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September 12, 2006 Event

Mike Beaton

SVP, Masergy Communications

Mike Beaton is SVP of Business Development for Masergy Communications, Inc since 2004.  Prior to that Mike served as SVP of Global Sales from Masergy's founding in 2000. His responsibilities include establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships as well as capturing and adding key targeted multi-national corporations (MNC's) to the Masergy portfolio.  Prior to joining Masergy, he was Regional VP for International Network Services and EVP & GM for GE Capital Technology Management Services.  He has served in the IT/Telecom industry for over 30 years and apart from the USA, has been based in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Hong Kong.

MASERGY ( www.masergy.com) is a privately-held global service provider specializing in real-time application performance across converged enterprise networks.  Serving customers in 40 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Latin and North America, the company leverages Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) across an Internet Protocol (IP)-based network to cost-effectively deliver multiple services over a single connection.  MASERGY's customers include companies from the financial/banking, health care, entertainment broadcasting, hospitality/hotels and manufacturing industries.  Masergy's continues to enjoy excellent growth, particularly due to award winning services such as Virtual Private LAN Services ; Masergy Network Analyst ; and its Service Control center.

Mack Treece

Head of Americas, Sales and Marketing

Orange Business Services

Mack Treece leads Equant's Sales and Marketing organization in the Americas.  He is responsible for positioning Equant as the worldwide leader in communications infrastructure solutions market in the Americas and oversees the delivery of Equant's unique portfolio of value-added service offerings to customers throughout this area.

Until June 2004, Mack served as senior vice president of Equant's Business Operations & Services organization, which encompassed Telco and Access Management, New Market Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Real Estate and General Services, Equant's Satellite & Wireless Business, Corporate-wide Training, Vendor Management for outsourcing activities and Operational Performance Reporting and Process Change.

Mack, a seven-year veteran of Equant, has held several positions in the company, including chief financial officer of Equant Markets & Sales and chief financial officer of Equant's Network Services business, and head of Equant's Partners & Channels responsible for globally developing and managing Equant's sales through indirect channels. He was also a member of the former SITA/Equant Joint Venture Management Committee, which was the organization that managed the Equant network prior to the merger with Global One.

Prior to joining Equant, Mack spent 13 years with Bell Atlantic in a number of positions of increasing responsibility. Immediately prior to joining Equant, he was the CFO of Bell Atlantic International Wireless (BAIW) and the vice president for BAIW Asia Pacific, where he managed the diverse financial investments Bell Atlantic had in many international ventures and operationally ran Asia for BAIW. Prior to this, Mack spent approximately seven years working for Bell Atlantic in Europe in the capacity of CFO for Bell Atlantic's Czech and Slovak Wireless and data companies in Prague, Czech Republic (EuroTel Praha and EuroTel Bratislava) and managing director of Bell Atlantic's International Finance company in the Netherlands.

Mack holds a master's degree in business from Widener University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia (McIntire School of Commerce).

Salvatore Lopes

Global Telecom Planning & Operations

The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC)

Sal Lopes has held leadership roles in global operations, network services and IT with TCCC since 1997 in Belgium and North America.  He currently leads global telecommunications planning and operations.  During his tenure at TCCC, he has accomplished significant cost savings through outsourcing, operating expense reduction, and efficiency projects.  He has reduced WAN operating costs, improved network reliability and change management performance, and sponsored network security and efficiency initiatives.  Prior to TCCC, Mr. Lopes managed network design and operations for CCB/NY and Columbia Pictures.

Brian Dolan

Regional VP - Global Crossing

Brian Dolan has been with Global Crossing for five years where he is currently the Southeast Area VP of Sales. His responsibilities include developing and managing customer relationships for Global Crossing, growing new business, developing creative ways to serve clients? unique business needs, and mentoring sales teams. His notable client roster includes global powerhouses such as Delta Air Lines, Turner Broadcasting, E*TRADE and Jabil Circuit. A native of New York, Brian?s career in telecommunications began over 17 years ago with MCI where he spent 9 years in sales, customer service, and Internet product development. Later, Brian joined @Home Networks as VP of Sales and Development. While with @Home Networks, Brian developed new strategies for content distribution and developed strategy for the @Work platform. Prior to his current role at Global Crossing, Brian ran Sales and Business Development for Virtela Communications, a VNO (Virtual Network Operator) company headquartered in Denver, CO.

Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects more than 300 cities in 28 countries worldwide, and delivers services to more than 600 cities in 60 countries and 6 continents around the globe. The company's global sales and support model matches the network footprint and, like the network, delivers a consistent customer experience worldwide.

Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world's enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and partners worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for IP-based business applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive. The company offers a full range of managed data and voice products including Global Crossing IP VPN Service, Global Crossing Managed Services and Global Crossing VoIP services, to 36 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.

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