Abacus America, Inc. is California Corporation which has been in business since 1992. It has two major divisions: (1) A+Net Internet Services (www.aplus.net ), and (2) Rodopi Software (www.rodopi.com). A+Net is a diversified Internet Service Provider and ICANN accredited Domain Names Registrar. It has over 30,000 paying customers and over 150,000 users of the free services offered by A+Net. Rodopi Software develops and sells Rodopi, a provisioning, billing and customer care software package for ISPs. Over 600 ISPs are using Rodopi software.

Rodopi software has developed software specifically designed for domain name registration, software which will be directly applicable to Abacus America’s role as a registry operator. Two additional products have been developed and commercially used for domain names registration: (1) Rodopi DN, a specialized product for domain name registration, and (2) PIRIN, an XML protocol for domain name registration with free API software for C and Perl programming languages used by resellers. Both software packages incorporate Registrar-Partner Protocol (RRP) technology. Both are commercially available. Over 400 resellers are using PIRIN.

Abacus America’s mission is to provide quality Internet services to the public on a horizontal marketing basis, without niche preferences. The company provides quality software solutions to ISPs for automated provisioning, billing and customer care.

Abacus America is a privately held corporation. Sales for fiscal year 2000 were $7.2 million, up from $4.1 million for fiscal year 1999. The company continues to enjoy healthy growth in revenues. Abacus America is also fiscally conservative and very financially stable, with no outstanding loans against the company. Operations carry an average gross profit margin of forty percent (40%), while most of the profits are reinvested to continue the growth of the company. Abacus America has been continuously profitable since 1994.

The market for Internet domain names is growing at the same rate as the Internet itself. More and more businesses and individuals will seek to claim their own piece of the Internet by reserving their own domain name. This trend has been very strong in the past: 23 million domain names have been registered to date, with over half of those registrations occurring in the last twelve (12) months. Abacus America believes this trend will be further fueled by the introduction of new TLDs. According to a recent research study by register.com, over 340 million domain names will be registered by the end of year 2003.

Abacus America, Inc. is well positioned to participate in this market:

a) Abacus America has vast experience as a registrar, and was the ninth (9^th) ICANN accredited registrar worldwide for existing TLDs;

b) Abacus America has developed two commercial products for domain name registration: (1) Rodopi DN and (2) PIRIN;

c) Abacus America has developed a working prototype of a registry system Rodopi R for the proposed new TLDs, including RRP server, WhoIs server and registrar billing. A test drive of this software is available at http://rodopi.abac.net .

d) Abacus America has the human and financial resources to support the operation of new registry for the proposed new TLDs, as well as the stability to ensure that it will be around for many years to operate the registry and fulfill its obligations as a registry.

The management team of Abacus America consists of seasoned executives with thirty (30) years of combined experience in product development and over twenty (20) years of experience in marketing and management. All members of the management team have earned their Masters degrees, and one member has earned their PhD. One of the members is a former executive of Cisco.

Abacus America is seeking accreditation by ICANN as a registry for the following new TLDs (in alphabetical order): .biz. cool. fam .inc and .xxx. If accredited, Abacus America will subscribe an estimated one million domain names per quarter through the use of ICANN-accredited registrars. Abacus America will therefore be in a position to contribute to the diversity of the Internet, the competitiveness of the domain name market, while providing the stability to this process based on well-thought out processes, procedures, software tools, enhancements to the utility of the DNS, protection of the intellectual property rights of third parties, and a wealth of background and experience as an existing ICANN-accredited registrar. Moreover, Abacus America’s financial resources and fiscal health will ensure that Abacus America will remain a long-standing participant as a new TLD registry.

D13.1 Registry Operator’s Capabilities

D13.1.1 Company Information

Abacus America, Inc. was organized as a California corporation on July, 1st, 1992. Its corporate headquarters are located at 4660 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite 880, San Diego, CA, 92122.

In 1995 Abacus organized its A+Net division to provide Internet services (described in more detail below). A+Net now generates more than 80% of the company’s total revenues.

