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Mr. Melton is a General Partner at GIV Venture Partners. He is also Chairman and Co-Founder of GIV Global Private Equity. For more than 25 years, Mr. Melton has been an entrepreneur building global technology companies. Prior to founding GIV, Mr. Melton was a founder, CEO and Chairman of Cybercash, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYCH), a pioneer in e-commerce transaction systems. In 1991, Mr. Melton was a founding investor in Transaction Network Systems (NASDAQ: TNSI), a nationwide network dedicated to efficient transportation of financial transactions. Mr. Melton was the initial seed investor in TNSI and remained a member of the Board of Directors until it was sold to PSINet in 1999 for approximately $750 million. Mr. Melton was the original founder of VeriFone, Inc., the transaction automation company that has made credit authorization terminals ubiquitous on retail merchant counters throughout the world. VeriFone was sold to Hewlett Packard in 1998. Mr. Melton was also an early investor in America Online (AOL) and until recently served on its Board of Directors. Mr. Melton currently serves on the Boards of Directors of several privately held technology companies. Mr. Melton holds a Master's degree in Asian Studies and Chinese philosophy. | 