established in 1997, is a private equity venture fund, which invests primarily in high growth technology companies. Rembrandt has over $175 million in committed capital and more than 50 limited partners. Over the past 20 years, Rembrandt's managing directors have formed and financed more than 60 companies.

	Sam Ginn Ginn serves on the Board of Directors of ChevronTexaco (and chairs the Audit Committee) and Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust. He serves as an advisor to the Board of The Investment Company of America. He is also an investor and advisor to several start-up companies in Telecommunications. He retired as Chairman of Vodafone in May, 2000. Ginn assumed the Chairmanship on June 30, 1999 when the merger between Vodafone and AirTouch was completed. Formerly part of Pacific Telesis Group, AirTouch was spun off as an independent company on April 1, 1994. Ginn became chairman and chief executive officer of AirTouch in December, 1993. He served as CEO until the close of the merger, which was valued at $62B, and created nearly $1B a month in shareholder gain since the April 1994 spin off and more than $2B in value for the AirTouch employees who benefited from Ginn's belief in making employees owners in the company.