In 1996, Abacus organized a second division named Rodopi Software. Rodopi Software makes Rodopi billing/management/customer care software for the ISP and telecommunications industries (www.rodopi.com). This division generates about 15% of the company’s total revenues.

Both the A+Net and Rodopi Software divisions have separate sales, development and support staff. Both divisions share management, accounting and marketing services through the parent company Abacus America, Inc.

A+Net has two more offices located at: 5266 Eastgate Mall, San Diego, CA, 92121 and 300 South Harbor Boulevard, Suite 520, Anaheim, CA, 92805.

Abacus America presently employs 74 full time employees. Over 30% of these employees have BS degrees, over 20% have BA degrees, and more than 15% have MS degrees.

Abacus America is privately held corporation with Ivan Vachovsky and Lilian Vachovsky being the majority stockowners. All key employees (over 40% of the employees) have stock options in various stages of vesting. No minority shareholder (including those vested in the stock option pool) holds more than 5% in the company.

Abacus America is a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider. It has established partnerships with numerous technology companies, including Intel, Cisco, Lucent, 3COM, Compaq and several others technology and software companies for the purposes of integrating Rodopi Software for distribution with these companies’ products. References are available in section D13.4.2 below.

D13.1.2 Current Business Operations

Abacus America provides products and services to its clients through its two major divisions: A+Net and Rodopi Software. In general, A+Net provides diversified Internet services, whereas Rodopi Software provides provisioning, billing and customer care software to other ISPs.

A. Services

1. Domain Name Registration

Abacus America, Inc. was the 4th ICANN-accredited domain name registrar following the initial test period (the 9^th accredited registrar world wide). Abacus America operates under the fictitious business name “names4ever” (www.names4ever.com). Domain names are offered directly to the consumers or through a network of other ISP partners. There are over 400 registered partners.

2. Web Hosting

A+Net, a division of Abacus America, Inc. provides a variety of web hosting plans to satisfy consumer demand. Advanced plans include on-line database management in addition to e-commerce features like on-line product catalogs and on-line credit card billing. The more simple plans are designed to be inexpensive and easy to understand by mass consumers. For example, the “websolo” hosting plan has been branded and sold on its own site at http://www.websolo.com.

To make its services even more appealing to the non-experienced user, A+Net has developed and offers (free of charge) a “do it yourself” web page development tool for people with zero or little knowledge of HTML language and no programming and/or writing experience.

A+Net hosts close to 100,000 domains currently and is adding about 7,000 more per month. The web hosting plans represent about 40% of the total plans served by A+Net. More than 90% of all web hosting is for medium and small businesses. These figures do not include personal web pages, available with every dial-up account, as well as the free web hosting which is offered in exchange for banner ads.

3. Internet Dial-Up Connectivity

A+Net offers nationwide modem dial-up services. A+Net utilizes the latest V.90 technology to provide speed of up to 56Kbs over a single channel connection and up to 128 Kbs over dual channel connection (known as “shotgun”). The quality of the services is secured by using state of the art equipment from Ascend and Cisco, as well as the best possible backbone connections from UUNet and MCI (recently ranked #1 and #2 as Internet backbones for year 1998 by “Interactive Week” magazine). To secure nationwide coverage, A+Net is reselling services from well-known wholesalers like PSINet and Epoch.

A+Net differentiates from it’s competitors by (a) offering 24/7 instant account activation; (b) providing 24/7 quality live support; (c) offering a “no busy signals” policy in writing; and (4) providing access to an interactive on-line “control panel” for account management.

A+Net has a variety of dial-up plans. The “bestseller” among these plans is the “unlimited dial-up with five (5) e-mail accounts and 2MB personal web site” for $19.95 mo. The dial-up connectivity accounts represent less than 20% of all A+Net accounts.

