Live365 Internet Radio - Live365 Management Team

N. Mark Lam

Chairman, Executive Committee & CEO

N. Mark Lam serves as Chairman, Executive Committee and CEO of Live365, Inc. One of the world’s largest Internet radio networks, Live365 empowers thousands of broadcasters to create their own radio stations and entertains millions of listeners with a vast array of music and audio content from around the world.

Within a year of becoming CEO in September 2004, Lam turned Live365 into a viable business after it had burnt through $60 million before his arrival. Prior to joining Live365, Lam secured additional funding and advised the development of a new business model as the lead advisor to the company.

Lam has been active in negotiating and campaigning for a fair and consistent royalty rate system for webcasters. In 2006, he testified in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of the Digital Media Association (DiMA) and Live365 on “Parity, Platforms, and Protection: The Future of the Music Industry in the Digital Radio Revolution.” Following the 2007 Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decision that increased the royalty rates paid to the recording industry by commercial webcasters in 2010 to two and a half times those for 2005, Lam has been advocating for royalty parity across all broadcasting platforms - including terrestrial, satellite, cable, and the Internet.

Before joining Live365, Lam headed his own law firm which specialized in solving business and legal problems as well as forming global alliances for multinational companies. His clients included Hon Hai Precision/Foxconn Group, Philips Electronics, and middle market companies, where he litigated and negotiated business and IP claims and consummated business deals which contributed significantly to their success and rapid growth.

Lam began his career as Assistant General Manager of Orient Xpress, a Benihana venture, where he spearheaded the start-up operations. After earning his J.D. and MBA, he worked at Hughes Aircraft, Dynafund (an international venture capital firm), and Geneva Company (the leading middle market M&A firm in the 1980’s).

Lam has published over 50 articles in prominent journals and newspapers in Asia and the United States, including Harvard Business Review. In 2006, his book, China Now: Doing Business in the World’s Most Dynamic Market - co-authored with Professor John L. Graham, an authority in international marketing and negotiations - was published by McGraw Hill, and was the best-selling English-language China-related business title in Hong Kong in 2007.

Lam received a B.A. from Hamilton College, a J.D. from University of California Hastings College of the Law, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Ara Hovanesian

Vice-Chairman, Executive Committee

Ara Hovanesian serves as Vice-Chairman, Executive Committee for Live365. He has provided consulting services to Live365 for the past two years and has assisted the company in achieving its current level of success. He is currently responsible for overseeing financial, legal, and administrative functions for the company.

Prior to joining Live365, Ara has maintained a law practice, is a certified public accountant, and has been a successful investor. His law practice specializes in corporate business matters.

Hovanesian served as a director and vice-president of a publicly held company. He was responsible for mergers and acquisitions. During his tenure, the company grew from specializing in ownership and real estate rentals to operations in residential real estate construction, title and commercial insurance and escrow services in locations throughout California.

Ara was a key participant in the formation of an organization that played an instrumental role on program initiatives on the "war on poverty" in Los Angeles County. He later became the organization's executive director with a staff of 380. He was responsible for program operations conducted through 97 sub-contracting agencies with a combined payroll, oftentimes, totaling 10,000 employees. Additionally, he conducted contract negotiations and served as a liaison with local, state and federal agencies.

Ara received a B.S. degree in accounting and management from UCLA and a J.D. from Loyola University in Los Angeles.

Raymond Barrett

Director of Product Management

Raymond Barrett serves as Director of Product Management for Live365. With more than 20 years experience as a commercial graphic designer/multimedia developer, he is responsible for the Live365 website; PC/Mac desktop radio software; mobile phone software; and home stereo/TV radio components including user interface design and user experience choreography.

Raymond leads the Live365 product development by defining business requirements and guiding projects through development, QA testing, and distribution. He assists with market research while exploring new technologies and trends.

Before joining Live365, Raymond founded Imagine Avenue, a multimedia design studio in Los Angeles. During his eight years with Imagine Avenue, he worked with a wide variety of technologies in the areas of graphic design; commercial printing; technical illustration; streaming audio/video; scoring/sound for pictures; web development; and e-commerce.

Before Imagine Avenue, Raymond was the lead singer, guitarist, and one of the primary songwriters for Charlemagne, a rock band out of Hollywood, California. He plays multiple instruments and has been a recording engineer and/or producer on various projects from the early 1980s to present.

Raymond studied drafting, technical illustration, and mechanical design technologies, and has extensive background in design and typography.

