Company Vision
Contact Networks, Inc. is committed to getting people connected in a meaningful and enjoyable way, by leveraging Internet technology to solve the increasing need for mobility and personal information access. Using the core ability of keeping people linked together with an always updated and always accessible address book, Contact Networks will elevate the experience of staying in touch with personal and professional contacts. Contact Networks has developed an Internet-enabled personal communications tool that provides the ability to distribute selective, yet rich and dynamic contact information. This service can work in a stand-alone fashion, or as a companion to existing electronic contact management systems and wireless devices. Contact Networks provides convenient links to commerce sites, and seamlessly integrates with a variety of communications platforms, making dialogues among individuals richer, and fulfilling human needs to stay on top of things in an increasingly mobile society.

Product Availability
Contact Networks' first product is currently available in a beta version for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000. Support for other platforms is just around the corner.

History
Arnon Dinur and Eyal Hertzog, two Israeli-born cousins working in the midst of Silicon Valley, founded Contact Networks (formerly known as NetinTouch) in August 1998 to address the hassles inherent in managing and leveraging a network of personal and professional contacts. Both had worked within the Cisco family – Arnon at Cisco while an MBA student at the University of Texas, and Eyal a recent transplant to the Valley after Class Data Systems was acquired by Cisco. Together, they sought a solution that would help them keep in touch with their personal and vital business contacts by placing rich, dynamic, updated contact information wherever they needed it – a desktop PC, an Internet terminal in the airport, a cell phone or a handheld device. The founders secured their first round of financing within a week of developing the core concept, and quickly began building the company by recruiting a core team in Israel and in Silicon Valley. Top venture capital funding from Accel and Polaris Venture Partners was secured shortly after.

Executive Team
Arnon Dinur, Co-founder
Eyal Hertzog, Co-founder
Adam Hertz, CEO and Senior VP of Product Development, formerly of Excite@Home
Omer Malchin, VP of Marketing, formerly of NetFlix.com
Mark Adams, VP of Business Development, formerly of burningpoint.com

Arnon Dinur
Co-founder

Arnon co-founded Contact Networks in August 1998 with his cousin Eyal Hertzog. As chairman of the company's board of directors, Arnon works closely with Contact Networks' CEO/President to shape the company's corporate business strategy and strategic partnerships. His energetic drive to create value and his keen insights into consumer use of the Internet help to fuel the future product direction of the company. Arnon holds a BA in accounting from Tel Aviv University; L.LB in Law from Tel Aviv University; and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin, concentrating on Technology strategy. He also served for three years in a confidential role for the Israeli Military Intelligence.

Eyal Hertzog
Co-founder

Eyal co-founded Contact Networks in August 1998. As an experienced engineer, he has led the product development team as product manager and system architect. In the past year, Eyal has recruited 10 talented engineers from Israeli Military Intelligence units to form the core of the Contact Networks' Development Group, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Prior to founding the company Eyal served as a marketing engineer for Class Data Systems, a start-up which became Cisco System's first international acquisition. He moved to San Jose in 1998 before leaving to form Contact Networks. Eyal also served four years in the Israeli Military Intelligence.

Adam Hertz
CEO and Senior VP of Product Development

Adam joined Contact Networks from Excite@Home, where as vice president he held several senior management positions in both commerce and international development and engineering. Prior to the Excite@Home merger, Adam was the vice president of engineering for Excite, and previously general manager of the WebCrawler business unit. Adam has nearly twenty years of experience in engineering and product management in the personal computer, consumer electronics, workstation and Internet industries, including key positions at Lotus, NeXT and General Magic.

Omer Malchin
VP of Marketing

Omer joined Contact Networks from e-commerce startup, NetFlix.com, a leader in DVD entertainment, where he was responsible for building corporate identity and brand equity, as well as directing the company's advertising, public relations, direct marketing and business development efforts. Omer has also held several senior management positions in consumer marketing, with Heublein and then Paddington, managing category-leading brands such as Black Velvet Canadian Whiskey and Baileys Original Irish Cream. He also served as vice president of marketing for Pete's Brewing Company. He holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.

Mark Adams
VP of Business Development

Mark joined Contact Networks in early 2000 to lead Contact Networks in establishing strategic partnerships and business relationships. Previously, Mark was CEO and Founder of Burningpoint.com, an internet start-up focused on burning CDs from downloaded music, which was a subsidiary of Adaptec, Inc. Prior to Burningpoint.com, Mark was VP Business Development at Adaptec, where he was instrumental in restructuring the firm to focus on new markets and core competencies. Prior to his time at Adaptec, Mark lived and worked in Southeast Asia managing direct investment funds. Mark was a founder and director of the Nusantara Investment Fund, a direct investment fund for Indonesia, and then a Director for GE Capital Indonesia. Prior to moving to Asia, Mark had spent 5 years with McKinsey & Company in their San Francisco, Cleveland and Amsterdam offices. He holds an MBA from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.