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With over twenty-five years of experience as a media, technology, and entertainment operating executive, followed by years of experience as a venture capitalist, Doug is uniquely qualified to help guide IMMI’s successful growth. Currently Chief Marketing Officer of Zetera Corporation (zetera.com), developer and licensor of innovative network storage solutions, Doug previously served as Managing Partner of ProVen Private Equity, a U.K.-based family of private equity funds specializing in media and entertainment investments. As Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategic Planning, for toymaker Mattel from 1994-1999, Doug directed the formation of the company’s girls’ software division which created some of the best-selling entertainment software titles of all time. He also drove the Intel-Mattel joint venture that produced high tech toys under the Intel Play brand. Prior to Mattel, Doug served as Group Vice President for Marketing and Business Development at Sega of America where he oversaw all branding and licensing and extended Sega’s prominent Sonic the Hedgehog property into an animated television show. While at Sega, he also formed Sega Channel, a joint venture with Time-Warner and TCI, which delivered video games over cable television. Prior to Sega, as General Manager of Lucasarts Entertainment, the entertainment software division of George Lucas’ film company, Doug supervised the development and marketing of best-selling computer and video games, extending Lucas properties such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Prior to his time at Lucasarts, Doug founded an advertising agency which he sold to D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, where he remained for the next five years, supervising many of the agency’s media and entertainment accounts. Doug’s education includes an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA and PhD from Somerset University. | 