HandHeld Entertainment (fka HNDH)

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Have been adding this gem.

Check out the management team:

http://www.hheld.com/


Management Team

Jeff Oscodar, President and Chief Executive Officer: Mr. Oscodar has been director, president and chief executive officer of HandHeld Entertainment since November 2004. Prior to joining HandHeld Entertainment, Oscodar founded and ran Rule 168 Advisors from July 1999 to November 2004, a consulting firm focused on the commercialization of new technology. At Rule 168, he advised Raytheon on how to turn defense industry applications into valuable commercial operations. Previously, he co-founded InfoGear Technology Corporation, which produced the first Web-enabled telephone and was sold to Cisco Systems in March 2000 for $301 million. While at InfoGear, Oscodar developed content partnerships with companies such as Amazon.com, eToys, Time Inc., USA Today and Yahoo!, among others.

Tim Keating, Chief Operating Officer: Mr. Keating, chief operating officer of HandHeld Entertainment, is the former managing director of Intel Capital Europe where he spearheaded more than 70 equity investments between 2000 and 2003. He is a 21-year veteran of Intel, where he helped grow the Fortune 500 company's core processor business into one of the strongest in the world by heading up the microprocessor business in Europe in the 1990s and launching the original Intel Pentium(TM) brand and chip.

Garrett Cecchini, Executive Vice President and Founder: Mr. Cecchini, executive vice president and co-founder, has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, first as a corporate lawyer principally advising technology companies and venture funds in licensing and reorganization matters, and then as an entrepreneur. In 1998, he founded Compression Science Corporation, a company that developed advanced broadcast video encoder technology and was sold to Philips Electronics in 2002.

Carl Page, Chief Technology Officer: Mr. Page, chief technology officer and director, was a co-founder of eGroups, Inc., where he helped build a network of 14 million users who relied on eGroups to support Web-based collaborative work efforts. eGroups was eventually acquired by Yahoo! in 2000 for more than $425 million and is today known as Yahoo! Groups.

Bill Bush, Acting Chief Financial Officer: Mr. Bush, acting chief financial officer, previously served as the chief financial officer and secretary for International Microcomputer Software, Inc. (OTCBB:IMSI - News), a developer and distributor of precision design software, content and online services. He brings more than 15 years of experience in finance and accounting./p>

Greg Sutyak, Executive Vice President, Finance and Operations: Mr. Sutyak, executive vice-president of finance and operations, has more than 25 years of business management and finance experience, including an instrumental role in taking audiohighway.com public on the Nasdaq Stock Market in 1998. Sutyak has spent his last 15 years focused on high-technology markets and spent 10 years as vice president over a $100 million portfolio for Tokai Bank.

Larry Gitlin, Vice President of Business Development: For more than 15 years, Mr. Gitlin has been an executive in advanced strategic business development, product development, sales and operations and has specialized in digital media, motion picture and broadcast television, as well as wireless and advanced telecommunications products including advanced DSL, Wi-Fi and PON/FTTX. In early 2001, Mr. Gitlin served as VP of Business Development at Qwest Communications as a core member of Qwest's Corporate Business Development group, with a specialty in Digital Media and Telco TV, launching an electronic media delivery product suite trial at Qwest for the entertainment industry. He also co-created a comprehensive security business unit within Qwest for enterprise and government channels that utilized a broad range of IP-based network applications, Infosec, SSL architectures, DIA, VoIP and local-loop access. After Qwest, Mr. Gitlin consulted with several top Silicon Valley firms such as Harmonic, Inc., leaders in compression and optical network products. Formerly, Mr. Gitlin was an entertainment executive in Hollywood, producing and line-producing more than a dozen films and TV shows, then moving into Digital Media. Mr. Gitlin joined HHE in July 2004.

Eric Hamilton, Principal Scientist: Mr. Hamilton has served as chief scientist at HandHeld Entertainment since April 2003. He is a leading compression scientist and past chair of the International JPEG Committee, which is responsible for developing the successful JPEG image-coding standard and JPEG 2000.

Ted Richards, Executive Creative Director: Mr. Richards, executive creative director, has more than 20 years experience as a consumer product creative director, product manager and interactive marketing developer. His professional portfolio includes Ford Motor Company, Lucasfilms Games, Microsoft, Symantec, Hunter Douglas and WebMD. He developed, patented and designed TestDrive, the first “try before your buy” interactive CD-ROM catalog, and the first audio download Web site, audiohighway.com that integrated audio content with the Listen Up Player, the first portable audio player.

Board of Directors

In addition to Jeff Oscodar, and Carl Page the following persons serve on our Board of Directors:

Bill Keating, Chairman: Mr. Keating has been a member of the board of directors of HHE since October 2004. Since 2004, Mr. Keating has been the Chief Executive Officer of Xtend Networks, a division of Vyyo, Inc., a provider of cable television multimedia-service router bandwidth solutions. He is a founding member of Nekei, a venture-catalyst consulting company formed in 2002, and is a 25-year veteran of the technology industry. A number of recent business ventures for which Mr. Keating helped to arrange funding have either gone public or been successfully acquired. These include Moxi Digital (sold to Paul Allen in 2002) and WebTV (sold to Microsoft in 1997). In addition, from 1997 to 2000, Mr. Keating was General Manager at Microsoft TV, a division of Microsoft that provided broadband middleware for worldwide cable, telco and satellite television. From 1993 to 1996, he was Senior Vice President at General Magic, a leading supplier of PDAs and intelligent online services. From 1991 to 1992, he was Vice President and General Manager at Rational Software, a leading supplier of software development tools. From 1985 to 1991, he was Director of Technology Marketing at Sun Microsystems, a leading supplier of workstations, servers and enterprise software platforms.

Geoff Mulligan, Director: Mr. Mulligan co-founded HHE in February 2003 and has served as a member of its board of directors since that time. Since September 2002, Mr. Mulligan has been Chief Operating Officer of Konami Digital Entertainment, the U.S. subsidiary of the $2.3 billion Japanese developer and publisher of digital entertainment software. From March 2002 to September 2002, Mr. Mulligan served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Xicat Interactive, Inc., a developer of PC entertainment software. From 1991 to 2002, Mr. Mulligan was Senior Vice President of Business Development for Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., a global developer and publisher of entertainment software. Prior to joining Acclaim, Mr. Mulligan was President of Activision International, a consumer electronics and gaming company. He is also one of the founders of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the governing body of the $11 billion U.S. entertainment software industry.

Nathan Schulhof, Director: A technology visionary with several U.S. patents to his credit, Schulhof is known as the inventor of the MP3 player industry. As co-founder of Information Highway Media Corp. (later renamed Audio Highway and then audiohighway.com) in the early 1990s, the Schulhof-led organization introduced the Listen Up Player at the January 1997 Consumer Electronics Show where it won an Innovations award and later garnered the People's Choice award from the Upside Magazine/David Coursey Internet Showcase conference in 1998. He also helped take audiohighway.com public on the Nasdaq Stock Market in 1998. In addition to his critical role at audiohighway.com, Schulhof co-founded TestDrive Corporation (a pioneer in the distribution of encrypted software on CD-ROMs), which was sold to R.R. Donnelley & Sons in 1994. During his 35-plus years as a serial entrepreneur, Mr. Schulhof has also served as CEO of Silicon Valley Systems and Jasmine Systems. In 2001, Mr. Schulhof co-founded GoldPine Partners, LLC, a Southern California-based consulting and investment firm that focuses on engagements with technology and biotechnology companies.