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Daniel Rosensweig

Daniel Rosensweig
Operating Principal, Quadrangle Group LLC

Daniel Rosensweig joined Quadrangle Group LLC in 2007 and is an Operating Principal focused on the firm’s media and communications private equity business. Prior to joining Quadrangle, Mr. Rosensweig was Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo! responsible for product development, marketing, international operations, and North American operations. Before Yahoo!, Mr. Rosensweig was President of CNET Networks, responsible for many of the operations globally, and played a critical role in overseeing the successful integration of CNET and ZDNet. During his tenure at CNET, Mr. Rosensweig was a key participant in company-wide efforts to develop and introduce innovative new Internet advertising formats, such as interactive messaging units. Before joining CNET, Mr. Rosensweig was an 18-year veteran of Ziff-Davis, where he served in many capacities, including President and Chief Executive Officer of ZDNet, Inc. from 1997 to 2000. He built ZDNet as a standalone company from Ziff-Davis, successfully took the company public, grew the business to become both profitable and among the top 20 most visited networks on the Internet, and finally merged with CNET. Mr. Rosensweig was President of Ziff-Davis Internet Publishing Group from 1996 to 1997, where he oversaw magazine titles such as Inter@ctive Week and Yahoo! Internet Life. He was Vice President and Publisher of PC Magazine from 1994 to 1996, and Associate Publisher from 1992 to 1994. Under his leadership, PC Magazine became the leading computer magazine in both audience reach and revenue.

Mr. Rosensweig received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Hobart College, Geneva, New York. He, is a board member of SkyRider, is on the national advisory board of the non-profit organization DonorsChoose.org and formerly served as Co-Chairman of ONE.org.
Peter Ciurea Peter Ciurea
Chief Technology Officer,Visa


In the fall of 2007, Peter Ciurea was named Chief Technology Officer of Visa Inc. The Technology Office is responsible for the development and management of Visa Inc. technology strategy and planning. This includes application planning, architecture, and development.

In October 2005, Ciurea was named senior vice president and chief technology officer of Inovant, a Visa Solutions Company—IT subsidiary of Visa USA. Prior to that, Ciurea was the vice president of Processing Products, Information Management which is comprised of products and services that provide Visa with differentiation of Visa’s branded product set. His responsibilities included Commercial Information Management, Consumer Information Management, Platform Services, and Information Stewardship. Under his leadership and collaborative efforts, Visa successfully developed the information management solutions that transform Visa's transaction processing environment into a delivery channel for enhanced payment services.

While in Commercial Solutions for Visa USA, Ciurea was responsible for technology product development and management for the large corporate, middle market, public sector, small business, and business-to-business e-commerce segments. This included overseeing the technology product lines: Visa Information Management, Visa Information Source, Visa Commerce, Visa Fleet, and various other information-based products.

Prior to joining Visa in 1998, Mr. Ciurea held a variety of technology roles at Kaiser Permanente, SAIC and AST.