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Jean-Louis Gassée joined Allegis Capital as a partner in April 2003. Prior to this, he headed up Be, Inc., which developed the Be operating system (Be OS) to provide multimedia software for appliances to deliver information, entertainment and interactivity over the Web. Mr. Gassée spent nine years at Apple Computer. In February 1981, he started Apple's French subsidiary and, in 1982, was also named President of the "Apple Education" Foundation. In 1985, Mr. Gassée was transferred to Apple headquarters to lead Apple's product development. He has also held general management positions at Exxon, Data General and Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Gassée has served as a director of publicly traded companies such as Cray Computer Corporation, 3Com and Logitech. He currently sits on the Board of Directors' of Electronics for Imaging and was until late 2005 Chairman of PalmSource. He is a mathematics and physics graduate of Paris (Orsay) University in France. | 