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Board of Directors
D. Craig Young
Chairman and CEO, MegaPath
Craig Young has over 27 years of experience in the telecom and data communications industry. Since joining the company in July 2004, his primary focus has been to create a world class Managed IP Services company that provides businesses with the ability to outsource their communications between headquarters, branch offices, retail locations, mobile workers and business partners.
Prior to the merger between MegaPath and Netifice in April 2006, Mr. Young served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Netifice. Before joining Netifice, he was the Vice Chairman and Director of AT&T Canada, and also previously served as President. Prior to his appointment as Vice Chairman and President, which occurred with the $3.5 billion merger of MetroNet Communications and AT&T Canada in June 1999, he was the President and CEO of MetroNet Communications. MetroNet was Canada’s largest facilities-based competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) at the time. Before MetroNet, Mr. Young served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Brooks Fiber from 1995 to 1998, a pioneer local exchange carrier that was acquired by WorldCom for approximately $3 billion in 1998. From 1980 to 1995, Mr. Young held various executive level positions, including Vice President Sales, Ameritech Custom Business Services; Vice President Sales and Service for Business and Government Services, U S WEST Communications; and President, Executone Information Systems.
Mr. Young received a bachelor of science degree in business administration from California State University, Chico.
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Skip Besthoff
Principal, Rho Ventures
Mr. Besthoff is a Principal with Rho Ventures. Prior to joining Rho in 2000, he was with Alliance Consulting Group, focusing primarily on growth strategy formulation and e-commerce. Previously, Mr. Besthoff spent five years with Andersen Consulting performing large-scale systems integration and process reengineering engagements. Besthoff received an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He currently sits on the boards of Verified Person, Everdream, and MegaPath.
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Paul Chisholm
Independent (Chairman and CEO of Mindshift Technologies)
Mr. Chisholm is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of mindSHIFT Technologies. He was most recently President and CEO of COLT Telecom Group plc headquartered in London, England. Under his leadership the company became the largest and most successful European alternative carrier, renowned for its ability to provide voice, data, video and Internet services to Europe’s largest business customers. Chisholm grew the company from inception to over $1B in revenue with operations in 29 cities in 10 countries. He is on the boards of Sycamore Networks and MegaPath.
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Mark Iwanowski
Independent (Chairman of the Board and CEO of KSR Inc.)
Mr. Iwanowski is Chairman of the Board and CEO of KSR Inc. He has 25 years of experience in technology services and has held executive positions with Fortune 500 companies, including Honeywell, Raytheon, SAIC and Oracle. Iwanowski has also served as a principle in two successful startups: Applied Remote Technology and Quantum Magnetics. He was previously Senior Vice President Global IT for Oracle Corporation, the world’s largest enterprise software provider with over $15B in revenue. Prior to Oracle, Iwanowski managed a Systems Integration and Outsourcing business for SAIC, the world's largest private system integrator.
Mr. Iwanowski sits on the Board of Royalty Share and MegaPath and is also on the Board of Advisors for Tricipher, Webify Solutions, Continuent and Lign Up. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in engineering from California Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from National University.
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Rob Ketterson
Managing Partner, Fidelity Ventures
Mr. Ketterson is Managing Partner of Fidelity Ventures. He focuses on investment opportunities in enterprise technologies, communications, and IT services. Ketterson has led a number of investments including Geotel [NASDAQ: GEOC], (subsequently acquired by Cisco), Nuance Communications [NASDAQ: NUAN], InterNAP [NASDAQ: INAP], Webspective Software (acquired by Inktomi), Nexabit Networks (acquired by Lucent), WaveSmith (acquired by Ciena), and Connected Corp (acquired by Iron Mountain).
Mr. Ketterson represents Fidelity Ventures on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the venture capital industry’s primary policy setting and lobbying group. He is also on the Board of the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA).
