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Board of Directors

Gilbert S. Palter

Gilbert S. Palter
Chairman of the Board

Mr. Palter joined EdgeStone as Managing Partner in 1999 from Eladdan Capital Partners, a Toronto-based mid-market private equity investment fund where he was founder and CEO. His boutique investment bank, Eladdan Enterprises, specialized in buy-side mergers & acquisitions advice to Canadian and American companies particularly on cross-border deals.

Mr. Palter's career includes mergers & acquisitions work at Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney, as well as management consulting at McKinsey & Company and merchant banking at Clairvest Group Inc. Mr. Palter holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Economics from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Harvard Business School.


Cesar Cesaratto

Cesar Cesaratto
Director

Cesar Cesaratto’s career has included more than 30 years with Nortel Networks, spanning product development, business development, operations, and sales & marketing in both North America and Europe.

Mr. Cesaratto has held a number of executive positions with Nortel including Group Vice President for world wide component operations and supply management, President and Chief Operating Officer Nortel-Matra, a joint venture in France; President of Enterprise Solutions, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa); and most recently, President of Wireless Solutions, EMEA.

Mr. Cesaratto is involved with a number of start-up companies in the Ottawa area as an Angel investor.  In November of 2007, Mr. Cesaratto joined the Board of Directors of BreconRidge Corporation, and is also Chair of the Board of Applied Microcircuits (AMCC).  Previously, Mr. Cesaratto sat on the Board of Directors for Gennum Corporation.  Mr. Cesaratto holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.


Peter D. Charbonneau

Peter D. Charbonneau
Director


Mr. Charbonneau is a Partner in Skypoint Capital Corporation; a venture capital management firm that forms and manages venture capital funds focused on the telecommunications and information technology industries. Prior to joining Skypoint, Mr. Charbonneau held a variety of senior executive positions with Newbridge Networks, most recently as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.

He joined Newbridge as the Chief Financial Officer in its early days as a startup and was subsequently promoted to the positions of Executive Vice President, President and Chief Operating Officer over the next 13 years. He was a member of the Newbridge Board of Directors from 1996 until 2000.

During his years at Newbridge, Mr. Charbonneau was instrumental in establishing the Newbridge Affiliates Program and was involved in the start-up investment in more than 40 partly owned affiliate companies. Mr. Charbonneau represented Newbridge as a board member of many of these companies. Mr. Charbonneau currently sits on the Board of Directors of Mitel Networks, Telus Corporation and a number of private companies.


Mr. Rahul Suri

Rahul Suri
Director

Mr. Rahul Suri has extensive international and cross-cultural business experience in a diverse set of industries and market sectors; most recently running the Enterprise Market Segment line of business at Celestica Inc. - a multi-billion dollar global leader in complex high technology manufacturing and supply chain management. Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at Celestica, responsible for directing Celestica's worldwide non-organic growth strategy and initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships.

Mr. Suri served on the Board of Directors of OMERS Capital Partners, the private equity arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, and has been a Special Policy Advisor to the Chairman and the Executive Director of the Ontario Securities Commission.

Mr. Suri was also a visiting professor at Queen's University Law School, where he taught advanced corporate law and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Suri holds a Master of Arts degree in Law from Cambridge University and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.


Martin Longchamps

Martin Longchamps
Director

Mr. Longchamps joined EdgeStone in January 2003. Prior to joining EdgeStone, he worked with CDP Capital Communications and Bell Canada International where he was involved in project financing and restructuring activities. Prior to that, Mr. Longchamps worked at Monitor Company where he worked on a broad range of assignments including re-engineering, corporate strategy and industry review.

Mr. Longchamps also serves on the Board of Directors of Eurospec Manufacturing Inc., and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School as well as a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.


Cyril McKelvie

Cyril McKelvie
Director

Mr. McKelvie is the President & CEO of BreconRidge, as well as a founding member of the Company. He brings over 20 years of senior management experience in engineering, research and development and telecommunications operations. Prior to joining BreconRidge, Mr. McKelvie was General Manager of GSI Lumonics' optical division from 1999 to 2001.

Previously, Mr. McKelvie was Vice President of Operations for JDS Uniphase from 1997 to 1999. Under his tenure JDS' operations grew by more than 200% a year in both revenue and profitability. Prior to JDS, Mr. McKelvie held a number of key positions at Newbridge Networks in both research and development and operations from 1986 to 1997. In these roles, Mr. McKelvie was instrumental in building Newbridge's new product introduction process from its earliest inception.


Jose Medeiros

Jose Medeiros
Director

Mr. Medeiros is the President of Wesley Clover, the private venture capital firm of Sir Terence Matthews. Mr. Medeiros has been with several of Mr. Matthews' group of companies since July 1993. Mr. Medeiros holds a number of senior management positions in Wesley Clover's subsidiaries. He is currently the President of the Brookstreet Hotel and Celtic Tech Jet Limited. He was previously Chief Financial Officer of Celtic House International and Director of Taxation at Newbridge Networks.

His current private company directorships include Wesley Clover Corporation, The Celtic Manor Resort, Solace Systems, Inc., Natural Convergence Inc., Wesley Clover Solutions Inc. and BreconRidge Corporation.

Mr. Medeiros is a chartered accountant and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from the Université du Québec à Hull.