Chris Patelis is a seasoned publishing professional in start-up, medium, and large publishing companies with more than 25 years at such media companies as CBS Magazines, Ziff-Davis, Meckermedia, and The Industry Standard. He specializes in creating and launching magazines and running fast growing and profitable media companies. He has played a key role in such well-known magazines as Women's Day, Road and Track, Window Sources, Internet World, Web Week, and The Industry Standard. Recently, he was President of The Industry Standard, a magazine covering the Internet that became one of the most successful publications ever in its class.  He is a proven leader in developing additional revenue streams, including profits via trade shows, conferences, seminars, and newsletters. He serves as the NetClearly President, focusing on day-to-day operations and building the publishing infrastructure. Mr. Patelis has been a member of the NetClearly/Plutoz advisory team since 2003.

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John Ricci

Mr. John Ricci is President and Founder of the Bay Area Startup Network and US Angel Investors. He brings more than 20 years of experience in operations management, marketing and sales. He is an advisor to several high-tech companies including HTC-Corp, PureSense, Boma Systems, Danforth A/S, and Zortal. Prior to founding US Angel Investors, Mr. Ricci was CEO of SupplyMasters, an ASP software startup, co-founder of JMC Telecom, a prepaid telephone card startup, and COO of Trader Classified Media (North America), since then sold to Yellow Pages Group. Trader Classified was a roll-up company in the field of classified media publications and electronic web sites. At Trader, he managed more than 80 classified media publications and 10 web sites as well as a workforce of over 1000 in 40 offices in Canada and the US. Prior to that he was Vice-President of Marketing and Sales (mid-market systems) and Director of Business Development for Zenith Data Systems (Bull) Europe, where he started in PC and server product marketing and then led the company’s commercial and government accounts. Mr. Ricci also worked at GESCO, a billion dollar subsidiary of GE, where he was Vice President Marketing and Business Development, and helped the company’s restructure its US operations, and at Boston Consulting Group where he worked for clients such as Prudential, DEC, Data General and IBM. Mr. Ricci holds a Master in Engineering from Ecole des Mines de Paris and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was an Arthur Sachs Fellow. Mr. Ricci has been adviser to NetClearly since 2003.

Dany Assaf is Co-Chair of a leading Canadian law firm's Antitrust Practice. Assaf has experience in a wide variety of industries and advises domestic and international clients on all aspects of law including merger transactions, criminal cartels, and monopolization cases. Assaf is a recognized competition and antitrust law practitioner in Chambers Global’s The World's Leading Lawyers and Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers. He has also been named as one of Lexpert’s 25 Canadian litigators to watch. Assaf is a former Adjunct Professor of Competition Law at the University of Western Ontario and former Chair of the National Competition Section's Economics and Law Committee of the Canadian Bar Association.  He is co-author of the forthcoming text Competition/Antitrust: Canada and the United States (3rd ed.), Lexis-Nexis Butterworths. Mr. Assaf has been a member of the NetClearly/Plutoz advisory team since 2004.

Arman Pahlavan is co-chair of SSD private equity and technology practice and is a resident of the Palo Alto office. He advises public and private technology companies and ventures funds on various aspects of their business transactions across industry sectors including software and communications, life sciences, and renewable energy. His areas of specialization include mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, intellectual property transactions, and private equity fund formation matters. Pahlavan has represented companies and venture funds in transactions valued at more than US $1 billion. He is a frequent contributor to venture capital and technology industry associations on various topics involving business transactions. Pahlavan is a member of the board of directors of The Enterprise Network of Silicon Valley, a founding member of the International BioMed Society (IBMS), and a member of the venture capital advisory board of the Canadian Consulate Trade Office--San Francisco/Silicon Valley. Mr. Pahlavan has been a member of the NetClearly/Plutoz advisory team since 2003.