Adam Bernstein - Advisor President of The Bernstein Companies and CEO of Consortium Capital
	Randall Byrnes - Advisor Private Investor and Founder of Blackhawk Investments, LTD
	Jack Fields - Advisor CEO of the Twenty First Century Group, Inc., and Texana Global, Inc.
	John Gerdelman - Advisor Former President, Networks MCI Services
	James Hosmer - Advisor Officer and Member of Board of Directors, Nixon and Vanderhye
	Andrew Lipman - Advisor Partner, Bingham McCutchen, LLP
	Bruce Mackler - Principal Founder, Life Sciences Management Group, Inc
	Susan Mandl - Advisor Private Investor & Former Senior Vice President of Lucent Technologies
	Nancy Roblin - Advisor Partner and Vice President, Korn/Ferry International

Adam Bernstein
President of The Bernstein Companies and Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Consortium Capital. The Bernstein Companies, a leading real estate development and investment firm that owned and managed more than 40 enterprises, including well known properties such as Courtyard by Marriott, Fairfield Inn, Best Western, and Sheraton. Until 1999, Mr. Bernstein was Vice President and a Board Member of Onyx International, LLC, an investment firm focused on early equity positions in new technology firms. Mr. Bernstein was an early investor in webMethods. Mr. Bernstein serves as a Board Member on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Advisory Board for the University of Pennsylvania, the Vice Chair for Leadership Gifts for the Sidwell Friends Annual Fund, and serves as a Member of the Young Presidents Organization, and the Steering Committee of the Jewish Venture Philanthropy fund. Mr. Bernstein has also served as a Board Member for Metropolitan Bank, N.A., and American University Family Business Forum. Mr. Bernstein received his BS from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Randall Byrnes
Private investor and founder of Blackhawk Investments, LTD, a privately owned firm that focuses on investing in the Naples, Florida, and Washington, DC areas. Mr. Byrnes is an early founding investor in the Golf Channel. He is a former Executive Vice President for Boston-based Spaulding & Slye Company, a leading real estate development company for which he founded the firm's Washington, DC, office. While at Spaulding & Slye, Mr. Byrnes directed the structuring of joint ventures with major institutional and Fortune 500 partners representing more than $300 million in assets. He also cochaired the Washington Scholarship Fund. Mr. Byrnes received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard.

Jack Fields
CEO of the Twenty First Century Group, Inc., and Texana Global, Inc. Mr. Fields is a former Congressman from Texas (1981 to 1997) and Chairman of the House Telecommunications and Finance subcommittees. During his congressional tenure, he oversaw the comprehensive reform of the Communications Act of 1934, which passed as the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and the rewriting and passage of the National Securities Market Improvement Act of 1996. He was also instrumental in passing the Securities Litigation Reform Act. Mr. Fields is a Board Member of AIM Management and Telscape International. He earned his BA and JD degrees from Baylor University.

John Gerdelman
Former President of the network and information technology division of MCI Telecommunications Corporation. Mr. Gerdelman's 13-year tenure at MCI covered sales, marketing, service, network operations & information technology. As one of three MCI division presidents responsible for achieving MCI's annual earnings targets, he delivered on MCI's network and information technology strategy - including the transition from a priced based telecom company to a global full service communications company. Mr. Gerdelman led over 20,000 network and information technology professionals from the bottom to the top of industry ratings in network quality and reliability, best of class in data centers, data warehousing, billing systems and numerous software and hardware performance categories. Other assignments included senior vice president in the consumer division and President and CEO of MCI Services Corporation. Before MCI, Mr. Gerdelman was with Baxter Travenol Corporation after serving in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Aviator after graduation from of the College of William and Mary. He is currently a director for Sycamore Networks, Ineto, Inc., McData Corporation, and Jetstream Communication.

James Hosmer
Officer and Member of Board of Directors, Nixon and Vanderhye. Mr. Hosmer has over 21 years' experience as a practicing intellectual property attorney. Over the past 14 years, Nixon and Vanderhye has grown from 5 attorneys to 35, who handle more than 2,000 active clients including British Telecom, Ericsson, General Electric, Sharp, Nintendo, and Toshiba. In addition to evaluating hundreds of inventions in complex technical fields, Mr. Hosmer has also served on due diligence teams responsible for acquiring of new technologies developed by start-ups. Mr. Hosmer received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona and graduated from The American University Law School.

Andrew Lipman
Partner, Bingham McCutchen, LLP. Former Vice Chairman and Senior Partner, Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP. Mr. Lipman has worked on acquisitions of MCI and Brooks Fiber. While a partner at Swidler Berlin, Mr. Lipman has also served as Senior Vice President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs, of MFS Communications for more than 10 years. Under Mr. Lipman's guidance, Swidler Berlin served as a counsel for MVP America. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester and Stanford Law School.

Bruce Mackler
Founder, Life Sciences Management Group, Inc. Former shareholder in Heller Ehrman White and McAuliffe, LLP, a law firm focusing on high technology, biotechnology and traditional medical device, drug and biologic companies, and regulatory advisor to venture groups for 23 years. Dr. Mackler was a founder and General Counsel to the Association of Biotechnology Companies (ABC), which emerged to form the Biotechnology Industry Association (BIO). Dr. Mackler has represented international and US life sciences companies before the US Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal and state regulatory bodies. As legal/regulatory counsel, Dr. Mackler has assisted in obtaining device, drug, biologic, cosmetic and food product registrations, resolving regulatory/legal compliance issues and product liability exposures. Dr. Mackler was an active researcher in Immunology/Microbiology (Immunochemistry) publishing 100 scientific articles/abstracts, a Fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (London), an extramural contract researcher at the National Institutes of Health, and an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Medical Center. Dr. Mackler received his BA from Temple University, a MS degree from Pennsylvania State University, a Ph.D. degree from the University of Oregon Medical School, and a JD degree from South Texas College of Law, Texas A&M University.

Susan Mandl
Private Investor & Former Senior Vice President of Lucent Technologies. Ms. Mandl served as International Vice President, with operational and profit-and-loss responsibilities, for Lucent Business Communications Systems, a firm of 26,000 employees that designs, manufactures, markets, and maintains communications systems in more than 90 countries. Ms. Mandl also served as CEO of Newcourt Communications Finance, an organization providing customers with financing to acquire data, voice, and video equipment. Newcourt Communications has more than $2.2 billion in assets and in excess of $1.5 billion of newly booked volume annually. It operates in 25 countries around the world. Ms. Mandl is a member of the Boards of Trustees of WETA and The Washington Opera. Ms. Mandl holds a BA from the College of Wooster and completed the Senior Executive Program at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Nancy Roblin
Partner and Vice President, Korn/Ferry International. Ms. Roblin has led Korn/Ferry's emergence as the search leader for CLECs and DSLs, ISPs, and other new carriers. Working with venture capital firms, she staffs CEO and Board searches in Internet and carrier companies. Ms. Roblin has conducted Vice President and Director searches in marketing, sales, information technalogy, business development, engineering, operations, finance, and product management. Ms. Roblin also spearheaded the wireless practice, performing searches for AirTouch, AT&T Wireless, and start-ups. Ms. Roblin earned a BA from Vassar College and an MA from Boston University.

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