Thomas E. Wheeler
Age: 65
Mr. Wheeler has served on our Board of Directors since July 2003. Mr. Wheeler has served as a managing director of Core Capital Partners, a venture capital fund, since 2005 and President and Chief Executive Officer of Shiloh Group, LLC, a strategy development and private investment company specializing in telecommunications services, since 2003. From 1992 through October 2003, Mr. Wheeler served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. Mr. Wheeler serves on the Board of Directors of TNS, Inc., a provider of data communications and transaction payment services.
Mr. Wheeler's extensive public policy experience, especially with telecommunications companies and issues, is essential for the Board of Directors of a company such as ours that regularly faces telecommunications regulatory issues. That same experience, together with his private investment company experience, has also given Mr. Wheeler an understanding of the communications and IT services business.