• Thirty years as corporate executive, financial officer, expert witness and auditor
• Negotiated initial $300m seed-investment in Everest Global Technologies Group
• Co-founder and original Chairman & CEO, Everest Global Technologies Group
• Co-founder and two years as President/COO Brooks Fiber Properties
• President, Contel Corporation (Central Region)
• Vice President, Finance, Contel Corporation
• B.S. Accounting with honors, Northeast Missouri State University
• MBA, Washington University
• CPA Missouri

Shayne B. Barr, President / CEO

• Twenty-two years of experience developing information systems for telecommunications
• Led the development of an integrated suite of back offices systems for Everest Global Technologies
• Seventeen years of entrepreneurial management experience
• CIO / SVP - Everest Global Technologies
• CIO / Exec VP - GLA Network Technologies
• SVP Information Systems - GLA International
• Founder and COO - Graphic and Data Solutions
• VP Business Development - Telcom Services, Inc.
• Division VP - Telcom Services
• Graduate - Minnesota School of Business

Steve Strebel, Executive Vice President

• Has worked in the information systems area of telecommunications since 1991
• Has managed the development and implementation of billing, rating, CABS, customer care, trouble, plant, and mapping systems
• Exposure to both the ILEC and CLEC sides of telecommunications including employment with two startup CLECs
• Extensive experience in the construction industry as both an engineer and consultant working on premium commercial office buildings
• Considerable international business experience including nearly four years working overseas and completing significant work assignments in ten countries on four continents
• Co-founded and ran a successful consulting company for several years
• Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Master of Science degree from Washington University in St. Louis
• Member of ASCE

Jeffrey L. Bursich, Vice President / Operational Support System Development

• Eighteen years experience in information systems development
• Thirteen years software design and development within the Telecom industry
• Co-owner of software development and consulting firm which developed CLEC Order / Facilities / Trouble Management Systems, all of which were acquired by GLA in 1999
• Currently responsible for the management of the continued design and development of Order / Facilities / Trouble Management Systems
• Graduate of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale with A.A.S. in Management Information Systems - 1983
• Graduate of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale with B.S. in Marketing/Management - 1985
• Graduate of Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville with M.B.A - 1994

James W. Chappell, Vice President / Operational Support System Development

• Seventeen years of experience in information systems development in the telecommunications and cable industries
• Founding partner of Intuitive Systems, Inc., a former software development and consulting firm specializing in the telecommunications industry
• Significant management, design, and development experience in a wide variety of environments, platforms, and languages
• Over ten years of technical consulting experience in midrange and client-sever environments
• Involved in successful development and implementation of systems to support most business areas
• Comfortable leading highly technical development groups in complex environments