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FiberTower Board of Directors

John Beletic John Beletic, Chairman of the Board, FiberTower Corporation

Ravi Potharlanka Kurt Van Wagenen, President and Chief Executive Officer

Randall Hack Randall A. Hack, Capstone Capital L.L.C.

John Kelly John Kelly, Crown Castle International Corporation

John Muleta John Muleta, M2Z Networks

Steven Scheiwe Steven Scheiwe, Ontrac Advisors, Inc.

Neil Subin Neil Subin, Trendex Capital Management


John Beletic, Chairman of the Board, FiberTower Corporation

John Beletic is Chairman of the Board at FiberTower. He also serves as Venture Partner at Oak Investment Partners, as well as on the boards of Aventail, STSN, Tessco Technologies, iPass, the advisory board of Data Return, First Tee Dallas, the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, and Dallas National G.C. Previously, Beletic was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Tigon, PageMart, and Weblink Wireless, as well as a venture partner with Morgan Stanley Venture Capital Group. He holds a BSBA in Finance summa cum laude from Xavier University and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School.

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Kurt Van Wagenen, President and Chief Executive Officer

Kurt Van Wagenen serves as President and Chief Executive Officer for FiberTower. Prior to FiberTower, he served as President and CEO of NEON (formerly Globix Corporation) from January of 2007 until November of 2007 when NEON merged with RCN Corporation. Prior to being appointed CEO of NEON, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Globix Corporation after being promoted from his prior position as Chief Operating Officer of Globix Corporation’s Network Services division. Van Wagenen also served as Vice President of Network and Operations for NEON Communications from 2001 until the merger of NEON and Globix in 2005. Before joining NEON in 2001, Van Wagenen was employed by Verizon Communications and its various predecessors in diverse positions of increasing responsibility, where he commenced his employment in 1986. Van Wagenen holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. in Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

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Randall A. Hack, Capstone Capital L.L.C.

Mr. Hack has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2002. Since January 1995, Mr. Hack has served as a senior managing director of Nassau Capital L.L.C., an investment firm that he founded which manages a portfolio of investments in private companies on behalf of Princeton University's endowment. From 1990 to January 1995, Mr. Hack served as President of the Princeton University Investment Company, which oversees Princeton's Endowment. From 1979 to 1988, he served as President and CEO of Matrix Development Company, a commercial and
industrial real estate development firm that he founded. Mr. Hack also serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Capstone Capital L.L.C., an investment firm that he founded. He also serves as an Advisory Director for Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm. Mr. Hack received an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.

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John Kelly, Crown Castle International Corporation

John Kelly serves as the Executive Vice-Chairman of the Board for Crown Castle International. Prior to that he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Crown Castle from 2001 to 2008. Prior to his appointment as CEO, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Crown Castle. Kelly joined Crown Castle in 1998 as President of Crown Castle USA. From 1990 to 1998, he was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Atlantic Cellular Company L.P. From 1995 to July 1998, Kelly was also President and Chief Operating Officer of Hawaiian Wireless, Inc., an affiliate of Atlantic Cellular. Kelly has served on the Board of Directors of the Cellular Carriers Association of California (CCAC) and as Chairman of the CCAC Public Relations Committee. He currently sits on the PCIA Board of Directors and serves as the Chairman of PCIA's Site Owners and Managers Alliance.

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John Muleta, M2Z Networks

John Muleta is founder and CEO of M2Z Networks. Muleta previously served as the chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Before that, he was the President and CEO of Source 1 Technologies LLC, a privately held systems integration firm; co-founder of OI Systems Inc., a Washington-based management consulting firm; executive Vice President of International and Business Development for Navisite, Inc.; and President of PSINet Ventures Inc., PSINet's Global Facilities Division and PSINet's India, Middle East and Africa Division.

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Steven Scheiwe, Ontrac Advisors, Inc.

Steven Scheiwe is the President of Ontrac Advisors, Inc, which provides analysis and management services to private equity groups, privately held companies and funds managing distressed corporate debt issues. Scheiwe also currently serves on the Board of Directors of General Chemical Industrial Products, Inc., a leading North American supplier of soda ash to a broad range of industrial and municipal customers. Prior to Ontrac, he was the CEO and Board Member at Teletrac, Inc. Before Teletrac, Scheiwe held positions at Premiere Page, Inc, a division of Arch Wireless, and Hardesty, Puckett, Queen & Co.

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Neil Subin, Trendex Capital Management

Neil Subin is Managing Director and President of Trendex Capital Management, which he formed in 1991. Trendex is an investment fund focusing primarily on financially distressed companies. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Reptron Electronics, Inc., a manufacturing supply chain services company, and Komag, a manufacturer of thin-film disks for use in computer disk drives.

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