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Simon J. Aspinall became a Director in December 2006. Mr. Aspinall has been employed by Cisco Systems, Inc. for more than the past five years. He is currently the Senior Director of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Mobile organization worldwide, where he leads a team that is responsible for driving, identifying and developing new business opportunities with mobile operators, linking the mobile, service provider and business sectors. Since its inception, the IBSG Mobile team has built relationships with 80 percent of the leading operators in the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Mr. Aspinall has held a number of senior management roles at Cisco, leading the European field operations team with responsibility for new business solutions, Cisco Powered Networks marketing, service consulting, business consulting and market intelligence for the European telecommunications business. Before Cisco, Mr. Aspinall spent eight years at Mercer Management Consulting, a firm providing management, financial and marketing consultancy to the worldwide telecommunications sector. He was also the founder and non-executive director of an Internet incubator with operations in five countries. He holds an M.B.A. (INSEAD) and a master's degree in engineering and computing science from Oxford University | 