ADVISORY BOARD

Doug Alexander
Managing Director, Operations, Internet Capital Group

An original member of Internet Capital Group's (ICG) advisory board, Doug joined ICG full time in September 1997 as Managing Director and was instrumental in the development of ICG and many of its most important partner companies.

Prior to joining ICG, Doug co-founded Reality Online in 1989. Reality Online was an early innovator in the development of award-winning financial planning tools and online services aimed at the individual investor. With the advent of the Internet, Doug transformed the company into the leading provider of Internet solutions to the retail brokerage industry. He sold the company in February 1994 to Reuters. Over the next three years, Doug became a key contributor to Reuters' many Internet initiatives around the globe and a frequent speaker on the Internet and its impact on the financial services industry.

Prior to co-founding Reality Online, Doug was a partner with Strategic Management Group, a corporate training firm and three-time Inc. 500 company.

Doug has had many roles at ICG including operating as CEO of Wisewire Technologies which was successfully sold to Lycos; Chairman of Verticalnet through its IPO; CEO of ICG Europe; and CEO of Mobility Technologies. Currently, Doug has overall responsibility for corporate strategy at ICG. In addition to these roles, Doug's primary focus at ICG has been to sponsor and oversee investments in several partner companies that have included Blackboard (Nasdaq: BBBB), VerticalNet (Nasdaq:VERT), eMerge (Nasdaq: EMRG), Wisewire, Arbinet (Nasdaq:ARBX), Linkshare, Creditrade, Starcite, Mobility Technologies, and Investorforce. Doug currently serves on the boards of Blackboard, Linkshare, Investorforce, Creditrade, Starcite, ICG Commerce, and CommerceQuest.

Education: University of Pennsylvania, BS, electrical engineering; Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, BS, economics

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