Prior to joining Fidelity Ventures in 1993, Mr. Ketterson was a manager in the high technology practice of The Boston Consulting Group. Prior to that he was a product manager for PC products at VLSI Technology, Inc. Ketterson received an undergraduate degree in computer engineering from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Steve Krausz
General Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
Mr. Krausz is a General Partner with U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). Since joining USVP in 1985 he has focused on communications, Internet Infrastructure, networking and enterprise software. Mr. Krausz has been a MegaPath director since July 2004. His eight years of operating experience with NASA Ames, BTI Computers, Direct Inc. and Daisy Systems have served him well as an advisor to many leading network vendors, customers, investors and start-ups. At USVP, Krausz has led investments in Occam Networks, Accelerated Networks, Verity, Rasna, Xylan, Applied Digital Access, Elantec and Micro Linear, all of which became public companies. In addition to MegaPath, he is currently on the Boards of a number of private USVP investments including Agility Communications, Xponent, Electric Cloud, Sierra Monolithics, Object Reservoir, StrataLight, Vontu, Flexogics, Force10 Networks, PerformanceRetail, Kasenna, Notiva, Imperva, Synfora and Pathfire. Krausz is a Board Observer with CipherTrust and also on the Executive Board as Treasurer at the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
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Christopher (Woody) Marshall
Managing Director, Trident Capital
Mr. Marshall joined Trident Capital in 1996 as a Principal and has been a Managing Director since 1998. In this role, he focuses on the payments, outsourcing and communications technology markets. Marshall has served as a MegaPath director since April 2000. From 1992 to 1994, he was an Associate with the Leveraged Capital Group of Banque Paribas. Earlier in his career, Mr. Marshall was a Financial Analyst in the Corporate Finance department of Chase Manhattan Bank, where he specialized in merchant banking transactions. In addition to MegaPath, Marshall is on the Board of Everypath, Merchant eSolutions, SideStep and XATA Corporation (NASDAQ: XATA). He received a bachelor's degree from Hamilton College and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
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Thomas Pardun
Independent (retired Chairman of WD)
Mr. Pardun joined the MegaPath Board in 2002. He is a retired Chairman of the Board of Western Digital Corporation, one of the world's largest manufacturers of hard-disk drives for the personal computer market. Pardun served in the capacity of Chairman from January 2000 until December 2001, and has been a Western Digital director since 1993. He was Chairman and CEO of edge2net, a privately-held provider of international voice, data, and video services from December 2000 to October 2001. Pardun retired as President of MediaOne International, Asia/Pacific (formerly U. S. West Asia-Pacific) in July 2000. MediaOne's Asia-Pacific operations included cable-television, telephony and internet properties in Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Before that, Mr. Pardun was President and CEO of U. S. West Multimedia Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of U. S. West, Inc., and previously VP and General Manager of Business and Government Services at U. S. West Communications, and VP, Marketing and Planning for U S WEST Communications. Before joining U. S. West, he was President of the Central Group for Sprint, and also served as President of Sprint's West Division and Senior VP of Business Development for United Telecom, a predecessor company to Sprint. He held a variety of management positions during 19-year tenure with IBM, concluding as Director of product line evaluation at IBM's New York marketing headquarters. In addition to serving on the Boards of MegaPath and Western Digital Corporation, Pardun is also a board member of Exabyte Corp., and Occam Networks. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa in Business Administration.
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Robert S. Sherman
General Partner, Boston Millenia Partners
Mr. Sherman is a General Partner of Boston Millennia Partners. He has 19 years of experience building successful companies. Sherman has implemented Core Company strategies in several portfolio companies, and is an experienced healthcare, life sciences, and telecommunications services investor. Mr. Sherman’s previous private equity experience includes 5 years at Boston Capital Ventures and 8 years as a General Partner at Hambro International Venture Fund. He also has been Chief Financial Officer for two healthcare services companies, and has six years of banking experience with the Bank of Boston and Eliot Bank. Sherman served on active duty in the United States Navy for three years and attained the rank of Lieutenant. He is a graduate of Amherst College and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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John Siegel
Partner of Columbia Capital
Mr. Siegel is a Partner of Columbia Capital. He joined Columbia Capital in 2000 and focuses on communication services investments. Siegel is currently a member of the Board of Directors of MindSHIFT Technologies, FDN Communications, ICG Communications, Integrated Solutions, and MegaPath. He is also actively involved in Mpower, New Global Telecom, Mobile Satellite Ventures, and MetroPCS Communications. Prior to joining Columbia Capital, Siegel was a member of Morgan Stanley's Private Equity Group, where he specialized in investments in the telecommunications/data services arena. Mr. Siegel has held positions with Fidelity Ventures, the private equity division of Fidelity Investments, and the Investment Banking Division of Alex. Brown & Sons, Incorporated. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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