Primus Telecommunications Group Inc.

Peter Aquino has been President and Chief Executive Officer of RCN Corporation and a Board of Directors member since December 2004. In 2007, Mr. Aquino accepted the Best Business Turnaround Stevie Award awarded by the American Business Awards. Mr. Aquino served as a Telecom Operations advisor throughout his career, focusing on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC), cable and wireless business restructuring from 2001 to 2004. From 1995 to 2000 Mr. Aquino was Chief Operating Officer of Veninfotel (now NetUno), a private Venezuelan telecom company, where he managed the design, construction and operation of Latin America’s first fiber-based triple play provider. Mr. Aquino began his career at Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) in 1983, holding positions in finance, marketing, regulatory and corporate development. Mr. Aquino earned a master’s degree in business administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1990.

John F. DePodesta is the founder, Executive Vice President and Board Member of Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc., a global communications service provider of integrated voice, data, Internet and Web hosting services to over 3.5 million customers in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Formerly, he served as Senior Vice President of Law and Public Policy of Genesis Health Ventures, Inc. From 1979-1993, he was a partner with Pepper Hamilton, LLP, a private law practice specializing in regulated industries, business transactions, corporate restructurings and governance. DePodesta is a member of the Board of Directors of the Educational Credit Management Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

Herman Fialkov, a member of the Management Committee, has been an advisor to IET since 1996. He was founder and President of General Transistor Corporation, which he merged with General Instrument Corporation in 1960. There he established the pioneering large-scale integrated circuit division, later spun off as the present Microchip Technology, Inc. Later, as Senior Vice President for Corporate Development, he was instrumental in the acquisition of Jerrold Electronics, placing General Instrument in a leadership position in the emerging cable television market. He is a General Partner of PolyVentures, a Long Island, NY venture firm, that invests in startup and early stage technology ventures. From the 1960s to the present, as a General Partner of Geiger & Fialkov LP, PolyVentures, and as President of Aleph Null Corporation, Mr. Fialkov financed and helped develop many successful companies. He was among the founding investors in Intel and Teledyne. Other successful investments include Xynetics, Inc., which was sold to General Signal, which later spun out its components as Ultratech Stepper, and Electroglas, Inc. He was a founding or early stage investor in Standard Microsystems, Microsemi Corp., EIS International, DSP Group, DSP Communications, and OPAL. He was President and later Chairman of Standard Microsystems during its early growth period. Mr. Fialkov is an engineering graduate of New York University and is a trustee of Polytechnic University. He is a director of several corporations including Globecomm Systems Inc., and Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc.