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Ilan Kenig - President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. Kenig has over 18 years of legal, venture capital and investment banking experience with specific emphasis in the technology and telecommunications arena. Mr. Kenig, with his experience in international business activities, corporate mergers and acquisitions, joined the company as Vice President of Business Development in December 2001 before assuming the position of President in April 2002. Prior to pursuing international finance activities in New York, Mr. Kenig was a founder of a law firm in Tel-Aviv representing mostly technology and telecommunications interests. Mr. Kenig holds a law degree from Bar-Ilan University. Mr. Kenig also serves on the board of Euroweb International Corp, a NASDAQ listed technology company.

Ken Maddison - Director
Mr. Maddison, a Chartered Accountant since 1966 and elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia in 1975, retired in August 1997 after a lengthy career as a partner with the accounting firm KPMG between 1977 and 1997. In public practice for over 30 years, Mr. Maddison provided auditing, accounting and business advisory services to a wide range of clients in the private and public sectors. Since September 1997, Mr. Maddison has been self-employed as a consultant providing various financial advisory services. Mr. Maddison currently serves as CFO and director of three public companies: International Wayside Gold Mines Ltd., Island Mountain Gold Mines Ltd., and Golden Cariboo Resources Ltd. He is also a director and audit committee chairman for Northern Continental Resources Inc, Northern Hemisphere Development Inc, Datec Group Ltd. (formerly Brocker Technology Group Ltd), and Helijet International.

Victor Halpert - Director
Victor Halpert brings nearly 15 years of financial and accounting experience to the Company’s board of directors. From June, 1999 until January 2003, he has served as an equity research analyst with Salomon Smith Barney, Robertson Stephens, Salomon Brothers and Israel Equity Research & Management Ltd. and previously as an accountant with Arthur Anderson LLC. As a highly regarded equity research analyst, Mr. Halpert primarily covered Israeli technology and telecommunications companies. Since leaving his position as Director - Equity Research, Israel Technology Analyst for Salomon Smith Barney in New York, Mr. Halpert has been managing a small hedge fund that specializes in global growth companies. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago and a Master of Science in Accounting degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Andrew James Chamberlain - Director, Corporate Secretary
Mr. Chamberlain is an attorney practicing law in Edmonton, Alberta, and a partner with the law firm of Chamberlain Hutchison since 1997. Mr. Chamberlain is a sessional instructor in corporate securities at the University of Alberta law school. Mr. Chamberlain is a director of Loma Oil & Gas Ltd., a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.

Doron Nevo - Director
Mr. Nevo brings more than 20 years of business experience in high technology and telecommunications companies to the Company’s board of directors. Currently, Mr. Nevo is President and CEO of KiloLambda Technologies, Ltd. an optical subsystems company he founded in early 2001. From July 1999 to January 2001, Mr. Nevo was the President and CEO of D.FourD., Ltd., a venture capital investment company. From March 1996 to June 1999, Mr. Nevo was President and CEO of NKO, Inc. a company he founded that designed and developed a carrier grade IP Telephony system platform and established its own IP network. From February 1992 to February 1996, Mr. Nevo was also President and CEO of Clalcom Ltd., an international telecommunications service provider in Israel which he founded in 1992. Prior to Clalcom, he held various positions with Sprint International Inc. He also serves on the board of a number of companies including Audiocodes, Ltd. (a telecommunication technology company), Elcom Technologies (a manufacturer of Satcom and Digital Radio synthesizers), and Notox, Ltd. (a biotech company). Mr. Nevo received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion and an M.Sc. in Telecommunications Management from Brooklyn Polytechnic.

David Goldschmidt - Director
Mr. Goldschmidt serves since 2003 as Chief Executive Officer for Mofet Israel Technology Fund, an Israeli based Venture Capital fund. Prior to joining Mofet in 2001 as Managing Partner, Mr. Goldschmidt served as Vice President for ADC Telecommunications (Israel), a global supplier of broadband equipment and solutions for communications providers. In his previous position, Mr. Goldschmidt managed the Business Development group for Teledata Communications Ltd. (which was acquired by ADC). Prior to joining Teledata in 1992, Mr. Goldschmidt served for more than eight years in the IDF, specializing in the field of data collection and analysis. Mr. Goldschmidt holds a B.Sc. in Physics & Mathematics, and a M.Sc in Solid State Physics from the Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Amir Gal-Or - Director
Mr. Gal-Or is a Managing Partner of Infinity Venture Capital, an Israel based venture capital firm. Prior to joining Infinity Venture Capital, Mr. Gal-Or was CEO of MATI High Tech Group/MATI Raanana, and was the Chairman of the Board for the nationwide Israeli Business Development Center (BDC) network. Prior to MATI, Amir Gal-Or founded and sold two high-tech startup companies. Amir serves as a director or observer of the boards of Shellcase, Proneuron, Celletra Ltd. and Beepcard. Mr. Gal-Or holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University and a BA in Economics and Business Administration, and graduated a Harvard University program in venture capital and private equity investments.

Ellie Barr - Director
Mr. Barr is currently the President & CEO at Expand Networks, a technology company that helped pioneer the Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization market. Before joining Expand, Mr. Barr was President and Chief Operating Officer of Paradigm Geotechnology, a transnational software company supplying software to the Oil and Gas industry through 23 subsidiaries worldwide. Prior to Paradigm, Mr. Barr was CEO and Senior Managing Director of Mofet, a publicly traded Venture Capital firm in Israel. He also held several positions in marketing, sales, and business development in a NASDAQ company, which provided solutions to telecom operators worldwide. Mr. Barr received his Bachelor degree in Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science from Bar-llan University, and is a graduate of the INSEAD Finance for Executives Management Program.

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