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Joe Adams President, M2 Systems

Joel M. Harris President M2

Randy Oveson Chief Financial Officer

Craig Taylor Chief Marketing Officer

Shari Breehl Sr. VP of Bank Relations

Michael Miller VP Product Development

Leslie PurdySVP Technical Services

Brantley Muscato Director of Project Mgmt

Mark DavisVP Healthcare Product Dev

Michael Besner Global Account Mgmt

Joe Adams, President, M2 Systems

Joe Adams has over 25 years experience in the information technology and healthcare industries. Mr. Adams has successfully held senior level positions ranging from vice president to President and chief executive officer in companies specializing in healthcare insurance, EDI, electronic commerce, and enterprise application integration markets. He has extensive business and technical experience in providing leadership, direction, and management of a successful organization.

Mr. Adams has prior senior executive experience working at companies such as Muscato Corporation, a multi-million dollar global organization specializing in financial interoperability for banks and financial institutions along with administrative and financial interoperability for the health care market; a Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plan doing over $500M in annual revenues; an Application Services Provider company that offered electronic commerce solutions for the health insurance payer market; and a company that offered electronic claims processing solutions.

He was one of the principals responsible for the strategic vision, design, and implementation of a national company that offered a transaction network/system for the use of e-commerce, electronic data interchange and financial transactions in the health care industry. He was also an officer on the board of directors.

Joel M. Harris, President M2

Mr. Harris has nearly 30 years experience as an executive of several transaction technology businesses. Focused on both payment and healthcare solutions, he has been the founder and executive manager of both established and startup companies. He has successfully lead initiatives that include 30 mergers and acquisitions, business turnarounds, completion of an IPO, and start-up companies.

Mr. Harris has been the President of Symmetrex, Inc., a transaction application service provider, established to provide a turn-key service company geared for electronic payments (prepaid, remittance, payroll and stored value cards), until its acquisition by Altair Financial. His earlier positions include Founder and President of Net Point One, a risk management, mergers and acquisitions, and business development company; Founder and President of VantageMed Corporation, a healthcare information technology company, where he lead a successful IPO and 26 acquisitions; Chief Operating Officer of IBSC, a healthcare and payment solutions company; Division Manager of Global Payments Network, one of the largest merchant acquiring companies, where he directed the turnaround from an acquired bankrupt company to one of the most profitable divisions at GPN. He started his career with First Interstate Bancorp where he quickly moved up to vice president of electronic banking where he lead the product development of ATM, POS and branch systems.

Randy Oveson, BS MBA, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Oveson started his career in 1987 as a Financial Analyst with Suite Thinking, Inc., a boutique hospitality consulting firm in Newport Beach, CA. There Mr. Oveson developed systems and processes used to analyze dozens of hotels in various operational categories. Mr. Oveson also acted as liaison between hotel owners and management companies, meeting with each monthly and utilizing the proprietary systems developed he was able to increase the profitability of all hotels placed in the Suite Thinking portfolio.

Upon completion of his MBA at Pepperdine University in 1989 Mr. Oveson was offered the position of VP of Finance and Technology of Osar, Ltd., a hotel management company, where Mr. Oveson oversaw the acquisition, asset and financial management, and human resources of 5 hotels through 1994. From 1994 to 1998 he pursued various start-up opportunities in the aerospace, manufacturing, brokerage, and action sports industries where he acted as CFO and in some cases CFO and CIO of these start-up ventures. In 1998 he joined In Touch Communications, Inc. a leader in prepaid home phone service, located in Lake Forest, CA. There Mr. Oveson helped the company grow to become the largest alternative home dial-tone company in the State.

He has now spent ten years in the rapidly growing prepaid industry. He has been instrumental in the business development of prepaid telecommunications, stored-value, and electronic bill payment companies. Mr. Oveson has worked with TransFirst, a multi-billion dollar merchant processing group, as AVP of Business Development leading the product development and sales of prepaid debit cards, prepaid telecommunication products, prepaid open-loop gift cards, money remittance, and electronic bill-pay products. During this time Mr. Oveson has also directed the start-up company, Debit Resources, which provides IVR and telecommunication services in support of Prepaid Stored Value cards issued through numerous prepaid processors. In 2005 Mr. Oveson joined M2 Systems/Symmetrex as CFO where his skills and knowledge of the prepaid industry helped the Symmetrex processing company through a significant growth phase and sale.

Craig R. Taylor, Chief Marketing Officer, M2 Global

Craig R. Taylor is Chief Marketing Officer for M2 Global. Mr. Taylor has over 20 years of leadership experience that includes Fortune 50 corporations as well as several technology-driven consulting and solutions firms where he held executive roles in marketing, sales and consulting.

At Walt Disney Company, in his role as the Director of Disney Institute Sales and Marketing, he guided the rapid growth of Disney’s popular business seminars at Walt Disney World. Also at Disney, he served as the Director of Marketing for Walt Disney World’s expansive group and convention business.

Mr. Taylor has served as Vice President of Marketing for Click2Learn/SumTotal Systems, a top learning management system supplier and one of Paul Allen’s Wired World companies, and as Chief Marketing Officer for AchieveGlobal, one of the world’s largest sales training organizations. Most recently, he was Sr. Vice President of Marketing for TalentKeepers, a global, web-based talent management firm. Earlier in his career he was a consulting and sales executive for Wilson Learning Corporation and also worked in leadership development at American Express Company.

