August 14 & 15, 2008
San Francisco

Aaron Barnes
Vice President of Sales & Business Development
Friendster

www.friendster.com

As Friendster's Vice President of Sales, Aaron manages all sales, business development, and advertising operations for the company.

Aaron brings more than 15 years of experience in sales, marketing and operations with an impressive track record in online advertising sales, business development and subscriptions. Aaron has held senior sales, marketing and business development roles at Sequoia Capital backed Quote.com (Lycos Finance), Trident Capital backed WhenU, Inc., and publicly traded Looksmart (NASDAQ: LOOK). Aaron's sales strategies and tactics implemented have resulted in Friendster scaling revenue to historic company highs in 2006 while in parallel significantly improving the synergistic efficiencies of strategic business alliances.

Aaron holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from University of Pennsylvania and studied Entrepreneurial Management at The Wharton School of Business.