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Emile Servan-Schreiber, Ph.D. Co-Founder, President , Chief Executive Officer ejss@newsfutures.com

Emile drives business development, leads the design and consulting team, and is primarily responsible for the software's user interface. He also serves as editor in chief of the public exchanges. Emile has lectured widely on the business value of prediction markets at conferences and universities across the globe: San Francisco, New York, Rutgers, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Chicago, Davos, London, Vienna, Frankfurt, Hong Kong... He has been quoted in Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Wired, InfoWorld, Nature, NPR, CBS News, The Seattle Times, and in various other newspapers and magazines in North America and Europe. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Prediction Markets and Chairman of the Prediction Market Industry Association. He has co-authored with some of the field's leading researchers the first experimental study directly comparing the prediction accuracy of real-money and play-money prediction markets: Prediction Markets: Does Money Matter? (Electronic Markets, 14-3, Fall 2004) Before NewsFutures, Emile worked as an artificial intelligence engineer for Ilog, a software company specializing in providing AI-based business solutions, and later co-authored two CD-Roms drawing on the collective wisdom of 18 world-class scientists, including 8 Nobel Prize winners: The Challenge of the Universe and Secrets of the Mind. He is an alumni of Carnegie Mellon, where he earned both a B.S. in computer science and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology.

Maurice Balick Co-Founder, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer balm@newsfutures.com

Maurice drives software development and co-leads the design and consulting team. He has been developing leading-edge software products for more than 15 years. Co-founder of several software start-ups in the 80's (including TimeSlice, Inc, which sold the first commercial multitasking environment for IBM PCs), he then worked in Sun Microsystems' Advanced Technology Group for six years, before joining Marímba, the company founded by the inventors of Java, as chief applications architect. He has an M.B.A. in finance from New York University.

Norris Clark Vice President, North America norris@newsfutures.com

Norris is primarily responsible for sales and marketing in North America. Prior to joining NewsFutures, Norris served as a Director of Business Development for Perot Systems, a global provider of technology-based business solutions. Before this, Norris was a Vice President at Magnet Communications, a New York City based agency serving clients such as The Thomson Corporation and IBM. For four years, he was a political organizer and media spokesperson for US presidential candidate Ross Perot. Norris is a student of Religion and Philosophy, and a former teacher with a Masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Don Reynolds Chief Public Markets Administrator support@newsfutures.com

Don leads the day-to-day administration of the NewsFutures' public exchanges. He brings to NewsFutures his extensive law enforcement experience along with military-grade leadership and pedagogical skills. As a Corporal in the Topeka, KS Police Force, he received an honorable mention in the National Association of Police Organizations "TOP COPS Awards" for work done analyzing and investigating fatal accidents. Previously, as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army, Don was a Crew Chief of Cobra Attack Helicopters, responsible for their Flight readiness as well as having responsibility in training lower enlisted soldiers. In the Army, he received two Good Conduct Medals and the Army Achievement Medal. He is also a Certified Flight & Instrument Instructor.