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Executive Profile*

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Mr. Ross B. Levinsohn has been Chief Executive Officer of Guggenheim Digital Media at Guggenheim Capital, LLC since January 2013. Mr. Levinsohn served as the Global Head of Media and Executive Vice President at Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo! UK Limited from May 2012 to July 31, 2012. Mr. Levinsohn was responsible for all aspects of Yahoo!'s digital media business, including the vision, strategy, product, partnerships, engineering, and content creation for Yahoo!’s marquee properties ... and content experiences globally. He served as an Interim Chief Executive Officer and Interim President of Yahoo! Inc. from May 13, 2012 to July 17, 2012. He served as an Executive Vice President of Americas Region at Yahoo since November 2010. He joined Yahoo in October 2010. He co-founded Fuse Capital and served as its Managing Director and Managing Partner. He served as an Advisor of LaunchBox Digital and General Atlantic LLC. Mr. Levinsohn has over 15 years experience and an extensive track record in the fields of interactive media, internet, and mergers and acquisitions. He co-founded 5to1 Holding Corp. in 2008 and served as its Executive Chairman since December 9, 2010. He co-founded Velocity Investment Group. Previously, he served as the President at Fox Interactive Media Inc. of News Corp. from July 2005 to November 2006. He served as a Senior Vice President and a General Manager at Fox Sports Interactive Media, LLC from January 2001 to January 2005. In this role, Mr. Levinsohn oversaw the online, wireless, and broadband presence for Fox Sports. He served as the Chief of Fox's Online Sports Business. He was employed at AltaVista Network from April 1999 to June 2000, where he served as a Vice President and an Executive Producer and held senior management positions. Before that, he served as a Vice President of Programming and an Executive Producer at CBS Sportsline(alternately SportsLine.com, Inc.), where he oversaw all content and development for Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO) and served as its Director of Production & Marketing Enterprises. He worked time in Advertising at Saatchi and Saatchi and in sports management and marketing at ProServ and Lapin and Rose Communications. Mr. Levinsohn has been a Director of Fabrik Inc. since May 2007. Mr. Levinsohn has been a Director of FatTail Inc., since October 2008 and Publish2 Inc. since March 2008. He serves as a Director of Doppelganger Inc. He serves as a Director of Freedom Communications Inc., Tribune Company, and Bogart Pediatric Cancer Research Program. He serves as a Director of Fuse+Mediam, BBE, TrueSlant, and VSIDE. He served as a Director of Napster Inc. from February 8, 2007 to October 30, 2008, 5to1 Holding Corp. since December 9, 2010 and Radar Networks Inc. since February 25, 2008. He received a B.A. in Broadcast Communications from American University.

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