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Ari Engelberg

Born: Nov. 21, 1971

Vice President of Commerce Systems

Stamps.com

Jeffrey Green

Born: Sept. 25, 1970

Vice President of Marketing

“Man needs postage, man wants postage, man gets postage” is how Ari Engelberg, 27, laughingly refers to the idea that eventually became Stamps.com, a fledgling Internet service that enables users to print postage directly onto envelopes, labels and business documents using an ordinary printer.

Engelberg and his Stamps.com co-founders Jeffrey Green, 28, and James McDermott (who recently turned 30), met while they were students at the Anderson School at UCLA. It was McDermott who came up with the original idea when he ran out of stamps while mailing out resumes to find a job between school sessions. After looking into the feasibility of such a business, the three friends formed Stamps.com in March 1997, and it has since emerged as one of L.A.’s rising stars in the new-media industry.

After attracting millions of dollars in venture capital from Brentwood Venture Capital, Enterprise Partners and Forest, Binkley & Brown, the company recently raised $30 million more from a group of investors led by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen.

Green, who grew up in New York, is co-founder and vice president of marketing. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and spent three years at PC magazine before getting his MBA at Anderson. While at UCLA, Green spent time as a product marketing manager for Hewlett Packard, and later was a management consultant for the Mitchell Madison Group.

Engelberg, the youngest of the trio, is co-founder and vice president of commerce systems, and focuses on building online commerce in his own words, he “keeps the system running.” He has a JD MBA from UCLA, where he concentrated his law studies on high technology law, and also served as the founding editor-in-chief of the UCLA Bulletin of Law and Technology.

Stamps.com is looking at a national launch date around the middle of the year.

Karen Teitelman

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