Executive Profile

Eric C. Hippeau President and Director, PlanetDaily Network, Inc.

Age	Total Calculated Compensation	This person is connected to 13 Board Members in 13 different organizations across 19 different industries. See Board Relationships
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Background

Mr. Eric C. Hippeau has been a Managing Partner, Special Partner, and Advisor of Softbank Capital since March 2000. He was a Managing Partner of Softbank Capital until 2009. Mr. Hippeau served as the President and Executive Managing Director at SOFTBANK Europe Ventures and Softbank European Ventures. He served as the President and Executive Managing Director at SOFTBANK International Ventures from March 2000 to November 2002, an affiliate of SOFTBANK, where he established ... its international funds and expanded them into Europe, Latin America and Asia. He also serves as Director of Softbank. Mr. Hippeau serves as Managing Partner of SAIF Partners. He serves as a Managing Director and Partner at Lerer Ventures and an Advisor at PureVideo Networks Inc. He served as the Managing Partner of Softbank Capital. Mr. Hippeau served as an Advisor of Lerer Ventures. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at HuffingtonPost.com LLC until March, 2011. He served as a Media Industry Chief Executive Officer, having spent over 25 years in senior management positions at large media companies. Mr. Hippeau served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Ziff-Davis Inc., from 1998 to October 2000. He joined Ziff-Davis Inc., in 1989 as a Publisher at Pc Magazine and served as its Executive Vice President since 1990 and President and Chief Operating Officer since February 1991. He held various other positions with Ziff-Davis from 1989 to 1993. He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at ZD Inc., of Ziff-Davis Inc., from 1993 to March 2000. His experience, prior to joining Ziff-Davis includes senior executive positions at International Data Group. He was responsible for founding ZDTV. Mr. Hippeau held a number of positions with IDG, including Vice President of Computer Publications in Latin America and Publisher of its InfoWorld magazine. He served as President of Electron Economy. He directed several successful magazines and marketing service launches in the technology and Internet field. He was an International Technology Business Investor and Media Leader. He has been a Director of Danger, Inc. since January 2003, Global Crossing North America Inc. since 1998, Goodmail Systems, Inc. since December 2006 and Starwood Hotel & Resorts Worldwide Inc. since April 1999. Mr. Hippeau has been a Director of Insider Pages, Inc. since March 2006. He has been a Director of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. since April 1999. He served as a Trustee of Starwood Hotels & Resorts since April 1999. Mr. Hippeau has been a Member of Advisory Board of Criteo Corp. since December 1, 2011. Mr. Hippeau serves as a Director of PureVideo Networks Inc., Thumbplay, Inc., diamonds.com, National Leisure Group, Herring Communications Inc., Toysrus.com LLC, LiteScape Technologies, Perpetual Entertainment, Inc., Buddy Media, Inc., and Contagious Media, LLC. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at SmallRivers SA. Mr. Hippeau served as Director of Beliefnet, Inc. since June 29, 2005. He served as a Director of CNET Networks Inc., since October 2000. He served on Yahoo!'s board of directors until 2011. He served as a Director of Asia Global Crossing Ltd. since September 1999 and RHC Media, Inc. He served as a Director of Yahoo! Inc. from January 1996 to April 1, 2011. Mr. Hippeau served as Director of Associated Content Inc. and Rivet Games, Inc. He served as a Director of Global Crossing Ltd. since September 1999, Ziff-Davis Inc. since April 1998, Odimo Inc., from February 2000 to July 24, 2006 and Yahoo! Geocities since January 1997. Mr. Hippeau served as a Director of I-Group HotBank NE, ZD Inc. and Electron Economy Inc. Mr. Hippeau graduated from the Lycee Francais de Londres and attended the Sorbonne University in Paris.

Corporate Headquarters 560 Broadway New York, New York 10012 United States Phone: 646-839-8582 Fax: -- Board Members Memberships Director Electron Economy Inc. Former Director RHC Media, Inc. Former Director Beliefnet, Inc. Prior MediaLive International, Inc. Director Perpetual Entertainment, Inc. Director ThumbPlay, Inc. Director Insider Pages, Inc. Advisor and Director PureVideo Networks Inc. Former Director Associated Content, Inc. Director Buddy Media, Inc. Director Contagious Media, LLC Former Director Rivet Games, Inc. President and Director PlanetDaily Network, Inc. Executive Director CasaHop, Inc. Director The Four Points by Sheraton Hotel 1996-2011 Former Director Yahoo! Inc. 1997-N/A Former Director Yahoo! GeoCities 1998-N/A Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board - ZD Inc., Chief Executive Officer - ZD Inc. and Director - ZD Inc Ziff-Davis Inc. 1998-Present Director Global Crossing North America, Inc. 1999-N/A Former Director and Director of Asia Global Crossing Ltd Global Crossing Ltd. 1999-Present Independent Director, Member of Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee and Member of Capital Committee Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. 1999-N/A Former Director and Director of Global Crossing Ltd Asia Global Crossing Ltd. 1999-Present Trustee and Member of Audit Committee Starwood Hotels & Resorts 2000-2006 Former Director Odimo Inc. 2000-N/A Former Director CNET Networks, Inc. 2003-N/A Director, Member of Audit Committee, Member of Compensation Committee and Member of Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee Danger, Inc. 2006-N/A Director Goodmail Systems, Inc. Education Unknown/Other Education Université de la Sorbonne - Université de Paris Unknown/Other Education Lycee Francais de Londres Other Affiliations Electron Economy Inc. Yahoo! GeoCities Yahoo! Inc. Global Crossing Ltd. Ziff-Davis Inc. RHC Media, Inc. Odimo Inc. SOFTBANK Europe Ventures CNET Networks, Inc. Beliefnet, Inc. Global Crossing North America, Inc. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. MediaLive International, Inc. Asia Global Crossing Ltd. SAIF Partners Danger, Inc. SoftBank Capital Softbank European Ventures SOFTBANK Asia Infrastructure Fund Université de la Sorbonne - Université de Paris Perpetual Entertainment, Inc. Goodmail Systems, Inc. I-Group HotBank NE Starwood Hotels & Resorts ThumbPlay, Inc. Insider Pages, Inc. SOFTBANK Asia Infrastructure Fund II, L.P. PureVideo Networks Inc. Associated Content, Inc. Criteo Corp. HuffingtonPost.com LLC SAIF Partners III, L.P. Buddy Media, Inc. Contagious Media, LLC Rivet Games, Inc. Flexis Capital LLC Lerer Ventures SmallRivers SA Lycee Francais de Londres CasaHop, Inc. The Four Points by Sheraton Hotel

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