Robert A. Buntz, Jr.
CEO, President and Chairman of the Board

Robert A. Buntz, Jr. has served as a director of the Company since inception in April 2007. Mr. Buntz has been an entrepreneur for more than 30 years and a real estate broker for more than 25. In 1981, Mr. Buntz began developing the award-winning Bluefin Bay on Lake Superior, Tofte, Minnesota, and operated that resort until 2007. Among other achievements, Mr. Buntz's development company donated the land, time and funding to help create the North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum, and Mr. Buntz created and developed one of the first rural affordable housing projects, Tofte Homestead. From 1984 through 2006, and while he was simultaneously operating Bluefin Bay, Mr. Buntz was the owner and operator of Tofte Land Co., Inc., a real estate holding and brokerage firm. He now has more than 25 years of hospitality experience as an owner-operator of destination properties.

Mr. Buntz has served on the board of directors of the Explore Minnesota Tourism Council and the (Minnesota) Governor's Tourism Advisory Committee for more than 15 years. Currently, Mr. Buntz is a board member and past-chair of the board of the American Museum of Asmat Art. Mr. Buntz received the (Minnesota) Governor's Entrepreneurship Award from Governor Rudy Perpich and the Outstanding Individual in Tourism Award from Governor Jesse Ventura. He is a graduate of Grinnell College.

Thomas Meckey
Vice President  - Upper Midwest Operations

Thomas Meckey was appointed as a director of the Company on October 24, 2007. Mr. Meckey also currently serves as the Vice President of Operations and was a co-founder of Webdigs, LLC. Mr. Meckey has five years of experience in residential real estate and finance. Mr. Meckey's real estate and finance career includes his founding of Home Equity Advisors, LLC in 2006, serving as a realtor with Re/Max Results from 2004 to 2007, and serving as a loan officer with Wealth Spring Mortgage from 2004 to 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Meckey worked as a software consultant to Ben Nevis, Inc. (2002-2003), an account executive at Adytum Software Co. (2000-2002), and as a consultant with JD Edwards ERP Business Unit, which is a division of Ernst & Young, LLP (1998-2000). Mr. Meckey is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and holds a degree in Information Sciences.

Donald Miller
Director

Donald Miller was appointed as a director of the Company on July 7, 2009. Mr. Miller worked almost forty years at Schwan's Inc, primarily as CFO. During his tenure, Schwan's grew from a small local home-delivery dairy service to a multi-billion dollar consumer packaged goods giant. Throughout his employment, he was involved in all of the acquisitions and divestitures of the company. He currently serves as chairman of the finance committee at Schwan's, as well as serving on the audit and risk committees.  He is also Chairman of the Board of Multiband Corp. In 2008, Mr. Miller was appointed to the Board of Directors of FoodShacks, Inc.

Steven Sjoblad
Director

Steven Sjoblad was appointed as a director of the Company on October 25, 2007. Steve Sjoblad has more than 35 years of corporate strategy and marketing expertise. Mr. Sjoblad spent 19 years building Fallon McElligott, one of the world's preeminent advertising agencies, where he guided global strategy and marketing programs for industry leaders and has worked in virtually every consumer and business-to-business category (1981-1999). From 2001 through 2003, Mr. Sjoblad ran Global Consumer Services for Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC), originated the myFICO.com business and ran the Fair Isaac Marketing Services business, transforming it into a "precision marketing unit." Additionally, he was a member of the Fair Isaac Executive Committee and held the position of Chief Marketing Officer. From 2003 through 2006, Mr. Sjoblad worked as an independent business consultant. Since 2006, Mr. Sjoblad has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Captira Analytical, a software, data and analytics firm serving the criminal justice vertical market based in Albany, NY. Mr. Sjoblad is also Chairman of uBid.com (UBHI.OB), an online retailer, a board member of Schwan's Foods, a $3.6 billion international food concern, and a founder and board member of Fluxion, LLC, a marketing automation concern.

Robert L. Lumpkins
Director

Robert L. Lumpkins was appointed as a director of the Company on October 25, 2007. Mr. Lumpkins is currently the Chairman of the Board of The Mosaic Company, a NYSE-listed crop nutrition business with revenues of $7 billion. Mr. Lumpkins retired in the fall of 2006 as an executive and board member of Cargill Incorporated, a global commodity trading and processing company with over $70 billion in revenues and 150,000 employees. He served in a variety of financial and general management assignments during his 38 years with Cargill, including Chief Financial Officer (1989-2005) and Vice Chairman (1995-2006). He also serves as a director of Ecolab Inc., and as the chairman of Black River Asset Management LLC (a $10 billion fixed-income-oriented asset management company). He is a trustee of Howard University in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lumpkins is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Joe Fox
Director

Joe Fox was appointed as a director on July 7, 2009. Back in the mid 1990s, Mr. Fox identified the internet as a tool that would level the playing field for consumers in the stock brokerage industry. He, along with brother Avi, created Web Street Securities, a highly successful on-line investment brokerage company. Web Street became a publicly traded company in 1999 before merging with E*Trade Financial Group in 2001. In 2005, Mr. Fox's desire to leverage the internet to empower consumers in their financial decision making process resulted in the forming of Iggys House Realty, Inc. (Iggys House and Buyside Realty), where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Iggy's goal was to capture the power of the internet to facilitate consumers to manage their own real estate sales and purchases, thereby saving themselves thousands of dollars on commissions on their transactions. Iggys' web-assisted real estate brokerage covered 38 states within 2 years of its startup.