Leadership

W. FRANK BLOUNT
Age 68
Director Since 1987
Atlanta, Georgia 

• Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of TTS Management Corp. (management services) since 2004
• Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of JI Ventures, Inc. (high-tech venture capital fund)
• Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Cypress Communications, Inc. (in-building integrated communications supplier)
• Former Chief Executive Officer and Director of Telstra Communications Corporation (Australian telecommunications company)
• Former Group President of AT&T Inc.
• Director of Caterpillar, Inc., Alcatel-Lucent S.A., Adtran, Inc., and Hanson PLC
• Member of Advisory Board of China Telecom Corporation Limited
• Board of Trustees of Georgia State University

This information was current as of the March 19, 2007 proxy statement. Unless stated otherwise, all nominees have been continuously employed in their present positions for more than five years. The age of each individual is as of December 31, 2006.