Jonno Wells, CEO, comes to Surfline from technology media company CMP Media, where he held various publishing, operational management, sales and business development positions over 16 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He served as Vice President of Client Services of an interactive advertising agency and was involved in the management of a start-up streaming media venture. His customer-focused approach developed by creating media solutions for many leading companies including Warner Bros., Nissan, Intel, HP and Microsoft. Jonno holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Wells hails from the beaches of Newport and enjoys spending time in the water on a quad-fin fish these days.

Sean Collins serves as President, Chief Surf Forecaster, and Founder for Surfline. Collins was the first person to accurately forecast swells on a regular basis in the '70s and early '80s. He pioneered and created the first ongoing surf forecast available to the surfing public via Surfline and 976-SURF in 1985. Over the past 25 years, he has developed a sophisticated, proprietary system of wave forecasting - much of which is currently used in LOLA, Surfline's Global Swell Model. Through Surfline, Collins provides weather and forecasting services to every lifeguard agency in California, the Coast Guard, US Navy Seals, National Weather Service, numerous television and movie production companies, multiple domestic and international governmental agencies and nearly every surf company in the world. Collins also developed the very first live "Surfcam" in 1996, the precedent for famous Surfline camera network available on Surfline.com today. He was named one of the "25 Most Influential Surfers of the Century" by Surfer Magazine in the summer of 1999, the "8th Most Powerful Surfer in the Surf Industry" by Surfer Magazine in the summer of 2002, and in the TOP 100 People who wield the most Power and Influence in Southern California by the Los Angeles Times WEST Magazine in the summer of 2006. Finally in July 2008, Sean was inducted to the Surfer's Hall of Fame with his foot and hand prints immortalized in stone on the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Main Street in Huntington Beach, right next to the DUKE statue in front of Huntington Surf & Sport. Collins also directs an exclusive crew of Big Wave riders to chase the largest waves on Earth at any moment - including Mike Parsons, Brad Gerlach, Shane Dorian, Laird Hamiltion, Greg and Rusty Long, Jamie Sterling, and many more. Collins has been surfing and wave exploring by land, air, and sea for more than 40 years and is still holding vast knowledge of many secret spots south of the border. The Surfline office staff also knows a good south swell is confirmed and on the way when Collins disappears out of the office on one of his many solo surf trips to Baja.

David Gilovich serves as Executive Vice-President for Surfline.com. Prior to joining Surfline, Gilovich served as Vice President of Marketing for Gotcha Sportswear, where he directed the marketing efforts for three international fashion brands. Previously he was the Editorial Director of Western Empire Publications and was responsible for leading Surfing Magazine past Surfer in total paid circulation in the late '80s. Despite the growing crowds, Dave is determined to surf Lower Trestles to the bitter end.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Graeme Rae serves as Product Manager for Surfline.com Since 1993, Rae has served as the manager, developer and creative source behind Surfinfo.com, a popular surfing Internet site focused on the East Coast of the United States. Rae holds a Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering and served as an Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology from 1993 and as a Visiting Professor of Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University through 1997. His British accent is often mistaken for Australian, which pisses him off. He also steadfastly refuses to admit that 204's doesn't have waves.

Marcus Sanders serves as Managing Editor for Surfline.com. Sanders has spent exactly 367.5 hours over the last 15 years defending his native Canada to South Park-watching Yankees, though he has no plans of returning. He tries diligently to pick up one piece of trash off the beach every day, but sometimes, especially when the waves are good, he forgets. Sanders earned a B.A. in humanities from San Francisco State University and worked at Surfing magazine as contributing editor. His writing has appeared in Surfing, Surf Guide, Australia's Surfing Life, Deep, Surf Europe and bathroom walls from Agadir, Morocco, to Taipei, Taiwan.

Robin Walker is Vice-President of Advertising sales. After working as a Financial Advisor/Rule 144 Specialist at Morgan Stanley during one of the deepest and longest bear markets in recorded history, Robin Walker joined Surfline to sell ads, catch a few waves and party with the Foster's Girls. In addition to having been an All-Big West Selection tennis player, Robin is a self-styled go-getter who does not understand the word "No" -- so don't even try using it around him. Robin likes light beer, warm-water point breaks and "selling stuff." PLEASE CALL FOR ADVERTISING RATES!

Brian J. Mezger, Director of Technology, leads the company's efforts on infrastructure, development and innovation. Previously, he was Director of Interactive Services at Airborne Media, a multi-platform media company, and Director of Interactive Product Development for Freedom Communications, Inc. His extensive experience comes from leading teams in the development and successful executions of enterprise-level interactive products and solutions ranging from complex content delivery systems, ad operations and systems, web analytics, search and large-scale SEO, user-submitted content tools, and third-pary solution integration. Brian holds a B.S. in Business Administration from CSUF, born and raised in Southern California, and couldn't imagine not living close to the ocean. "The Surfline team and partners are by far the most dedicated, and passionate group I've ever worked with - true 24/7."

