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Francois Behague has been the Vice President Technology Strategy at Alcatel-Lucent since November 2000. Mr. Behague is in charge of monitoring the overall Alcatel-Lucent make versus buy strategy analysis.

Sri Reddy is vice president of engineering for Edge Router Software Development at Alcatel. Sri joined Alcatel via its acquisition of TiMetra, which he co-founded in 2000 coming from Nortel Networks where he was VP of Engineering for the Enterprise Products Division. He has also led development efforts for stackable switches, hubs and network management modules for Bay Networks and Synoptics. Earlier in his career, Sri was an engineering manager at Unisys/Convergent, where he was responsible for networking hardware and software for UNIX workstations.

Phil has over 25 years of senior management experience with carrier class network equipment suppliers. This experience includes the General Manager role for Alcatel's Signaling Products Division and prior to that the General Manager position for DSC Communications-Ireland. During his career, he has held senior management positions with Stromberg Carlson, Telex Computer Products-Telcom Division, DSC Communications and most recently with Alcatel SS7 and Broadband Data Products divisions. He has extensive experience in both domestic and international outsourcing as well as management of large organizations.

Matthew Bocci is Director of Technology and Standards with Alcatel-Lucent's IP Division. He is a regular contributor to the IETF and MFA Forum, particularly in the areas of pseudo-wires, OAM and traffic management. He is chair of the MFA Forum Interworking working group, and secretary of the IETF PWE3 working group. He is also co-author of a number of IETF drafts and RFCs on MPLS-based converged networks. Previously, Matthew provided advanced technical consulting to Alcatel R&D and customers in traffic management, signaling and network performance. He is author of a number of technical publications in network modeling, resource management, and in ATM-MPLS interworking, as well as Alcatel application notes in QoS and traffic management. Matthew joined Alcatel through the acquisition of Newbridge Networks. He holds a PhD in ATM network modeling from Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, and is a member of Alcatel Technical Academy and the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Mr. Stoker consults to endowments, foundations, high net-worth individuals, and public and private companies on investment management and policy, fiduciary responsibility, custody, and trust issues. Mr. Stoker is responsible for overseeing all client service at WaterStreet Investment Consultants, LLC. Prior to forming WaterStreet Investment Consultants, Mr. Stoker was a Senior Institutional Consultant with the Consulting Group of Smith Barney for 19 years. Previous positions include: Senior Financial Analyst with Cooper Industries in Houston and Dallas, Texas; Senior Financial Analyst and Corporate Cash Manager with DSC Communications (Alcatel) in Richardson, Texas; and 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army, FA, in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Mr. Stoker is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA), a designation offered by The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania). Mr. Stoker is the past president of The Association of Professional Investment Consultants (APIC). In 2004 he received the Association's highest award of achievement for years of service, stewardship, and commitment to membership, the Tom Gorman Award. Mr. Stoker received the Consulting Group's Professionalism Award in 1992, the Smith Barney 401(k) Consultant of the Year Award in 1993, and the Harry Irvine Award for ethics and commitment to clients in 1997. Mr. Stoker is a CFA Candidate.

Mustapha Aissaoui is a Product Manager in the IP Division of Alcatel-Lucent. He holds an Electrical Engineering Diploma from Polytechnic School of Algiers and a MASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa. He is an active participant of the IETF PWE3 and L2 VPN working groups, the MPLS/FR Alliance, and the ATM Forum. Mustapha is a co-author and major contributor of multiple papers, including: draft-ietf-pwe3-atm-encap-07.txt (ATM PW), draft-ietf-pwe3-oam-msg-map-00.txt (PW OAM) and draft-aissaoui-l2vpn-vpws-iw-oam (PW OAM interworking).

Mr. Wojcik has more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and a proven record of success as a technical and marketing executive with Alcatel, DSC Communications, Tellabs and Neutral Tandem. He has led sales, product and market development efforts to major Regional Bell companies, municipalities, and independent telephone operating companies including SBC, Qwest and MCI. He is now an executive at one of Rim Semiconductor s target customers. Alcatel is a global multi-billion dollar data and telecommunications manufacturer, and currently commands 40% of the worldwide DSLAM port shipments, according to Dittberner Associates. Rim Semiconductor s product, the Cupria family of transport processors, operates inside DSLAMs. At Alcatel, Mr. Wojcik served as vice president of sales where he developed and led a new broadband solutions organization, and also turned around a poor performing business group into a long term balanced revenue stream. Under his leadership, Alcatel achieved new incremental business growth of over 400% within a 30 month period including growing the broadband solutions market an incremental $40M while achieving high margins. Prior to joining Alcatel, Mr. Wojcik served in a variety of capacities with DSC Communications, which was purchased by Alcatel in 1998. He was instrumental in helping DSC establish its market leading position in DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) and NGDLC (Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier) with the Bell Operating companies and other major carriers. Mr. Wojcik also served at Chief Technical Officer and founder of Neutral Tandem Corporation where he co-developed the business plan and assisted with completion of the patent. Mr. Wojcik was a consultant to the company in 2005, and now advises as a member of our Technical Advisory Board.

Founder Michel Oger received his MSEE degree in microelectronics and digital signal processing from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). After serving as a design engineer for Alcatel in 1985-87, Mr. Oger joined the university spin-off IRIS (Image Recognition Integrated Systems) as an application engineer. From 1989 to 1995, he was director of marketing and sales for IRIS and helped the company grow from a startup to a public company. As one of the founders of Snaketech in 1996, Mr. Oger served on the board and was vice-president of business development. He continued in this role after the merger with Simplex, until acquisition by Cadence in 2002. A passionate paraglider pilot and musician, Mr. Oger is hoping that founding DeFacTo will still leave him the odd moment for these pursuits.

Allison Cerra is Director of North American Consumer Marketing for Alcatel. Prior to joining Alcatel in 2003, Allison spent 12 years with GTE/Verizon where she held a variety of product management and marketing positions supporting the company's wireless, long distance, local and data products. She holds two BS degrees from the University of South Florida and MBA and Masters of Telecommunications degrees from Southern Methodist University.