Cedric Maloux is the former CEO & Co-Founder of AllPeers.com a private file-sharing network built on top of Firefox and backed by leading European VC’s Mangrove Capital Partner and Index Ventures. Before co-founding AllPeers, Cédric Maloux was Vice President of European Operations for PlanetOut Inc, a leading global media and entertainment company. PlanetOut’s brands include Gay.com, PlanetOut.com, Kleptomaniac.com, and OUT&ABOUT Travel. In 2000, Mr. Maloux joined Gay.com after they acquired OOups.com, a leading French community website he founded in 1996. He led the implementation of Gay.com in the UK where he brought his team to profitability within 14 months. Gay.com UK was awarded the prize for Best Consumer Media at the NewMediaAge Awards in 2002. Prior to PlanetOut, Cedric Maloux was Business Development Manager for UK and France at iPlanet (the Sun/Netscape Alliance). During that period he dealt on a day-to-day basis with the Heads of Group Security, Heads of Group e-Payments and Heads of Group e-Commerce of the leading financial institutions in Paris and London. Mr. Maloux received master’s degrees in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Stevens Institute of Technology (USA) and EPITA (France) in 1992.