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	Audit	Governance	Compensation
Kim D. Cooke
In 1995, Kim Cooke became a founding partner of Blue Water Capital, L.L.C., a private venture capital firm focusing on profitable information technology companies at an expansion stage. Today, Kim serves the company as managing director. Blue Water Capital raises and manages capital for investment and currently has almost $100 million under management. Trained as a transactional lawyer, Kim has extensive business and legal experience working with credit, insurance and financial services companies in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Kim has served on numerous boards of directors in his capacity at Blue Water Capital. Since 2000, he has been on the board of EasyLink Services International Corporation (NASDAQ ESIC), serving as Board Chairman since 2005. Additionally, he serves on the boards of Aptara Corporation, FedBid, Inc., Imex Systems Inc., Keel Point, LLC and US Energia, Inc. His not for profit activities includes service on the Board of Family Life, AMO International, Inc., and the Dean's Advisory Board of the Florida State University College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance.
Richard J. Berman
Richard J. Berman joined EasyLink in September 1998 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and served as EasyLink's Chief Executive Officer from 1998 until June 1999. Mr. Berman's business career spans thirty-five years of venture capital, management, and merger and acquisitions experience. In the last five years, Mr. Berman has served as a professional director and / or chairman of about a dozen public and private companies. He is currently Chairman of National Investment Managers, a public company in pension administration and investment management; and Chairman of Candidate Resources, a private company delivering HR services over the web. In addition to EasyLink, Mr. Berman serves on the board of directors of the following public companies: Dyadic International (AMEX: DIL), International Microcomputer Software, Inc. (OTC: IMSI.OB); NexMed, Inc. (Nasdaq: NEXM); MediaBay, Inc. (Nasdaq: MBAY), GVI Security Solutions Inc. (OTC: GVIS.OB), National Investment Managers, INC. (OTC: NIVM.OB), Nayna Networks, Inc. (OTC: NAYN.OB) and Advaxis, Inc. (OTC: ADXS.OB) Previously, Mr. Berman worked at Goldman Sachs; was Senior Vice President of Bankers Trust Company, where he started the M&A and Leverage Buyout Departments; helped create the largest battery company in the world by merging Prestolite, General Battery and Exide to form Exide Technologies(Nasdaq: XIDE); helped create what is now Soho (NYC) by developing five buildings; and advised on over $4 billion of M&A transactions. He is a past director of the Stern School of Business of New York University, where he received a BS and an MBA. He also has United States and foreign law degrees from Boston College and the Hague Academy of International Law, respectively.
Donald R. Harkleroad
Donald R. Harkleroad joined EasyLink as a director in June 2004 following EasyLink's acquisition of Electronic Commerce Systems, Inc., of which Mr. Harkleroad was Chairman. Mr. Harkleroad is Founder and President of The Bristol Company, a diversified investment and management holding company formed in 1983, and is an officer and director of several of its subsidiaries and affiliated companies. Additionally, Mr. Harkleroad serves on the board of directors of Summit Bank Corporation and Lighting Science Group Corporation. Mr. Harkleroad is also a transactional lawyer and private investor with extensive management, investment and entrepreneurial experience.
Paul D. Lapides
Paul D. Lapides has served as a member of the Board of Directors since October 2005. Mr. Lapides is Director of the Corporate Governance Center at the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University, where he has been a professor of management and entrepreneurship since 1993. Mr. Lapides currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Sun Communities Inc. (NYSE: SUI), and The Board of Directors Network, Inc. Mr. Lapides is a member of the advisory board of the National Association of Corporate Directors and served on the NACD's Blue Ribbon Commission on Audit Committees in 1999. A certified public accountant, he is the author or co-author of more than 100 articles and seven books on management and directors' responsibilities. Mr. Lapides received a BS in economics, with honors, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from New York University.
Dwight Mamanteo
Dwight Mamanteo serves as a member of the Board of Directors, joining in May 2009. Mr. Mamanteo has served as an Investment Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Wynnefield Capital, Inc., a private investment management firm, since November 2004. Prior to joining Wynnefield Capital, Mr. Mamanteo worked in the field of technology for over 10 years in various positions for BEA Systems, VISA International, Ericsson, UNISYS, and as an independent consultant. Mr. Mamanteo currently serves as the Chairman of the Compensation Committee and as a member of the Governance and Audit Committees of Aftersoft Group, Inc. (OTC:ASFG), a provider of business management software for the automotive parts aftermarket, where he has served on the Board of Directors since March 2007; and as the Chairman of PetWatch Animal Hospitals, Inc. (a private company), a provider of primary care and specialized services to companion animals through a network of fully-owned veterinary hospitals, where he has served on the Board of Directors since December 2007.
John S. Simon
John S. Simon joined EasyLink as a director in October 2004. Mr. Simon has been the Chief Executive Officer of afterBOT, Inc. since 2002. afterBOT™ is the leader in using digital receipt technology to improve the internal operations of retailers, while providing real time visibility into sales performance that enables retailers and their suppliers to improve the efficiency of their supply chain while making it consumer demand driven. Mr. Simon has more than 23 years of experience in the retail industry, including 14 years with QRS Corporation where he was a Founder in 1988. While at QRS, Mr. Simon developed, sold, implemented and operated the leading data-synchronization, e-commerce, supply-chain company, ultimately supporting over 9,000 customers in the general merchandise, grocery/CPG and consumer durables segments of the retail industry. Mr. Simon was also formerly a director of Electronic Commerce Systems, Inc., which was acquired by EasyLink in June 2004.
Thomas J. Stallings
Chief Executive Officer Tom Stallings serves as EasyLink's chief executive officer and a member of its Board of Directors. He joined the company in December 2003 as chief operating officer and assumed the role of chief executive officer in April 2004. With more than 35 years of sales, marketing, finance and operations experience, Tom brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to EasyLink. He has successfully led several private companies through strong growth and into profitability as well as through successful acquisitions by larger organizations. Before joining the company, Tom spent seven years in the management of venture capital backed or privately held technology companies. He was the president and chief operating officer of CoreHarbor, where his efforts led to the effective merger between CoreHarbor and USinternetworking Inc. Prior to that, he served as president and chief executive officer of Cambar Software Inc. (CSI) and was successful in completing a sale of the company to a private investment group. Before joining CSI, Tom served as president and chief executive officer of Analytika, Inc., where he effectively grew this early stage software development firm and completed the acquisition of the company by Dendrite International. Prior to 1996, he held progressively more responsible management and executive positions at Oracle and IBM.

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