A successful media and technology entrepreneur, Robert Levitan has founded and operated successful business ventures. Mr. Levitan offers clients marketing expertise and operational know-how to help build and grow companies. He has created companies, generated revenue and enterprise value quickly, as well as, launched new divisions and branches. He is a sought-after expert on online practices, especially e-commerce, and has been quoted in such publications and electronic media as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, CNN, and CBS.

Mr. Levitan was Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Operating Officer of Flooz.com, an online gift currency accepted as payment at a variety of online stores such as ToysRUs.com, Barnes and Noble.com, Godiva, Tower Records, the Sports Authority, Gymboree, Starbucks, J Crew and Sketchers. He raised more than $50 million in venture capital financing, directed the opening of more than 100 online retailers to accept Flooz and 1.2 million consumer accounts, developed a network of 25,000 affiliate sites, and negotiated the agreement with Whoopi Goldberg to be the company's spokesperson. The company increased brand awareness from 7% in October 1999 to 64% in January 2001 and recorded $25 million in gross sales for calendar year 2000.

Prior to Flooz.com, Mr. Levitan was a Co-founder of iVillage.com, the leading online community for women with more than 12 million monthly visitors, and the company's senior vice president. He developed the company's innovative sponsorship sales strategy that featured long-term relationships; created integrated online marketing programs for companies such as Kimberly Clark, MGM, Toyota, Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, and Glaxo Wellcome; formed a strategic relationship with Intel to develop new interactive health applications such as the Personal Health Report; and created a new online publishing model with Intuit and Charles Schwab to launch a financial planning site for iVillage called the Armchair Millionaire.

Most recently, Mr. Levitan was a Consultant to Pearson PLC for launching new media programs in China. He spearheaded the sales and marketing partnership for Pearson and developed a revenue stream for the business by identifying the top prospects for sponsors of the programs, making presentations, establishing the pricing, and negotiating contracts. He led the team that signed Kodak as the premiere sponsor for the TV program entitled "Beijing to London Taxi"; Other consulting work includes his project with America Online for whom he evaluated business models and developed non-subscription based revenue streams including commerce integration, affinity programs, and database extensions.

From 1985 to 1994, Mr. Levitan was the Founder and President of YearLook Enterprises, the world's first video yearbook publishing company with 300+ clients including high schools, universities and the United States Navy, and was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce in 1988.

A cum laude graduate of Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Public Policy Studies, he serves on the Board of Directors of Mobius Management Systems (Nasdaq: MOBI), a leading provider of software that supports content intensive e-business applications; the New York E Commerce Association, a trade association and industry catalyst representing senior executives in New York; and New York Cares, a service organization that coordinates volunteers who work with children, the homeless and the elderly in New York. In 1997, Levitan and his two brothers climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and visited CARE project sites in Africa as part of a fundraiser for international relief organization CARE.

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