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David Stone, 57, has served as an Independent Director of the Company since October 2002, and has served as Chairman and as a member of various committees during that time. As of 2007, he became a member of the Compensation and Nominating Committees. Mr. Stone has been in the telecommunications business since 1990 when he founded American Cellular Communications, Inc., which was subsequently sold to Cellstar, Inc., a division of Motorola, in 1997. In 1998, Mr. Stone founded America Internet Communications, L.L.C. (AC), a company involved in long distance communications via the internet. During 2000, AC entered into a partnership with the Stanford Bank of Texas to further develop this technology. In 2005, Mr. Stone founded Superior Communications, LLC, a company dedicated to providing internet service (VOIP) for major Latin American telephone companies, such as Telefonica Spain, and Cantv Venezuela, between Latin America and the United States. | 