Management Team

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J. Kim Fennell, President and Chief Executive Officer
J. Kim Fennell joined deCarta as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2004, bringing more than 25 years of experience in high technology. Prior to deCarta, he was CEO of Pinnacle Systems (NASDAQ: PCLE) where he led the company through record growth to $330 million in revenue and expanded its market reach through several strategic acquisitions. He previously served as CEO of StorageWay, a VC-financed data storage service provider. Earlier, he was a corporate vice president at Lucent Technologies with responsibility for the Communications Applications Group, a $2 billion business unit focused on CRM, and Messaging. He then helped spin-off Avaya from Lucent in 2000 as part of the Avaya executive team. Kim was an early executive at Octel Communications in 1986, which was later acquired by Lucent in 1997. At Octel, he established and ran several key divisions including Canada, Europe/Middle East/Africa and then all International Operations followed by a role as VP/GM of the Service Provider Business Unit, before eventually managing Octel as division of Lucent. Prior to Octel he held sales and marketing management positions at ROLM and Burroughs (now Unisys). Kim is a graduate of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada and the Stanford Executive Program.

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Michael Cottle, Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Professional Services
Mike joined deCarta in 2005 and has over 26 years of successful sales experience in the software and Internet industries - 15 of those at the Executive level - leading worldwide sales and distribution channels. Prior to joining deCarta, Mike was Vice President of Sales for Digital Chocolate, a leading developer of mobile applications and games. Mike was Vice President of Worldwide Sales with HearMe, a developer of VOIP and Internet Infrastructure software technology where he led the company's worldwide sales team to successive quarters of revenue growth and to a successful IPO. Mike has also held VP positions with companies such as Markmonitor, MultiGen, Inc, Strategic Mapping Inc. and MapInfo as well as sales and sales management positions at Sybase, Interleaf and Xerox Corporation. Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Dallas.

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Don Weigel, Vice President, Product Development
Don is responsible for product management/marketing, strategy, and corporate development at deCarta. Prior to joining deCarta in 2007, he was Director of Business Development for Autodesk's geospatial division where he led major product and market development initiatives contributing to the company's record growth and leadership position in the telco/utilities/government geospatial markets, and #2 position among geospatial software providers worldwide. He joined Trimble in 2001 as Director of Marketing to start the Mobile Solutions Division where he built and launched an integrated SaaS, hardware, and wireless services platform for location-based services, telematics, and mobile resource management. At ESRI he held various executive positions during an 11 year span in which the company grew ten-fold to become the world's 4th largest privately held software company. Prior to ESRI he was a GIS programmer/analyst. Don has a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and International Affairs from Lewis and Clark College, and did graduate studies at Cornell University in City and Regional Planning with emphasis on regional science and GIS.

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Yong Shin, Vice President, Engineering
Yong joined deCarta in 2000 and is responsible for Engineering. He has nearly 18 years of software development and management experience at various companies. Prior to deCarta, Yong was Architect Director at Unisys, and Software Architect at MCI's imaging center where he developed and deployed large scale form/remittance processing and document management systems. Yong holds a B.S degree in Applied Mathematics, a M.S. degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Kent State University. He has published papers on image processing and compression algorithms for IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, The International Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, International Journal on Optical Memory and Neural Networks, and Proceedings on Image Processing Algorithms.