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Chris Spencer - Chairman of the Board, CEO, President
Spencer has served as the CEO and president of Wizzard Software since its founding in 1996. He is responsible for the overall direction of the company and was selected as one of the top 20 most influential individuals in the speech recognition industry by Speech Technology Magazine. His business experience is widely varied, including the founding and CEO roles with ChinaWire, Inc. and Lotto USA, Inc. He also was involved in the founding, acquisition of financing, operation and ultimate sale of John Valiant, Inc. Spencer sits on the Board of Directors of Cennoid Technologies, a software company that develops encryption and compression software for the Internet. He attended West Virginia University.

John Busshaus - Director - Chief Financial Officer
Prior to joining Wizzard, Busshaus acted as an independent business consultant, guiding organizations through the implementation of Sarbanes Oxley, assisting with the filing of SEC reports and taking companies through an IPO.  Mr. Busshaus previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Talanga International, where he assisted in daily operations of the company, in addition to leading accounting and finance efforts.  He also worked for Mellon Financial Institution as Controller and Vice President, where his responsibilities included annual and strategic planning within Global Security Services.

David Mansueto – Director
Mansueto has been serving as a director for Wizzard's most recent acquisition, Liberated Syndication, since the founding of the business in 2004.  Mansueto handles creative planning and strategic decision making for Liberated Syndication and the newly formed Wizzard Media.  From 2004 to 2007, Mansueto founded and ran Liberated Syndication, the largest podcast hosting business in the world.  From 2001 to 2004, he was engaged in the performance and digital arts, and produced many performance series in the Pittsburgh area including a regular public access talk show that featured local artists, entrepreneurs and politicians.  In 2000, Mansueto co-created Emayhem.com, one of the web's first user generated online communities.  In 1996, he attended the University of Pittsburgh to study theatre, film and music.  He was awarded the top prize at the American College Theatre Festival for his sound design work on the premiere stage production of The Hudsucker Proxy.  In 1995,  Mansueto was employed at Blue House Productions, a Washington D.C. based music studio.

Greg Smith - Director
Smith is an award-winning producer and entrepreneur with over 10 years of significant experience in television.  In 2000, Smith established The Solution Film Group, LLC and acts as the Company’s President.  Smith provides professional production and editorial support for various forms of non-fiction television entertainment, including the direction of media projects from development through production and post-production.  His clients include Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Animal Planet, The Military Channel and PBS.  Smith most recently won an Emmy in 2006 for the Discovery Channel’s animated special Before the Dinosaurs.  His other awards for excellence in production and editing include Emmy’s for the Discovery Channel’s Walking with Prehistoric Beasts and Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special.  Smith’s current projects include the BBC’s Horizon/Big Science series.  Smith graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio University.

Douglas Polinsky - Director
Polinsky serves as the President of Great North Capital Corp., a Minnesota-based financial services company he founded in 1995.  Great North advises corporate clients on capital formation and other transaction-related financial matters.  Polinsky has been involved in financing transactions totalling in excess of $200 million throughout his career and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

Denis Yevstifevey - Director
Yevstifeyev is a CPA who currently serves as a Sr. Financial Reporting Analyst for American Eagle Outfitters, in Pittsburgh, PA.  His duties include: preparing and analysing various internal and external financial reports and preparing the Company’s SEC filings.  Prior to this position, he acted for two years as an Internal Auditor for Schneider Downs, Inc., where he assisted the Company with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance engagements. Yevstifeyev graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Washington and Jefferson University.  He also graduated with honors from the Moscow Bank College of the Central Bank of Russia in Moscow with a degree in Finance.

Eugene J. Franz - General Manager - Solutions and Channels
Franz has spent his career assisting companies in solving business problems primarily through the use of computer and computer related technology. He joined Wizzard Software Corp. after spending 30 years both as a technician and executive in national and international consulting organizations. While serving as a manager at the American Medical Association, he consulted to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. As part of that work, he co-authored a book titled: Reclassification of Physicians, 1968.

Bruce Phifer - General Manager - Technology & Services Division
Prior to joining Wizzard, Phifer spent the last 30 years with IBM acting in a variety of management positions in emerging business areas. From 1983 to 1991, Phifer managed Service, Market Research, and Planning while on the headquarters staff that shaped IBM's Personal Computer strategies. From 1994 to 2003, he held business development and OEM sales positions in the speech recognition and pervasive computing business areas. He has been the recipient of many IBM formal awards for excellence and sales performance. Phifer attended Drexel Institute of technology in Philadelphia and is a graduate of Electronics Training Center in New Jersey.

Marc Lord - Strategic Advisory Board Member
Lord has worked in Microsoft's speech product group (Speech.Net) since its formation, and has managed development and product integration for all Microsoft releases that employ speech technologies, including WindowsXP, OfficeXP, AutoPC, MS Agent, Encarta, and Sidewinder. While serving as Program Manager for Voice Output Technologies at Microsoft, Mr. Lord drove product development for several major product releases that feature speech recognition and synthesis capabilities. He has managed Microsoft's key vendors, established partnerships and negotiated license agreements with numerous speech industry companies. In his fifteen-year software career, Mr. Lord has worked both in the U.S. and internationally and helped commercialize a number of cutting-edge technologies, including applications for multimedia language instruction, AI-based financial risk analysis, wearable digital photonics, and browser-based training systems. His completed his undergraduate studies in International Business and Computer Science at Brigham Young University prior to attending the University of Washington for a Master's Degree in Business Administration. Mr. Lord plans to join Wizzard Software on a full-time basis once the company has secured additional financing.

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