4. DSL and Other Dedicated Lines

A+Net provides dedicated connections to the Internet for business customers and consumers. A+Net uses all presently available technologies in order to serve customers in different areas with different needs, primarily utilizing DSL. A+Net also offers Satellite Internet Connection for rural areas and events, Centrex ISDN, Frame Relay and Point to Point (T1, T3). The number of accounts utilizing these technologies is relatively small (less than 5%), but the revenues generated from these services is approximately 10% of the total Internet services revenues.

Abacus America expects the number of such accounts to grow rapidly with the growing popularity of the DSL technology as an affordable high-speed alternative to Internet access equivalent (if not superior) to cable modems.

5. Bundles

A+Net offers bundled Internet services in its efforts to attract wider market audience. In essence, these bundles combine the same connectivity and web hosting services listed above in a manner meant to provide greater value to the consumer.

6. E-Commerce

A+Net offers complete e-commerce solutions. A+Net has its own proprietary product, called Mercury Merchant Server (http://www.abac.com/merchant.html). A+Net offers an on-line catalog, on-line store and back office package for e-commerce sites involving the sale of tangible items. Tax and shipping charges are calculated automatically.

For sales of non-tangible items, such as club memberships, newsletters, software, etc., A+Net offers a solution called “paybutton”. (www.paybutton.com). Paybutton supports member databases, passwords, usage statistics, on-line credit card processing and reports. Hundreds of Merchants worldwide are using A+Net’s e-commerce solutions.

7. Server Hosting (Co-Location)

A+Net has built out facilities for co-locating customer servers. This service is available to anyone who wishes to provide content to the Internet from his or her own server and seeks to save the expense of bringing high-speed links to their own location.

Services include rack space, an uninterrupted power supply, straight high speed connection to the Internet, services which assist the customer in building a server if the customer does not already have one, a remotely-opeated power outlet allowing for remote rebooting of the server, daily back up of the content and experienced consultation.

To attract server-hosting customers, A+Net also provides 24/7 access to the working area so that customers can work on their servers locally at any time. A+Net makes its conference area available so that web designers, programmers and others who are hosting servers with A+Net can invite their customers for discussions, project reviews, etc. Moreover, in order to attract customers nationwide and worldwide, and to avoid shipping equipment, A+Net is offering new combined plan for server co-location and server rental. The package is offered under the brand name www.server4me.com.

8. E-Mail and Newsgroups

E-mail services and news services are included in the connectivity and web hosting plans mentioned above.

9. Rodopi Outsource

Rodopi Outsource is a true ASP operation provided by the Rodopi Software division for over two years. Rodopi Software will install and maintain the software and the database for the customer, after which time the customer can use the product through the web interface. The customer does not need anything other than an Internet-connected computer and a web browser. Over 50 ISPs are using the Rodopi Outsource service.

10. Credit Card Processing

This service is offered through the Rodopi Service Bureau Gateway. It is a gateway service for processing credit cards over the Internet. The advantage over competing services is based on its 15-times-faster processing time as compared to an ordinary modem. Because credit card processors do not offer to merchants a means by which to process cards over the Internet directly, business opportunities have been created for so-called credit card processing gateways. RSB Gateway is one of the gateways benefiting from this opportunity. The service is fairly new and only one processor, Paymentech, is presently supported. Five additional processors are being added to the gateway, bringing the total processors to six (6), covering approximately 95% of the U.S. market. No significant revenues have been generated from this service to date.

11. Clearing House Services

A+Net acts as a Clearing House (CH) for the Rodopi Club. Rodopi Club is a society of ISPs who are using Rodopi Software. Because it is advantageous for ISPs to share resources and to aggregate their buying power, A+Net manages both. Three programs are currently in place: (a) POP-Depot, whereby ISP share their dial-up ports by selling flat rate dial-up accounts to each other for resell to their customers; (b) Roaming, whereby ISP members of Rodopi Club share their dial up ports for purposes of roaming their customers, and (c) DSL Services provided by A+Net to all Rodopi Club members for resale.

