Board of Directors

Christopher Bailey
Prior to founding RatePoint, Chris was formerly a co-founder and chief technology officer of GeoTrust. At GeoTrust, Chris was responsible for the company's technology vision and product development activities with strategic partners, evaluating security technologies and market opportunities, and also managing the Company's advanced technology engineering group. Chris co-founded the company after acquiring technology from Equifax Secure, where Chris was AVP of digital certificate services. While at Equifax, he helped set the company's strategic direction and manage Equifax Secure's digital certificate service. Chris holds an M.B.A. in marketing and strategy from Emory University and a B.S. in finance and economics from the University of South Carolina

Larry Begley
Larry is the managing partner at .406 Ventures. He brings 29 years of senior management experience in technology and services industries and 8 years as an active director of 12 companies, including 5 public and 7 venture-backed companies. In connection with .406, he recently served as part-time CFO of ThingMagic, where he led the company's successful $19 million equity financing. Prior to ThingMagic, he was EVP, CFO and Director of CCBN.com, where he played a key role in the sale of CCBN to Thomson Financial for $150 million. He was EVP, CFO, Treasurer and board member of i-Cube and Razorfish, where he oversaw revenue growth from $9 million to $41 million in three years, the i-Cube IPO, underwritten by Morgan Stanley (named Massachusetts IPO of Year 1998), and the company's ultimate sale to Razorfish for $1.8 billion in 1999. He also served as CFO and Treasurer of The Boston Consulting Group during a period when the company grew from $100 million in revenue to $550 million and from a presence in 6 countries to 28 countries throughout Asia, Europe, Australia and the Americas.

Jim Counihan
Jim is a member of the investment team at Prism VentureWorks. A director for Astoria Software, Ingrian Networks , RatePoint and Silverback Technologies. He was formerly on the boards of both Softricity, acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and GeoTrust, acquired by Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN). Jim joined Prism from EPiCON, Inc. in November 2000, where he served as Legal Counsel and Director of Business Operations. A Prism investment, EPiCON was sold to Nortel Networks in September 2000. He has held positions in Corporate Legal Counsel and Business Operations for Sapient Corporation. He also served as Legal Counsel for the Outsourcing Division of Bell Atlantic Network Integration, which during his tenure, grew into a $300 million business in four years. A member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Jim holds a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a J.D. cum laude from Suffolk University Law School.

Neal Creighton
Neal is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of RatePoint. Neal has more than a decade of experience in information security, identity verification, web authentication and certification markets. Formally, as Co-founder, President and CEO of GeoTrust, Neal was responsible for providing the leadership, strategic direction and management for the company. Neal spearheaded GeoTrust's relaunch in 2001 when it acquired Equifax's security business, and strategically repositioned the company and its subsequent rapid growth. Neal led the efforts to raise $24 million in venture financing and sold GeoTrust to VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for $125 million in September 2006.
Neal also led the spin-off of ChosenSecurity from GeoTrust as part of the VeriSign merger agreement. Currently, Neal serves on the Board of Directors of ChosenSecurity and is the CEO of RatePoint, Inc. He is a noted expert in the identity verification / information security field and has been invited to speak at industry conferences to provide input to industry-related articles and reports. Neal considers graduating from U.S. Army Ranger School in 1990 his most meaningful professional experience.

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