John Blossom
President, Shore Communications, Inc.

Mr. Blossom's career spans more than twenty years of marketing, research, product management and development in advanced information and media venues, including major financial publishers and financial services companies (Citicorp, Quotron and for Reuters Holdings PLC), as well as earlier experience in broadcast media. Mr. Blossom served as a Vice President and Lead Analyst at Outsell, Inc., where he provided research and analysis coverage of content technologies and financial and corporate information markets for major corporate clients, and developed successful online ecommerce services for research reports. For his excellence in qualiitative research, Mr. Blossom was recognized with the Vendor of the Year award by Standard & Poor's in 2001.

Ms. Jordan is founder and CEO of New York-based media investment bank The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) and is a founding general partner and CEO of JEGI Capital, a venture capital affiliate of JEGI. Over the past 20 years, Ms. Jordan has built JEGI to a preeminent position among boutique investment banks serving the media and information industriese, including the consumer and B2B publishing sectors, information companies, as well as Internet-based enabling technology and interactive marketing companies. The firm's Best Practices approach to its primarily sell-side assignments has been instrumental in forging JEGI's reputation for overall excellence, integrity and the ability to maximize value for its clients. Ms. Jordan's involvement in media reflects her rise from an entrepreneurial start-up to leading the media industry's most successful boutique investment bank. She has founded, owned, managed, advised and served on the board of directors of several high-profile media and communications companies, including publishing, broadcasting and Internet businesses.

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