Johnie Floater

GM, Media

Johnie Floater serves as General Manager, Media. Media is the alchemy of desired content reaching a targeted audience for brands and organizations that want to connect with them. His role leverages the significant assets of the business, technology, and content components of Live365.

The 365 opportunity combines four of Johnie's personal passions and key business experience: radio, international, public service, and entrepreneurial.

His participation in radio has spanned from his first high school job at a commercial Top 40 station, WLAV AM&FM, to his being the first Business Manager at the respected KCRW, National Public Radio, Los Angeles, to his becoming the General Manager at Radio Express. There, he was responsible for international syndication of network programming from ABC Radio to music and production libraries from TM Century and FirstCom. With 10,000 current radio stations and a platform for ten times as many, Live365 is radio heaven for Johnie.

Although born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Floater developed his solid international foundation while he was a student at UCLA where his classmates hailed from over 45 countries. Radio Express provided Johnie opportunities for business travel to some 40 plus countries frequently. As VP, International at Eagle River Interactive, an early acquisition of Agency.com, he led international strategy from M&A through integration, sales and fulfillment. At one point, he had visa stamps of 64 countries in his passport.

His love for public service began early on with school and club participation to teaching and librarian positions after college. He spent seven years as lead organizer for communities in diverse cities such as Chicago, Grand Rapids, and Santa Monica and was involved with local to national issues including park improvements to a U.S. anti-redlining & disclosure law to food co-ops and community banks. What attracted Johnie to KCRW was its role in providing a wide range of music and topics not carried by the hundreds of other Southern California stations. He sees Live365's global broadcast platform as an inexpensive access to the "airwaves" for all as a core mission of Live365.

Each of the startups Johnie was involved provided him a deep entrepreneurial cross functional experience including strategy, finance, technology, legal, human resources, operations, marketing, and management. As VP, Incubation for the Rare Medium Group, a NASDAQ internet venture and strategy company, he was responsible for over $50M in investments and 250 employees for the group's seven majority held incubators.

He has presented at numerous trade and corporate conferences including CES, MIDEM, MIP, and NAB.

Johnie received a BA with dual majors in Mathematics and Psychology from Aquinas College. He also holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management. He was Valedictorian for not only his undergraduate, but also his business school class.

Jason Stoddard

Director of Broadcasting Sales

Jason Stoddard serves as Director of Broadcasting Sales at Live365. With over six years of direct business to business internet broadcasting experience, he is responsible for overseeing Live365's Professional Broadcasting department. He has sold broadcast services to the likes of Red Bull, Mercury division of Ford Motor Company, the Smithsonian Institute along with hundreds of other businesses and organizations. Jason has been instrumental in assisting the growth of the Professional Broadcasting department since he joined Live365.

Prior to joining the company's Professional Broadcasting department, Jason managed the Technical Support Department and helped grow and support Live365's impressive tool set and client base. Prior to joining Live365, he worked at Southwest Airlines, San Diego Vacation Rentals and Realty Consultants, and Hyatt Corporation.

Jason has extensive computer knowledge and skills relating to internet broadcasting.

Jason studied Psychology and Communications at San Diego State University.

C.T. Teng

General Manager, Asia Pacific

C.T. Teng serves as General Manager, Asia Pacific for Live365. He is responsible for bringing Live365's music offerings to Asian Pacific countries while at the same time bringing Asian music onto Live365's global music platform. C.T. is a world traveler and maintains key relationships with top high-tech companies, ISPs, wireless carriers, and music distributors around the world, especially in Greater China and Japan.

C.T. comes to Live365 with a strong high-tech background. He began his career with HP Taiwan as a system engineer and then become the sales manager of Honeywell Taiwan. After obtaining his MBA and working for Wickes in the United States, he became the General Manager of Groupe Bull, Greater China, and grew its business from practically nothing to over US $60 million in less than a decade. He then became the General Manager, Greater China, of Tandem Computers, and CEO of other regional high tech companies.

C.T. holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School and a BS degree in Nuclear Engineering from the National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan. He also attended Advanced Management seminars on Technology and Strategic Innovation at Stanford University and Human Capital Development at INSEAD.

John Toupin

Director, Engineering

John Toupin manages the engineering and web development departments. He has over 20 years of experience in software development and engineering management and has worked with a wide variety of technologies. Prior to joining Live365, he founded InfoMediate, an Internet Information Delivery System software provider. Prior to this, he founded Fusion Software, a consulting firm that provided full service development to Silicon Valley high tech companies such as Collabra (now Netscape), Apple and Cygnus. Prior to Fusion, he worked at MARC Analysis Research Corporation in the WordMARC product division.

