| David Levine is the founder, President & CEO of Butterfly.net, which deployed the first computing grid for the online video game industry. David has 15 years experience in the Internet and entertainment industries. Previous entrepreneurial endeavors included the creation of Ultraprise Corporation, the leading business-to-business exchange for the financial services industry. Mr. Levine began his career as an entrepreneur in 1994, when he co-founded HuskyLabs, Inc. to provide Internet software infrastructure, integration and security services for such customers as BellSouth, The Coca-Cola Company and Times Mirror. Mr. Levine established himself as an early Internet leader, participating as a presenter and panelist in landmark events such as the First International Conference on the World Wide Web at CERN Particle Physics Lab, the first business on the Internet panel at Comdex, and lecturing on Java and streaming media at Internet World between 1995 and 1997. He wrote one of the first books on the Java programming language, Live Java, Database to Cyberspace and was the keynote speaker at the first NASA Java Day in Cape Canaveral. In addition to his interest in technology, Mr. Levine has been an active essayist, poet and songwriter. He recorded four CDs for European music labels, produced a video for MTV and toured extensively in the US, Canada and Europe. He has received grants to pursue these interests from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, NCR and Shell Oil. David earned a BA in Philosophy from Yale University and was a Rackham Memorial Fellow in Poetry at the University of Michigan. | 
