Board Of Directors

Jim Moloshok, Executive Chairman, GoFish Corporation

Jim Moloshok is the Executive Chairman of GoFish. Throughout his career, Mr. Moloshok has managed the intersection of technology and entertainment for some of the world's biggest media companies including Yahoo!, Warner Bros. and HBO and was named by TV Week as one of the 'Top Ten Internet Executives You Can't Afford To Ignore.'

As President of Digital Initiatives for Home Box Office, Mr. Moloshok was responsible for exploring new opportunities for the company, focusing on innovative content and fast-changing technology. Before joining HBO, Mr. Moloshok was senior vice president, Entertainment and Content Relationships at Yahoo! building partnerships with movie studios, TV networks and producers. While at Yahoo!, the areas under his supervision included Kids, Movies, TV, Games, Sports, Health and News. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr. Moloshok was president of Warner Bros. Online and president and CEO of Entertaindom.com, an original entertainment destination for Time Warner.

Under Mr. Moloshok's leadership, Warner Bros. was named by Variety as the 'Most Aggressive of All Studios on the Web,' and in its debut month, the independent Entertaindom eclipsed other more established entertainment sites. Warner Bros. Online was the first studio site to accept advertising and evolve into an online business with its own sales and marketing team separate from any other sales efforts of the company.

Prior to running Warner Bros. Online, Mr. Moloshok was senior vice president of Marketing at Warner Bros. and previously held the same position at Lorimar Telepictures, a television distribution company, which merged with Lorimar in 1986 where he was also responsible for marketing to consumers, broadcasters and advertisers.

Matt Freeman, CEO

Matt Freeman is the CEO of GoFish. Former Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tribal DDB Worldwide, Freeman grew the company from 45 employees and $5 million in annual revenue to over 1,500 employees and $250 million in annual revenue while building a global network of 45 offices spanning 28 countries. He developed broad, global relationships with Fortune 100 clients including PepsiCo, Philips, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, Volkswagen, ExxonMobil and Unilever. Freeman also started and scaled specialized business units in Search (SEM & SEO), Hosting, Database development & Analytics (including proprietary econometric modeling applications), Digital Healthcare Marketing, Gaming, Mobile, iTV and Strategic Consulting.

In January 2006, AdWeek named Tribal DDB Worldwide its Interactive Agency of the Year and in January 2008, Adverting Age awarded it Global Agency Network of the Year. Both publications cited Freeman's leadership as a critical factor in Tribal's enduring success. In 1997 and 1998, Freeman was Executive Creative Director Modem Media / Poppe Tyson (since then acquired by Digitas, Inc.; now a Division of Publicis Group). There, he led efforts on IBM & other key clients and was part of the merger integration team with Modem Media and Poppe Tyson. Before that, he was Partner, Executive Creative Director at Poppe Tyson (formerly a division of True North, now Interpublic Group) from 1995 to 1997. Earlier in his career, Mr. Freeman was a writer at MTV working on Beavis & Butthead and MTV Beach House and he was a private school English teacher.

Freeman, a graduate of Dartmouth College and the NY School of Visual Arts, has been inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement; is the Founder of the Interactive Agency Board of the IAB, is an active Board member of the Advertising Club and the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As) and is a member of the Marketing Advisory Board of the Modern Museum of Art (MOMA).

Tabreez Verjee, President, GoFish Corporation

In February 2007, Tabreez Verjee was named president, overseeing the company's operations as well as strategic and corporate development. Prior to 2007 Tabreez was a member of the Board of Directors and an investor in the company.

Mr. Verjee brings an extensive track record of success to GoFish. His most recent work includes being a Founder and General Partner at Global Asset Capital, LLC, an investment firm with diversified interests in venture capital and private equity. In this capacity, he directed more than $500 million in committed assets across multiple venture capital funds and over 40 portfolio companies in the U.S. and Europe. Investors across the funds included leading financial institutions as well as strategic investors such as Cisco, Qualcomm, British Telecom, IBM, Proctor & Gamble and General Electric.

