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Anthony Cassara has over 27 years of management experience in the telecommunications industry. He is currently the President of Cassara Management Group, Inc. (CMGI), a privately held business counseling practice focused on the telecommunications industry. CMGI specializes in business evaluations, management recruitment & development, organizational change strategies and creating strategic business growth opportunities for telecommunications companies. Prior to founding CMGI, Mr. Cassara was President of the Carrier Services division at Frontier Corporation and later at Global Crossing. With worldwide responsibility for this $2 billion operating unit, he directed the wholesale carrier business on a global basis. He was responsible for evaluating the organization's market entry strategies and building an operating infrastructure across the five operating regions around the world, covering North America, Europe, South America, Latin America and Asia. In an interim position, Mr. Cassara served as President, CEO and Vice Chairman for Pangea Ltd., a private telecommunications carrier with a 4,500 mile fiber optic network in northern Europe. During his 16 years with Frontier and Global Crossing, Mr. Cassara held many executive positions in various domestic and international business units. These included being the President of the United Kingdom operation, as well as President of Rochester Telephone Corporation. Under Mr. Cassara's leadership, Rochester Telephone became the first incumbent local carrier in the United States to open its market for local competition, a year ahead of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of ACN (a privately held telecommunications company operating in North America, Europe and Australia), CIMCO Communications (a privately held CLEC) Board of Advisors, and he has recently served on the Board of Directors of Mpower Communications (a publicly held CLEC), Teleglobe International, InSciTek (a privately held start-up IP technology venture), FLAG (a publicly held global telecom carrier) which was sold to Reliance Infocomm Ltd of India, Eschelon Telecom (a privately held CLEC) and The School of the Holy Childhood (a private school for children with special needs). In addition, he has served as Chairman of the Board for CompTel (a telecommunications industry trade organization) and has served on the Board of Directors for the Rochester, NY chapter of the American Red Cross. Mr. Cassara earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, and a master's degree in business administration with a concentration in finance from Boston College. He lives in Rochester, NY with his wife Carol and family. | 