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Jeffrey Vander Clute was president/founder of New Channel Marketing Technologies Inc., of Pasadena, Calif. Prior to forming NCMT, Mr. Vander Clute was vice president of information systems at eZiba.com, responsible for systems infrastructure, back-office integration, and Oracle development. Through May 1999, Vander Clute was global operations manager at Lycos Inc., responsible for both product releases and business development, handling strategic relationships with Bertelsmann A.G., and other partners. He was one of the first 10 employees of Tripod Inc., acquired by Lycos in 1998 for $58-million in stock. From 1996-1998 he was director of Internet technology at Tripod, built the "homepage builder" engine for the 2-million-user Tripod site and managed a multi-disciplined engineering team. He has worked extensively on Apache and Netscape Enterprise server APIs and large-scale databases. Mr. Vander Clute is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College in mathematics and a singer-songwriter-performer who plays guitar.