Barry has 26 years of experience in the telecom industry, with an outstanding track record in executive and leadership positions. His experience encompasses domestic and international sales, marketing, service, and operational excellence. Barry has had extensive P&L success for both large and small organizations, where he has built revenues, captured market share and increased profitability.

From 2001 - 2007, Barry was the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Telecom Services Division (TSD) of Transaction Network Services (TNS). Under Mr. Barry's guidance, TSD became TNS' fastest growing business unit, and more than doubled revenues. Some of the customers who contributed to this gain were: AT&T /Cingular, Comcast, Level 3, MCI/Verizon, Sprint, Time Warner Telecom, and XO Communications. In addition, Barry spearheaded new product development efforts and guided the successful launch of eight new products, several of which had annualized growth rates in excess of 100%. Barry also identified a target company and participated in the due diligence effort for the strategic acquisition of a VoIP peering firm that propelled TNS to an industry-leading position in the sector.

Prior to joining TNS, Barry spent six years on the international side of the telecom business. At GlobalNet International, he was Executive Vice President and a Board of Directors member and executed the company's sales and business plan strategy in conjunction with a public offering and subsequent private placement. While at Destia/Viatel, Barry established a wholesale carrier division as he brought into the company a team of five sales and support reps, and he implemented a dynamic sales program that increased revenues from $1 million/month to over $7.5M/month in less than one year. During his stint at AlphaNet Telecom, Barry designed the business plan and strategy for a telecommunications provider that operated the world's largest international "carrier class" IP telephony system at that time. And, during his tenure at Teleglobe, he hired a U.S. sales and support staff of 25 individuals and built out revenue from under $10M to $125M.

Before joining Teleglobe, Barry directed sales, marketing, and customer retention activities for Cable and Wireless, from 1987 through 1995. His success in decreasing Cable & Wireless' cancellation rate by 40% with a net contribution of $35M was featured in the best-selling book, "The Discipline of Market Leaders". Prior to Cable & Wireless, Barry worked for Sprint for six years. He was Sprint's youngest District Manager in 1983 and eventually became the Regional Sales and Marketing Manager for a $400 million region with 200 representatives.

Barry's contact base is as strong as anyone's in the industry through his years of experience and via the TelecomHUB networking organization that he co-founded in 1999.

Carl J. Grivner is Chief Executive Officer of XO Communications.Mr. Grivner's career in telecom and technology spans more than 25 years. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer at Global Crossing. Prior to joining Global Crossing in June 2000, Mr. Grivner served as Chief Executive Officer of Worldport Communications and before that, he served as Chief Executive Officer, Western Hemisphere, of Cable & Wireless PLC. Additionally, Mr. Grivner has held various senior executive positions at Advanced Fiber Communications and Ameritech. Mr. Grivner began his career working in sales at IBM. He also served in the United States Marine Corps from 1975-1978. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Lycoming College.

Jody has over 20 years of experience in the Telecommunications, High Tech, B2B, B2G, Association, Real Estate, and Non-Profit industries. She has brought her marketing and sales talents to companies like Sprint and IBM. Her diverse marketing knowledge and her ability to multi-task have resulted in achievements and successes from non-profit organizations to Fortune 100 companies.

Jody was a founding Board Member of the TelecomHUB beginning in 1999, where she established the HUB's executive management processes. After a break of five years, where she served as a marketing strategy consultant, she returns to her position with fresh ideas and enthusiasm.

While at IBM's Government Division for nearly a decade, in addition to her award winning sales achievements, Jody established branding programs for the Networking Product Division's government clients, supporting major bids and product introductions.

As a marketing consultant, she has worked for various organizations in the areas of competitive assessment and strategy research, corporate messaging, branding, events, market research, fundraising, mentorship and collateral production.

With a passion for community service, Jody has served on boards and in leadership positions for organizations including the Orphan Foundation of America, Girl Scouts of the Nation's Capital, McLean Bible Church and her children's schools.

Jody has a B.S. in Business Administration/Marketing from Virginia Tech.

Joe Cecin is a Managing Director of BB&T Capital Markets, the investment banking division of BB&T Corporation, and is the Group Head of the firm's Communications Investment Banking practice. In his current role, he is responsible for sourcing, negotiating and closing merger & acquisition (M&A), debt and equity financing transactions in the communications industry. Mr. Cecin has over 23 years of leadership and management experience and has had a strong focus on operations, finance and corporate development over the last 18 years.

