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Before founding MaxPoint, Joe Epperson served as the senior finance executive for PayPal’s Global Merchant Services group and was a member of the original eBay Motors executive team. At eBay Motors, Joe was deeply involved in both strategy and operations. Prior to eBay, Joe held finance and strategy positions at 3Com and Ford Motor Company. Joe earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from The Ohio State University and an MBA from Michigan State University. Like many successful entrepreneurs, he works because it is fun and it is what he would rather be doing. When pressed, he does admit to an eclectic taste in music and an interest in math.

Ken Lowe is Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Scripps Networks Interactive, a leading lifestyle media provider for television, the Internet and other media platforms. Previously, he was President and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company from 2000 until 2008, when Scripps Networks Interactive became a separate, publicly traded company. Prior to 2000, Lowe was Chairman and CEO of Knoxville-based Scripps Networks. He built the company into one of the nation's fastest growing and most successful creators of unique brands for television and the Internet. He founded and launched HGTV in 1994; oversaw the acquisition and transformation of the Food Network into an American pop culture icon; presided over the launches of the DIY Network and the Cooking Channel as well as the acquisitions of the Travel Channel in 2009 and Great American Country television network in 2004. Lowe also guided the development of the company’s growing portfolio of interactive content services in the food and home lifestyle categories. Lowe joined the E.W. Scripps Company in 1980 as General Manager of the company's radio properties. In 1988, he became Vice President of Programming, Promotion and Marketing for the company's nine network-affiliated television stations. Lowe began his career in radio with Southern Broadcasting in 1969 and continued with various management positions in radio and television with Harte-Hanks Broadcasting in the late 1970s. Lowe serves on the Board of Directors for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, The Paley Center for Media and The Cable Center. In the past he served on the Cincinnati Business Committee and Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation.