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Carl White
Chief Operating Officer, Europe
ValueClick, Inc.
Carl joined ValueClick in October 2001 as Chief Operating Officer for ValueClick Europe. Carl is responsible for the overall management and growth of ValueClick's European subsidiaries: vcmedia, Commission Junction, Mediaplex and PriceRunner.co.uk across London, Munich, Paris and Stockholm.

Prior to joining ValueClick, Carl served as the Chief Operating Officer of 24/7 Europe and was responsible for media and technology businesses in thirteen countries. Previously, Carl was a publisher for BBC Worldwide (the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation) running commercial and editorial teams across a number of magazine titles including BBC Good Food and BBC Top Gear, as well as UK multimedia projects such as Walking with Dinosaurs.

Carl holds a B.S.c. (Hons) from Bristol University.

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Peter Bitsakis
Finance Director
ValueClick Europe
Peter Bitsakis joined ValueClick in April 2004 and serves as the European Finance Director. He is responsible for the overall financial reporting and financial management of ValueClick's European operations — vcmedia, Commission Junction, Mediaplex, Search123 and PriceRunner — in London, Munich, Paris and Stockholm. His responsibilities also include Human Resources, Legal and Facilities.

Prior to joining ValueClick, Peter was was EMEA Finance Director at SPL WorldGroup, a leading provider of software solutions for the global utility market. Previously, Peter acquired key financial experience at BDO Stoy Hayward, Coopers & Lybrand and International Masters Publishers.

Peter graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and is a qualified UK Chartered Certified Accountant.

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Lone Jensen
HR Manager
ValueClick Europe
Lone joined ValueClick Europe in April 2005, where she is responsible for developing and delivering an HR strategy across the European businesses that: ensures an excellent workforce; supports the over-achievement of business objectives by encouraging employee involvement; ensuring first class people management; and progressing staff development and training plans.

Lone also liaises with the other offices in France, Germany and Sweden to ensure a common and coordinated approach to people management and development.

Before joining ValueClick Lone spent two years at DirectLink Worldwide, the courier company, as HR Manager and then as HR Business Partner. At DirectLink she helped put in place a comprehensive HR function, identifying and rolling out their first set of company values and developing the HR strategy further.

Prior to that, Lone held various HR roles at Post Denmark, lastly as Senior HR Consultant, based at the head office in Copenhagen.

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Alison Guise
UK Country Manager
Mediaplex and Commission Junction
Alison joined ValueClick in November 2001. She joined as Sales Manager with a remit to form and develop the Mediaplex team in the UK. Alison progressed to Sales Director and then Country Manager in late 2004. She took over the additional management responsibility of Commission Junction in March 2006.

Alison is responsible for running the Mediaplex and Commission Junction businesses for ValueClick. The functions of the Mediaplex business include third-party campaign management, ad serving and tracking for advertisers and agencies, as well as advertising management for online publishers. She manages the account management, technology and new business teams. Commission Junction is a leading affiliate marketing network and Alison manages the development of new partnerships, existing client relations, product development and an aggressively growing UK team.

Prior to joining ValueClick, Alison was Business Development Manager at DoubleClick’s media division, working within the travel, finance and current affairs channels. Previous to DoubleClick, Alison worked for Television New Zealand for over 5 years in roles that included working on brand marketing, new business sponsorship and finally entertainment brand licensing and marketing.

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Jonathan Forster
Development Director
Commission Junction
Jonathan was appointed to the newly created position of Development Director for Commission Junction in March 2006. In this role he is responsible for developing the Commission Junction businesses in Continental Europe, commencing with the launch of Commission Junction in Scandinavia.

Jonathan has worked at ValueClick for seven years and until recently served as UK Country Manager for Commission Junction, in which he was responsible for leading the continued growth of the affiliate marketing network in the UK. Jonathan is actively involved with industry organisations to ensure the affiliate marketing area is as transparent as possible.

Prior to his appointment as UK Country Manager in 2004, Jonathan served as ValueClick’s Head of Search, responsible for the development and execution of search strategies for advertisers and media owners. In this role, he explored opportunities to develop new products across the ValueClick businesses which included establishing CJ Search for Commission Junction.

Previous to this role, Jonathan served as Director of Sales, developing new product lines and helping to build the ValueClick Media network of publisher sites to its present level of over 5,000 European websites. Jonathan has spoken at many industry events, including with the IAB and World Telemedia, on the subjects of search, media and affiliate marketing.

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Mattias Berg
UK Country Manager
PriceRunner.co.uk
Mattias joined PriceRunner, the price comparison company, in May 2004 as Chief Financial Officer, based in Sweden. In September 2005, Mattias joined PriceRunner in the UK as Country Manager. Tasked with driving growth and development for the business, he works closely with the management team to grow the user and retailer base and develop the PriceRunner offering to achieve the goal of becoming the number one price comparison service in the UK.

In his role as CFO, Mattias was responsible for driving all aspects of the financial function from financial control, business analysis and human resources to managing the accounting department in Sweden and the external accountancy firms in UK and France.

Prior to joining PriceRunner, Mattias worked for five years for the Swedish investment bank, Öhman Fondkommission, advising clients in sectors such as Internet, Telecommunications, Oil & Gas and Private Equity with respect to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, initial public offerings and private placements of equity.

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Vanessa Kent
UK Country Manager
vcmedia
Vanessa joined ValueClick in January 2004. As the UK Country Manager she is responsible for running vcmedia, the online advertising sales house, which includes brand and direct response online advertising through channel and network advertising and exclusively representing sites, such as Deliaonline.co.uk and WiseBuyers.co.uk. Vanessa leads the Commercial and Operations teams which encompass Sales, Business Development, Technology, Product and Account Management.

Vanessa previously held the position of Corporate Development Director of ValueClick Europe until May 2005. In that role she was responsible for presenting the full range of ValueClick's products and services to the market.

Prior to joining ValueClick, Vanessa was Director of Account Management for EMEA at DoubleClick, where she managed a team of account managers across Europe. Previous to DoubleClick, Vanessa served as Head of Campaign Management with Excite, managing the ad operations group and a team of Account Managers looking after long term direct advertising deals, such as Lastminute.com and Thomas Cook. Prior to this Vanessa spent five years in television sales and account management in Australia.

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Nigel Frith
Head of Search
ValueClick Europe
Nigel joined ValueClick in March 2005. As Head of Search, Nigel is responsible for driving the European growth and development strategy for Search123, ValueClick’s pay per click search marketing business which launched in June 2005. Search123 combines and syndicates the very best sponsored listings from a variety of paid listings providers together with its own direct advertiser listings.

Nigel is also addressing how to effectively build and grow other search related revenues across ValueClick’s existing business portfolio both in the UK and in Continental Europe.

Nigel joined from international search company, InfoSpace, where he was responsible for the UK business development strategy of their search and directories business.

With over thirteen years experience in management and business development, Nigel has a wealth of industry expertise in search and online media. At InfoSpace he drove the sales strategy for the search syndication solution, as well as being responsible for managing the Thomson Directories account. Previous to his career at InfoSpace, Nigel was a founding member of a dot com startup – allcars.com. Nigel was the General Manager and was responsible for growing the business from the start. He has also gained a variety of industry experience in senior sales and business development positions with BMW (GB) and Canon.

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Gary Goodman
Marketing Director
ValueClick Europe
Gary joined PriceRunner.co.uk in December 2004 as Marketing Director. Gary’s role has since been extended to include responsibility for marketing, brand development and product innovation for PriceRunner across Europe, as well as marketing responsibilities for all the ValueClick B2B brands in the UK.

Gary brings to ValueClick more than twelve years commercial and marketing experience gained in the media, e-commerce and FMCG sectors. Prior to joining PriceRunner, Gary was founder of MemoriseThis.com, establishing the UK’s most popular online gift service from concept to market. Previously, he worked for Colgate Palmolive, Sara Lee and The Wrigley Company developing and launching new consumer brands on a UK, EU and global perspective.

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