Prior to joining BB&T Capital Markets in 2003, Mr. Cecin was a co-founder of Cambrian Communications, a facilities-based telecommunications service provider, where he served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and a member of the Board of Directors. As COO, he was responsible for network engineering, construction, operations, information systems and project management, and supervised the design, construction, deployment and operation of a regional fiber optic communications network.

Prior to founding Cambrian in 1999, Mr. Cecin was on the founding team of Wave International, a company focused on financing and building telecommunications infrastructure in emerging markets. As part of the Wave team from 1996 - 1999, he helped to acquire, fund and build out a competitive telecommunications infrastructure spanning the 5 largest cities in Venezuela. Prior to Wave International, Mr. Cecin served as Managing Director of Corporate Development at Bell Atlantic Corporation (now known as Verizon). Prior to his Corporate Development activities, Mr. Cecin was a network planning engineer within the Operations and Engineering organization at Bell Atlantic.

Mr. Cecin has served on the Board of Directors and Board of Advisors of several companies, both public and private. He currently serves as an independent director of SkyTerra Communications (OTC: SKYT), a 4G satellite services company, where he chaired a Special Committee which negotiated a $500 million debt financing. From 2004 to 2007, he served as an independent Director of NEON Group, Inc., a facilities based telecommunications company listed on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX: NGI). In November 2007, NEON was acquired by RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI) for $255 million in cash.

Mr. Cecin earned a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Stanford University. Prior to attending graduate school, Mr. Cecin served as an officer in the United States Army's 25th Infantry Division, where he held a Top Secret security clearance. He was Airborne and Ranger qualified.

Mr. Ganek has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at NeuStar since December 1999. Prior to joining NeuStar, he was Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Communications Industry Services (CIS) at Lockheed Martin, an advanced technology company. CIS, which was divested from Lockheed Martin in 1999 to form NeuStar, provided clearinghouse services to the telecommunications industry. Ganek holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in public policy and management, both from Carnegie Mellon University.

Recipient of 2006 Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur Of The Year" Award, Greater Washington Region Communications Category

Steve has over 17 years of telecom experience working for companies such as MCI, Focal Communications, XO Communications and Cox Business Services. He has held various Sales Management or Director positions with each of the companies. Steve is currently the Sales Director at Cox Business Services where he has responsibility for all commercial, government, hospitality and carrier business. In his two years with Cox, the business unit has doubled its growth each year and the business is projected to increase another 80% this year.

Joseph B. Hoffman is a Partner in the law firm Kelley Drye & Warren LLP where he is Chair of the Commercial Practice Group in Kelley Drye's Tysons Corner, Virginia and Washington offices. Mr. Hoffman is a business lawyer with special focus in telecommunications transactions. His practice encompasses a wide variety of issues confronting telecom and technology companies. He advises on purchase and sale of assets and companies as well as financing transactions, including venture capital, equipment leasing and executive compensation matters. He also represents investment companies, real estate developers, lenders, venture capital funds, emerging growth companies and thoroughbred horse industry interests with respect to various corporate, financing, real estate and tax matters. Mr. Hoffman received a J.D., with honors, from George Washington University National Law Center and a B.S., cum laude, in Accounting and Finance from the University of Maryland. He is admitted to the bar in Virginia, District of Columbia and Maryland and U.S. Tax Court.

Naomi Perry is a client industry executive for the Global Communications, Media & Entertainment Industry Group.

Perry has over 20 years experience in telecommunications and cable industries in her various roles as system engineer, delivery account manager, and industry lead. Perry has supported IT transformations for some of EDS' largest clients. Additionally, Perry has extensive international project and consulting experience for enterprises in Spain, UK, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia.

Prior to her current role, Perry was a lead in the Communications, Media & Entertainment segment of the Client Solutions Group, a blended AT Kearney and EDS organization responsible for driving revenue growth through IT innovation and industry knowledge. She also provided communications expertise to the EDS government group in support of various projects and pursuits.

For five years, Perry held leadership positions with two communications service providers. She was the senior director for network services engineering and operations support systems for a facilities-based broadband fixed wireless carrier. She also served as vice president for Information Systems Engineering for an in-building optical network provider. In that role, she was responsible for the overall operational support systems architecture and direction.

