British Telecommunications

Steve Plume, is currently a Broadband Product Development Manager for British Telecommunications Plc in the Wholesale arm of the business, based in a small village close to the world renowned BT Research Centre at Martlesham Heath, England. Steve has nearly 25 years of experience in a variety of areas within telecommunications. Steve's currently responsible for managing & supporting all in-life ADSL products within the BT Wholesale product portfolio; this captures all areas of DSL from In-Life Product management, procurement, customer delivery solution design, OSS design with responsibility for product areas of the order and repair interfaces. Steve previously to this roll was the head of the network nursery team for the DSL trails in the UK, managing a small team he was required to ensure platform configuration and technology testing, Steve is proud of the fact that he was there on the initial consumer trials in the late 90's and has enjoyed staying with the DSL technology ever since. Prior to this he was wholly into network build and integration and has worked on both fixed access and wireless telephony networks as well as high security networks. George Dobrowski, DSL Forum Board of Directors; Conexant, Director, Technology and Product Planning Keeping a pulse on technology trends and on service provider/operator networking needs, George is involved in technology and product planning at Conexant, multi-vendor interoperability programs, and positions in standards and industry forums. Previously was CTO of a startup called Ficon Technology, acquired by Conexant/GlobeSpan, which developed and licensed ATM and IP software protocol stacks. George's roots go back to Bellcore (now Telcordia) and Bell Labs where he was involved in research and development of advanced communication systems technologies and their application to large scale operator/telco networking.

Bill Cernius has practiced law with Latham & Watkins since 1985 and has been a resident attorney in each of the San Diego, Los Angeles, London and Orange County offices of the firm. Mr. Cernius has extensive mergers and acquisitions experience representing both sellers and buyers (both financial and strategic), including the $4.0 billion merger between Kimco Realty Corporation and Pan Pacific Retail Properties, Inc., the $2.9 billion merger between Health Care Property Investors, Inc. and American Health Properties, Inc., the $1.0 billion merger between British Telecommunications plc and Infonet Services Corporation, and the $680.0 million leveraged buy-out acquisition of Irvine Apartment Communities, Inc. by The Irvine Company. In addition, Mr. Cernius has participated in hostile acquisition situations including the defense of ARV Assisted Living, Inc. and the acquisition of JCC Holdings, Inc. He has handled numerous securities-related transactions of virtually all types and sizes, including the $1.2 billion initial public offering for Infonet Services Corporation, the $300.0 million initial public offering for Aames Investment Corporation, the $160.0 million Rule 144A common stock offering for NNN Realty Advisors, Inc., and the $53.0 million initial public offering by Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. and has represented both issuers and investment banks in these transactions. Mr. Cernius has considerable experience in advising private and public companies regarding the intricacies of the US federal and state securities laws and lectures often on related topics including, in particular, initial public offerings. Earlier in his career, Mr. Cernius spent two years as an investment banker with the firm of Morgan, Olmstead, Kennedy & Gardner, Incorporated where he focused on initial public offerings, venture capital financings and middle market mergers and acquisitions. While at Morgan, Olmstead, Mr. Cernius was in charge of the firm's venture capital fund. Mr. Cernius is a member of the Orange County and American Bar Associations.

Gavin Patterson was appointed chief executive of BT Retail on June 1st 2008. He joined BT in 2004 as managing director of BT Retail's consumer division. In this role he has been responsible for all services to BT's 15 million residential customers. Under his leadership BT has become the UK's number one broadband provider with more than 4.7 million customers. He has launched innovative new products including BT Total Broadband and BT Vision while transforming the financial performance of the division. Prior to joining BT, Gavin was managing director for Telewest's consumer division with turnover of 950m. He spent four years with the company which he joined as marketing director for telephone and internet services. Before Telewest, Gavin was at Procter & Gamble where he was European marketing director for the company's third largest brand, Pantene. Gavin is a fellow of the Marketing Society and a member of The Marketing Group of Great Britain and The Thirty Club. He went to school in Warrington and Yeovil before graduating from Emmanuel College, Cambridge with an Engineering degree. He is 42 years old, and is married with four young children. His other passion in life is Liverpool FC.