Hardy Myers is the President & CEO of Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST). Since September 2003, when he assumed this leadership position, AVST's software solution, CallXpress®, has become the premier enterprise communications platform designed to facilitate the migration from legacy TDM call processing and voice mail solutions to new IP-enabled unified communications solutions, delivering the interoperability, scalability, feature flexibility and administrative capabilities enterprise IT and Telecom teams are demanding. Over the past 20 years, in addition to leading AVST, Mr. Myers has held senior management positions with emerging private and public companies in the telecommunications, automotive, aerospace and defense market sectors with a primary focus on building organizations and raising the capital necessary to capitalize on the growth opportunities in a given market. Mr. Myers holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Georgetown University.

MIKE BERLIN, VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Mike Berlin joined AVST in February 2005. Mr. Berlin brings over twenty years of sales, marketing, and management experience to AVST. From 2002 to early 2005, Mr. Berlin worked for Interactive Intelligence Inc. (I3) (NASDAQ: ININ), a global developer of software for IP telephony, contact center automation, unified communications, and customer self-service. In his position as Director of the Communications Solutions Group at Interactive Intelligence, Mr. Berlin was responsible for building and managing the organization and securing nationwide distribution for I3's unified communications solution, Communité. From 1992 to 2001, Mr. Berlin assumed positions of increasing responsibility with Mitel Networks Corporation, a leading global provider of enterprise and small business communications solutions and services. During his tenure at Mitel Networks, Mr. Berlin served as Vice President Messaging & Applications and General Manager of the Advanced Messaging Division (Baypoint Innovations) where he managed all aspects of Mitel's messaging and applications product portfolio. Prior to joining Mitel Networks, Mr. Berlin served in various managerial positions at Intecom Inc., Fujitsu Business Communications, and Interwest Communications. Mr. Berlin also served five years in the United States Marine Corps.

PAUL CHESLAW, VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL MANAGER, EMEA

Paul Cheslaw joined AVST in January 2006. Mr. Cheslaw brings over 20 years of experience in selling and supporting enterprise communications to customers worldwide. For the past 15 years, Mr. Cheslaw has been primarily focused on developing, building and managing the European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) operations of various firms in the enterprise communications market segment. From early 2003 until joining AVST, Mr. Cheslaw served as the Managing Partner, EMEA for Executive Conversation International, a consulting firm that focuses on strategic sales training for senior management and sales personnel of various high technology companies including Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and British Telecom. From 2002 to early 2003, Mr. Cheslaw was a partner for BWT Associates, London, the European operations of BWT, a private equity firm headquartered in South Africa, where his primary responsibilities included the evaluation and placement of various investments for the firm's investment portfolio. In 2001, Mr. Cheslaw served as Vice President & Managing Director, Europe for Annuncio Software, an e-CRM solution provider that was acquired by PeopleSoft Corporation in early 2002. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Cheslaw served as the Managing Director, Europe for Latitude Communications, Inc., the developer of the world's first voice and data collaboration server. Latitude went public in 1999 and was subsequently acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. in 2003. From 1987 to 1997, Mr. Cheslaw served in various positions of increasing responsibility for Octel Communications Corporation and prior to their merger, VMX, Inc., including Vice President, Unified Messaging Division, Vice President, Client Server Software Division and Managing Director, Europe during which time VMX achieved the leading position in the European voice processing market through the establishment of long-term distribution agreements with British Telecom, Mercury Communications, Ericsson, Siemens and other major distributors throughout EMEA. Mr. Cheslaw has resided in London since 1987.

DENNY MICHAEL, VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING

Mr. Michael joined the Company in May 2003. From 2002 to early 2003, Mr. Michael served as Executive Vice President of Marketing for Starbase Software Corporation, a publicly traded developer of application lifecycle management software. During his tenure at Starbase, Mr. Michael was responsible for developing and implementing the marketing campaign to reestablish the leadership position of Starbase's applications and technology in the company's target market segments. Mr. Michael was also a key member of the senior management team that facilitated the sale of Starbase to Borland Software Corporation in January 2003. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Michael served as Vice President of Marketing at NQL, Inc., a publicly traded software company that developed one of the world's first commercially available intelligent agent languages (Network Query Language) used for massive content gathering and publishing. Prior to NQL, Mr. Michael held various marketing management positions at AST Computers, Inc and Alpha Microsystems. Mr. Michael holds a B.A. degree from California State University, Fullerton.

TOM MINIFIE, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Tom Minifie was promoted to the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in October 2008. In this role, Mr. Minifie is responsible for the strategic direction of the Company's CallXpress® product line. Prior to his promotion to CTO, Mr. Minifie served as the Vice President of Product Management for AVST since its inception in 2003. Previously, Mr. Minifie held a variety of executive level positions in the sales, business development and marketing organizations of Captaris, Inc. and its predecessor company, Applied Voice Technology ("AVT"). Mr. Minifie is a recognized authority in the field of Unified Communications and a frequent speaker on the topic. Mr. Minifie has also spent considerable time cultivating strategic technical relationships with many of the industry's leading technology companies including Aastra/Ericsson, Alcatel–Lucent, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Mitel and NEC. Prior to joining the communications industry, Mr. Minifie held various sales and marketing positions within the high tech industry. Tom holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Washington.

Steve Rishel joined AVST in June 2007. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Rishel was Senior Vice President — Core Technologies Group for SAFLINK Corporation, a publicly traded biometric security software firm, where he led SAFLINK's federal sales, sales engineering, technical support, and information technology departments. From 2002 to 2003, Mr. Rishel ran Paragon Operations Partnership, offering consulting services to technology companies in the areas of support operations, supply chain management, and order fulfillment. From 1991 to 2002, Mr. Rishel worked for Captaris, Inc. (formerly "Applied Voice Technology" and "AVT"), a publicly traded unified communications, fax and fax services, and wireless communications integrator where, in his most recent position as Senior Vice President of Operations, Mr. Rishel responsibilities included strategic planning for, and executive management of, customer support, supply chain, systems integration, and information systems. From 1990 to 1991, Mr. Rishel served as Operations Manager for PacTel Meridian Business Systems. Prior to PacTel, Mr. Rishel held positions of increasing responsibility with Teleconnect, Inc., Honeywell Communication Services, and United Technologies Communications.