Hariton was previously President and CEO of Apptera. During her tenure Apptera shipped its first commercial products, established marquee customers and channel partnerships and raised $8 million in venture capital. Previously, Hariton was CEO of Beatnik, Inc., where she currently remains as Chairman. During her tenure with Beatnik, she raised more than $40 million in venture capital. Hariton grew the company from 10 to 125 employees and successfully re-positioned the company for profitability from a web based audio content company to the leading audio technology provider for wireless devices.

Prior to Beatnik, Hariton spent six years at Network Computing Devices in various management positions, including executive vice president of sales, marketing and development, where she was responsible for closing key OEM deals with IBM, Sun, AT&T and Novell. Previously, Hariton spent 15 years at IBM, including six years in the ROLM division responsible for call center and computer-telephone integration products. She has also held positions at Verifone and American Airlines.

Hariton is Chairman Emeritus of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives and serves on the board of The Entrepreneur's Foundation; the National Advisory Board of the Stanford Clayman Institute for Gender Research; the Advisory Board of the Women's Technology Cluster; Executive Committee of the National Center for Women and Information Technology and ION. She is also a fellow of the American Leadership Forum. She has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in mathematical sciences from Stanford University. She is a triathlete and involved in politics.

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Thomas Dolby Robertson - Founder, Board Member
As a London teenager, Thomas Robertson was fascinated with the convergence of music and technology. His experiments with an assortment of keyboards, synthesizers and cassette players led his friends to dub him "Dolby". That same fascination later drove him to become an electronic musician and multimedia artist whose groundbreaking work fused music with computer technology and video.

Thomas began his performing career beneath the streets of Paris, playing his synthesizer-based songs in the Metro subway. The advent of MTV brought him increased exposure: His well-produced and intelligent videos stood out from the pack, and his songs "She Blinded Me With Science" and "Hyperactive" became huge hits. Numerous awards and five Grammy nominations later, Thomas had achieved worldwide recognition as an artist.

While Thomas continued to pursue his own creative endeavors, developers of synthesizers, audio software and computer games courted Thomas to help them improve the audio capabilities of their products. Noticing that existing audio software was linear, Thomas sought to create software that would make music and sound truly interactive. With the advent of the Web, he found the perfect media for interactive audio.

Beatnik became the embodiment of Thomas' vision. He built the company around a team of musically savvy engineers and technically astute musicians, and secured top management and funding. Today, the same passion and vision that first drew a teenage Thomas Robertson to music and technology is at the core of Beatnik. The excellence of Beatnik's technology has been underscored by high-profile agreements with companies such as WebTV Networks, Netscape, Macromedia and more.

Often called "The Godfather of Internet Music", Thomas first drew the attention of fellow artists and record companies to the opportunities for digital distribution of music via the Internet as early as 1994. In July 1998, Thomas received a Lifetime Achievement in Internet Music award from Yahoo! Internet Life. An honor, to be sure -- yet when it comes to fusing music and technology on the Web, Thomas believes that both he and the industry have much more to achieve.

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Don Millers - President & CEO, Board Member
Don Millers comes to Beatnik with extensive engineering, business and multimedia experience, working for more than thirty years within the technology arena. His understanding of innovative software, design tools and product lines - elevating each to maintain their fullest potential within the marketplace - are skills that Don has dedicated himself to achieving. As President & CEO, Don is bringing his strategic expertise and vision to the leading interactive audio technology for mobile devices, guiding a dynamic product development team while overseeing quality and operations.

Prior to Beatnik, Don immersed himself in the challenges presented at start up companies, leading each of them to a preeminent position during his tenure. Don most recently served as Executive Vice President, Operations, at Netbuy.com where he was part of a small start up team that grew to become a leading business to business ecommerce company with approximately 2.3 billion dollars of inventory. Don also served as Vice President, Engineering at Mfactory, as founder and president of Shoreline Technologies, Vice President, Engineering at Cadre Technologies Inc., and top management positions over a five year span at Cadence Design Systems Inc., just to name a few.

Don graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters of Science Degree from California State University at Long Beach.

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Allen Morgan - Board Member - General Partner, Mayfield
Allen Morgan's quick wit and decisiveness derive from years of counseling entrepreneurs as one of Silicon Valley's leading lawyers. Allen focuses on emerging-growth companies in the Internet software and services, e-commerce and new media industries.
As a partner at his former law firms, Latham and Watkins and Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, and Rosati, Allen was involved in more than 350 venture capital financings and public offerings, both IPO and follow-on, as well as numerous merger and acquisition transactions of both public and private companies over a period of 18 years.

Allen currently serves on the Board of Directors at Beatnik, Bigstep.com, FOLIOfn, PlanetOut, Varsity Group (VSTY) and Yack!.

Allen received a Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, a second Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.

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Thampy Thomas - Board Member
Thampy Thomas was the founder of NexGen, the developer of the very first competitive alternative to Intel's Pentium processors. Dr. Thomas served as President and CEO of NexGen from its inception in 1986 until 1991, and as Chairman of its Board of Directors until 1994. He was also a founder and Senior Vice President of Engineering of ELXSI (1979-1985). Dr. Thomas is an investor in and director of several early stage, high technology companies. He received his Ph.D. and MSEE in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

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