Stephen R. Leeolou

Stephen R. Leeolou has spent the past 30 years in the telecommunications and communications industries.From 1982 to 1999, Mr. Leeolou was co-founder and COO, then CEO of Vanguard Cellular Systems, Inc., one of the first cellular telephone companies in the United States.

Headquartered in Greensboro, N.C., Vanguard operated in 28 suburban and rural markets in the eastern U.S. under the Cellular One brand name. Mr. Leeolou helped guide the company through more than $1 billion of private and public financing transactions, dozens of acquisitions, and operating growth that reached nearly one million subscribers.

Publicly listed on NASDAQ, Vanguard was sold to AT&T in 1999 for approximately $1.7 billion. After the sale of Vanguard, Mr. Leeolou served for two years as Chairman and CEO of InterAct Electronic Marketing, Inc. which provided on-line and in-store targeted promotional services in the U.S. and U.K. retail grocery and pharmacy industries.

In 2002, he formed SouthStar Capital, LLC, a private investment firm owned primarily by Mr. Leeolou and his family which, in 2004, became and remains Conterra’s largest owner.

Prior to his 17 years in wireless communications, Mr. Leeolou was a print, radio and television journalist, primarily in the southeastern U.S.He is a 1978 graduate of James Madison University and was appointed by Governors Warner and Kain of Virginia to serve on the JMU's Board of Visitors, a position he still holds.

Dennis B. Francis, P.E.

Dennis Francis has 26-years of experience as a professional engineer, senior technical manager and operating manager in major telecom corporations that include Southwestern Bell, Ericsson, Nortel, Vanguard Cellular Systems, AT&T Wireless, US Wireless and Nextel.

Mr. Francis worked with Mr. Leeolou at Vanguard from 1992 - 1999 as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer where he was in charge of all technology development, cellular and IT systems deployment and technical operations, and managed an annual capital budget of up to $75 million. While at Nextel from 2001 to 2005, Mr. Francis was responsible for all IT systems supporting sales, marketing, customer service/operations and new products and had budget responsibility of up to $200 million annually.

Mr. Francis is a licensed Professional Engineer and served on President Bush’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) in 2002 and 2003. He received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Texas-Arlington.

Eric D. Burgess

Eric Burgess has more than 18 years of financial management experience including all aspects of accounting, financial reporting, internal controls, budgeting and forecasting. Mr. Burgess has held senior management positions in various entities ranging from start-up privately held companies to large publicly traded companies.

Mr. Burgess has been involved in securing financings for these entities ranging from small debt facilities to private and public offerings in excess of several hundred million dollars. Mr. Burgess has extensive mergers and acquisition experience on both the buy and sell sides.

Mr. Burgess was Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Oakwood Homes which was a publicly traded company with revenues in excess of $1.5 billion. Subsequent to Oakwood he joined YOUcentric which was a CRM technology company.While at YOUcentric he helped close a $24 million equity round and subsequent sale of the Company to JDEdwards. Prior to his commercial industry experience, Mr. Burgess was with the international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers for seven years.

Mr. Burgess is a Certified Public Accountant.He obtained a B.S. in Business Administration and a Masters of Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Van E. Snowdon

Van Snowdon has more than 26 years experience in developing and operating domestic and international emerging technology, wireless telecom and growth businesses. His expertise includes the recruitment of strategic partners, managing complex bid processes and contracts, authoring business plans, navigating regulatory issues, building diverse management teams and structuring core business processes from network operations to sales and marketing functions. He has participated in the raising of more than $1 billion in capital.

Previous executive positions held by Mr. Snowdon from 1989 to 1999 include Senior Vice President and founding executive of Vanguard’s Government Sales & Services Division, President of Vanguard’s international division, President of International Wireless Corporation and Executive Vice President of International Development at InterAct Electronic Marketing.

Prior to these executive positions, from 1987 - 1989, Mr. Snowdon served as Director of NCR Corporations’ Government Services Division in Washington, D.C. where he was responsible for worldwide federal, state and local government operations.He has served on the board of directors of seven international companies including two chairmanships.

Mr. Snowdon received his B.A. in Marketing and Management and his M.B.A. from James Madison University.

Mark Heller

Mark Heller’s career includes 14 years as a project deployment leader for major wireless carriers such as Vanguard Cellular Systems, AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless. While at AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless, Mr. Heller was responsible for an annual capital budget in excess of $250 million and a staff of over 40 direct and indirect network deployment personnel.

During his career in wireless telecommunications, Mr. Heller has been responsible for all aspects of access network development for over 4,800 cell sites including: RF Design Engineering, Site Acquisition, Municipal Approvals, Construction, Integration, Commissioning and Network Acceptance. His responsibilities included new cell site deployments as well as all growth related projects within the existing wireless network.

Mr. Heller is a graduate of Penn State University.