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| Management - Board of Directors BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lucius E. Burch, III Donald R. DePriest, Chairman Frank L. Harwell Mark Palmer Jeffrey A. Riddell Peter G. Schiff Robert J. Schultz Richard F. Seney, President and CEO LUCIUS E. BURCH, III, Board of Directors Mr. Burch has served as an advisor or director of MCT since June 1999. For many years he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Burch Investment Group, Inc., formerly Massey Burch Investment Group. After working as a commercial banker for Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. in New York, he joined Massey Investment Company, the predecessor of Massey Burch Investment Group, as a financial analyst and portfolio manager in 1968. His years of experience in venture capital and the public market investment process include extensive experience in management consulting, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. He has served on a number of public and private boards of directors, including seven (7) New York Stock Exchange companies. Massey Burch Investment Group was also a major shareholder and was represented on the Board of Directors of Charisma Communications Corporation.  DONALD R. DePRIEST, Chairman, Board of Directors Mr. DePriest has extensive experience as an entrepreneur and as an investor in the telecommunications industry. He founded Charisma Communications Corporation (through its predecessors and affiliates, "Charisma") in 1982, serving as Chairman of the Board and President through the sale of its operations in 1986 and 1987. Charisma developed and operated eleven mobile systems in the southeastern United States. Mr. DePriest formed MCT Investors, L.P. ("MCTI") in 1987 to develop telecommunications and health care ventures, serving as President of the General Partner since inception. He has served as a director of several MCTI portfolio companies, including his responsibility as Chairman of the Board of American Telecasting, Inc. ("ATEL") which was sold to Sprint in 1999. Our business was spun out as a separate operating company from MCTI in 1995. Mr. DePriest founded Boundary Healthcare Products Corporation ("Boundary") in 1987 to implement a leveraged buy-out of the Boundary Division of the Kendall Company, serving as Chairman of the Board through its sale to Maxxim Medical, Inc. (NYSE symbol MAM) in 1992. He served as a director of MAM through its going private in 1999. Mr. DePriest has been a multi-market owner of mid-size and smaller radio stations in southeast U.S. cities. He is the principal shareholder and Chairman of the Board of American Nonwovens Corporation and its affiliates, manufacturers of Nonwoven textile products. FRANK L. HARWELL, Board of Directors Mr. Harwell has served as an advisor or director of MCT since June 1999. Mr. Harwell has spent his career as a banker and banking consultant. He has consulted with senior management of large US banking institutions regarding capital structures and issuance's, mergers and acquisitions and investment banking relationships. He served in various executive management capacities with First Union and Chase Manhattan Bank, including Director of Investor Relations. MARK PALMER, Board of Directors Ambassador Palmer has served as a director of MCT since May 2001. He is also the President of Capital Development Company, which creates and invests in companies overseas and in the United States. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of Freedom House; Vice Chairman of the Board of the Center for Communications, Health and the Environment, and a trustee at several universities and councils. Ambassador Palmer was the first to take a company from former East Germany public on a U.S. stock exchange. Ambassador Palmer was US Ambassador to Hungary from 1986-1990, and previously served in the US Embassy Moscow; he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for US relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, organizing and participating in the first summit meeting between President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev. Ambassador Palmer majored in Russian Studies at Yale University, graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. JEFFREY A. RIDDELL, Board of Directors Mr. Riddell has been nominated by Golden Telecom and currently serves as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Golden TeleServices, Inc. (GTI) in Moscow. He is also on the Board of Directors for Sovintel, Golden Telecom Ukraine, and several other related companies. Mr. Riddell joined GTI as General Counsel and Secretary in June 1999. Prior to that, Mr. Riddell was with Global TeleSystems (GTS) as Legal Director - GTS-CIS from August 1998 until June 1999, and Deputy Director of the Legal Department - GTS-CIS from July 1997 to August 1998. Prior to joining GTS, Mr. Riddell was in private practice from May 1996 until July 1997 with Salans, Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, and had previously served at the Pacific Law center in Vladivostok and Khabarovsk from May 1994 until June 1996. Mr. Riddell is a graduate of Loyola University and subsequently received a joint MA/JD degree from George Washington University in 1993. PETER G. SCHIFF, Board of Directors Mr. Schiff has served as a director since March 2000. He is President of Northwood Ventures, formed in 1993. Prior to founding Northwood Ventures in 1983, he worked in the venture capital division of E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., and previously, had been an officer in the corporate division of Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase). Mr. Schiff serves as a director of many of Northwood's public and other private portfolio companies. He is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lake Forest College, a trustee of Brooks School and the New York Racing Association, and a member of the Board of Advisers of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Mr. Schiff is a graduate of Lake Forest College and received an MBA from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. ROBERT J. SCHULTZ ,
Board of Directors RICHARD F. SENEY,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors
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