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Mike Neville, Chairman*

Mike Neville

Mike was appointed Chairman in July 2003 and before this was a non executive director. He has more than 15 years - experience in the telecommunications arena and has previously held various senior management positions with organisations such as Cable & Wireless and latterly Norweb Telecom, where he was a main board director. During his tenure with Cable & Wireless, he travelled extensively representing the company at the most senior level in America and the Pacific Rim. He currently holds a small number of other non executive directorships, where he specialises in advising on strategy, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance.

 

Dr. Klaus Ackerstaff, Chief Executive Officer*

Dr. Klaus Ackerstaff

Dr. Klaus Ackerstaff was appointed Virtue Broadcasting’s CEO in July of 2003. Klaus joined Unit.Net in early 1999 as CTO to lead the design and implementation of both the existing delivery platform and the global streaming media network. With the IT infrastructure in place, Klaus was appointed the company's COO in 2001, in order to manage its expansion accross the European market. Over the next year the company opened sales offices in five European countries, significantly increasing its presence and market share within the region. Klaus was then appointed as the company's CEO, and after the acquisition of Unit.Net in July of 2003 was asked to continue in this capacity and lead the company strategy and vision into the future.

Klaus received his Doctorate in Physics from the University of Hamburg in 1996. His PHD studies included a scholarship at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, and followed three years as a research assistant at DESY, where he worked on applying computing technology to high-energy physics analysis. After earning his PHD Klaus began his professional career at CERN (Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire) in Geneva, where he was responsible for the IT infrastructure of the OPAL (particle physics) project.

 

James Ormondroyd, Chief Financial Officer*

James Ormondroyd joined Virtue Broadcasting in mid 2000 as its Finance Director. Following the merger with Tornado Group Plc Mr. Ormondroyd was appointed Commercial Director of the enlarged group and was subsequently appointed Chief Financial Officer in November of 2002. In 1993 Mr. Ormondroyd graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Physics. After graduation he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Audit division in their London offices, where he became a Chartered Accountant. Mr. Ormondroyd spent a total of seven years at PwC prior to joining Virtue Broadcasting, where he worked in their Business Assurance and Transaction Services division.

 

Daniele Della Libera, Chief Operating Officer

Daniele Della Libera

Daniele Della Libera joined Unit.Net in March 2003 as its Chief Financial Officer, overseeing the financial guidance of the company and its subsidiaries. He was appointed Chief Operating Office at Virtue, after its acquisition of Unit.Net in July 2003. In 1993 Daniele graduated from the Hochschule St. Gallen with a degree in Business and Administration. After graduation, Daniele spent 6 years as a management consultant in Zurich and Paris, before becoming Business Development and Finance Director at Eurospider Information Technology AG, in Zurich. Daniele speaks five European languages fluently.

 

Dan Grapengiesser, Group Sales Director

Dan Grapengiesser

Dan Grapengiesser joined Virtue Broadcasting in August 2002 as a part of the acquisition of Streamway. Following the acquisition Dan worked as Managing Director of the Virtue Corporate Services division and later as Group COO. Following the Unit.Net acquisition, he was appointed Sales Director. In 1995, Dan graduated from The European Business School (EBS), London. He also has a degree in European Business Studies from Halmstad University, Sweden. After graduation, he joined UBS where he worked as a Business Analyst and he later joined Standard & Poors Equity Research where he covered European technology sector as an Equity Analyst. Dan founded Streamway Netcasting in 2000, where he worked as CEO until the acquistion by Virtue in August 2002.

 

* - Member of the Board of Directors

 

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