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Mr. Thompson 67 has served as a Director since March 2002. Mr. Thompson is Executive Chairman of Global Telecom & Technology (GTT) a worldwide multi-network telecommunications operator. He is also Chairman of Comsat International a telecommunications services provider and heads his own private equity investment and advisory firm Universal Telecommunications Inc. in Vienna Virginia. Mr. Thompson served as Chairman and CEO of Global TeleSystems Group Inc. from March 1999 through September 2000 and from 1991 to 1998 he served as Chairman and CEO of LCI International. Subsequent to the June 1998 merger of LCI with Qwest Communications International Inc. Mr. Thompson became Vice Chairman of the Board for Qwest until his resignation in December 1998. In 1999 Mr. Thompson was Chairman of the Irish telephone company Telecom Eirann and Executive Vice President of MCI Communications Corporation from 1981 to 1990. Mr. Thompson currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Axcelis Technologies Inc. Bell Canada International Inc. and Sonus Networks Inc. | 