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Mr. Hakel has been a Director of the Company since 2001, and as Secretary since November 2005. Mr. Hakel serves as Chairman of the Compensation committee. He has extensive experience in corporate finance and business development.
Since 1998, Mr. Hakel has been the founder and manager of International Commerce Group, LLC, a business consultancy organization working primarily with emerging stage technology companies. He also served as the CEO of Accerra Corporation, a web based communications and marketing service from 2003 to April 2004. From 1997 to 1999,
Mr. Hakel was co-founder of DTI Network Services, LLC and ICN/CommSource Network Services, LLC, which bought international undersea network fiber optic cable capacity. Prior to that, Mr. Hakel was Executive Vice President at World Change Communications ("WXC"), a telecommunications company with over $400M in annualized revenues from 1996 to 1997. In both consulting and operational roles, Mr. Hakel has assisted numerous companies with the development of strategic plans, debt and equity financing and mergers and acquisitions, including transactions involving companies in the software, telecom equipment, financial services and Internet industries.
He is a Certified Public Accountant and received a B.S. Degree in computer science from California State University, Sonoma in 1985. | 