Perry began her career with EDS as a systems engineer then served as a technical instructor in EDS' European SED training program before joining the Communications Industry Group of EDS in 1985.

Perry chairs the Technology and Operations Committee of the Board of Directors for ACT Teleconferencing. She is also an executive member of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) and is appointed Treasurer and a Director of the WICT, Virginia chapter.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University and has dual Master of Arts degrees in the social sciences and public policy studies from the University of Chicago.

Richard Ramlall is Senior Vice President --Strategic and External Affairs for RCN Corporation (Nasdaq: RCNI), a leading provider of total communications service. Mr. Ramlall was appointed to the position in March 2005 and has direct responsibility for Investor Relations, Public Relations, External Affairs, Regulatory and other strategic issues.

Prior to joining RCN, he served as Senior Managing Director and Executive Vice President of Spencer Trask Media and Communications Group, LLC (a division of New York based Spencer Trask & Company) based in Reston, Virginia. At Spencer Trask, Ramlall recommended and placed more than $40 million in seed money funding to several services and technology focused companies, and directly assisted these companies in raising an additional $200 million in financing. He also served on a number of Boards.

From March 1997 to June 1999, Mr. Ramlall served as Vice President and Managing Director for Strategy, Marketing and International Government Affairs for Bechtel Telecommunications. Prior to that, Mr. Ramlall was Executive Director for International Business Affairs for Bell Atlantic International and has spent over 18 years in Bell Atlantic, serving in a variety of executive positions including strategy, government affairs, marketing, business development, regulatory and legal positions.

In 1990, Mr. Ramlall was selected to serve a one-year appointment under the Presidential Exchange Executive Program of the White House. Mr. Ramlall holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and an MGA (Technology Management) from the University of Maryland. In 2006, he won Public Relations Society of America's National Capital Chapter's Thoth Award in the Investor Relations category and an Award of Excellence for Integrated Communications in the 2006 PRSA-NCC annual competition.

In 2007, he was awarded the American Marketing Association's DC Chapter's M-Award for Best Communication Program and PRSA Richmond Chapter's Silver Award Certificate for Investor Relations. He is also the 2007 American Business Awards' Stevie Awards Program winner for Best Communication Organization, and a finalist for best Communication Executive. Mr. Ramlall has served on the Board of Directors and Board of Advisors of several companies and is currently a member of TelecomHUB's, www.telecomhub.com, Board.

Ed Staunton is a director of Wireless Services for Verizon Partner Solutions the wholesale arm of Verizon Telecom. He is responsible for directing sales and marketing efforts in the wireless market space. His team provides wholesale services that enable the emerging wireless market to establish network capability anywhere in the world Verizon has assets.

Ed began his career with ITT in 1975 providing international date services to customers in financial markets. In 1988 he joined Sprint and directed efforts to position their services in the early government FTS contract. Ed later joined MFS in 1992 and secured one of the original NSFNet contracts for internet peering while deploying fiber throughout the government as a competitive response to ILEC service for Business and government. While with MFS he served in a variety of key management positions of increasing responsibility for MFS, including, VP-Government Sales/Marketing and, Director of Wholesale Markets-for MCI.

Ed holds a B.S. degree from John Carroll University in Cleveland. He resides in Potomac, MD with his wife Joanne, and his daughter Sarah, and son Christopher.

Mr. Heitmann is a Partner and a founding member of Kelley Drye's Telecommunications Practice Group. Mr. Heitmann's practice focuses on representing service providers and users in regulatory, appellate, litigation and transactional matters involving a broad range of communications law issues.

Representative Experience:
Represents companies in proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission and state public utility commissions. Mr. Heitmann has extensive experience in and regularly advises clients on regulatory policy, interconnection, compliance and enforcement matters.

Represents carriers in interconnection negotiations, arbitrations and dispute resolution proceedings before state public utility commissions and arbitration panels. Mr. Heitmann has appeared before more than a dozen state public utility commissions and multiple arbitration panels.

Represents carriers in state, federal and appellate litigation involving telecommunications-related issues. During the past two years, Mr. Heitmann has prevailed in multiple cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 4th and 11th Circuits. Mr. Heitmann also has cases pending in several federal district courts.

Represents companies in transactional matters involving the procurement of telecommunications, telecommunications capacity and facilities. Mr. Heitmann advises companies on contractual and compliance matters associated with telecommunications, information and technology service contracts.