The Board

Bruce Barnet
Chairman of the Board

Bruce Barnet has a distinguished 30-year career as a senior media executive. Barnet spent 21 years at Time, Inc. where he was Publisher of Discover magazine and Fortune International; Head of Strategic Planning and Development; and President of Time, Inc. Magazines-Asia. He was CEO of Cowles Magazines, a large special interest publisher; and was CEO of Cahners Business Information, the largest trade publisher of business magazines in the U.S. He is currently Chairman of Flying Rhinoceros, a children’s media company; Vice-Chairman of Nanoholdings LLC, an early stage Nanotechnology fund; and TRA, a research company. Barnet is also on the advisory boards of JEGI Capital, BZZAgent and the Global Gaming League.

Pete Estler
Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Peter Estler is a successful serial entrepreneur with world-renowned expertise in integrated technologies, database marketing, business development, new media and finance. In 1993, Estler was the Founder and CEO of dbINTELLECT Technologies, a marketing information warehouse company for elite customers including General Motors, Chase, MCI, Merrill Lynch, Sprint, Signet Bank, TRW and Nielsen. Within three years of operations, the company achieved over $50 million in annual revenue. Estler then went on to start his next company in 1996 when he became the Founder and CEO of MatchLogic, an innovative Internet advertising company whose clients included General Motors and Procter & Gamble. After 14 months of operations, the company was sold in an all-stock deal for $90 million. The following 10 months returned nearly $1 billion to the original MatchLogic investors as the Excite stock price went up over 10 times. During his career, Estler also made substantial investments in real estate assets on an international basis. Out of college, Estler was recruited to Bell Laboratories where he specialized in Telephony Systems and Systems Architecture. After the break-up of AT&T, Estler joined the ranks of EDS, where he spent 11 years and was recognized as one of the top 16 employees, out of 70,000 employees, in the company being groomed for executive management.

Ben Addoms
Founder and Chief Marketing Officer

Ben Addoms has 20 years of executive management and investment experience with private and public companies involved in online and offline marketing, direct response, database marketing, advertising and publishing. Addoms served as President of Excite@Home’s media and marketing services, as well as managed their subsidiary MatchLogic. He was also Vice President of Polk Company, one of the nation’s largest database marketing businesses. Addoms later diversified his investment strategy away from technology and aggressively pursued the development of real estate opportunities both inside and outside the U.S.

Len Allsup
Founder and Senior Vice President, Business Development

Len Allsup is responsible for all strategic partnerships, alliances, channel development and corporate venturing activities. With 25 years of business and leadership experience, he has created and operated eight companies in the cable media and telecommunications industries that today have annual revenues in excess of $375 million. Among them, Allsup was CEO for Jato Communications and A.G.I. Management. Jato was a national DSL Service Provider offering broadband services in 50 states with more than 1,000 central offices. A.G.I. Management was under contract with Lucent Technologies providing turnaround expertise and statistics to telecommunication companies.

Charles A. Anderson

Board Member
Charles Anderson founded Bandera Ventures, Ltd. with Pryor Blackwell and Tom Leiser in May 2003. The Partners have over 60 years of experience in commercial real estate encompassing in excess of 50-million square feet of development and acquisitions throughout the U.S. Bandera’s business strategy is centered around a focus on industrial development and acquisitions, distressed office acquisitions and long-term lease opportunities.

Prior to founding Bandera Ventures, Ltd., Anderson was associated with the Trammell Crow Company for over 16 years. Prior to his departure, Anderson was Senior Executive Director, responsible for the Development and Investment Group for the Western two-thirds of the U.S. He served on both the Executive and Operating Committees. Board of Directors, Central Distributors, Inc. He is on the Board of Directors, East West Ministries and was voted One of Forty under Forty Businessmen in Dallas in 1994 by the Dallas Business Journal. Anderson has an MBA in Business and BBA in Business from Southern Methodist University, Summa Cum Laude.

