Shawn M. Lewis

SHAWN M. LEWIS serves as President and Chief Executive Officer for
Caerus, Inc. Mr. Lewis brings with him the vision and experience that
will allow Caerus to provide and implement the true next generation in
service switching platforms. Mr. Lewis was the designer of the
softswitch architecture in use around the world today. He was the co-
Founder, officer and Director of the highly successful XCOM
Technologies, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation merged by acquisition to
Level 3 Communications, Inc., in 1998. In under eight months time,
through his direction, leadership and original vision of the convergence
between data and voice communications, Mr. Lewis was able to implement
the SS7 Media Gateway and softswitch for XCOM Technologies, Inc., as an
industry first. Mr. Lewis is the holder of several patents related to
his telecommunication innovations. Mr. Lewis has over 20 years of hands-
on experience in the data and telecommunications fields.