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Joshua S. Levine is a private investor and advisor. He is a Managing Director of Kita Capital Management, LLC, an investment management firm. Prior to September 2005, Levine was the Chief Technology and Operations Officer of E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corp. The company is the largest online financial services company, with over 4.3 million accounts and 2005 revenues of $1.7 billion with net income of $430 million. As the Chief Technology and Operations Officer, he was responsible for the company's global customer operations, a staff of 1,800 worldwide and an annual spend of $350 million, including brokerage, banking and lending operations, customer service and the operations and development of the award winning technologies of etrade.com. Before March 2003, he was a member of the company's Office of the President, managing global company operations. In addition to Chief Technology Officer, he was the Managing Director in charge of the company's European business, with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Israel and South Africa. Levine brought the European business from a loss of $60 million in 2001 to breakeven in 2002 and profitability in 2003. In 2004 and 2005, Europe had the highest growth rate of all the company's businesses. Levine is the recipient of many industry awards, including 2001 InfoWorld magazine's "Top 25 most influential CTO's" 2000 and 2003 CIO magazine's "CIO 100" 2002-2003 CIO Forum's "Top 20 financial IT executives" 2002, 2003 and 2004 Information Week 500 2004 and 2005 InfoWorld 100 2004 Keynote Performance award for the best transaction speed and reliability 2005 "Webby" award for the best banking and bill pay on the internet 2005 American Business Award, "The Stevie", for the best technology team Before joining E*TRADE FINANCIAL in October 1999, Levine was Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Technology at Deutsche Bank, where he was responsible for the global technology development and systems for Equity Sales and Trading, Equity Finance and Equity Derivatives. At Deutsche Bank, he successfully led the integration of two major acquisitions, Bankers Trust and NatWest Markets. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Levine was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley serving in various leading technology roles for 12 years, starting in April 1985. He delivered many products including program trading systems for Japanese and U.S. markets, risk management systems and proprietary market data platforms. Levine is a director of Xceedium, Inc., Securify, Inc., Archivas, Inc. and is a director and audit committee chair of Logical Information Machines, Inc. He is a former director of StorageApps, Inc. purchased by Hewlett-Packard for $350 million. He is a member of the National Counter-Terrorism Center's Industry Advisory Board within the Department of National Intelligence, a group of eight senior IT executives, who provide guidance on issues pertaining to strategic information systems. Levine is a former member of the Georgia Technology Authority board, appointed by the governor for a 3-year term in July 2000. In 1985, Levine co-authored a textbook, "Application Systems in APL", published by Prentice-Hall. In 2001, he gave the commencement address at the University of Georgia, Southern Polytechnic State and received an honorary Doctor of Science. | 