George Roletter, VP Product Development, comes to Surfline from consumer Internet media and e-commerce company Autobytel. A consumer Internet veteran, George has held many leadership positions and developed some of the Internet's largest consumer products. Most recently, George led a team to create and launch a new brand MyRide.com. MyRide.com achieved over 1M visits per month in its first year. Prior to Autobytel, George was leader of the consumer web Studio at AOL. During his AOL career, George led consumer Internet products, including product management, web development, content, photography, and video operations. George's career passion and motivation is creating opportunities for new revenue by analyzing consumer behavior and markets. George grew up on Oahu's west side, and earned a degree from MSU. Happy to be back near the ocean, you may find George out at 56th street or Huntington smiling broadly on his No.6.

Rob Pearson, Director Of Marketing, comes to Surfline from a interactive media & technology company Webvisible. As a founder of an few online businesses, Rob brings an entrepreneurial spirit and has been responsible for managing marketing and advertising for businesses worldwide. Named to Direct Marketing News "30 under 30" Top Marketing Executives Rob brings extensive knowledge of search marketing and online technology having integrated technologies in the interactive space with major marketing campaigns and events for companies such as MLB Advanced Media, Tickets.com, Webvisible among many others. Rob's passion is driving revenue utilizing all aspects of the interactive space, initiating change, growth and driving measurable results with a fresh insight into the interactive industry. Rob rides a 6'3 JC and can be seen in the local Newport waters, especially around 54nd & 56th street followed by a meal at Al Caps.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jeff Berg is Chairman of the Board and chief pilot of Surfline, Inc. Jeff also is Chairman/CEO of Airborne Media LLC and serves on the Board of Directors of Swell Commerce, Inc, which he co-founded. He founded Matador Capital Management in December 1993 and was the company's President and Chief Investment Officer through 2006. Jeff also was Chairman of Accent Health from 1995-2000, a place based media company now owned by Discovery Channel. He pilots an Aero Commander throughout the Caribbean, Central America and Baja in support of the company's quality control programs.

Kevin O'Connor - O'Connor Ventures Co-founder and formerly the CEO and Chairman of DoubleClick, Inc (Nasdaq: DCLK). DoubleClick was sold in July of 2005 to the private equity firm Helman & Friedman for $1.1 billion and was recently acquired again by Google.

Kevin was a "hardcore coder" that helped launch other software entities including ICC and Internet Security Systems (Nasdaq: ISSX). He created one of the first products to allow PCs to tie into local area networks in 1989. ISSX was acquired in 1992 by DCA where Kevin became Vice President of Research. DCA merged with Attachmate in 1995. ICC was sold to IBM in 2006 for $1.3 billion. In addition to being a serial entrepreneur, he was a wrestling coach at Cincinnati Moeller from 1988-1992, now one of the top wrestling programs in the country.

Today, Kevin is focused on O'Connor Ventures providing seed capital to startups. He sits on a number of private company boards that he has invested in, including 9 Star, Travidia, FoundValue and Procore. Kevin is also the author of the book, "Map of Innovation: Creating Something Out of Nothing". Guest lectures at universities including U of M, Harvard, NYU, Columbia, MIT, UCSB, University of Colorado, and Westmont.

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan with honors in 1983 and received an honorary doctorate from his dad's alma mater, Lawrence Technological Institute and sits on the Board of Trustees at Crane Country Day School. Kevin loves to surf, ski, lift and play basketball and still coaches his kid's soccer, basketball and wrestling teams. He's happily married with three great kids.

Josh Litwin is one of the Founders and Principals of Memento Press, a retailer of books, calendars and journals that captures customer's photos and texts; their most precious memories. Before Memento, Josh was the Chief Operating Officer for Ofoto, the world's leading online digital photo services company. Prior to Ofoto, Mr. Litwin provided strategy consulting and executive coaching services to a number of online businesses through Protrero Advisors. From 1998 to 2000, Josh was head of operations for Babycenter, the leading baby products superstore on the web. Prior to its acquisition by Etoys in 2001, Babycenter won top industry awards including the 2000 Webby Commerce award, unseating Amazon's three-year run. BabyCenter remains the leading company in its category, now owned by Johnson and Johnson. Josh holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated cum laude with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University. Josh is a sailor and a surfer.

Philip N. Kaplan Mr. Kaplan is Chief Executive Officer of Deer Valley Ventures, LLC, a managed hosting and virtualization technology company. Prior to Deer Valley, Mr. Kaplan served as Chief Strategy Officer of Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), which he joined through its merger with VitalStream Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ: VSTH) in February 2007. Mr. Kaplan co-founded VitalStream, Inc. in 2000 and served as its Chief Operating Officer and a member of its Board of Directors from that time until the merger with Internap was completed. In 2004, he was named President of VitalStream. He also served as Secretary of the Board from 2000 to 2004.

Prior to starting VitalStream, Mr. Kaplan co-founded AnaServe, Inc. in 1995. He served as the company's Senior Vice President and a member of its Board of Directors until 1999. AnaServe was acquired by Concentric Network Corp. (NASDAQ: CNCX) in 1998.

He currently serves as a Board Member of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and Surfline, Inc. The Kaplan family is active in a number of charitable organizations.

Mr. Kaplan attended the University of California, Davis from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, with a minor in Russian language. He also completed non-degree graduate studies in Marketing and Accounting at the University of California, Berkeley Extension and Golden Gate University.

Sean Collins - see bio in the "Corporate Officers" area above.