Beachhead Solutions Management

Beachhead Solutions, the pioneer in information security through data elimination, provides security software and services to enterprise and government customers responsible for control of data on its personal computers. The Beachhead PC Data Security and Backup Suite includes both Lost Data Destruction® (LDD) and Beachhead Backup – Enterprise tools designed to manage, control and secure valuable business data. Both Beachhead tools minimize end-user involvement and greatly improve data security while allowing uninhibited user productivity. Beachhead Solutions, Inc. is a privately held and privately funded and is incorporated in Delaware.

Management Bios:

Jim Obot - CEO
Jeff Rubin - Strategy & Business Development
Tim Lavelle - Sales
Rob Weber – Product and Support Management
Gerald Hopkins – Corporate Affairs

Jim Obot - CEO

Jim Obot is an industry veteran with more than 25 years experience in the technology industry. His background includes senior roles in management, sales, and customer support and operations at leading Silicon Valley companies.

Most recently, Jim was the President and COO of fusionOne, a software company that is focused on the wireless synchronization space and develops wireless "sync" solutions for top telecommunications and enterprise companies worldwide. Prior to joining fusionOne, Jim was President of Omnisky.

Omnisky was one of the first wireless solution providers to deliver email and internet content data to the handheld device market, joining Palm.net and Blackberry in that space.

Before joining Omnisky, Obot spent several years at Palm Computing (3Com), as Vice President and General Manager of Palm.net, and as Vice President of Worldwide Operations. In addition, he was part of the original executive management team that developed and grew the business unit into a market leader.

Prior to Palm, Obot served as President, Navigation Technologies, North America. Navigation Technologies primarily focused on leveraging GPS technology, for their mapping database, found in location-based service solutions and in onboard computers, for both personal and commercial vehicles.

Obot also spent 14 years at Apple Computer, Inc., where he held a number of senior management positions, primarily responsible for sales administration and distribution within Apple USA.

Jim started his technology career at National Semiconductor in sales and customer support operations.

Jim earned his BSC in Finance from Santa Clara University. He has also completed Executive Management courses at both Stanford and UC Berkeley.

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Jeff Rubin - Strategy & Business Development

Jeff Rubin has more than 20 years of experience in technology marketing and management consulting, with a strong background in managing growing businesses, building and executing business strategies, improving processes and achieving sustainable results. He recently served as Senior Vice President, Marketing, InnoVentry, the largest developer, marketer, and deployer of self-service financial kiosks which offered automated check cashing and processing. Jeff was a member of a team that raised $115M and also served as General Manager, for InnoVentry's Entertainment Business Unit, a division which he built and sold for a 250% return in 18 months.

Jeff also served as Chief Marketing Officer, Better World Services, the only environmentally-friendly roadside assistance and travel club in North America. Earlier, as Vice President, CSC/Index and a Manager for Booz Allen Hamilton, he led or participated in numerous management consulting programs aimed at bringing new strategic vision and technologies to bear on clients' most complex issues. The work spanned a variety of assignments including competitive analyses, strategic direction setting, business process development and implementation, and technology assessments.

Previously, as Marketing Manager, Intel, Jeff marketed a line of peripheral microcontrollers. His responsibilities included coordination and leadership in defining the initial design characteristics and product positioning of the 80486, the world's leading microprocessor (at the time), and its associated platform of products. He also pioneered a new form of programmable microcontroller which was 50% less expensive for customers, more profitable for Intel, and captured 85% market share for this device category.

Jeff holds a BAS from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a BS from The Wharton School, both at the University of Pennsylvania. He also earned an MBA from the J. L. Kellogg School at Northwestern University.

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Tim Lavelle - Sales

Tim Lavelle has more than 25 years of sales, marketing, and general management experience with aggressive technology-based companies including; National Semiconductor, Yamaha, and two eBusiness startups. He has a record of success in developing and growing business with strategic customers, building, training, and managing sales organizations, and creative positioning and branding of companies.

As Vice President, Business Development, FastParts, Tim evaluated and selected alliance partners and synergistic merger opportunities, and was a key member of the management team that successfully raised $34.5M in financing. Previously, as co-founder & Vice President, Sales and Marketing, NetBuy Corporation, he created the company's corporate identity and built the sales and marketing infrastructure.

Tim served as National Sales and Marketing Manager, Yamaha North America, where he crafted separate strategic alliances with Intel and Microsoft, and established Yamaha integrated circuits and software music synthesis as the de facto standard for audio on personal computers.

He recently finished serving a two-year assignment as Executive Director of the RosettaNet industry standards consortium, where he was responsible for guiding the overall strategic direction and standards roadmap of the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain, demonstrating his ability to build consensus among senior executives of diverse global companies for the common good.

Tim graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a BS in Engineering. He also earned a Master of Letters in Strategic Studies at Aberdeen University in Scotland, and an MBA from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management.

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Rob Weber – Product and Support Management

Rob leads product management and product support at Beachhead Solutions. His responsibilities include product definition, partner integrations, support process definition, and product evangelism. Before coming to Beachhead Solutions, he spent over 20 years working with technology in a wide variety of roles. At Hewlett-Packard, Rob’s initial assignment was to support developers of applications for the HP NewWave environment, the pre-cursor to icon-based Windows. Many of the tenets of NewWave are still prevalent in today’s Windows operating systems. After that, he served in a variety of IT roles including that of internal customer account manager. He helped HP division managers decide what IT tools and resources were right for them and their budgets.

Rob’s career began as an application developer at Pacific Gas and Electric where he helped implement the first automated payroll submittal system called On-Site Labor Entry (OSLE). He has also spent time at startup Aristasoft in the role of project manager.

Rob holds a BS in Management Information Systems from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo.

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Gerald Hopkins – Corporate Affairs

Gerald currently serves as Beachhead Solutions' Vice President of Corporate Affairs with responsibility for the company’s corporate development, business development, investor relations and human resources functions. Gerald has spent many years in the technology section: Prior to joining Beachhead Solutions, Gerald held the position of Director of Corporate Development with FusionOne, Inc., an industry leader in wireless data synchronization and porting applications. While at FusionOne, Gerald was integral in the successful negotiation and implementation of licensing and royalty agreements with many of the world’s largest wireless carriers. While at wireless data services pioneer OmniSky Gerald served as Director of Strategic Planning, where his responsibilities included organizational planning and forecasting, the evaluation, selection and management of key business partners, and contract and licensing negotiations. Gerald started his career with Apple, holding field operations positions.

Gerald holds a BA in English Literature from Gonzaga University, a Master of Public Administration degree from Golden Gate University, and a JD from University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law.

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