12. Advertising

A+Net provides free e-mail and web hosting service at http://www.fiberia.com under the brand name FIBERIA. Currently there are more than 100,000 users using these services. They generate more than 2,500,000 visits per month to FIBERIA sites. The growth has been constant at approximately 10% per month.

About 50% of these pages are used by A+Net to display its own banners. A+Net also sells over 1 million banner exposures per month through its agent “24/7 media Corporation.” The list price is $10 per 1,000 displays. Agent commissions are approximately 50%.

B. Products

13. Rodopi 5.0

Rodopi 5.0 is a provisioning, billing and customer care software for ISPs (www.rodopi.com). It is feature rich and completely web enabled. Rodopi is one of the best software packages available for small and medium ISPs. Rodopi is being used by over 600 ISPs worldwide. Among the customers are “Cable and Wireless” (NYSE: CWP); Unisys (NYSE:UIS); Interliant (NASDAQ: INIT); Pegasus Communications (NASDAQ: PGTV); United Telesis; and DataFast Communications (Australia).

14. Rodopi Modules

Several Rodopi modules are being sold separately. These include Marketing Manager, Voice Messaging Server, VoIP server, FoIP server and DSL Link.

15. Rodopi DN

Rodopi DN is modified Rodopi 4.03 for domain name registrars. Currently, Rodopi DN is being used by names4ever.com. Demand exists for this product from several other ICANN-accredited registrars for the product. Orders are on hold pending the upgrade of the product so that it is compatible with Rodopi 5.0.

16. Rodopi R (new and presently in beta testing)

This product is a complete system for ICANN-accredited registries of TLDs and ccTLDs. The system includes RRP server, RRP client, Whois server, Zone file distribution, as well as publication, billing for both resellers (registrars) and consumers and several other useful modules.

17. Third Party Products

Abacus America presently resells numerous third party products for the convenience of its Internet and Rodopi software customers. These products include computer hardware, software, and networking hardware and software from name brand companies such as Intel, Compaq, Microsoft, Cisco, Lucent, and Sun. The revenues generated by such sales are only 5% of the total revenues.

C. Customer Support

A+Net realizes that the quality of customer support is key to its success. In order to provide quality customer support, A+Net implements:

1. Screening of employment candidates, including careful screening and testing for technical skills and knowledge.

2. Well-equipped working desks with everything needed for on-line diagnostic and resolution of the problem.

3. Rules and procedures for everyone to follow.

4. Multi-tiered, three-level support structure. When a problem cannot be resolved at the lower level, a ticket is created and the problem is escalated to a higher level.

5. Access to the billing system by both consumers and help desk personnel.

6. An advanced management system, allowing for easy on-line references and quick changes of passwords, user names, e-mails. This system also allows changes to be made without reaching the servers, reducing the risk of damage to the server while allowing employees with a lower qualification to perform operations requiring higher skills.

7. Advanced ticket system.

8. Management monitoring system.

9. State of the art communication system

10. Knowledge database.

Abacus America is so confident that its customers will like the support they are receiving, it provides an unconditional money back guarantee good within 15 to 45 days from any purchase.

D. Facilities

A+Net has state of the art facilities in order to be able to provide quality Internet services. These facilities are equipped with everything needed to meet the highest professional standards. Two major telecommunication companies, Pacific Bell and MCI WorldComm, provide their own fiber optic cable and fiber optic equipment in the A+Net computer room. This is OC-12 equipment, capable of providing 12 T3 connections each, for a total of 24 T3 or 672 T1. By way of comparison, there are many small and regional ISPs who are operating on a single T1 line.

All computer rooms are equipped with double floors, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), and 19” professional racks with telemetric sensors to monitor the temperature and humidity. All servers are rack mountable. Desktop machines are allowed in customer server areas only. The Special Network Operations Center (NOC) monitors the status of the network on a 24/7 basis. Key system managers are paged if any parameter reaches the pre-determined threshold level. Graphic displays show the status of all servers and act as a backup for the monitoring of service personnel.

