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Richard Kligman, CEO and Founder

Richard is the CEO and founder of Qoof, Ltd. He has leveraged his unparalleled visionary expertise to transform a concept into a powerful business model that will create revenue for both online entrepreneurs and enterprises. Where some see the rise of consumer-controlled video-based entertainment as a challenge and threat, Richard sees it as an exciting and profitable opportunity for both entrepreneurs and enterprises to directly market and sell products to targeted consumer audiences via the Internet. Through his ability to create critical business solutions, innovate and enhance the brand, Richard will soon be taking Qoof to market, generating profits and strong returns for the company's investors.

Prior to launching Qoof, Richard was the co-founder and chief visionary officer of IMVITE Ltd., (www.imvite.com) the first Instant Messaging company with a built-in affiliate program. Under his direction, IMhttp://selfserve400.download.videoegg.com/gid392/cid1416/61/L8/1183897316.98725ydqng15oCyQ8sBdlmIHVuntries. Richard left his day-to-day responsibilities in order to solely focus on Qoof in July 2005.

Before moving to Israel in July 2002, Richard spent eight years in the high-end promotional products and Incentive Marketing industry.

Jonathan Stefansky, Executive VP Sales & Marketing

Jonathan spent the first eight years of his career at Goldman Sachs and Co. He started as analyst supporting the fixed income trading floor and shortly thereafter moved into the LAN and WAN internetworking group. Jonathan's most recent position at Goldman was as Vice President of Global Internet Infrastructure where he was responsible for the firm's global Internet presence.

Subsequent to Goldman, Jonathan joined Akamai Technologies as Vice President of Network Infrastructure and Architecture, where he was responsible for the company's network deployment in over 70 countries and 1000 Internet Service Providers.   After his involvement with a number of Akamai's key clients, Jonathan moved into the sales and business development arm of the company where he served as Vice President of Strategic accounts and was responsible for the firm's key strategic accounts and competitive winbacks. He was responsible for over $4.5 million new revenue within the first two years in his new position.

After moving to Israel, Jonathan continued his work for Akamai, selling to major accounts in Western Europe.

 Prior to joining   Qoof, Jonathan served as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for IDT Global Services in Jerusalem. He was responsible for growing the firm's call center and professional services business lines and grew revenue by 400% within 3 years.

Hillel Scheinfeld, Chief Operations Officer

Hillel began his career at NatWest bank where he completed the firm's management program and worked as a trading assistant on the short term money market desk. He was also responsible for risk management analysis of the bank's $3 billion mortgage portfolio. After NatWest, Hillel worked as a project consultant for Goldman Sachs managing the system conversion of the asset management group's equity trading system. Upon completion of the project at Goldman, Hillel joined IDT and served in various roles during his ten year tenure there, most recently as an executive vice president of strategic development at IDT's Israel office.

Prior to joining the Israel office, Hillel ran the business operations of the telecom division at IDT. During this time, IDT's daily minute usage over its network grew from 500,000 to over 30 million minutes per day. He was responsible for expanding the business into Europe, Africa and the Far East. Additionally, Hillel was responsible for the successful integration and growth of Corbina telecom, a Russian phone company that IDT purchased and recently sold for a $130 million profit.

Before joining Qoof, Hillel was part of the executive management team that founded the Israel office of IDT Global Services and was personally responsible for managing the outsourcing division of the company.

Basil Chait – CTO

Mr. Chait has been at the forefront of numerous early stage startups in establishing a technology strategy using his specialty in market trend predictions to help them rollout a sound strategy for their products and services. Prior to coming on board with Qoof, Mr. Chait founded Nesher Consulting as way to service young companies in transforming concepts into reality.

Prior to Nesher Consulting, Basil was CTO and partner in Pocket Billboards Inc., a new media company where he managed the IT infrastructure for 3 years as it evolved from startup to establishment.  Key accomplishments in this role included the innovation and implementation of new telephony promotion-based advertising product lines, including a 21^st Century Fox's prepaid calling card sweepstakes.  Furthermore, he implemented numerous other telephony based applications and implemented them on the technology backbone of calling card partner IDT Corp.     

As a seasoned entrepreneur himself, Mr. Chait, also co-founded VC-funded Octavesoftware, Inc., where he held the position of CTO and VP of Innovation. While in the company, Mr. Chait was instrumental in positioning the company ahead of most enterprise content management players in the market at the time.   Basil also architected and developed Octavesoftware's adaptive and modular infrastructure which was responsible for providing a robust and flexible content management system for Fortune 1000 companies.