Tom L. Powers

Tom L.
Powers, aged 68 years, has been the director of the Company since October 1996.
From 1993 to 1999, he was an Associate Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Center at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
He is on the board of directors of Material Recovery of North America, a start up company in New Mexico, and is a consultant to a number of companies in the telecommunications industry.
From 1989 to 1991, he was President of the cellular systems business unit of AT&T Network Systems Group, now known as Lucent Technologies, Inc. Under his leadership, the business unit became the market leader in wireless infrastructure equipment in the United States, opened markets internationally and introduced the industry's first digital cellular system.
In 1983, he became Vice President of a joint venture between AT&T and Philips Telecommunications B.V.
located in the Netherlands.
He joined AT&T in 1958 as a member of the technical staff of Bell Laboratories and went on to management positions in consumer products, customer switching systems engineering and network planning.
He holds a M.E.E.
degree in Electrical Engineering for New York University and a B.S.
degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas, a diploma in Advanced Marketing from Wharton and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.
He is a member of both the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee, the latter of which he serves as its Chairman.