D13.1.3 Past Business Operations / Entity History

Abacus America has no business operations prior to its formation on July 1, 1992. From 1992 through 1995, Abacus America operated as one entity and was involved in computer networking and computer system integration. Since 1995, Abacus America has operated its two divisions, A+Net and Rodopi Software.

D13.1.4 Registry / Database / Internet-Related Experience and Activities

A. Registrar Experience

Since 1995, Abacus America has been completely focused on Internet-related services (A+Net) and software development for the Internet industry (Rodopi Software).

Abacus America was the fourth (4^th) ICANN-accredited TLD registrar following the conclusion of the test bed period in 1999 (the ninth (9^th) registrar accredited worldwide). It has since operated under the brand name “names4ever” (www.names4ever.com). During that time, Abacus America has registered nearly 90,000 domain names.

In order to better facilitate the process of registering domain names, Abacus America developed its own RRP client software, as well as a complete system including “Whois” server and a billing module. Furthermore, Abacus America developed special searching tools for domain names, providing consumers with information about available names, taken names, ownership of each name, as well as suggestions for available synonyms related to the desired name when it was not available.

Abacus America also developed PIRIN, an XML based Registrar-Partner protocol for domain name registration, in order to benefit from the marketing opportunities offered by resellers. To facilitate PIRIN implementation on resellers side Abacus America offers free API for C and Perl programmers as well as complete solutions for implementing PIRIN in CGI’s. PIRIN specifications and API are freely downloadable from the www.names4ever.com website. It can be easily incorporated with any existing software. Extensive examples and samples are provided to make the integration easy.

Rodopi DN is a special modification of the company’s own flagship software product Rodopi specifically designed for domain names registrars. In addition to domain name registration through RRP client, Rodopi DN offers complete billing and customer care solution. Rodopi DN supports automated DNS zone files generation for newly registered domain names as option for free parking. The Registrar’s Whois server is included in Rodopi DN package.

B. Internet Experience

Abacus America is focused entirely on Internet services and products. One hundred percent (100%) of company’s activities center upon Internet services and products.

Internet Services (the A+Net division) generate about 80% of corporate revenues and consist of Internet connectivity, web hosting, e-commerce, server co-location and clearinghouse services. Details about the services are listed above in Section D13.1.2 relating to Current Business Operations.

Internet Products (the Rodopi Software division) generate about 15% of the corporate revenues. The main product is the proprietary software called Rodopi. Rodopi is a provisioning, billing and customer care software package for the Internet industry. Over 600 ISP worldwide are using Rodopi software. Among them are Cable and Wireless, Unisys, Interliant, DataFast (Autralia) etc. Details about this product are also provided in Section D13.1.2 relating to Current Business Operations

C. Registry Experience

Abacus America has been in preparation for over two years to become one of the new TLD Registries. As part of this preparation the company developed Rodopi R and is currently in beta testing of this software package. As described above, Rodopi R is a special software system designed specifically for TLD Registries. It includes RRP server (implementing latest RRP 1.1.0 as specified in RFC-2832), Whois server, DNS zone file generation and secure distribution system, billing module, security, backup and other helpful modules.

Abacus America is prepared to expand its beta testing of Rodopi R with other ICANN-accredited registrars and to utilize the software package for commercial TLD registrations once Abacus America is approved to be one of the new TLD Registries.

D. Database Experience

Abacus America has extensive database experience. It employs 10 software developers, each of whom is proficient with SQL databases. Such experience spans well beyond academic knowledge and into real practical commercial applications. Over 600 ISPs worldwide are using Rodopi Software, which is based on a Microsoft^® SQL Server. For over four years, A+Net has been offering commercial web hosting plans with built-in database services. A+Net is also servicing hundreds of customers with database-enabled plans. In this regard, the database knowledge is not only the prerogative of the software engineers, but also extends to the system engineers and support staff as well.

