Prakash Puram,

Chairman, President and CEO

IXmatch, Inc.

Prakash has 22 years of management experience in the consumer and high-tech industries. Most recently he was GM of the Consumer and Retail Markets Software Business at Net Perceptions. Prior to that, he was Director of Worldwide Strategy and Business Development for Honeywell's Home & Building Controls division. He has had successful business leadership and product management roles at Honeywell, IBM, Pillsbury, and Unilever, and a unique consulting stint in Kiev with Harvard University's Project for Economic Reform in Ukraine (PERU.) He received a BS from Loyola College, Madras, India; a Business Management diploma from XLRI, Jamshedpur, India; an MBA from the University of Minnesota; and an MPA in Competitive Strategy from Harvard University. Prakash serves on the advisory board of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. He is a private pilot, and speaks Japanese and some Russian. Prakash was a torch-runner for the Atlanta Olympics.

iXmatch is a leading provider of advanced search software. It creates a positive impact on a customer’s business by presenting people with the most contextually-relevant information. iXmatch is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its customers include Broward County, Florida, Carlson Companies, Edgenet, F.W. Webb, HighJump Software, LogicLibrary, Pfizer, Pro Staff, Sagebrush Corporation, Sentara Healthcare, ShopNBC, Thomas Publishing, TrueBeginnings, U.S. Department of Defense, and XIOtech.