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Newfound Communications, Inc. -- Board of Directors


Jan Loeber -- Mr. Loeber is currently Chairman of the Board of Newfound Communications Inc., a member of the Board of Directors of Tele2 in Sweden, WJ Communications, Inc. in San Jose, CA, and Option, N.V in Leuven, Belgium. He is also an advisor to the Supervisory Board of Interxion, BV in the Netherlands and an advisory board member of APAX, a U.K. based venture capital and portfolio management company. Mr. Loeber previously held leadership positions at a number of companies such as the founding Managing Director of GTS Carrier Services in Brussels, Managing Director of Bankers Trust's Global Telecom Merchant Banking Group, founding Managing Director of Unitel (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) in New Jersey. Mr. Loeber received his B.S. from Michigan Technological University and his M.S. in Business Administration from George Washington University.

Michael Farese -- Michael Farese is currently Senior Vice President of Engineering at Palm, Inc.; Mr. Farese has management responsibility for all engineering programs associated with new product development and product sustaining engineering. Mr. Farese has been involved in the development of wireless telecommunication products for the past 20 years at leading companies such as Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and WJ Communications. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Farese was president and chief executive officer of WJ Communications and helped to build WJ into leading provider of semiconductors for the wireless industry. Prior to joining WJ Communications, he served as president and chief executive officer for Tropian, a provider of cellular ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) for second-generation GSM cellular networks and third-generation UMTS/W-CDMA cellular networks. Mr. Farese's other positions have included vice president and general manager at leading companies such as Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia Mobile Phones. Mr. Farese's activity at these companies included the introduction of some of the first GSM and TDMA digital smartphones in the industry. Mr. Farese also held management positions at ITT, AT&T, and Bell Laboratories. Michael Farese received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a master's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic. Mr. Farese is also a member of the board of directors of Communications Intelligence Corp .

Brian Allain -- Brian Allain is Vice President & General Manager of the Data Business Unit at 3Com. In this role he is responsible for the Profit and Loss, Product and Program Management, Engineering, and Quality Assurance for 3Com's Switches, Routers, and Wireless products. Before joining 3Com, Mr. Allain was the President of Ranch Networks, the Chief Operating Officer of GeoVideo Networks (acquired by WireOne Technologies) and the VP of Marketing at dynamicsoft (acquired by Cisco). Previous to those positions he served as Vice President and General Manager at Avaya, leading the launch of their first IP PBX product line, and earlier led the introduction of the first Voice-over-IP products for service providers at Lucent. Mr. Allain began his career at Bell Labs where he and his teams were responsible for firmware development and systems engineering for embedded communications products. Mr. Allain is also a member of the board of directors of TechFoundation in Cambridge, MA .

Mr. Allain was recently 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.

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