E. Automated Service Provisioning

A+Net was among the first ISPs back in 1995 to offer “instant account activation” to its customers for both dial-up and web hosting services. It was able to achieve this through completely automated provisioning offered by Rodopi Software, the software package that was developed in-house.

Today, the automated provisioning is an integral part of Rodopi Software. Complex setup allows the product to initiate automated provisioning on a variety of remote servers through a technique called “event scripts.” The event scripts can be managed by Rodopi remotely and can be executed on variety of platforms (NT, Unix, Solaris, Linux, etc.). Rodopi controls various services like DNS, RADIUS, Email, Web, etc. through its event scripts system.

D13.1.5 Mission

Abacus America is committed to providing quality Internet services to consumers, businesses and resellers. By becoming a Registry for the new TLDs, Abacus America will contribute to the diversity of the Internet and will provide the Internet community with more choices, currently not available in a reliable and secure manner, while working to protect the intellectual property rights of third parties. In addition to the currently used RRP protocol, Abacus Registry will offer to registrars an XML based Registry-Registrar protocol that is easy to parse and validate. To ensure high reliability and faster activation of domain names, the Abacus Registry will use Dynamic DNS to modify zone files of all DNS servers for the domains it manages. Abacus Registry intends to implement new features like XML formatted Whois response when corresponding Internet draft becomes RFC.

D13.1.6 Management

Mr. Ivan Vachovsky, President and CEO

Objective: To lead A+Net to prosperity to the benefit of its shareholders.

Skills:

Technology – Extensive knowledge of computer hardware, networks and software and all related technologies. Has “hands on” experience as software developer and hardware designer.

Management – Occupied top-level managerial positions since 1985. Has “hands on” experience with managing of business development, marketing, human resources, financial. Has experience in various business legal activities like: business incorporation, copyright issues, Internet related laws and regulations, real estate lease (on both ends as a landlord and as a tenant), government regulations of communications FCC, SEC registration and reporting process, regulation bodies for the Internet like ICANN etc. Has experience in setting up corporate policies as a member of board of directors of various multimillion-dollar corporations as well as chairman of the board of ABACUS since 1989.

Writing - Author of one book and numerous articles. Writes most of the corporate rules, procedures, business plans and other documents. Prepares all corporate contracts and agreements to be reviewed and completed by corporate lawyers.

Professional experience:

ABACUS America Inc., dba A+Net 1992 - current

Owner, Founder, President – Started the company in 1992 with 1 employee and 100 sq. foot office. In 2000, the Company has 70+ employees, three offices and total space of more than 20,000 sq. feet. Developed all major strategies for the Company including Products, Marketing, Sales, Human Resources and Finance. Worked with other key officers of the Company to implement those strategies and to achieve the goals set. Major accomplishments include:

Achieved an annual revenue growth of 110% per year average for the last 6 years.
Secured prosperity for the company by choosing the right product blend.
Improved the profitability by making a major turnaround from low margin Computer Sales to Network Services, Internet Ser vices and Software development.

ABACUS Trade, Ltd. 1989 - 1992

Owner, Founder, President – Started the company out of an apartment in Sofia, Bulgaria. Within 3 years, the company reached revenues of up to $20 million. Developed all major strategies for the Company including Products, Marketing, Sales, Human Resources and Finance. Worked with other key officers of the Company to implement those strategies and to achieve the goals set. Moved to the U.S. in 1992 and left the Bulgar ian company to family members. The company is still operational and prosperous.

Bulgarian Government 1985 - 1989

Director, Counselor – Advised Bulgarian Government on a variety of technological issues. The positions held provided significant power and management experience during years of strongly centralized and government-run economy. As a board of directors member, directly supervised and influenced the management decision of multimillion dollar companies like ISOT (computers), INCOMS (communications), KAM (factory automation), KATP (factory and design automation) and BalkanCar (world’s largest fork lift truck manufacturer).