Previously, Mr. Verjee co-headed Sonique (IMDI) and successfully negotiated ts sale for more than $70 million to Lycos. Sonique was one of the leading downloadable music applications and at its height in 1999 had more than four-million registered users and was the fifth most downloaded application on the Internet.

Mr. Verjee's first start-up at the age of 21 was as Founder and Managing Director of Global Entertainment Capital, which raised $150 million in capital for media financings and completed the first ever stand alone investment grade securitization of music royalties for heavy metal band Iron Maiden for $30M.

Tabreez is an early investor and member of the board of directors at Kiva.org, the world's first peer-to-peer microfinance platform, which has been heralded in the press for its innovation and has been featured on both the Oprah Winfrey Show and by Bill Clinton in his recent book on giving. He is also a charter member of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs, a global, non-profit network dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship.

Mr. Verjee started his career at Bain & Company, an international business strategy consulting firm. He received a bachelor of science in Engineering with honors from University of California at Berkeley.

John Durham, Director, CEO & Managing Partner, Catalyst

John Durham is chief executive officer and managing partner of Catalyst, which specializes in connecting emerging technology companies, publishers and brand marketers facilitating the integration of paid media, non-paid media and emerging media.

Mr. Durham had been President of Sales & Marketing for Jumpstart Automotive Media (San Francisco) since August 2006 and on the Jumpstart Board of Directors since 2004. Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S acquired Jumpstart in April 2007.  From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Durham served as the Executive Vice President, Business Strategy at Carat Fusion, for Carat's offices across the country including New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles. Before that, he was a founder of Pericles Communication, a political digital firm that helped advocacy and political groups tap into interactive marketing.

 Before the launch of Pericles, in 2003, Mr. Durham had been Chief Operating Officer of Interep Interactive which, under his direction became the largest independent online ad sales company in the United States, and through co-marketing agreements, the largest Internet rep company in the world. In 2000, Mr. Durham helped engineer the acquisition of Winstar Interactive Media from Mandalay Entertainment Group. Mr. Durham had joined Winstar Interactive in March of 1998 as Vice President of Advertising Sales. Prior to Winstar, Mr. Durham was the founding Sales Manager for Mapquest.com (Denver) which he joined in the fall of 1996. Before that, he was Sports Sales Manager for San Francisco’s KRON TV. Mr. Durham, a long-time resident of San Francisco, has been teaching advertising and marketing classes since 1992 and currently teaches advertising in the MBA program at the University of San Francisco. He also founded the Bay Area Interactive Group, an Internet industry-networking group.

Mr. Durham has also handled the online advertising strategy for five victorious political candidates, including the President and four Senators. 

Peter Guber, Director, Chairman and CEO, Mandalay Entertainment Group

Peter Guber is a thirty-year veteran of the entertainment industry. His positions previously held include: Former Studio Chief, Columbia Pictures; Founder of Casablanca Record and Filmworks; Founder, and Former Chairman/CEO, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment; Founder and Former Co-owner, Guber-Peters Entertainment Company; Former Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE).

Films directly produced and executive produced by Mr. Guber have received more than 50 Academy Award nominations, including four times for Best Picture. During Mr. Guber's tenure at SPE, the Motion Picture Group achieved, over four years, an industry-best domestic box office market share averaging 17%. During the same period, Sony Pictures led all competitors with a remarkable total of 120 Academy Award nominations, the highest four-year total ever for a single company.

After leaving Sony in 1995, Mr. Guber formed Mandalay as a multimedia entertainment vehicle in motion pictures, television, sports entertainment and new media. Mr. Guber is a full professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and has been a member of the faculty for over 30 years. He also can be seen every Sunday morning on the American Movie Channel (AMC), as the co-host of the critically acclaimed show, Sunday Morning Shootout. Winstar Communications by Interep Interactive a unit of Interep, one of the nation’s largest radio rep firms.