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Director since May 2007. Mr. Thompson has a long and distinguished career in telecommunications. He was an Executive Vice President at MCI from 1981-1990 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LCI Communications which was merged at a value of $5 billion with Qwest in 1998. After service as the Vice Chairman of Qwest Mr. Thompson became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Global Tele Systems Group. Today Mr. Thompson heads up his own private equity firm Universal Telecommunications Inc. is Executive Chairman and interim CEO of GTT a newly formed global network service provider and serves as the Chairman of the Board of Comsat International as well as on the Boards of Directors of Bell Canada International Inc. Axcelis Technologies Inc. UnitedAuto Group and Sonus Networks Inc. Mr. Thompson also is on the Executive Committee of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission a multinational organization launched in Brussels in 1995 to chart the role of the private sector in the developing global information and telecommunications infrastructure. He also serves as a member of the Irish Prime Minister's Ireland-America Economic Advisory Board. Thompson received his MBA from Harvard's Graduate School of Business and holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts. | 