Board of Directors

Ted Meisel – Chairman of the Board

Mr. Meisel is a recognized leader in the development of the search-advertising industry. As CEO of pioneer Overture Services, he led the company to $1 billion in revenues from 1998 to 2003, the year it was bought by Yahoo! for $1.8 billion and renamed Yahoo! Search Marketing. He continued the organization's success story for an additional two years, shepherding it through integration and continued rapid growth. Previously, Mr. Meisel was a product, content and business development executive with CitySearch, the leading Internet city guide. He also served as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and Mercer Management Consulting.

Arthur H. Bilger - Director

Mr. Bilger is the managing partner of Shelter Capital Partners, a Southern California-based private investment fund, focused on investments in technology and technology-enabled companies (including this one). Mr. Bilger was formerly the vice chairman of the board of Akamai Technologies, Inc., a provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications. From 1994 until its sale to News Corporation (all things FOX) in 1997, Mr. Bilger was the president of the production and broadcasting firm, New World Communications Group. Following a 13-year tenure with the Wall Street investment bank, Drexel Burnham Lambert, he co-founded Apollo Advisors, a private equity firm, in 1990.

Mr. Bilger holds a B.S. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania (where he serves on the Wharton School's Board of Overseers) and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Todd Dagres - Director

Mr. Dagres is a founder and general partner of investment firm Spark Capital. At Battery Ventures, where he previously served as general partner, his media and entertainment investments generated profits of over $1.1 billion. Mr Dagres' entertainment and media startup projects include two successful film and television production companies, Prospect Pictures and Ealing Studios. He produced the 2005 Sundance selection, Pretty Persuasion, released by Samuel Goldwyn and Sony.

Mr. Dagres was a senior or principal technology analyst at two securities firms, Montgomery Securities and Smith Barney/Robinson Humphrey. He was vice president of communications at the Yankee Group and business development manager for networks and communications at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Mr. Dagres holds a BS in psychology from Trinity College and an MBA from Boston University.

Michael Eisner - Director

Since the 1960s Michael Eisner has been a central leader in the entertainment industry. Early in his career, he helped take ABC from number three to number one in network ratings. He introduced television viewers to Happy Days, Barney Miller, Rich Man Poor Man, and Roots. In 1976, he became President of Paramount Pictures, leading the studio to become number one in box office and profitability in both theatrical movies and network television production. In 1984, Mr. Eisner became chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company and, in the ensuing 21 years, transformed it from a $3 billion film and theme park company into a $60 billion global media empire. His new firm is Tornante (Italian for “hairpin turn”—which is what he is now taking) as he begins the next act of his remarkable career.

Peter Perrone - Director

Pete joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 in Silicon Valley. He focuses on technology and web infrastructure, including computing, communications and storage. In addition to Veoh, Pete currently serves on the Board of Directors at Limelight Networks, Teneros, Tervela and Woven Systems. He also led Goldman Sachs investments in and works closely with Acopia Networks, Datasynapse and Kazeon. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Perrone held positions in engineering and finance with Westinghouse Electric and Applied Synergistics, a startup servicing the power industry.

He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Duke University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.