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Jonathan B. Bulkeley

Jonathan Bulkeley is the Chief Executive Officer and a Board Member of Scanbuy, the global leader in visual navigation for the wireless industry. He served on the Board of Directors of Scanbuy for 2 years before becoming CEO in February 2006. In the past 12 months, Scanbuy has completed a $9 million Series B financing and announced several global partnerships including Telefonica Moviles, Nokia and DuPont.

Mr. Bulkeley sits on the Board of Directors of Spark Networks (NASDAQ:LOV), The Excelsior Buyout Fund of Funds, Excelsior Absolute Return Hedge Fund of Funds, and Excelsior Lasalle Real Estate Fund. In addition to sitting on the Advisory Board of JEGI, Mr. Bulkeley serves on the Advisory Boards of Arkadium, an online games developer, Elderstreet Capital Partners in London, and Jerusalem Global Venture Partners in Israel.

From February 2001 to October 200, Mr. Bulkeley served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lifeminders (NASDAQ: LFMN). Mr. Bulkeley had been a member of the Lifeminders Board and came in operationally when the Board removed the CEO/Founder. At the time, Lifeminders was a troubled Internet business with plenty of cash, but a failing business model. Mr. Bulkeley quickly evaluated the situation and reduced the operating expenses from $27 million per quarter to $5 million within two quarters. The company also announced it would either liquidate or find a buyer for the company. In October ’01, Lifeminders was sold to Cross Media Marketing (AMEX: XMM) for $68 million, a significant premium to the cash value of the business.

Prior to Lifeminders, Mr. Bulkeley was the Chief Executive Officer of barnesandnoble.com and was responsible for bn.com’s IPO, which at the time was the largest Internet IPO in history. Bn.com sales grew from $71 million to over $200 million during his tenure.

Prior to barnesandnoble.com, Mr. Bulkeley was managing director of America Online’s (AOL) joint venture with Bertelsmann Online in the United Kingdom (UK). Appointed in July 1995, Mr. Bulkeley moved to the United Kingdom to create AOL's European operations. Over the next three years, AOL-UK became the UK’s top online provider with 600,000 subscribers, $150 million in sales and $30 million in net income. Previously, he was vice president of business development at AOL in the United States, responsible for the development of new revenue streams, primarily advertising and e-commerce transactions. Under Mr. Bulkeley's direction in 1994-95, AOL launched the first programs to attract both advertisers and direct marketers to the company. Prior to business development, he was general manager of media, in charge of the development and production of all AOL media partnerships. AOL's partnerships in 1993-94 with companies like Time Inc, ABC, Disney and 75 others were a key ingredient to AOL's ultimate dominance of the US market.

Before joining AOL in 1993, Mr. Bulkeley spent eight years at Time Warner Inc. in a variety of roles, including director of marketing and development for Money magazine for three years.

Mr. Bulkeley has served previously as Chairman of QXL (LSE:QXLC), Chairman of Lifeminders (NASDQ: LFMN), Non Exec Chairman of Logikeep, Non Exec Vice Chairman of Edgar Online (NASDQ: EDGR), Non Exec Chairman of Rocket Networks, and Chairman of the Yale Alumni magazine and on the Boards of Global Commerce Zone, Instant DX, IGN Entertainment, The Readers Digest Association (NYSE:RDA), Milliken & Co., Cross Media Marketing Corp. (AMEX:XMM) and The Hotchkiss School.

In 1999, Mr. Bulkeley was nominated to the World Economic Forum in Davos as a Global Leader for Tomorrow and in 2000, the World Economic Forum named him one of the top 100 technology pioneers of the year.

Mr. Bulkeley is a 1982 graduate of Yale University in African Studies, something his parents questioned at the time.