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Mr. Chaimowitz has been an entertainment and media entrepreneur for more than 20 years. In 1999, as CEO of The Auction Channel, Mr. Chaimowitz transformed the company from a UK based start-up to a worldwide provider of iTV auction content and technology. He sold the company in 2001 to Cablevision. Prior to that, Mr. Chaimowitz co-founded GT Interactive Software in 1993 and built the company from profitable first-year sales of $10 million to $531 million in 1998. Games published under Mr. Chaimowitz include Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem and Unreal. Over the five-year period Mr. Chaimowitz strategically acquired 10 companies that effectively transformed the company from a distribution-centered company to one that created and built its own content, brands and intellectual properties on a global basis. Mr. Chaimowitz brought the company public in 1995 and raised $140 million in one of the largest IPOs of that year. Prior to his stepping down, GT had 650 employees and sales offices in 14 countries. Mr. Chaimowitz also spent 13 years at CBS where he launched three divisions in the music & broadcast Groups. He was awarded "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" for the New York area in 1997 by Ernst & Young and he has also been featured as one of "Silicon Valley's 100" by Silicon Valley Magazine. Mr. Chaimowitz served as Vice Chairman of the Interactive Digital Software Association for more than four years. He received his MBA degree with Distinction from The Stern School at NYU Graduate School of Business. | 