Leap Wireless International Inc.

S. Douglas Hutcheson, 53, has served as our president, chief executive officer, or CEO, and a member of our Board since February 2005. Mr. Hutcheson has held a number of positions with us since joining in September 1998 as part of our founding management team, having served as our chief financial officer, or CFO, between August 2002 and February 2005 and again between September 2007 and June 2008, and also having served in a number of vice president roles between September 1998 and January 2004 with responsibility for areas including strategic planning and product and business development. From February 1995 to September 1998, Mr. Hutcheson served as vice president, marketing in the Wireless Infrastructure Division at Qualcomm Incorporated. Mr. Hutcheson holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic University and an M.B.A. from University of California, Irvine.

Jeffrey E. Nachbor has served as our senior vice president, financial operations and chief accounting officer since May 2008, having previously served as our senior vice president, financial operations since April 2008. From September 2005 to March 2008, Mr. Nachbor served as the senior vice president & corporate controller for H&R Block, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Nachbor served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Sharper Image Corporation from February 2005 to August 2005 and served as senior vice president, corporate controller of Staples, Inc. from April 2003 to February 2005. Mr. Nachbor served as vice president of finance of Victoria s Secret Direct, a division of Limited Brands, Inc., from December 2000 to April 2003, and as vice president of financial planning and analysis for Limited Brands, Inc. from February 2000 to December 2000. Mr. Nachbor is a certified public accountant and holds an M.B.A. in finance and accounting from the University of Kansas and a B.S. in accounting from Old Dominion University.

As executive vice president and chief financial officer for Leap Wireless International, Inc., Walter Berger is responsible for all financial activities of the company including accounting, treasury, financial planning and reporting, investor relations and internal audit. Berger has more than 30 years of finance and accounting experience, including extensive operational experience as a chief financial officer with several large, publicly-held companies. Most recently he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of CBS Radio in New York, where he was responsible for all aspects of finance, accounting, technology and internal controls, in addition to oversight of CBS Radio's new media and integrated marketing businesses. Additionally, Berger has held senior management roles at Emmis Communications and LG&E Energy Corporation, as well as serving in a number of financial and operating management roles in the manufacturing, service and energy fields. Berger graduated cum laude from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a B.A. in business administration. He has served on the boards of directors of Westwood One, TargetSpot and iBiquity Digital as well as on numerous civic boards and committees.

Mark H. Rachesky, M.D. is a co-founder and the president of MHR Fund Management LLC (founded in 1996) and affiliates, investment managers of various private investment funds that invest in distressed and deeply undervalued middle-market companies. Dr. Rachesky currently serves on the board of directors of Leap Wireless International, Inc. and Loral Space and Communications, Inc., where he also serves as Non-Executive Chairman of both boards, Neose Technologies, Inc. and Emisphere Technologies, Inc. Dr. Rachesky holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford University School of Business, an M.D. from the Stanford University School of Medicine, and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael B. Targoff is chief executive officer and president of Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LORL), headquartered in New York City. He is also vice chairman of Loral's Board of Directors and serves on the Board's executive committee. Mr. Targoff was named chief executive officer in 2006 and became president in January 2008. He originally joined Loral in 1981 and served as senior vice president and general counsel until January 1996, when he was elected president and chief operating officer of the newly formed Loral Space & Communications. He founded Michael B. Targoff & Co., in 1998 and served as principal until February 2006. The firm, which invested in telecommunications and related industry early stage companies. Mr. Targoff is chairman of the board of CPI International, Inc, a director of ViaSat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) and a director of Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP). He is chairman of the audit committee of LEAP and a member of the audit committee of CPI International. Mr. Targoff is also chairman of the board of directors of three small private telecom companies. Prior to joining Loral in 1981, Mr. Targoff was a partner in the New York City law firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Mr. Targoff attended Brown University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966 and he earned a doctor of jurisprudence degree degree from the Columbia University School of Law in 1969. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and editor of the Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems.

Anthony R. Chase has been a Director of the Company Since October 1999. Since 1991, Mr. Chase has been a Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center, and he is also Chairman & CEO of ChaseSource, a staffing & recruiting firm. He most recently served as Chairman & CEO of ChaseCom, a global customer relationship management firm, until its sale to AT&T Corporation in December 2007. Mr. Chase is Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He received his JD from Harvard Law School, his MBA from Harvard Business School and his AB from Harvard College. Mr. Chase is also a director of Western Gas Partners.

Bob LaPenta is founder, chairman and CEO of L-1 Investment Partners. He has more than 30 years of executive management experience and has generated billions of dollars of shareholder wealth throughout his professional career. LaPenta founded L-1 Investment Partners in June 2005, leaving his position as president, CFO and board member of L-3 Communications to launch the company. He co-founded L-3 Communications in 1997, following a successful 24-year executive career at Loral Corporation. LaPenta and his partners formed L-3 as a leveraged buyout of ten advanced electronics business units from Lockheed Martin. Lockheed had merged with Loral Corporation in the prior year and LaPenta was CFO of Loral at the time of the merger. As L-3's president, CFO and board member, LaPenta guided the company to $8 billion in annual revenue, EBITDA growth from $60 million to $1 billion and a stock-price appreciation from $5 to $170 pre-split. LaPenta also founded the Homeland Security Business, with annual revenues exceeding $700 million. During his seven-year tenure with L-3 Communications, the company completed more than 60 acquisitions, creating 60 individual business units run as separate entities under a common management approach that generated billions of dollars of shareholder wealth. While at Lockheed Martin and Loral Corporation, LaPenta served as corporate vice president and CFO of the C4ISR Group of Lockheed Martin from 1996 -1997, where he led the Command, Control, Computer, Communication, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance business sector with over $8 billion in annual revenue. As corporate vice president for Loral Corporation from 1972 to 1996, LaPenta grew revenue from $20 million to $7 billion and EBITDA from a $5 million loss to $900 million.

Mr. Wayne Barr, Jr. has been a director of our company since 2002. Mr. Barr is a founding member and Senior Managing Director of Capital & Technology Advisors LLC and Communication Technology Advisors LLC, financial and operational restructuring firms with offices in Albany, New York and Reston, Virginia, and is also a founding member of TechOne Capital Group LLC, a private investment firm based in Albany, New York. Prior to starting these firms, Mr. Barr was the Associate General Counsel of CAI Wireless Systems, Inc., a wireless spectrum company located in Albany, New York, from 1995 until 1999, when CAI was sold to MCI WorldCom. Mr. Barr began his career as an attorney in private practice in New York City and in Albany. He received his J.D. from Albany Law School of Union University and is a member of the New York State Bar. He is a member of the board of directors of NEON Communications, Inc., where he is chairman of the compensation committee, and of Leap Wireless International, Inc.