E. Scott Crist

E. SCOTT CRIST is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Crist was a founder of Orion
Communications, Inc., a reseller of long distance and Internet access
services, where he served as President. He was also President and Chief
Executive Officer for Matrix Telecom, a long-distance company which
ranked #7 on The Inc. Magazine list of the 500 fastest growing private
companies. He also founded in May 1993, DNS Communications (‘DNS’), a
long-distance reseller. He served as DNS’s Chief Executive Officer from
its inception until DNS’s merger with Matrix Telecom. He served as Vice
President of Acquisitions for Trammell Crow Group, where he specialized
in U.S. capital market transactions. Mr. Crist has an M.B.A. from the
J.L. Kellogg School at Northwestern University, and received a B.S.
Magna cum laude in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on
telecommunications design from North Carolina State University.