Board - Lumio

Board

· Jason Barzilay, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Argoquest

Harris Toibb, Chairman | top

Mr. Toibb has more than four decades of experience in building successful enterprises, developing profitable sales organizations and managing employees. He has and continues to act as Chairman, CEO, Director and/or hands-on advisor to both established profitable enterprises and fast-growing start-up companies with great potential.

His background includes extensive international experience in sales and distribution, including manufacturing goods in China, Korea, Taiwan, and in other margin-expanding locations.

Mr. Toibb is also the Founder and Chairman of Toibb Enterprises, a company that owns and operates over one million square feet of prime commercial real estate.

Mr. Toibb was Owner, Chairman & CEO of Applause, a company engaged in the sale and distribution of gift items worldwide, including the licensing of internationally-recognized brands and characters; Mr. Toibb built Applause's revenues to over Two Hundred Fifty Million Dollars per year and established consistent growth and record profits. Mr. Toibb sold Applause in 1988, and thereafter devoted his attention to his two key business interests: investing in real estate and cutting-edge technology companies.

Mr. Toibb was an initial investor in MRG (Medical Research Group), a Company that was subsequently sold to Medtronic (a leading publicly listed medical device company) in 2001.

Other than Lumio Inc, Mr. Toibb has, amongst others, invested in and currently advises the following technology companies: Advanced Bionics, a company that develops, manufactures and markets implantable neurostimulation devices--bionic technologies that treat serious neurological conditions; and Synthean (also member of Board of Directors), develops and markets enterprise software solutions that enable companies to effectively manage mission critical business activities across disparate systems.

Jason Barzilay, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Argoquest | top

Mr. Barzilay's foresight and vision have been central in the founding and success of several high-tech companies over his 23 years in the high tech industry.

Mr. Barzilay founded his first company, Cal-Circuit Sales, shortly after his graduation from college. Cal-Circuit Sales was a Los Angeles distributor of computer memory products to US companies and medical institutions. In 1983, Mr. Barzilay merged his company with Abco Sales, owned by Alex Sandel and Beny Alagem, to form Cal-Circuit Abco, Inc (Cal-Abco). In the early 1980's Cal-Abco became the largest independent distributor of computer peripherals and memory chips in the United States, reaching more than 700 million dollars in sales. The company sold to computer dealers, system integrators, VARS and VADS.

In 1986, Mr. Barzilay and his two partners founded the Packard Bell, Inc., a manufacturer of personal computers for the home. By the early 1990's, Packard Bell was recognized as one of the fastest growing computer companies, and by the mid-1990's Packard Bell was the #1 computer sold in private homes. Packard Bell was sold in over 8,000 retail outlets in the United States and in over 120 countries, reaching more than 6 billion dollars in sales (accumulating to about 50% of the retail channel).

In 1993, Mr. Barzilay and his partners founded Reveal, a company that distributed computer peripherals and upgrades. Mr. Barzilay was Reveal's Chief Executive Officer. Reveal's products were in every major computer retailer in the US and Europe and after just three years of business, Reveal was projected to do well over $200 Million in Sales.

In 1996, Packard Bell purchased the Zenith Corporation from Groupe Bull of France and all of NEC's worldwide computer business, excluding Japan to form the Packard Bell/NEC Corporation. In 1998, Mr. Barzilay resigned from the Board of Directors of Packard Bell/NEC.

Deciding to pursue his life-long vision of simplifying the computing experience and enhancing communications, Mr. Barzilay founded the private venture capital firm Argoquest in 1997. Since, Argoquest's creation, Mr. Barzilay has hand picked over 47 revolutionary start-up companies to add to the Argoquest portfolio. Mr. Barzilay is actively involved in the strategic planning and direction of each of Argoquest's companies and is a Board member of many of the Argoquest companies. Mr. Barzilay is also on the Board of Directors of Future Media, a CD/DVD replication company that he co-founded.

Mr. Barzilay has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Marketing from California in Northridge. State University

Abe Sher | top

Mr. Sher is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of Aqua Sciences, Inc., a Delaware corporation involved in the development, manufacture and sale of advanced water technology products and services. Under Mr. Sher's leadership, Aqua Sciences has developed and is currently selling innovative atmospheric water generators that will generate drinking water virtually anywhere on the planet, including deserts.

Mr. Sher is the founder and was previously the Managing Director of Slingshot Ventures, and has been actively involved in the financing, launch and operation of several innovative technology companies. Mr. Sher has been on the Board of Directors, served as CEO, Managing Director and/or advisor to several publicly-traded and privately held technology and telecommunications firms over the past 15 years.

Mr. Sher was most recently on the Board of Directors of Magfusion, Inc., a world-leading MEMS (micro electromagnetic switch) technology company in Chandler, Arizona, (recently sold to a major international electronics firm), and is currently on the Board of Lumio, a revolutionary virtual interface technology company. Mr. Sher also advises several other technology companies.

Mr. Sher began his career in the private practice of law in Los Angeles. Mr. Sher attended UCLA, earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, and a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Jonathan Curtiss, President | top

Jonathan is the Founder and co-Founder of two companies focused on management consulting, raising capital and market entry business development for technology startups in Europe and Israel. With over 15 years of experience focused primarily on the Defense, Aerospace and Technology markets, Jonathan also currently sits of the Board or Advisory Board of a number of companies ranging from Gesture Recognition, a pan-European Human Resources consulting firm and a reader-free smart card technology startup. Jonathan is a graduate of the Oxford School of Business in England.