kurt abkemeier

Mentoring very early-stage companies through validation phase.

* Cbeyond (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a managed service provider of telecom and technology solutions to the SMB market with nearly $500M in annual revenues. Sold to Birch Communications. Led all financial planning, budgeting, analysis, treasury and investor relations functions. * Completed a $70MM IPO and a secondary offering of over $100MM. * Scaled the company from $100 million of revenue to $500 million. * Successfully steered away from higher-risk investments through the 2008 financial crisis. * Restructured operations by ~15% as the company reached maturity.

AirGate (NASDAQ: PCSA) is a wireless network operator with over $300MM in annual revenues. Sold to Alamosa PCS and part of the Sprint network. Led all strategic planning, financial planning, budgeting, analysis and investor relations activities. Executed a $630MM merger with Alamosa PCS. Restructured operations and recapitalized $300MM of debt and refinanced $175MM of floating rate notes. Increased cash from $1MM to over $100MM during tenure. Recommended strategies to optimize the business metrics and position the company for sale. Equity value increased from $6MM to ~$400MM during tenure.

Entrepreneurial start-up with a 100% effective email filtering solution using an innovative filtering process. Led all facets of the business as the founder of the company. Conceived and formulated an innovative approach to email and messaging.

Privately-held wireless ASP enabling carriers to provide mobile Internet services. Sold to InfoSpace. Led all capital raising, financial planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting and analyses. Capital Raising: Raised $25MM in a Series B round (December 2000). Led IPO process (SEC S-1 drafting, roadshow preparation, etc.) before raising private funds. Established the Finance/IT Department for a company with more than 125 employees.

Privately-owned and the only profitable nationwide wireless messaging company. Managed the strategic analysis and development of the company, including the expansion of the existing business, development of a new business line and analysis of potential M&A transactions. Corporate Development: Led the development of over 25 retail stores into new major markets as well as strategic initiative to expand messaging expertise into a new line of business. Sales Management: Managed the New York/Philadelphia market (15 stores & over 50 employees) to improve its sub-par performance by over 15%.

Leading global investment bank. Sell-side equity research senior analyst for wireless and wireline telecom services companies. Company and Industry Analysis: Analyzed companies, reviewed SEC documents (10-K, 10-Q, etc.), built financial models, published research reports and presented the investment merits of stocks and industries to institutional investors. Business Results: Instrumental in winning business for J.P. Morgan through pitches that resulted in IPOs and secondary equity offerings representing more than $1 billion, including SprintPCS, Orbcomm, Weblink Wireless, ProNet and Globalstar. In-house Expertise: As the resident expert on wireless telecom, advised bankers on lending, M&A and other financing transactions.

Progress Software (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global enterprise software company focused on application development and deployment technologies with $400 million in revenues. Responsible for finance, accounting, treasury and investor relations. Executed an operational restructuring immediately after joining the company, reducing ~$50 million in operating expenses and employee count by ~25%. Eliminated new business initiative and reset expectations with investors and analysts from an expectation of 8% to 10% overall top-line annual growth to 0% to -2%.

* Inteliquent (NASDAQ: IQNT) is a wholesale voice telecommunications company with $400 million in annual revenues and $70 million of free cash flow. Sold to GTCR. Responsible for finance, accounting, treasury and investor relations. * Positioned company and sold for $800MM to GTCR. * Increased revenues from $220 million to $400 million during tenure. * Stock price value increase of 117% vs. 9% for the market from time of joining company to announced sale. * Stock price value increase of 23% upon announcement of joining company, equating to an increase in the EBITDA trading multiple of 1.2x.