Who We Are Pat Montani Mike Leshyk Pat Montani Pat Montani is one of the founders of BCS Global, an IP video conferencing and bridging company. He has spent a lifetime building companies in the telecom, bandwidth space. Change creates opportunity and as we move towards an IP world, Pat is keen to help bandwidth providers deliver new services to a demanding marketplace. Pat, a Canadian, has an enviable track record of founding, financing and evolving successful companies in the telecommunications, software and digital media markets over a period of 25 years. Pat has gained tremendous insight & experience in exploiting emerging marketplaces - through his vision and understanding of how and when to exploit new technologies - and bringing together the right teams and capital to get the job done. Pat is a successful, serial entrepreneur and completed the listing of his first company on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1990. Following his first IPO, Pat has completed additional listings on the TSE, NASDAQ and the Alberta and Vancouver Stock Exchanges(CDNX). Pat's strengths and experience are focused around: Selling-driving new technologies into markets at early stages is a daunting task and one that Pat loves. IPO Experience - completion and participation in 6 public listings. Technology Vision - a recognized innovator in the application of technologies to create new business opportunities in telecommunications, software and digital media. Proven Entrepreneur - a leader in helping entrepreneurs and organizations to understand the business opportunities created by change and the development of solutions to meet an identified economic need and the ability to respond quickly and appropriately to market dynamics. Value Creation & Capture - the last 4 companies that Pat has started have given the first round investors on average a return of over 400%. Co-Founder Roles TSB International, Inc. A telecommunication software and service company that provides network management solutions for global telcos and emerging carriers. Pat opened and established all of the major global channels with Carriers worldwide. TSB went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange, merged with Telco Research and today is owned by Peregrine Systems. Bridges.com Pat co-founded Bridges with Doug Manning in 1994 - well before the "dotcom mania" took hold of the capital markets. Bridges provides students with career skills and resources needed to be successful in today's competitive marketplace. Today Bridges.com trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Net Convergence Pat founded Net Convergence in response to the need for packaged solutions that delivered economical, high speed bandwidth. Net Convergence merged with Relational Solutions and then was acquired by Microforum - a publicly traded company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Broadband Collaborative Video or collaborative communications holds the key to unlocking further productivity gains for business. In order to deliver a quality video signal, network Quality of Sercvice (QoS) had to be implemented into the service within the technology and pricing constraints of Broadband business model. Today, Broadband delivers economical, high quality, secure video conferencing transmission and services globally. Broadband recently completed a follow on $2M financing and trades on the CDNX. E-Dispatch Developed the corporate and product strategy and completed their initial rounds of funding plus managed the IPO when the company was called Instep Communications. Mike Leshyk Mike is an engineer with over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining IPV Gateways, Mike was VP Carrier Relations for BCS Global. Previously Mike held the position of Sales Vice President, North American Carrier Services for AT&T Canada, where he was responsible for wholesale sales to carriers and switchless resellers in Canada and the United States. In that position Mike grew the annual revenues of his sales division from $35 million to $127 million in three years, while still maintaining profit margins, in a market where prices had dropped in excess of 50 per cent. Mike has held marketing, sales, international carrier relations and engineering positions with AT&T Canada, UniTel Communications, CNCP Telecommunications and Bell Canada. He has also owned and operated several successful small businesses and telecommunications consulting practices. In the mid 1980's, while at CNCP, Mike worked in a team of five engineers that built a state-of-the-art, coast-to-coast digital switched-voice network in Canada. This network has now grown to become the AT&T Canada network. Mike holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a registered professional engineer. His greatest strength is his ability to marry economics and technology into a success equation when selling and interfacing to carriers. For further info or a detailed quote, please contact pat@ipvgateways.com