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Luc Filiatreault
Chief Executive Officer

Luc Filiatreault is a successful serial entrepreneur. He has successfully founded and led five different enterprises. Four of these companies were in Software Technologies and one was in Aerospace Technology. Three of these companies were publicly traded. From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Filiatreault was CEO of Nstein Technology a publicly traded company which had operations in Canada, USA, UK and France. Nstein developed and commercialized semantic analysis software. It was acquired by Open Text (OTC.TO) in April 2010.

Prior to this, Mr. Filiatreault was CEO of PG Mensys Information Systems which specialized in Municipal Software Solutions sold across North America. PG was acquired in March 2007 by Harris Computer a division of Constellation Software. In 2002 Mr. Filiatreault founded NordTech Aerospace, a publicly traded company that did Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) of commercial aircraft. From 2000 to 2002 Mr. Filiatreault was President of BellZinc a Bell Canada division that operated the largest internet portal for small and medium businesses in Canada.

He was a co-founder of Informission Group where he occupied multiple management roles from 1988 to 2000. The revenues of Informission exceeded 100M$ when it was acquired by Quebecor in 2000.In 2005 Mr. Filiatreault received the prestigious « Top 40 under 40 Award » from The Globe and Mail of Toronto. He was recognized by his peers of the IT Action Network and was named Personality of the Year 2009 in Information Technology in Québec. He is part of numerous Board of Directors of private and public companies and also helps different charity organizations such as United Way, Hope Air and Make-a-Wish. He is currently the chairman of the 2010-2011 funding committee of the Make-a-Wish (Québec) foundation.

Mr. Filiatreault graduated in Engineering Physics in 1987 at Laval University. He is the father of 4 children.

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Louis Brun
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder

Louis Brun is a seasoned entrepreneur with a long and successful track record as an executive in the mobile telecommunications and IT industries. Prior to co-founding Neuralitic Systems, Mr. Brun was based in Paris, France where he handled EMEA business development activities for Invidex, an innovative provider of transmission management software for broadcasters. Invidex was sold to Aldeavision in February 2006 (TSXV: AVS). Before joining Invidex, Mr. Brun co-founded Lipso, a company at the forefront of mobile messaging in Canada.

Mr. Brun also served as Business Manager at Ericsson where he completely redefined a product line in the OSS area, the revenues of which increased tenfold under his leadership. Mr. Brun has solid experience in venture capital, business strategy and product strategies.

Mr. Brun holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Université Laval and has completed studies in actuarial methods.

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Louis-Philippe Benoit
Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Corporate Development

Louis-Philippe Benoit joined the management team of Neuralitic in October 2007 as Chief Financial Officer. Along with entrepreneurial skills, Mr. Benoit has solid experience in venture capital and business strategy. He developed his wireless expertise as Co-founder and CFO of Cilys, a wireless software infrastructure vendor, and as Director Business Operation for Openwave Systems. He led Cilys through its rounds of financing, raising more than $8 million in venture capital, and was instrumental in the successful sale of Cilys to Openwave Systems in 2005.

Mr. Benoit also co-founded Deuteron Acquisition, an RFID software vendor, and worked at Andersen in tax planning and auditing. As Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Corporate Development, Mr. Benoit leads the organization’s financial operations and strategy as well as manages the legal, human resources and IT teams and related responsibilities. He also occupies a pivotal role both for external stakeholders and as part of the leadership team by overseeing capital-raising strategies and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Benoit holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.

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François de Repentigny
Vice-President, Marketing & Alliances

Francois de Repentigny brings to Neuralitic Systems more than 10 years of senior management experience in both start-up and large telecom company environments. Prior to joining Neuralitic, Mr. de Repentigny was Director of Marketing for Vidéotron, a Montreal-based telecommunications firm where he was responsible for residential Internet and cable telephony services. While managing all commercialization activities for these services, Mr. de Repentigny exceeded all growth targets and led the market in terms of ARPU and churn.

Mr. de Repentigny also spent five years in a variety of senior strategic planning roles for Bell Canada. He was previously Director of Product Management at Clarent, a Silicon Valley-based VoIP company, managing product evolution through the company’s rise from small VC-backed start-up to publicly traded company with hundreds of customers generating more than $100M in annual revenues. He began his telecom career as an industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan, where he launched its VoIP practice, as well as wrote the firm’s top-selling report of all time.

Mr. de Repentigny holds an MSc in Operations Research from the London School of Economics and a BA Honours in Economics from the University of Waterloo.

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Stephen Kerwick
Vice-President, Asia-Pacific

Mr. Kerwick is a veteran data and analytics expert in the mobile and technology industry. He leverages his vast industry knowledge and experience to help operators understand their mobile subscriber data via Neuralitic’s Mobile Analytics products and services. He has pioneered mobile market segmentation by leveraging a mix of analytics and data mining to understand and predict subscriber behaviour. He is a sought-after industry expert and thought leader who uses advanced techniques to increase subscriber adoption and ARPU.

His background includes more than 15 years of strategy consulting and professional services in mobile analytics and business intelligence. Prior to Neuralitic, he held executive level positions at Cisco Systems where he was responsible for their global business intelligence strategy and at Openwave Systems, where he developed their mobile business intelligence products, mobile advertising solution and various analytics services offerings. At SPSS, he was Vice President of Global Operations and responsible for the mobile business intelligence and predictive analytics practices. In all roles, he was responsible for overseeing the consulting operations in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Mr. Kerwick launched his passion for analytics with Andersen Consulting (Accenture) upon completing a successful career as an officer in the United States Army.

Mr. Kerwick graduated with a Bachelor of Science, General Engineering and a Bachelor of Science, Literature from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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