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Jan Loeber -- Mr. Loeber is currently Chairman of the Board of Newfound Communications Inc. Mr. Jan Loeber is also the Chairman of the Stichting organization of Interxion, BV in The Netherlands and on the Board of Directors of Option in Belgium. Previously Mr. Jan Loeber held leadership positions at a number of companies as the founding Managing Director of GTS Carrier Services in Brussels, Managing Director of Bankers Trust Global Telecom Merchant Banking Group, founding Managing Director of Unitel (merged with Mercury one-2-one and acquired by T-Mobile) in London and Group President of Nokia Americas. He has also held other senior management positions at ITT Europe in Brussels and at AT&T (Bell Laboratories). Mr. Jan Loeber received his B.S. in Physics from Michigan Technological University and his M.S. in business administration from George Washington University.
Michael Farese -- Michael Farese has been a director of Newfound Communciations since October of 2005. He is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of BitWave Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company and innovator of programmable radio frequency ICs. Previously, Mr. Farese was Senior Vice President, Engineering, of Palm, Inc., President and Chief Executive Officer of WJ Communications, President and CEO of Tropian Inc., and has held senior management positions at Motorola, Ericsson Inc., Nokia Mobile Phones and ITT. Michael has also held management positions at AT&T and Bell Laboratories and has been in the telecommunications and semiconductor industry for more than 35 years. Michael Farese is also a member of the board of directors of QuickLogic Corp., PMC-Sierra, Inc.
Brian Allain -- Brian Allain has been a director of Newfound Communciations since December of 2005. Brian Allain is Chief Operating Officer at Capital Services, a diversified entrepreneurial services company that helps people plan and manage their financial investments, entrpreneurial start-ups, and philanthropic activities. Before joining Capital Services Brian held numerous leadership postions at start-up and Fortune 500 high-tech firms. Brian has served as Vice President and General Manager at Avaya, where he led product development and marketing of their first IP PBX product line, VP and GM of 3Com's Data and Voice Business Unit, President of Ranch Networks, Chief Operating Officer of GeoVideo Networks (acquired by WireOne Technologies) and VP of Marketing at dynamicsoft (acquired by Cisco). He also served as Executive Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at the SIMtone Corporation and earlier led the introduction of the first Voice-over-IP products for Service Providers at Lucent. Brian began his career at Bell Labs. Brian holds an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar, and MSEE and BSEE degrees from Purdue University. He serves on the Boards of Directors for Newfound Communications, Inc. and TechFoundation, Inc. Brian is also an Angel Investor with the Mid-Atlantic Angel Group.
Mr. Allain was honored as a "VON Pioneer" for VON Magazine one of the prominent VoIP Trade Magazines in May of 2005.
Kris Hopkins, CEO & Founder -- As CEO of Newfound, Kris Hopkins is responsible for the overall vision, leadership and direction of the company. An experienced technical leader, Mr. Hopkins is the driving force behind Newfound’s technology and software architecture. Prior to co-founding Newfound, Mr. Hopkins helped lead business development at Lucent Technologies where he played a key role in new service provider initiatives and programs creating value-added services and software involving Lucent's infrastructure. Prior to his business development role at Lucent, Mr. Hopkins was a global marketing manager for Lucent's Wireless Broadband Solutions Group where he participated in defining and developing channel opportunities for Lucent’s wireless broadband products. Mr. Hopkins received a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Cornell University and The Dorman Family Award for Entreprenuership and Personal Enterprise Excellence.