Jeffrey Burgan is currently the Senior Director of Backbone Engineering at Excite@Home where he's responsible for the overall architecture and engineering for their nationwide backbone network. Previously, he worked at Bay Networks for two years where he managed the software engineering group responsible for architecture and development of the router software base for use by ISPs. Prior to that, he worked for six years at the NASA Ames Research Center and was responsible for the engineering and development of the NASA Science Internet network. He currently serves on the technical advisory boards of several start-ups. He also served for three years on the Internet Engineering Steering Group of the IETF. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Computer Science.

Mr. Maella began his career at WorldCom supporting the long distance voice network where he designed the WCOM operator services network and supported the DMS-250 network. He then moved to the Network Architecture group where he was responsible for the design of the Voice-Enhanced Services Network in Europe and the United States. He advanced into the Data Technologies group of WCOM where he worked on the deployment of the ATM backbone for the Frame Relay network and the WCOM ATM services network.

After leaving WCOM, Mr. Maella contracted with Williams to work its ATM network. He was responsible for ATM, Frame Relay, and IP architectures.

Mr. Smith has over twenty -five years experience in developing successful sales and marketing organizations for emerging telecommunications companies. Mr. Smith was most recently the Vice. President of Sales for FlowWise Networks, Inc. a provider of a new class of networking products used to increase the performance of local area networks. He served in this capacity since Nov. 1997. FlowWise was acquired by NET in December of 1999.

Prior to FlowWise, Mr. Smith was the Sr. Vice Pres. of Sales and Marketing of Premisys Communications, Inc. since Aug. of 1992. Premisys is a supplier of multi-service access platforms for the Service Provider market. At Premisys . Mr. Smith lead the development of strategic relationships with such industry leaders as Lucent, ADC, DSC, Alcatel, and Motorola. Having these companies as Corporate partners resulted in exceptional growth for the Company and a successful IPO in April of 1995.

Mr. Smith joined Premisys from Newbridge Networks, a major supplier of wide area networks, where he served in a similar capacity since Dec of 1987. Prior to that, Mr. Smith also held Vice President of Sales Positions at both TimePlex and General DataComm Ind.

Mr. Smith currently serves on several industry advisory boards and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Visual Networks, Inc since Sept. 1997.

Eric is a business consultant, private investor and Board member of several Silicon Valley high-tech companies.

Eric is a co-founder, Board Member, and Senior Vice President of Avant!, an IC Design Automation software leader. At Avant!, his responsibilities included sales, marketing and corporate management. Prior to co-founding Avant!, Eric had held technical and management positions at Cadence Design Systems, GE, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Citibank and RCA Laboratories.

Eric received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in EECS from U. C. Berkeley, and B.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. In addition, he has an MBA degree from New York University.

Vijay Lewis is a Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Valiant Networks - a Silicon Valley startup specializing in professional design, test/integration, and outsourced NOC Management Services for telecommunications vendors and carriers. Before founding this company, he served as Director of Data Architecture and Technologies in the Network Development group of the Williams Network. There he was responsible for developing network architectures, technology integration, selecting network equipment, and specifying end-to-end solutions for network services and applications. He has 10 years of experience in Telecommunications and Data Networking.

He began his career in carrier telecommunications with WilTel in 1993 working on ISDN and ATM networking solutions. Just before joining Williams in 1998, Vijay served as a Member of Technical Staff at WorldCom, and led of team of engineers in designing, testing, and supporting its Frame Relay and ATM networks. Between 1988 and 1991, he worked at CMC Ltd. (an IBM/Digital/Unisys support company run by the Govt. of India) as a computer and networking engineer supporting the hardware, software, and networking needs of a range of systems from mainframes to PCs.

Mr. Lewis holds a BE in Electronics from Bangalore University, India, and an MS in Telecommunications from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana.

Kenneth A. Shulman is a visionary senior executive with 24 years of leadership in communications technology. Before joining Broadview Networks, he was a vice president at AT&T, responsible for the aggressive use of technology for the build-out of AT&T's local networks. Shulman joined AT&T with its merger with Teleport Communications Group (TCG), where he launched broadband, switched, private line and cellular services during an 11-year tenure. Earlier, he served as director of systems engineering for MCI International and specialized in network planning at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) and Bell Laboratories.

Shulman has a B.S. in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School.

Barton Y. Shigemura, currently President and CEO of Alidian Networks Inc. Prior to joining Alidian, was Vice President, Marketing for Lucent Technologies Data Networks Division (now known as Internetworking Division).

Prior to Lucent Technologies, he was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing and a Board member of Yurie Systems, which was a publicly traded company acquired by Lucent in 1998. Shigemura was Vice President of Marketing and Services for Premisys Communications. He also held marketing and sales positions at GDC, Nortel and IBM.

Mr. Shigemura holds a B.S. degree in Finance and Marketing from University of Southern California and is an acting board member of Alidian and Ennovate Networks.

Dr. John McQuillan is one of the world's foremost authorities on advanced networks. At McQuillan Ventures, he evaluates new business opportunities in broadband networking and serves as an independent investor and advisor to network entrepreneurs. John is also a Venture Partner at Redpoint Ventures. John has served on multiple advisory boards, including those of MMC, Redstone and Shasta.

John spent the first decade of his career at BBN, working on the ARPANET, which was the predecessor to the Internet. He invented link state routing and developed the SPF (shortest path first) routing algorithm. This seminal research forms the foundation for most present-day algorithms for routers and ATM switches. He also developed the first network management system for a packet network.

