Keith Cox, Managing Director. Keith Cox is an entrepreneur who has co-founded businesses in the venture capital, hospitality, resort real estate industries. Keith co-founded and has served as managing director of Brainstorm Ventures since 1999. Keith served on the board of directors and executive team of several the fund's portfolio companies, including OpenTable.com and Me.com. Keith co-founded and currently serves as the chief executive at Resort Equities, a luxury resort real estate company. Keith also co-founded and serves as CEO of a growth-oriented restaurant company, Pacific Catch, which is a moderately priced, Pacific-inspired, fresh fish grill. Prior to BrainStorm Ventures, Keith co-founded served as CEO of World Wrapps Restaurants, a west coast chain of gourmet, quick-service restaurants. His previous business experience included that of strategic management consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton and financial consultant at Deloitte & Touche. Keith obtained two BAs in Business Economics and Sociology at UC Santa Barbara and his MBA at Stanford University.

Eduardo Rallo, Managing Director. Eduardo Rallo is a co-founder and Managing Director of Brainstorm Ventures. Eduardo currently serves as the Managing Partner of Pacific Community Management, an affiliate of Pacific Community Ventures (PCV), a community-focused venture capital fund. Mr. Rallo serves on the boards of several PCV portfolio companies including Pacific Pharmacy Group and Freshology. Mr. Rallo is the Chairman and co-founder of Resmex Group, Inc. which manages seven different restaurant concepts in the Bay Area and has over 400 employees. He is also Chairman and co-founder of Farmacias Remedios, a pharmacy chain focused on the Hispanic Market. Prior to PCV, Mr. Rallo co-founded World Wrapps Restaurants, a Nation's Restaurant News Hot Concept Winner, in 1994. He oversaw the growth of the company to a 26-store chain of gourmet, innovative, quick-service restaurants and raised growth capital from top tier venture firms. Mr. Rallo received an MBA from Harvard University in 1993 and graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of California, San Diego in 1989.

Zev Zaidman, Managing Director. Prior to co-founding BrainStorm Ventures, Mr. Zaidman founded and managed Millennium Development Fund, a diversified international fund with investments in the equity and debt markets as well as in real estate and venture capital. Previous to that, Mr. Zaidman was Corporate Finance Director for Grupo Financiero Mifel in Mexico City, where he collaborated on the startup of the group's commercial bank and served on the Credit Committee. In addition, Mr. Zaidman was Associate Director for NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd. in Mexico City, where he participated in privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, the incorporation of the group's investment bank and was a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Zaidman received a Masters in International Management from The American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in 1990 and graduated with a BA in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 1988.

Kimball (Kim) Small, Advisor. Kimball ("Kim") Small co-founded Brainstorm Ventures in 1999 and has served as an advisor to the firm since inception. Kim has served on the board of directors and lead investor in several BrainStorm Ventures companies, including Me.com, and was a founding director of AboveNet Communications. Kim has more than 45 years' experience as a property developer and most recently co-founded Resort Equities in 1994 where he serves as an active Managing Partner. He founded Kimball Small Properties, Inc. in 1978 following a successful career as Executive Vice President of Sequoia Pacific (a Southern Pacific Company affiliate) during which he managed the development of more than 5,000,000 square feet of industrial space in projects throughout the Western United States. Kimball Small Properties, with a focus in Silicon Valley, has developed more than 2,500,000 square feet of industrial space in 47 separate projects, as well as landmark office buildings, luxury hotels, urban retail space and residential units. In the 1980's, Kimball Small Properties was designated by the City of San Jose as the master developer of its downtown redevelopment efforts, which led to Kim's development of the 500+ room Fairmont Hotel and adjacent office tower, a downtown retail center and 500 residential units. Kim has been twice named "Developer of the Year" in Silicon Valley and has been the recipient of many other honors for both his professional accomplishments and community service. He is a graduate of UCLA.

Alex Mostoufi (CEO @ Unicorn Labs, LLC) is a passionate entrepreneur with deep roots in Silicon Valley. He founded Me.com in 2005 (acquired by Apple in 2007), where he served as Chief Technology Officer. Mostoufi has over 15 years of experience in the interactive agency and software development spaces, including vct, which he founded, and leading development roles at Adobe, Yahoo, USWeb and Santa.com. He is an advisor to Brainstorm Ventures and an angel investor in number of other startups as well.

Antonio Rallo, Advisor. Mr. Rallo is the co-founder and CEO of Grey Interactive Mexico and is the Chairman of the Board of NCUBO, a technology development and investment company based in Mexico City. Mr. Rallo has been involved for more than fifteen years in new media research, development, and deployment projects. Prior to his current activities, Mr. Rallo was an entrepreneur in three other companies: MacWare, the largest third party Macintosh hardware and exclusive software distributor in Mexico; Iweb, a high end web design firm; and Digital MediaStudio, a development services company for digital media, CD-ROM, and touch screen kiosks. Digital MediaStudio and Iweb were both sold to Grey Interactive in 1999. Mr. Rallo is a board member of El Buro, a digital prepress services bureau and also a board member in North American Software (NASOFT), a software factory deployed as a cross-border company focusing on developing software and outsourcing services for the U.S. and Mexican markets. Mr. Rallo worked for six years at Apple Computer, three as Multimedia Technologies Manager, Apple Europe, and three as Solutions Integrations Manager, Apple International. Mr. Rallo received a BS in Marine Biology at the University of California San Diego, in 1985. He later earned a Graduate Research Fellowship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography where Mr. Rallo studied the navigational skills of the Hammer Head shark in the Sea of Cortez.

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