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SDL Ventures is a subsidary of SDL Capital. SDL Ventures is an investment company that looks for founders who are technically savvy and are market insiders. They choose to invest in people who are in tune with market needs and have access to leading customers, peoplewho have the flexibility to change business plans based on market shifts in demand, and people who have leadership and execution skills to deliver on commitments.

When SDL Ventures reviews a business plan its main goal is to ensure that the proposed product or service offers a significant sustainable technical advantage. Ideally, a new enterprise should serve a very specific unmet customer need. This need will enable the company to address a broader list of similar needs in the same industry segment.

Don Scifres, Mike Foster, and Michael Woods manage SDL Capital/SDL Ventures. Don Scifres' and Mike Foster's backgrounds are in founding, operating, and acquiring private and public companies. Both Mr. Scifres and Mr. Foster retired from JDS Uniphase Corportation which acquired SDL, Inc. in February 2001. When the acquisition of SDL, Inc. was announced in July 2000, the value was $41 billion, at the time a record for technology transaction. At JDS Uniphase, Don Scifres was Co-chairman, Chief Strategy Officer, and in charge of mergers and acquisitions. Mike Foster was Vice President of Finance and Strategy. Together they believe they bring valuable, real-world executive and entreprenurial experience to new technology company founders.

Michael Woods joined SDL Capital with a broad background in investment banking and finance, having worked in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and institutional sales and trading. Michael Woods has provided corporate finance and M&A advice to a wide range of companies in a variety of industries ranging from high growth technology to mature industrial and service sectors. Most recently he has focused on the distressed debt and bankruptcy markets, both on the prinicpal investment as well as the sales and trading side.

AT&T's roots stretch back as far as 1875, with founder Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone. During the 19th century, AT&T became the parent company of the Bell System, the American telephone monopoly. In 1984 the system was divided into eight companies via an agreement between AT&T and the United States Department of Justice.

Since 1984 AT&T has grown into a global networking leader, focusing on IP-based solutions to enterprise and government customers. As AT&T pivots away from traditional consumer services, the company continues to offer consumers and small businesses a breakthrough alternative to traditional services — such as Voice Over IP.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. This tradition of IP innovation continues with industry-leading products in the core areas of routing and switching, as well as advanced technologies in areas such as: home networking, IP telephony, optical, network security, storage networking, and wireless LAN.

Cisco is committed to delivering differentiated value to customers and partners through its unique product and service offerings, while closely mapping products and services to its customers' needs and priorities-such as productivity, cost savings, return on investment, and standard of living improvements.

In addition to hardware and software products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings to its clients, including award-winning technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services-directly through its own sales force and indirectly through a network of channel partners-to large enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses, service providers, and consumers. Cisco focuses on three broad areas to guide its business growth: core technologies, routing and switching; the service provider market; and Advanced Technology markets.

Stanford University classmates Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP in 1939. The company's first product, built in a Palo Alto garage, was an audio oscillator—an electronic test instrument used by sound engineers. One of HP's first customers was Walt Disney Studios, which purchased eight oscillators to develop and test an innovative sound system for the movie Fantasia.

HP serves everyone from consumers to small and mid-sized businesses to enterprises. Their extensive portfolio includes a large number of market-leading solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of each customer segment. Additionally, HP invests nearly $4 billion a year in research and development of new products, solutions, and technologies and averages 11 patents a day worldwide.

Hewlett Packard employees over 150,000 people worldwide and its revenue for the fiscal year of 2004 reached $79.9 billion.

InfiniSys, Inc. is a full service low-voltage design firm that provides technology-based amenity solutions for new or previously owned apartment complexes, condominium projects, planned development communities, commercial office projects, hospitality projects and college dormitories. InfiniSys created the concept of the FTTA(TM) (Fiber to the Apartment) system and the NetworkedApartmentSM.

The success of Microsoft speaks for itself. Microsoft's seven core business units offer variety of potential to all customers, from the individual to the small business to the enterprise. For more information about Microsoft visit their website at www.microsoft.com.

From its small-town roots, Sprint has evolved into a global communications company that serves 26 million customers in more than 70 countries. With more than 75,000 employees worldwide and an unmatched portfolio of telecommunications products and services, Sprint is continuing its legacy of leadership and innovation in the 21st century.