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Prior to becoming Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Passenger, Andrew was the Managing Partner of StreetWise Concepts & Culture; a premier word-of-mouth marketing agency where he oversaw community development and advocacy programs for clients such as Coca-Cola, Nokia, EB Games, Jack in the Box, Activision, Clear Channel Entertainment, Sony PlayStation and Snickers along with a strategic relationship with Nielsen Entertainment supporting their ongoing teen research.

During his career, Andrew has also served as a business consultant for Coopers & Lybrand, a practicing attorney for Crowe & Chappel, a talent agent for ICM, a record executive for Warner Music and Founder of Style365.com.

Andrew is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, an alumnus of Indiana University School of Business, New England School of Law and Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program.

Justin Cooper is the Co-founder and Chief Innovation + Marketing at Passenger. An expert in customer experience design, brand strategy and customer collaboration, Justin’s work bridges the traditional rift between brand objectives and consumer expectations through a creative, but business-pragmatic approach to innovation.

As Director of Strategic Marketing at A.D.D. Marketing & Advertising (a full-service experiential marketing agency), Justin successfully developed and led A.D.D.’s corporate business group; designing breakthrough initiatives for numerous globally recognized brands.

Justin also served as Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Laundryhead.com, Director of Business Development at WHN.com (a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions) and contributed to a variety of substantial projects during his years on the Marketing team at House of Blues Entertainment.

Often recognized as a thought leader in his field, Justin is the recipient of innovation awards and has been quoted in many leading business and trade publications including; The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Adweek, Brandweek and Advertising Age.

Justin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the University of Kansas.

Prior to joining Passenger, Steve served as Senior Vice President of EarthLink's Voice Business and managed the national rollout of EarthLink's voice products. As part of that he led a $50 million investment in Covad to build the largest DSL 2+ network in the US and built a nationwide VoIP infrastructure in fewer than nine months.

Before joining EarthLink, Howe was an associate principal at McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader in the North American Growth Practice and North American Service Operations Practice.

Tony is a San Francisco Bay Area native. He received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and his MBA from Santa Clara University. Prior to joining Passenger, he was the Lead Engineer at Composite Software located in San Mateo, California.

He is passionate about his work and is an inspirational leader with a proven ability to attract and build a top-notch engineering team. He spends his time outside of the office with his family. Tony is based out of our Palo Alto office and has been with Passenger since April 2006.

Prior to becoming VP of Product Innovation, Justin was the Creative Director at A.D.D. Marketing and Advertising; a full-service, non-traditional marketing and advertising agency.

Passionate about developing new ways for people to communicate and collaborate, Justin is known as innovator in the non-traditional marketing and media space. Strategically advising companies/brands such as Tremor (P&G), Sony PlayStation, Activision, Dreamworks, AOL, MTV, EA, Toyota, Nokia, Nestle (and many more), in the development of advocacy programs, online community initiatives and viral marketing content & programs.

Justin is also the Founder of MassDistraction; an international network of creative professionals, and Co-founder of CommonGate; a social blogging network & interactive news community.

Justin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University.

Laura has 20 years of experience building client relationships. Prior to joining Passenger, Laura was a Vice President at Olivia, a leader in social networking. Laura also co-founded Cord Blood America, the parent company of Cord Partners, a stem cell preservation services company. While there, she built the consumer brand and the B2B channel, helped take the company public, and established the Investor Relations team.

Laura also spent seven years in Technology Solutions and Staffing for System One, which was acquired by Monster/TMP Worldwide. There, she was the Sr. Regional Director of the Technology Solutions practice for the San Francisco Bay area. She developed key client relationships with accounts such as Wells Fargo, Sun Microsystems, Intuit, and AAA. Laura began her career with Ford Motor Company as an Account Zone Manager, providing client services to Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury dealers and customers.

Laura received a BBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a concentration in Marketing and Management.

Jason has over 12 years of media and technology experience with companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, MGM, and Disney. Prior to joining Passenger, Jason led the financial forecasting team for Disney's $1 Billion+ International Home Entertainment division. Jason holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Prior to joining Passenger, Carlos was consulting for Toyota Motor Sales, USA. His focus was in the full system development lifecycle of complex business critical applications for Fortune 500 companies. He helped instrument key software processes at his clients to improve software delivery quality and team performance.

