Christos M. Cotsakos, Ph.D.

Founder, Chairman, CEO & President of Mainstream Holdings, Inc.

Christos M. Cotsakos, Ph.D. founded Mainstream Holdings and its operating subsidiaries in January 2003. Dr. Cotsakos is Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors (non-independent Director), Chief Executive Officer, and President of Mainstream Holdings. He is Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Chief Executive Officer of MOLI, MOLI Kids, CoVibe TECH, Mainstream Integrated Holdings, MOLI EMEA, Ltd. and MOLI Asia Pte. Ltd. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Tertiary Productions and Chairman of the Board of Money and Living, Ltd. (UK). Dr. Cotsakos has served as Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Pennington Ventures, LLC, a private investment management company, since 1999. Dr. Cotsakos is also among Mainstream Holdings' team of inventors, and as such, is listed in multiple patent applications covering aspects of the CoVibe TECH core technology.

Dr. Cotsakos has also served on the Board of Directors for a number of start-up, private and public internet, technology and interactive multimedia companies, including most recently as board member and chairman of the audit committee and special committee of independent directors for FOX Entertainment Group (1999 - 2005), a leader in the development, production and worldwide distribution of feature films and television programs, television broadcasting, and cable network programming. Dr. Cotsakos also serves on the Executive Committee and is a member of the Board of Directors of MySpace Japan (2007 - present), a Web 2.0 joint venture between News Corporation and Softbank Corporation, a comprehensive digital information company. Dr. Cotsakos played a key role in forming the joint venture between both companies. Dr. Cotsakos is also the Senior Interactive Media and Internet Advisor for News Corporation (2005 - present).

Dr. Cotsakos co-founded and served as Co-Managing General Partner of ArrowPath Ventures Inc. (1999 - 2003), where the Co-Managing General Partners raised $350 million in venture capital. Dr. Cotsakos served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (1998 - 2003) and President and Chief Executive Officer (1996 - 1998) of E*TRADE Group, Inc., where he raised $13 million in private equity. Dr. Cotsakos led the company's initial public offering and listed E*TRADE on NASDAQ in August 1996, raising an additional $53 million. He listed E*TRADE on the NYSE in February 2001. Dr. Cotsakos raised an additional $1.5 billion to finance E*TRADE's growth strategy and initiated its global diversification by acquiring 18 companies for over $3 billion. Fortune magazine listed E*TRADE as one of the 10 most admired companies in financial services for the first time in 2002. It was included in both the S&P 500 and the Forbes Super 500 in 2003.

Dr. Cotsakos has served on the Boards of several public, private, and non-profit companies. Dr. Cotsakos previously served as Global Co-Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chief Operating Officer of AC Nielsen, among other senior executive positions (1993 - 1996). He also served 19 years with the Federal Express Corporation, where he held a number of senior executive positions (1973 - 1992). Dr. Cotsakos has served as Co-Chair of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and Chairman of its national campaign to build the Vietnam Veterans Education Center in Washington, D.C. since 2005. He also served as Co-Chair of the Capital Campaign at William Paterson University. The Campaign ended in 2006 having successfully raised over $40 million for the University. Dr. Cotsakos was invited to be a Visiting Professor of Economics by the University of London, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (2004 - 2006). Dr. Cotsakos is a national best-selling author with his book It's Your Money (HarperCollins, 2000), which has over 275,000 copies in several languages in print worldwide. Dr. Cotsakos is a decorated Vietnam Veteran (1967 - 1968) and was honorably discharged from active military service in 1970. Dr. Cotsakos has received numerous industry, educational, and community-based recognitions and awards throughout his career.

Dr. Cotsakos holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of London, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (London, UK, 2002), an M.B.A. (summa cum laude) from Pepperdine University (Malibu, California, 1983), and a B.A. in Communications (cum laude) from William Paterson University (Wayne, New Jersey, 1973). In May 2001, William Paterson University, one of the nine state colleges and universities in New Jersey, named its business school the Cotsakos College of Business in honor of Dr. Cotsakos.

For a more detailed biography on Dr. Cotsakos, visit www.wpunj.edu/cob/COB_new/cotsakos/christos.html