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Douglas Valenti has served as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors since July 1999 and as Chairman since March 2004. Prior to QuinStreet, Douglas Valenti served as a partner at Rosewood Capital, a venture capital firm, for five years; at McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant and engagement manager for three years; at Procter & Gamble in various management roles for three years; and for the U.S. Navy as a nuclear submarine officer for five years. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he graduated with highest honors and was named the Georgia Tech Outstanding Senior in 1982, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

HP co-founded Telenav in 1999 and has led the company to become a global leader in location-based services (LBS), automotive navigation and location-targeted mobile advertising. Telenav was the first company to launch GPS navigation services for mobile phones to the world, and today its product reaches more than 100 countries on mobile phones and within vehicles. Telenav was also the first LBS company in the USA to IPO when it began publicly trading on NASDAQ in May 2010. Telenav has subsidiaries in US, China, Europe and South America. Prior to starting Telenav, HP served as a Senior Strategy Consultant for the McKenna Group and a Business Strategy and Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company. HP has also served as a Technical Director at LINCSS/Loral Space Communication. HP holds a Ph.D. in Guidance, Navigation and Control (Aeronautics and Astronautics department), a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China.

John Gentry is the president of OpenX. OpenX is the world’s leading independent provider of digital advertising technology that enables businesses to manage and maximize their ad revenue. A veteran technology and media industry executive, Gentry is responsible for operating the business and further accelerating OpenX's rapid trajectory, delivering revenue growth through sales, technology, and product innovation globally. He has oversight of OpenX's three core operating teams: business, engineering and product. Gentry brings to his position at OpenX nearly twenty years of experience in leadership roles at technology and media companies that have redefined advertising and commerce. Prior to OpenX, Gentry was president of Spot Runner, developer of the Malibu Media Platform, an online media exchange that simplifies the buying and selling of television media. Before Spot Runner, he was chief revenue officer of Green Dot (NYSE: GDOT), the pioneer and market leader in the prepaid debit card industry. Previously, Gentry was senior vice president and general manager of the Affiliate Business of Overture Services, Inc. (Overture), the originator of the paid search advertising model, now a key driver of the digital economy. Before Overture, Gentry was an executive at Disney/ABC Cable Networks and Discovery Communications. Gentry holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.