Danny E. Stroud

Over the past several years, Mr. Stroud has been working with several classified security services companies that focus on integrated security services for federal and state entities. He helped those companies develop internal systems such as accounting, financial management and project management to support the rapid growth of these companies. He actively participated in business development and customer management matters ranging from bid preparation through financing startup costs and compliance and reporting. He developed and executed long-range capitalization plans for these companies and helped management teams raise additional capital and manage working capital.

Until June 2002, Danny E. Stroud was President and Chief Executive Officer and Director of AppliedTheory Corporation. AppliedTheory, a publicly traded internet services industry pioneer with $83 million in revenue, built, managed and integrated the increasingly complex Internet solutions that large enterprises and institutions rely on to survive in an online environment. The company enjoyed clients such as the Federal government and 28 State governments.

A telecommunications industry veteran, Mr. Stroud joined AppliedTheory from Veraz Ventures, Inc., a company he founded in 1998 to develop telecommunications opportunities in emerging markets. This venture focused on starting or growing wireless and Internet companies in Latin America in concert with local entrepreneurs. Veraz successfully support companies through a start up, growth and exit stage in Panama and El Salvador.

Previously, he was Vice President of Verio, a Denver-based company he helped found in 1996. Mr. Stroud was the Vice President of infrastructure deployment and operations as well as the principal executive in charge of acquisition of several Internet Service Provider (ISP) companies, completing 10 acquisitions in a year. He served as the interim president for five of the acquisitions until their integration into Verio.

From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Stroud was the VP of Network Deployment and Operations at Nextel and oversaw the deployment and operations of the nationwide digital mobile wireless network.

Prior to joining OneComm, Mr. Stroud was Network Director at Bay Area Cellular Telephone Company in San Francisco (Cellular One) and General Manager of an independent business unit of Pacific Bell Yellow Pages.

Mr. Stroud received his Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1975. He was appointed from the state of Oregon. He received his Master of Business Administration from St. Mary's College of California in 1986.