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Louis Brun
Chief Operating Officer & 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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