Craig has chaired the editorial advisory board for an industry magazine and is an award-winning columnist and features writer. He is a frequent conference speaker and presenter. Craig holds a B.A. degree in Psychology, and M.Ed. and Ed.S. degrees in counseling psychology, all from the University of Florida.

Shari Breehl, Sr. Vice President of Bank Relations

Shari Breehl currently serves in the position as banking liaison and consultant to M2 Financial sponsor banks including: Global Bank of Commerce, Prime Bank, ABI Financial. Shari has been employed with the Muscato group of companies for the past 12 years in a management capacity in the following areas: corporate training, customer service, balancing and reconciliation, back office switch processing (i.e., program implementation, chargebacks, production support) She has 26 years banking/financial industry experience with focus on EFT industry.

Shari has held SVP, VP, and administrator level positions with First Federal Savings and Loan, The First, F.A., Honor/Star Network, Muscato Corporation, Symmetrex, and most recently M2 Financial. She has extensive experience in issuing and acquiring reconciliation, ACH receipt and origination, network reconciliation (Visa, MasterCard, Star, etc.), chargebacks, fraud, merchant/customer support, card program implementation, corporate training.

Shari was Born in Illinois, raised in Central Florida and obtained her Bachelors Degree from Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.

Michael Miller, VP Product Development

Mike Miller has over 30 years of experience both in management and technology across a number of settings.

Prior to joining M2 Systems Corporation, Mr. Miller was a senior technical advisor specializing in EAI/EDI technologies and advanced technical architectures with one of the leading providers of consulting services. He has also served as a chief technology officer, participating in strategic planning, guiding the selection of technology, and coordinating overall product life cycle planning.

Mr. Miller has written articles on use of the internet in healthcare and has spoken on the topic of the internet, EAI, and the use of XML at various technical conferences across the nation. His early adaptation of Microsoft portal technologies was featured at a Windows on Healthcare conference during Bill Gates keynote address.

Mr. Miller led the ground up development of the M2 Financial product suite which includes M2 Globalís authENGIN product.

Leslie Purdy, SVP Technical Services

Ms. Purdy has over 27 years of IT experience, with 20 years in Healthcare in both the provider and payer space. Ms. Purdy has held senior management positions in several healthcare software and hospital companies managing application development and EDI business development functions.

Currently Senior Vice President of Technical Services at M2 Systems Corporation, a provider of Elite Software Engineering solutions and developer of the "ENGIN" software, an enterprise application integration tool kit that also supports the Healthcare payer market for claims clearinghouse solutions. Additionally, Ms. Purdy is the product manager responsible for the Healthcare application requirements for the Healthcare vertical application. This includes the design and implementation of new products and features based on strategic business requirements.

Brantley Muscato, Director of Project Management

Brantley Muscato serves as the Director of Business Development As director, he has created and maintained a formal Project Management Office for M2, manages a team of project managers distributed throughout the organization, and developed a set of Project Management best practices. Through this, he manages the relationship with project sponsors to insure project management processes are being implemented and utilized effectively. He has developed and maintains a thorough knowledge of the M2 product lines and procedures that support M2's business functions and strategic initiatives.

His experience has been instrumental in identifying new market opportunities and attracting new clients, forming alliances and building relationships with new and existing customers, developing strategic plans and sales strategies, and creating a successful implementation standard for the prepaid market place.

He is a graduate of the University of Florida and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics.

Mark Davis, VP Healthcare Product Development

In management and executive roles covering product development and implementation, Mark Davis has worked for over 20 years to enable the integration of electronic commerce into financial and healthcare organizations. He has been a senior consultant in healthcare revenue cycle software and strategies, assisting health plans and providers nationwide in establishing direct EDI connections with their trading partners. Most recently, Mr. Davis has rejoined M2 Systems Corporation with a mission to develop high performance HIPAA transaction solutions for the healthcare markets.

Beginning as a technologist with financial interchanges in the 1980's Mr. Davis has developed both customer facing networks and integrated these transactions into line of business systems. Starting in 1992 he was a key architect and development lead of the ENGIN product that was one of the first to implement a HL7 clinical information exchange hub. The ENGIN mapping and translation technology invented by Mr. Davis remains in use by Global 2000 companies.

While with the M2 predecessor company Muscato Corporation, Mr. Davis had the opportunity to work closely with health plan executives to address the design and implementation of HIPAA transaction solutions for BCBS Association member plans. This experience combined with a broad background in large scale online transaction processing solutions offers a valuable resource for organizations exchanging and integrating electronic healthcare transactions.

Michael Besner, Global Account Management

Michael Besner joined the M2 predecessor company Muscato Corporation in 1995. Over the past 13 years working in the enterprise application integration market, he has been responsible for both global customer acquisition and managing C-level relationships with clients worldwide in the Financial Services, Healthcare and Logistics markets. Mr. Besner has been successful leveraging these valuable relationships to develop new business, identify high opportunity accounts and retaining a dedicated, international client base who fit strategically with our corporate vision and plan as M2ís rapid global expansion continues.