Central Institute for Computers (CIIT), Sofia, Bulgaria 1973 – 1985

Researcher, Senior Researcher, Project Manager – Developed computers, software and peripherals compatible with IBM PC line of computers and DEC PDP-11 and VAX lines of computers. As a project manager and team leader, managed groups of developers as large as 200 research engineers, technicians and support personnel. Worked with peers in major manufacturing plants to introduce the newly developed products into mass production.

EDUCATION

High School Diploma, Graduated in 1969 with honors, best of the class, gold medal.

MS Electronic Engeneering, Technical University, Sofia, Graduated in 1975 with honors.

Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Technical University, Sofia 1980

INTERESTS and HOBBIES

Outdoor sports - Skiing, Wind Surfing, Fishing

Mr. Arthur R. Ekroos, Vice President Business Development, Sales and Marketing

Mr. Ekroos is a versatile professional with over 20 years experience managing business units including sales, marketing, product development, engineering and manufacturing. Products he has been responsible for include POS Terminals, Software Programs, Transaction Network Communications systems, Interactive Voice Response systems, Telecommunications systems incorporating both voice and data, and RF Wireless Networking equipment (UHF, VHF & Spread Spectrum). He is adept at working with customers and in house personnel to define and deliver products to the marketplace.

Since joining Abacus, he has forged alliances with Ascend, Lucent, Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, Nortel Networks, Diamond Multi media, Call Technologies, Open Port, Funk Software, Vircom and NetSurfer relative to both A+Net Internet and Rodopi Software. This will bring in substantial business in the future. Some of these alliances include joint product development, marketing and sales programs.

Prior to joining Abacus America, he was the President of RF Neulink, a division of RF Industries, where he set up a sales distribution network, changed the marketing direction and increased revenues by 100%. In addition he forged alliances with Motorola, SRI, SAIC and Torro resulting in orders in excess of $5 million and long term projections of more than $35 million. At the same time profit margins were increased by more than 20% through outsourcing and redistribution of tasks.

Previous positions held by Mr. Ekroos include President of Autogenics Systems, Inc. in Berkley California, where he returned the company to profitability and negotiated the sale of the company. He was a Vice President at Saber Equipment Corp. where he formed alliances with major oil companies and successfully negotiated with several state agencies, including the California Air Resource Board. He was recruited to Alta Technology as a Vice President where he setup sales distribution in the US, Canada and South America, and sold computer based products and systems to banks and state agencies. At Periphonics Corporation he became Vice President and General Manager of a division of the company after serving in several capacities from Engineering Manager to Director of Marketing to Senior Director of Operations.

Mr. Ekroos holds a BSEE from the Polytechnic University and has taken numerous courses from the Wharton School, the American Management Association and Stevens Institute of Technology.

Abacus America, Inc. San Diego, California 9/98 – Present

Vice President, Business Development, Sales & Marketing

RF Industries, RF Neulink division San Diego, California 1/97 – 8/98

President

Saber Equipment Corp. California / Connecticut 1/90 - 12/96

Vice President

Alta Technology Stamford, Connecticut 8/82 - 12/89

Vice President

Autogenic Systems Inc. Berkeley, California 2/81-8/82

President

Periphonics Corporation California / New York 1/71-2/81

Vice President and General Manager 11/78-2/81

Senior Director of Operations 9/76-11/78

Director of Marketing 3/74-9/76

Engineer / Engineering Manager 1/71-3/74

Mr. Robert A. Degan, Director

Nov., 1998 - Dec., 1999 CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. – Public Company

Manchester, NH

General Manager – Enhanced Services & Migration Unit (Formerly Summa Four)

Increased the Summa Four Business Unit’s (ESMBU revenue to $125M.

Summa Four, Inc. was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. in November, 1998.

1997 - Nov., 1998 SUMMA FOUR, INC. – Public Company Manchester, NH

Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer

Summa Four is a leading provider of open, programmable switching platforms that enable telecommunication service providers worldwide to build intelligent, flexible networks that support the rapid deployment of new wireline and wireless services. Summa Four is a $50M Company.

1989 - 1996 TYLINK CORPORATION – Private Company Norton, MA