Cary Fitchey

Board Member
Cary Fitchey, former Board Member of Dream Catcher Retreats, is currently the Senior Managing Partner of M Plus Capital Partners LP, a leveraged private equity fund based in Los Angeles. Fitchey has extensive experience in private equity and operations, and was most recently Senior Managing Director of St. Cloud Capital Partners LP, which began actively investing in early 2002. He was previously a Founder and Chairman of European Capital Ventures plc, a London based equity fund focused on creating and building pan-European companies. He was also previously a Partner of Dartford Partners LLC and a Managing Partner of FG II Ventures LLC, of which both investment partnerships completed investments and acquisitions in excess of $1 billion in the consumer goods and other sectors. Fitchey received his undergraduate degree from Purdue University and his MBA with Honors from the University of Michigan.

Ronnie Lubner

Board Member
Ronnie Lubner, former Board Member of Dream Catcher Retreats, is Chairman of Belron® International Limited and PG Holdings Ltd. The PG Group majority owned by the Lubner Family is South Africa’s only manufacturer of float glass, leading manufacturer of automotive glass, and largest distributor and installer of building and automotive glass. It generates revenue of more than R1 billion a year from assets of similar value. Exports account for up to 25 percent of income. BELRON®, the world’s leading vehicle glass repair and replacement (VGRR) company generates revenues of over €1.5 billion. As the only global player in the VGRR market, it operates in 29 countries, across four continents including 22 countries in Europe, the U.S., Brazil, Canada and Australasia under well-known brand names such as AUTOGLASS® in the UK, and SAFELITE®and AUTO GLASS SPECIALISTS® in the U.S. BELRON® is majority owned by D’Ieteren Group, the car distribution and services group listed on Euronext Brussels.

Lubner’s other directorships include Advanta Corporation-Business Credit Card Company listed on NASDAQ. Lubner is a member of the World Presidents Organization and Chief Executives Organization, and patron of the Royal Society of Arts.

Kevin McCarthy

Board Member
Kevin McCarthy has more than 20-years experience working with and investing in entrepreneurial led businesses. Today, McCarthy is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Scorpion Capital Partners LP, a $120 million private equity fund licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration and a Managing Member of Independence Holdings LLC, a private equity fund-of-funds, which McCarthy co-founded in 1998. McCarthy was formerly a Partner with Ernst & Young in their M&A due diligence group. McCarthy holds a BS in Accounting from Babson College and graduated with High Distinction.

Keith Mullins

Board Member
L. Keith Mullins, former Board Member of Dream Catcher Retreats, has over 20 years of experience in the investment business and is the Founder of Greenwoods Capital. Mullins previously headed the European Investment Bank Technology Group at Schroeder Salomon Smith Barney. Prior to joining the European Investment Bank, Mullins directed the Emerging Growth Stock Group at Salomon Smith Barney in New York. From 1985 to 1991, Mullins held a similar position at Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. He was voted to the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team from 1988 through 2000 first or second team. Mullins began his career at Dean Witter & Company as an Emerging Research Analyst 1984. Mullins holds a BA in Philosophy and an MBA from the College of William and Mary. In addition, he studied for two years at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland as a James Blair Fellow.

David Wetherell

Board Member
David Wetherell, former Chairman of the Board of Dream Catcher Retreats, has spent 20 years as a CEO in high tech, as well as 11 years in venture capital. His career began in software development in a variety of industries. The first software company he started, Softrend, Inc., in 1982, developed the first software allowing PCs to access and download data from corporate mainframes, and one of the first integrated office software tool suites for desktop computers. He later led a leveraged buyout of a direct marketing company, College Marketing Group, and transformed it into CMGI. Since taking over the company, sales rose from $3 million to over $1 billion annually. There, Wetherell started numerous Internet companies and the first venture capital firm for the Internet, @Ventures, which was responsible for the first investments in a number of key early companies in the Internet, including Lycos, GeoCities, Half.com (part of eBay), Vicinity (now, Microsoft’s mapping technology), PlanetAll (part of Amazon.com), WebCT (acquired by Blackboard), and MyFamily.com (recently renamed The Generations Network).

Until August 2006, Wetherell served as Chairman of CMGI, which has directed its venture capital efforts to clean energy technologies and owns ModusLink, the largest supply chain management company in the world serving the high tech industry. He started Greenwich Biotech Partners, a venture capital company for the biotech and life sciences industry in 2005. Wetherell has received numerous awards, including Ernst & Young’s New England Entrepreneur of the Year in 2000 and Money magazine’s Top 25 Investors. He earned his BA in Mathematics from Ohio Wesleyan University and an Honorary Doctorate from Bryant University.