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Katherine Goncharoff: Katherine Goncharoff is a senior writer at The Deal (www.thedeal.com), a daily and weekly publication that reports on deal making in all its diversity, including venture capital, seed and angel funding deals. She has also reported on startups and new and emerging technologies for Business Week Online, Forbes.com and MIT's Technology Review.

John J. Edwards III: John J. Edwards III is a news editor on The Wall Street Journal's national
news desk, overseeing and coordinating coverage of marketing & media (advertising/marketing, media/entertainment, consumer products and retailing) and technology. He has been with the Journal since October 2000. Prior to that he spent 3 1/2 years in a variety of positions at
TheStreet.com, ending as assistant managing editor. Edwards has also worked as a city-hall reporter at the Times of Trenton, N.J.; as a telecommunications reporter for Dow Jones Newswires; and as a reporter covering labor and tax issues for the Bureau of National Affairs, a
newsletter publisher in Washington. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.

David Lidsky: David joined FSB: FORTUNE Small Business in 1999 and currently serves as a senior editor. Lidsky helms the magazine's Tech section and is responsible for all tech-related feature stories, along with the "Look Back" column. He has been writing the "Tech Skeptic" column for two years.

Lidsky has been a regular moderator of the small business track at Fall Comdex and the Internet World trade shows for the past two years, as well as a panelist at the SBA (Small Business Association) conference in October 2000.

Before joining FSB, Lidsky covered the Internet in its formative years ('96-'99), advancing from an editorial researcher to senior associate editor at PC magazine. A graduate of Columbia University, majoring in history, Lidsky received his JD from the Boston University School of Law with a concentration in intellectual property. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1998, and retired from the bar the same day he joined.

Om Malik: Om Malik is a senior writer for Red Herring focusing on the telecommunications sector. He is also the forthcoming book, Broadbandits: the inside story of the $750 billion telecom heist; which is slated for publication in May 2003 by John Wiley & Sons.

Prior to joining Red Herring in July 2000, he was part of the founding team of Forbes.com where he was a senior editor. His work has also been published in newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0, Brandweek, and Crains' New York Business. In 1999, he left Forbes to join Hambrecht & Quist Asia Pacific as an investment manager, in the process becoming only the fourth journalist ever to cross over into the venture capital business.

During his tenure as a venture capitalist, he met and worked side by side with many CEOs, entrepreneurs and investors, and was privy to the inner workings of Silicon Valley. However, nine months in the VC business made him realize how much he missed the world of writing and
reportage, and he went to work for Red Herring where he could apply his extensive knowledge and insight into the world of venture capitalism and cutting edge technologies.

Between his career as a technology journalist and his tenure as a venture capitalist, he has witnessed and documented firsthand the rise and fall of the Internet and telecom industries, which has given him unrivaled access and insight into this world.

George Mannes : George Mannes is a senior writer at the online financial news publication
TheStreet.com. He covers media and technology, and he writes the regular column "The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week."

Before he joined TheStreet.com in 1998, Mannes spent two years covering business and technology for the New York Daily News. He has written freelance pieces for American Heritage of Invention and Technology, Entertainment Weekly, Popular Mechanics and other consumer and trade publications.

Liz Mooney: Liz Mooney has been New York bureau chief at RCR Wireless News since 1995. As such, she covers the financial aspects of the wireless industry, including venture capital, overall M&A outlook and credit ratings agencies. She attends seminars, conferences and other meetings in the Big Apple and meets with wireless company executives who come to New York City.

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