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Mr. Arne Dunhem, who has served as our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since the founding of the Company on February 10, 2004, has over thirty years of executive management and engineering experience with large complex multinational corporations, large international organizations as well as early stage technology companies. He has over the years been instrumental in arranging more than $300 million in investor and vendor financing commitments and is knowledgeable in all aspects of international business, finance, management, information systems, network operations and engineering for both publicly traded and privately held corporations. Between February 2004 and present, Mr. Dunhem has been the Chairman, President & CEO of Ariel Way, Inc., a company focused on the build-up of a publicly traded global highly secure telecommunications company headquartered in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area, USA. Between December 2003 and February 2004, Mr. Dunhem was a consultant providing executive management and merger and acquisition support services. Between January 2002 and November 2003, Mr. Dunhem was the Chairman, President and CEO of MobilePro Corp., a publicly traded technology company in Rockville, MD. He was instrumental in merging the private Neoreach, Inc., a development stage company developing third generation wireless modem and semiconductor systems, with the publicly traded MobilePro Corp. Between July 2001 and January 2002 Mr. Dunhem was working as a strategic business consultant and was in January 2002 hired by Neoreach, Inc. as its President & CEO. Mr. Dunhem was between November 1998 and June 2001 the Chairman & CEO of erbia, Inc. a U.S. domestic long-distance communications company where he took the company from its start-up phase through the sale of the operation to a U.S. publicly traded company. He was working between January 1998 and October 1998 as a strategic business consultant for various private companies. Prior to this he was between July 1993 and September 1997 the Chairman of Tele8 Kontakt AB, a Swedish nationwide start-up cell-phone operator and also between January 1993 and December 1997 the Chairman of Nordiska Tele8 AB of Sweden, an international long distance and local telephone services company. Here again, he took the company from its start-up phase through full operation and eventually the sale of both companies. Mr. Dunhem was between May 1991 and January 1993 with CruiseComm, a company developing high-speed satellite communications for voice and data for large passenger cruise ships sailing in the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean and in the Caribbean. Mr. Dunhem was between September 1989 and April 1991 the Executive Vice President, Engineering & Operations of Comvik Skyport AB, a Swedish telecommunications company providing satellite and data communications services, which developed into the current European Tele2 telecommunications operator. During the period September 1978 and July 1989 Mr. Dunhem was with INTELSAT, Washington, D.C., an international satellite communications organization in a capacity growing from staff engineer to program manager where he had responsibilities for building up some of the world’s largest command, control and monitoring networks. He previously was with the Saab-Scania Aerospace Corporation and the Swedish Telecom. Mr. Dunhem earned his M.S. in 1974 in space telecommunications from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Mr. Dunhem is the Chairman of the Swedish Lutheran Church of Washington, D.C., is active with several community organizations, is the founder of a Swedish-American Community Center in Washington, D.C. and has over many years been active with the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Dunhem is a U.S. citizen and has lived in the Washington, D.C. area since 1978.
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