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The Board

Gilles Babinet

Chairman and co-founder - Gilles babinet successfully created and managed various successful businesses as CEO. At the age of 24, he set up Absolut, a consultancy firm specializing in product design and marketing that became, under his management, a major consultancy group in its field in France. Through Absolut, Gilles was involved in the emerging Entertainment mobile market from the very beginning and sold Absolut at the beginning of 2000 to Euro-RSCG, a worldwide communications group, in order to fully dedicate himself to the creation of Musiwave. In 5 years, Musiwave has become the leading European provider of mobile music and entertainment services to telecommunication operators and media (presence in more than 17 countries throughout the world along with 30 mobile operators). Musiwave has been sold to Openwave -a public American company - for $121M in Jan 2006. Gilles serves as non executive director in the Mobile Entertainment Forum as well as in the company Digicompanion.

Simon Guild

Director - Simon Guild spent 14 years in the MTV Networks Group; before leaving MTV in January 2007, he occupied the position of President and CEO Europe, based in London. Guild was previously Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer (COO), overseeing MTV Networks Europe's business operations such as Productions Europe, Broadcast Services, Finance, IS and Human Resources. Guild joined MTV Networks Europe in 1993 as Head of Strategy and Planning. He was promoted to COO in 1997. Simon joined Eyeka's Board of Directors in April 2007.

Bruno Massiet du Biest

Director - Bruno Massiet du Biest is currently CEO of " 118 218 Le Numéro ", the leading directory assistance number in France, that he launched in 2004. Previously, Bruno had different Senior positions, such as CEO & Chairman of Scoot -a 100% subsidiary of VU.net- Director of Development at SFR, the 2nd largest mobile operator in France, or again, Chairman of the GSM Association, the body that defines on a global base the leading GSM standard. Simon has joined Eyeka's Board of Director in April 2007.