Jay Gallinatti has been providing consulting and advisory services to Konnects, Inc since September 2007. Jay joined the Board of Directors in April 2008, and has been serving as President and COO for Konnects since December 2008.

Prior to joining Konnects, Jay served on the Board of Directors for both Zango, Inc and Local Matters, Inc. He continues to serve on the Strategic Advisory Board for Innocentive Inc. In March of 1998 Jay joined Overture (previously GoTo.com) as Senior Vice President of Sales and Customer Service, and was one of the founding members of the executive management team. GoTo.com pioneered the concept of "sponsored listings" within the search results on internet search engines, and had a successful IPO in 1999.

In less than four years, the sales and service organization at GoTo.com had grown from one person to a team of 250, while at the same time the company had grown to more than 600 employees generating over $600 million in revenue and $100 million in net profit. Overture was later acquired by Yahoo! in 2003 for $1.6 billion.

Prior to joining GoTo.com, Jay served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Austin James, Inc., a consumer software company. Jay spent nine years at Lotus Development Corporation in a variety of roles, including West Coast Regional Director of Sales, and Director of Marketing for cc:Mail. Jay received his B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University in 1978.

Sam Haugh is a seasoned hands-on operating executive, having significant startup experience within a twenty-year high-technology career. Most recently he was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Intellectual Capital Enterprises, a provider of vendor finance programs and financing solutions to the software industry and its customers.

Sam earlier was Chief Operating Officer at QuickDog, a developer of personalization tools for online retailers. Before joining QuickDog, Sam served in executive roles at Sparks.com, MadeToOrder.com and Worldview Systems. He delivered the initial MadeToOrder offering for the purchase of customized apparel over the Internet, and launched the first travel-related website Travelocity while at Worldview.

Before Worldview, Sam directed computer integrated manufacturing at Sun Microsystems, delivering four automated assembly and test facilities as Sun grew from $200M to $2B. His early experiences were in R&D, manufacturing and marketing at Hewlett-Packard, where he is named inventor on a patent for his work on H-P's first large drafting plotter. Sam holds a BS in mechanical engineering and an MBA, both from Stanford University.