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Bob Bagga

CEO and President

Bob Bagga is the Chief Executive Officer and President of BizXchange and is recognized internationally for his accomplishments in the barter industry.

Over the last 17 years, Bagga has built a number of successful trade networks, including his first company, Barter Business Exchange, which he founded at age 22 in Toronto. Starting with less than $10,000 in capital, BBE was one of the largest and fastest-growing exchanges, with more than $60 million in annual trade transactions. It was then taken public as U-barter.com and sold in 2000 to Network Commerce for $45 million. In January 2002, Bagga co-founded BizXchange which grew by 303% that year alone.

Bagga has been a member of International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA) since 1992 and served on its board as Vice President until 2006. He helped develop its Universal Currency, allowing for international trade to be possible between exchange companies. He is a Certified Trade Broker (CTB), the highest accreditation within the barter industry, as well as a member of the National Association of Trade Exchanges (NATE) and on the Board of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO). Bagga has received national and international awards recognizing his contributions to the barter industry, including IRTA’s Outstanding Achievement Award and two Outstanding Achievement Awards from NATE. He has been featured in numerous trade publications, including The Financial Post, CBC Venture, Chartered Accountants Magazine, The Economist, as well as recognized as a top business leader in the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. The US government granted Bagga his American Green Card on a “0″ status visa in recognition of him being a global expert on barter.

Chris Haddawy

COO

Chris Haddawy is Chief Operations Officer of BizXchange and has been an integral part of the barter industry for more than 24 years.

Prior to co-founding BizXchange, Haddawy held senior positions with a wide range of barter organizations. Starting out in the barter business right out of college as a straight-commission sales person, he quickly rose to the position of Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Bay Area and Hawaii Barter Exchange. In 1995, Haddawy founded Barter Business Network and as its President built the company into one of the United States’ top barter networks, with offices in the SF Bay Area, Reno, Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas. In 1999, Haddawy sold the company to internet startup BarterTrust.com. He worked with the founding team at BarterTrust to write the business plan, identify acquisition targets and write functional specs for the online trading platform. He then worked on the team that headed up the integration of the five acquired companies. In all these positions, he played a key role in corporate account management, new business acquisition, executive training and overall strategic direction.

Haddawy also served on the board of the National Association of Trade Exchanges (NATE) to set guidelines for ethical business practices and to facilitate the sharing of information among independent trade exchanges around the world.

In 2004, Haddawy was an East Bay Business Times “40 Under 40” honoree as one of the region’s most influential business people under the age of 40. Haddawy has had articles on the barter industry published in Microfinance Insights, American Printer and Construction Business Owner magazines.

Haddawy is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a degree in the Political Economy of Industrial Societies. He was also president of Sigma Pi fraternity and earned All-American boxing honors.

Raj Kapoor

CFO

Raj Kapoor is Chief Financial Officer of BizXchange and brings with him valuable senior financial and corporate managerial experience from a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to co-founding BizXchange, Kapoor’s positions included Senior Accounting Specialist for Spectrum United Mutual Funds Inc., Manager of Planning and Analysis for CNTS, IT and International Operations for Sprint Canada and Vice President of Finance and Operations for a technology company.

Kapoor is a certified management accountant, who graduated from the University of Toronto, where he earned a degree in economics and labor management relations.

Craig McCallum

Director of Finance and Operations

Craig McCallum is the Director of Operations and Finance for BizXchange and is responsible for all accounting and finance, human resources and business operations.

Prior to joining the BizXchange executive team, McCallum held a number of financial and controller positions including Controller and General Manager at Pravda Studios in Seatte and CFO of VistaWiz, Inc. in St. Louis, MO, where he was responsible for implementing an operational and financial infrastructure and managing the development of the product and sales channels.

McCallum graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and a minor in Economics. He also became a Certified Public Accountant in Washington State. He has international business development and operational experience in both Western Europe and Japan.

Chris Shaw

UAE Managing Director

Chris Shaw is the Managing Director of the Dubai BizXchange office.

He began his career working for FAI Security in a field sales role having completing a degree in English and Media from the University of Plymouth. Having enjoyed the media aspect of his degree he pursued a media career. Chris was hired by Centaur Communications in London to sell advertising space in one of its marketing titles. Two years and two promotions later Chris relocated to the Middle East.

Three years at Motivate Publishing, the biggest regional magazine publishers at the time, gave him the required grounding, networking, regional exposure and sales skills to drive significant revenues across his portfolio. In 2003 he was hired by The Media Factory to launch and manage the commercial side of their publishing enterprise. Headcount and revenues grew significantly, ensuring that core sales management experience was gained during this tenure coupled with new business negotiation skills that resulted in the further acquisition of titles to the portfolio including the Thai Airways Inflight magazine and corporate magazines for Emirates Post and the RTA. Chris was appointed to the board of directors in 2006. In 2008 Chris was introduced to BizXchange and seeing the benefits promptly signed TMF up as a member.