As a venture capitalist and network pioneer, John is uniquely positioned to observe, analyze and comment on the trends in today's fast-paced networking marketplace. In addition to investing, he chairs the annual Next Generation Networks (NGN) and NGN Ventures conferences. This work brings McQuillan Ventures in contact with a range of traditional as well as emerging companies and continually refreshes the firm's store of industry knowledge.

During the past decade John has also consulted with many leading network vendors, carriers, customers, investors and start ups. Over 100 of his monthly columns have been published in Business Communications Review, earning him a reputation for accurately predicting and clearly explaining each major new development in communications.

Dr. McQuillan received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University.

Dr. Dave McDysan is currently a Fellow at MCI WorldCom in the Internet Architecture & Technology Department. Prior to this assignment, he led an architectural planning group for next generation switched networks at MCI and MCI WorldCom. He architected and designed the customer controlled value-added ATM SVC service, called the Smart Bandwidth Service, as announced at Comnet 2000. He led the architecture, design, testing, and implementation of the MCI trial and commercial ATM networks. This included the first nationwide OC3 network in 1994, upgraded to OC12 speeds in 1996 for the National Science Foundation's very high-speed Backbone Network Service.

He planned and developed the architecture and designs for the MCI frame relay. He architected and designed the digital cross connect control network, marketed as the Hyperlink service. In the late 1980s, he architected and developed the intelligent network architecture still in use by MCI WorldCom for advanced voice services, like 800, calling card, and Vnet. Prior to the acquisition of Satellite Business Systems by MCI in 1986, he was the lead engineer for demand assignment and traffic management for the satellite network.

Dr. McDysan is currently chair of the Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) technical committee. He served as board member and technical committee chairman for the ATM Forum. He has co-authored three books on ATM and is the author of a book on QoS and traffic management, all published by McGraw-Hill. Wiley will publish a book on VPNs Applications authored by him in the Spring of 2000.

Prior to working with Vivace, Sam Halabi held key marketing positions at leading networking firms, including Cisco Systems and Extreme Networks. Author of the best-selling book "Internet Routing Architectures," Halabi is on the Board of the Optical Internetworking Forum and is an active member of the MPLS Forum.

He holds an MSCS from San Jose State University and a BSCE from American University, Beirut.

Mr. McManus joined UUNET in January of 1996 as Vice President of Systems Engineering. During his time at UUNET, he oversaw the design, creation, maintenance and growth of UUNET's Network Systems Management, Network Engineering, and Strategic Technologies, which included the continuing development of the largest TCP/IP network in the world. Mr. McManus also directed the Global Product Engineering Group, whose accomplishments have been recognized with many industry awards.

Prior to joining UUNET Technologies, Mr. McManus was the Vice President of Systems Engineering at Salomon, Inc., where he was responsible for strategic networked systems planning and operational support for all North American business units. Additionally, he oversaw the strategic planning of all global technology installations and operations.

Mr. McManus serves on the Board of Directors of V-One (NASDAQ: Vone).

Mr. McManus earned his B.E. in Engineering and M.B.A. (Finance) from Manhattan College.

Richard H. Wilder is Principal Scientist for Masergy Communications. His responsibilities include long-term architecture and network planning. He also manages the Product Concepts group which produces product descriptions for new Masergy offerings. Rick also co-chairs the Provider-Provisioned Virtual Private Network Working Group at the Internet Engineering Task Force, and is Vice-Chairman of the MPLS Forum.

Rick worked for MCI/Worldcom from 1994-2000 where he was Director of Advanced Internet Engineering. He was responsible for developing MCI WorldCom advanced data services, including vBNS (Very High Performance Network Service), an IP network for the research and education community. His team of engineers was charged with next generation IP application development, including native IP multicasting, Quality of Service (RSVP, DiffServe), IPv6 (the next generation Internet protocol), and high bandwidth network engineering. Rick was also an original member of the design and implementation team for internetMCI, MCI's nationwide Internet network.

Before joining MCI, Rick was a senior engineer with Advanced Network Services (ANS). While at ANS, he performed simulation and measurement studies of alternative high-speed IP architectures; deployed audio/video conferencing capability among ANS's main sites; and designed and implemented a key management protocol for virtual private networks using the ANS IP backbone.

Rick held numerous engineering positions in both private and public sectors, including the MITRE Corporation, the CALCULON Corporation, the U.S. Navy SPAWARS Unit Level Switch (ULS) project; and the University of Maryland.

Several articles authored by Wilder have been published in leading industry and conference journals including the IEEE Network , IEEE Communications Magazine, Computer Communications Review.

Rick holds a master of science degree in computer science from American University; a bachelor of science-equivalent degree in computer science from the University of Maryland and George Washington University; and a bachelor of arts degree with highest distinction in psychology from the University of Virginia.

Chris is a co-founder and Vice President of Hardware Engineering at NVIDIA Corporation, the industry leading supplier of 3D graphics processors. Prior to NVIDIA, he spent over 6 years at Hewlett-Packard involved in minicomputer design and another 6 1/2 years at Sun Microsystems designing graphics accelerators. Chris holds well over 30 patents in the areas of system and circuit design. Besides his management role at NVIDIA, Chris is still active in the design and verification of the company's award winning graphics processors. He holds a BSEE from the University of Florida and a MSCS from Santa Clara University.