John received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Brown University.


	Live365 Management Team

	N. Mark Lam Chairman, Executive Committee & CEO N. Mark Lam serves as Chairman, Executive Committee and CEO of Live365, Inc. One of the world’s largest Internet radio networks, Live365 empowers thousands of broadcasters to create their own radio stations and entertains millions of listeners with a vast array of music and audio content from around the world. Within a year of becoming CEO in September 2004, Lam turned Live365 into a viable business after it had burnt through $60 million before his arrival. Prior to joining Live365, Lam secured additional funding and advised the development of a new business model as the lead advisor to the company. Lam has been active in negotiating and campaigning for a fair and consistent royalty rate system for webcasters. In 2006, he testified in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of the Digital Media Association (DiMA) and Live365 on “Parity, Platforms, and Protection: The Future of the Music Industry in the Digital Radio Revolution.” Following the 2007 Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decision that increased the royalty rates paid to the recording industry by commercial webcasters in 2010 to two and a half times those for 2005, Lam has been advocating for royalty parity across all broadcasting platforms - including terrestrial, satellite, cable, and the Internet. Before joining Live365, Lam headed his own law firm which specialized in solving business and legal problems as well as forming global alliances for multinational companies. His clients included Hon Hai Precision/Foxconn Group, Philips Electronics, and middle market companies, where he litigated and negotiated business and IP claims and consummated business deals which contributed significantly to their success and rapid growth. Lam began his career as Assistant General Manager of Orient Xpress, a Benihana venture, where he spearheaded the start-up operations. After earning his J.D. and MBA, he worked at Hughes Aircraft, Dynafund (an international venture capital firm), and Geneva Company (the leading middle market M&A firm in the 1980’s). Lam has published over 50 articles in prominent journals and newspapers in Asia and the United States, including Harvard Business Review. In 2006, his book, China Now: Doing Business in the World’s Most Dynamic Market - co-authored with Professor John L. Graham, an authority in international marketing and negotiations - was published by McGraw Hill, and was the best-selling English-language China-related business title in Hong Kong in 2007. Lam received a B.A. from Hamilton College, a J.D. from University of California Hastings College of the Law, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management. Ara Hovanesian Vice-Chairman, Executive Committee Ara Hovanesian serves as Vice-Chairman, Executive Committee for Live365. He has provided consulting services to Live365 for the past two years and has assisted the company in achieving its current level of success. He is currently responsible for overseeing financial, legal, and administrative functions for the company. Prior to joining Live365, Ara has maintained a law practice, is a certified public accountant, and has been a successful investor. His law practice specializes in corporate business matters. Hovanesian served as a director and vice-president of a publicly held company. He was responsible for mergers and acquisitions. During his tenure, the company grew from specializing in ownership and real estate rentals to operations in residential real estate construction, title and commercial insurance and escrow services in locations throughout California. Ara was a key participant in the formation of an organization that played an instrumental role on program initiatives on the "war on poverty" in Los Angeles County. He later became the organization's executive director with a staff of 380. He was responsible for program operations conducted through 97 sub-contracting agencies with a combined payroll, oftentimes, totaling 10,000 employees. Additionally, he conducted contract negotiations and served as a liaison with local, state and federal agencies. Ara received a B.S. degree in accounting and management from UCLA and a J.D. from Loyola University in Los Angeles. Raymond Barrett Director of Product Management Raymond Barrett serves as Director of Product Management for Live365. With more than 20 years experience as a commercial graphic designer/multimedia developer, he is responsible for the Live365 website; PC/Mac desktop radio software; mobile phone software; and home stereo/TV radio components including user interface design and user experience choreography. Raymond leads the Live365 product development by defining business requirements and guiding projects through development, QA testing, and distribution. He assists with market research while exploring new technologies and trends. Before joining Live365, Raymond founded Imagine Avenue, a multimedia design studio in Los Angeles. During his eight years with Imagine Avenue, he worked with a wide variety of technologies in the areas of graphic design; commercial printing; technical illustration; streaming audio/video; scoring/sound for pictures; web development; and e-commerce. Before Imagine Avenue, Raymond was the lead singer, guitarist, and one of the primary songwriters for Charlemagne, a rock band out of Hollywood, California. He plays multiple instruments and has been a recording engineer and/or producer on various projects from the early 1980s to present. Raymond studied drafting, technical illustration, and mechanical design technologies, and has extensive background in design and typography. Johnie Floater GM, Media Johnie Floater serves as General Manager, Media. Media is the alchemy of desired content reaching a targeted