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Co-Founders, Tom Hayes and Mike Malone

Tom Hayes is a leading authority on doing business in the new information economy. With the publication of his best-selling new book, Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business (McGraw-Hill, January 2008), he has cemented his place as among the most original thinkers on emerging business issues, cutting-edge consumer tastes and strategies for success in the connected global economy.
A veteran of Silicon Valley, Hayes has been a senior marketing executive at some of the world’s most important technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Applied Materials and AMD. Several case studies have been written on his achievements as vice president of Applied Materials in repositioning that company to grow from obscurity to global prominence.

Before starting QikLife, Hayes was VP of Corporate Marketing at Enea, a telecom software pioneer responsible for many breakthroughs in mobile communications.

In the 1990s, Hayes was the founding Chairman and CEO of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley, a pan-industry alliance credited worldwide with catapulting the region into economic leadership of the Internet Age.

Hayes graduated from Boston University and completed executive programs at Harvard Business School and Stanford University.

Michael S Malone: is the author of a dozen best-selling business books including The Virtual Corporation, Going Public, Infinite Loop (the Apple story), Virtual Selling, One Digital Day and the definitive history of Silicon Valley, The Big Score. His latest book is Bill and Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World’s Greatest Company (Portfolio, March 2007). The Silicon Insider, Malone’s weekly technology column for ABCNews.com is read by 80,000 daily readers. Malone also contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Fast Company. He was a columnist for the New York Times and from 1998 to 2001 was editor-in-chief of Forbes ASAP, the world’s largest circulation business-technology magazine.

Recently, Malone was co-producer of the four-hour PBS primetime miniseries, , “The New Heroes”, hosted by Robert Redford. “The New Heroes”, shown throughout the world, was awarded both a Japan Prize and a Cine Golden Eagle.

As a businessman, Malone has been a founder of two start-up companies, and a founding shareholder in eBay and Siebel Systems, two of the most successful companies of the last decade.