MocoSpace Hires Peter Faubert as Chief Financial Officer

Advertising Sales and Engineering Staff Also Added to Growing Mobile Leader

BOSTON, MA (September 8, 2009) —MocoSpace, the leading mobile social network, announced today that it hired Peter Faubert as Chief Financial Officer. He joins from Turbine, Inc., a leading publisher of massively multiplayer online games including The Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online, where he was also the finance chief.

Faubert brings years of finance experience helping companies grow to the next level. Prior to Turbine, Faubert was Vice President of Finance at both Viisage Technology and Burnstand, Inc.

“I consider it a real validation of the business we’ve built to be able to bring on someone with Peter’s talent and experience,” said MocoSpace Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Justin Siegel.

In addition to Faubert, Tom Dorf joins MocoSpace as Director of Advertising Sales. He joins from mobile content company Zedge. Dorf will be in charge of building relationships with marketing agencies and consumer brands.

On the engineering team, MocoSpace has hired Justin Koser and Keith Wright. Koser joins from Alloy Media + Marketing, where he was a Web Developer. Wright joins from online consumer community Zeer, where he was a Software Engineer.

“With over 8 million registered users and 2.5 billion monthly page views, MocoSpace has achieved an industry-leading scale on the mobile web. We’re very proud to be growing all aspects of our business, and we are very excited to add these new hires to our talented team,” said Mr. Siegel.

About Mocospace

Founded in 2005, MocoSpace is a mobile social community designed to help people find friends, have fun and stay connected on their mobile phone. The service is free and available on any web-enabled mobile phone in the world. MocoSpace is a privately held company with offices in Boston, MA and Herzliya, Israel. For more information, visit http://www.mocospace.com.

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Press contact at MocoSpace:
Casey Jones, VP of Business Development
Office: 617.542.1614
casey@corp.mocospace.com

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