audience for brands and organizations that want to connect with them. His role leverages the significant assets of the business, technology, and content components of Live365. The 365 opportunity combines four of Johnie's personal passions and key business experience: radio, international, public service, and entrepreneurial. His participation in radio has spanned from his first high school job at a commercial Top 40 station, WLAV AM&FM, to his being the first Business Manager at the respected KCRW, National Public Radio, Los Angeles, to his becoming the General Manager at Radio Express. There, he was responsible for international syndication of network programming from ABC Radio to music and production libraries from TM Century and FirstCom. With 10,000 current radio stations and a platform for ten times as many, Live365 is radio heaven for Johnie. Although born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Floater developed his solid international foundation while he was a student at UCLA where his classmates hailed from over 45 countries. Radio Express provided Johnie opportunities for business travel to some 40 plus countries frequently. As VP, International at Eagle River Interactive, an early acquisition of Agency.com, he led international strategy from M&A through integration, sales and fulfillment. At one point, he had visa stamps of 64 countries in his passport. His love for public service began early on with school and club participation to teaching and librarian positions after college. He spent seven years as lead organizer for communities in diverse cities such as Chicago, Grand Rapids, and Santa Monica and was involved with local to national issues including park improvements to a U.S. anti-redlining & disclosure law to food co-ops and community banks. What attracted Johnie to KCRW was its role in providing a wide range of music and topics not carried by the hundreds of other Southern California stations. He sees Live365's global broadcast platform as an inexpensive access to the "airwaves" for all as a core mission of Live365. Each of the startups Johnie was involved provided him a deep entrepreneurial cross functional experience including strategy, finance, technology, legal, human resources, operations, marketing, and management. As VP, Incubation for the Rare Medium Group, a NASDAQ internet venture and strategy company, he was responsible for over $50M in investments and 250 employees for the group's seven majority held incubators. He has presented at numerous trade and corporate conferences including CES, MIDEM, MIP, and NAB. Johnie received a BA with dual majors in Mathematics and Psychology from Aquinas College. He also holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management. He was Valedictorian for not only his undergraduate, but also his business school class. Jason Stoddard Director of Broadcasting Sales Jason Stoddard serves as Director of Broadcasting Sales at Live365. With over six years of direct business to business internet broadcasting experience, he is responsible for overseeing Live365's Professional Broadcasting department. He has sold broadcast services to the likes of Red Bull, Mercury division of Ford Motor Company, the Smithsonian Institute along with hundreds of other businesses and organizations. Jason has been instrumental in assisting the growth of the Professional Broadcasting department since he joined Live365. Prior to joining the company's Professional Broadcasting department, Jason managed the Technical Support Department and helped grow and support Live365's impressive tool set and client base. Prior to joining Live365, he worked at Southwest Airlines, San Diego Vacation Rentals and Realty Consultants, and Hyatt Corporation. Jason has extensive computer knowledge and skills relating to internet broadcasting. Jason studied Psychology and Communications at San Diego State University. C.T. Teng General Manager, Asia Pacific C.T. Teng serves as General Manager, Asia Pacific for Live365. He is responsible for bringing Live365's music offerings to Asian Pacific countries while at the same time bringing Asian music onto Live365's global music platform. C.T. is a world traveler and maintains key relationships with top high-tech companies, ISPs, wireless carriers, and music distributors around the world, especially in Greater China and Japan. C.T. comes to Live365 with a strong high-tech background. He began his career with HP Taiwan as a system engineer and then become the sales manager of Honeywell Taiwan. After obtaining his MBA and working for Wickes in the United States, he became the General Manager of Groupe Bull, Greater China, and grew its business from practically nothing to over US $60 million in less than a decade. He then became the General Manager, Greater China, of Tandem Computers, and CEO of other regional high tech companies. C.T. holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School and a BS degree in Nuclear Engineering from the National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan. He also attended Advanced Management seminars on Technology and Strategic Innovation at Stanford University and Human Capital Development at INSEAD. John Toupin Director, Engineering John Toupin manages the engineering and web development departments. He has over 20 years of experience in software development and engineering management and has worked with a wide variety of technologies. Prior to joining Live365, he founded InfoMediate, an Internet Information Delivery System software provider. Prior to this, he founded Fusion Software, a consulting firm that provided full service development to Silicon Valley high tech companies such as Collabra (now Netscape), Apple and Cygnus. Prior to Fusion, he worked at MARC Analysis Research Corporation in the WordMARC product division. John received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Brown University.