Carlos has also been involved in many high-performance storage systems development. Carlos has developed serverless backup technologies for Gadzoox Networks and has also developed one of the industry first Fibre Channel-to-SCSI bridge solutions for Quantum|ATL Products.

Carlos holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a MS in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California. He is also an active member of the IEEE Computer Society.

Dan Beldy is a managing director of Steamboat Ventures. Dan has spent the last 20 years in technology and finance as an investor, entrepreneur and operator.

Prior to Steamboat, Dan was a co-founder and managing director of Plainview Capital, an innovative family of fundamental value investment funds that leverage a proprietary software platform, Plainview Analytics™. Before Plainview, Dan was an associate and partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

Focusing on early stage software investments, Dan was involved with several successful, growing companies as an investor / advisor / board member including Employease, acquired by ADP (NASDAQ: ADP), Technorati, Starmine, Method Home and Maxion Technologies.

Early in his career Dan was an officer and an F/A-18 Hornet jet instructor pilot for the U.S. Navy, completing over 275 aircraft carrier landings in tours of duty with the Atlantic Fleet.

Dan received a BS in computer science as a distinguished graduate of the US Naval Academy in 1986, and received an MBA in finance from The Wharton School in 1998.

Larry A. Bettino has 18 years of private equity and venture capital experience and more than 24 years industry expertise in the technology and communication industries. He has been a private equity investor since 1989, and has been responsible for investing a total of almost $850 million in private and public companies at all stages of development. Mr. Bettino has invested in both control and non-control situations, and in early-stage, expansion, growth, and buyout transactions in several industries, predominantly in the technology and communications sectors.

He joined StarVest Partners in September 2006 to be a partner in StarVest Partners II. He was most recently a partner and Managing Director of Warburg Pincus (2001“2006), where he had worldwide responsibility for the Communications and Technology sector. He was a member of the Executive Management Group, comprised of the heads of all of the Firm's major industry groups and geographic regions. He had management responsibility over the CommTech portfolio, and oversaw the investment of approximately $750 million. Mr. Bettino managed the group's personnel, leading a major reorganization of the group, and was responsible for the formation of Warburg's CIO Advisory Council. He also led investments and was on the Board of Directors for several companies in the portfolio, including most recently LSSi Data Corp., the leading provider of international directory database services; MACH, SA (based in Luxemburg), the global leader of mobile telephony data services; and Telcordia Technologies, the world's largest provider of operational support software to communications carriers and one of the largest technology leveraged buyouts of the past several years.

Before joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Bettino was a Founding Partner at Baker Capital (1996“2001). The Baker Communications Fund, LP is a $406 million private equity fund formed in 1996 to invest primarily in communications-related businesses. The fund has been fully invested and is in the process of being distributed. Mr. Bettino was involved in all aspects of the firm’s formation, including strategic development, fundraising, and operations. He was also responsible for hiring several of the junior investment staff for the firm. Mr. Bettino left shortly after the formation of Baker Communications Fund II to join Warburg.

Mr. Bettino started his investment career at Dillon Read Private Equity (1989“1996), where he became a partner in 1992 and focused on early and expansion-stage investments in communications and technology.

From 1982 to 1987, Mr. Bettino worked for IBM, initially as a computer chip logic design engineer, and then moved into business line and account management. He received his BS (1982) in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Harvard Business School (1989). Mr. Bettino is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Citizen’s Budget Commission, a nonprofit civic organization committed to influencing constructive change in the finances and services of the New York State and New York City governments. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of CSMG Adventi, the global management consulting firm. He lives in Bronxville, New York, with his wife and three children.

Aside from his active role as a member of Passenger's Board of Directors, Art is also the Managing Partner of Shelter Capital Partners; a private investment fund focused on innovative technology companies.

Previously, Art was the non-executive Vice Chairman of Akamai Technologies, a provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications. Prior to its sale to News Corporation in 1997, Art was the President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of New World Communications Group, a television production and broadcast company. During his career, Art has also served as a founding partner of Apollo Advisors and EVP for Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Art currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Skirball Cultural Center and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School Board of Overseers.

Art earned a B.S in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.