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NASIR WAJIHUDDIN - Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board
Mr. Wajihuddin founded Skyworks Ventures, which acquired Skyworks Interactive in 2007. With 20 years of branding, business strategy, and operating experience, Mr. Wajihuddin has worked in the consumer internet space since 1999. He was SVP marketing at D56, CMO at search engine Ask Jeeves, and a Vice President of Marketing, with responsibilities for divisional e-Commerce, at Champion International.

Mr. Wajihuddin has also provided advice to senior managers on their digital/internet strategies. In addition, he was at Monitor Company, a strategy consultancy, where his clients included AT&T and Procter & Gamble.

Mr. Wajihuddin also held brand management positions at Nabisco Biscuit Company and M&M Mars. He has a MBA from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor's degree from Princeton University.

SHARON A. FORDHAM - Executive Manager and Chairperson of the Board
Sharon Fordham is widely respected as one of the most successful women in U.S. business. Ms. Fordham, Principal of The Fordham Group, an early stage investment firm, most recently served as CEO and Board member of the highly successful, award-winning eCommerce start-up WeightWatchers.com, Inc., which was recently bought out by the licensor, Weight Watchers International, at a significant premium to the market.

Prior to her WeightWatchers experience, Ms. Fordham held several executive positions at Nabisco, including President of Global e-Business. In this role, she was responsible for the company's worldwide e-Business strategy, with oversight for e-Commerce, website development and communications, worldwide e-Productivity, and new Internet ventures. In addition, she was the driver behind Nabisco's innovative candystand.com and nabiscoworld.com websites, regarded as premier websites in the consumer packaged goods industry. She was also the President of the LifeSavers Company and Senior Vice President of Marketing at the Nabisco Biscuit Company.

She earned a Bachelor's degree from Rutgers University (Douglass College) and a MBA degree from the Wharton Graduate School of Business. She has served on multiple Boards of Directors, including the the Board of Skyworks Holdings, Inc., the Wharton Graduate Executive Board of Directors, the National Confectioner's Association, and the Wharton Club of New York.

THOMAS FORDHAM - Chief Information Officer
17 years of Information Technology management experience in business systems development, systems implementation and integration/testing, project management, business process re-engineering and disaster recovery/business continuity.

Director of IT for Etienne Aigner, a women’s fashion footwear, handbag and accessories company. Chair of the IT Steering Committee. Member of the Executive Cost Containment and the New Facility Design Committees. Lead successful major implementations of SAP ERP, Oracle Business Information Warehouse, 80 Store Retail POS/Back-office and eCommmerce website.

A member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. Served on the Continuing Body of Knowledge CIO Task Force. Attended Rutgers University from 1980-1985 with majors in Computer Science and Political Science.

 
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