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Tom
Hakel
Director & Secretary |
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Mr. Hakel has been a Director of the
Company since 2001, and as Secretary since November
2005. Mr. Hakel serves as Chairman of the Compensation
committee. He has extensive experience in corporate
finance and business development.
Since 1998, Mr. Hakel has been the founder and manager
of International Commerce Group, LLC, a business
consultancy organization working primarily with emerging
stage technology companies. He also served as the
CEO of Accerra Corporation, a web based communications
and marketing service from 2003 to April 2004. From
1997 to 1999,
Mr. Hakel was co-founder of DTI Network
Services, LLC and ICN/CommSource Network Services,
LLC, which bought international undersea network
fiber optic cable capacity. Prior to that, Mr. Hakel
was Executive Vice President at World Change Communications
("WXC"), a telecommunications company with
over $400M in annualized revenues from 1996 to 1997.
In both consulting and operational roles, Mr. Hakel
has assisted numerous companies with the development
of strategic plans, debt and equity financing and
mergers and acquisitions, including transactions
involving companies in the software, telecom equipment,
financial services and Internet industries.
He is a Certified Public Accountant and received
a B.S. Degree in computer science from California
State University, Sonoma in 1985.
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