About the Company

The M2Z Management Team

Led by founders John Muleta and Milo Medin, M2Z has assembled a team of experienced technology executives with a singular vision: Bring new competition to the high-speed Internet marketplace:

Management Team

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Milo Medin

Founder, Chairman, and CTO

Milo Medin is Founder, CTO and Chairman of M2Z's Board of Directors. Together with his partner John Muleta, Mr. Medin founded M2Z Networks in 2005.

Prior to founding M2Z Networks, Mr. Medin was co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of @Home Networks which pioneered the deployment of a nationwide cable modem services. As CTO of @Home, Mr. Medin designed the broadband service architecture and helped revolutionize broadband access by working with cable carriers and equipment manufacturers to establish the technology standards for the industry.

Previously, Mr. Medin was a Project Manager at the NASA Ames Research Center. Mr. Medin directed the NASA National Research and Education Network project which in concert with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, launched a core Federal network that connected 200 sites in 16 countries and 6 continents including Antarctica.

Mr. Medin began his technology career at Science Applications, Inc. where he programmed supercomputers for defense program activities at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, under contract to the Defense Nuclear Agency.

Renowned as an expert in network and communications technologies, Mr. Medin has participated in two National Academy of Sciences panels on telecommunications technology and policy. His expertise is frequently sought by government and State committees. In November 2006, Mr. Medin was named to California’s Broadband Task Force by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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John Muleta

CEO and Founder

John Muleta is Founder, CEO and Board Member of M2Z Networks. Together with his partner Milo Medin, Mr. Muleta founded M2Z Networks in 2005.

Immediately prior to founding M2Z Networks, Mr. Muleta was most recently partner and co-Chair of the Communications Practice at Venable LLP. Mr. Muleta has distinguished himself through dedicated service in two previous federal government career positions. Between 2003 and 2005, Mr. Muleta was the head of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and responsible for implementing the Commission's policies regarding consumer wireless services and public safety radio networks. Between 1994 and 1998, Mr. Muleta worked at Commission in the Common Carrier Bureau in several capacities including Deputy Bureau Chief of the Bureau and Chief of the Bureau's Enforcement Division.

Mr. Muleta also has a distinguished private sector record as entrepreneur, most prominently serving as a senior officer of PSINet, Inc., a leading commercial Internet Services Provider. Mr. Muleta headed PSINet's infrastructure provisioning organization that operated in 28 countries, he served as President of PSINet's India, Middle East and Africa unit and also served as the President of PSINet Ventures, the company's $160 million corporate venture unit.

In addition to M2Z Networks, Mr. Muleta serves as a Trustee at the University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and is on the Board of Directors of Fiber Tower (NASDAQ:FTWR) and on the Board of HRSmart, a privately held HR Application Services Provider (ASP) ranked as one of the fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine. Additionally, Mr. Muleta serves on the advisory boards of PacketHop, Inc. and Visto, Inc., two innovative Silicon Valley companies. Mr. Muleta holds degrees in Engineering, Law and Business from the University of Virginia.

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Kevin Lo

General Manager

Kevin Lo is the General Manager of M2Z Networks with overall responsibility for business development, operations and technology functions.

Prior to joining M2Z, Mr. Lo was the CFO and COO of NaviSite (NASDAQ:NAVI) where he led the successful turnaround of the managed applications services company and the stock price from a low of $0.80 to over $8.00 at the end of his tenure. Mr. Lo led a refinancing of the company, implemented a restructuring plan that took the company from losing $200M/year to profitability, and then guided the company through acquisitions and operational integrations of 5 market competitors during which the company tripled its revenue base and number of customers. Prior to that, Mr. Lo was the founder and CEO of X-Collaboration Software Corp (XCSC), an award winning Software as Service company that was acquired by Progress Software (NASDAQ:PRGS) in 2000.

Previously, Mr. Lo was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company in Boston and China and earlier in his career got his start writing software as a research associate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA. Mr. Lo received his BA from Harvard University where he was a Harvard National Scholar. Mr. Lo is board member of several technology companies; he has an active interest in technology-in-education initiatives and is also an avid tri-athlete.

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Chris Duffus

VP Finance and Corporate Development

Chris Duffus is the Vice President of Finance and Corporate Development at M2Z Networks.

Most recently, Mr. Duffus was CFO, for the public sector payments, subsidiary of First American Payment Systems. Mr. Duffus' was previously CFO, board secretary and treasurer for Govolution, Inc., a leading venture-backed provider of electronic payment software and services to the public sector and the banking industry which was acquired by First American in 2005.

Prior to Govolution, he worked as an associate with the Metromedia Company where he provided strategic and financial support to portfolio companies with over $1.5 billion in combined revenues. Before that, Mr. Duffus worked for Goldman Sachs where he was an analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions group.

Mr. Duffus earned his MBA from the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and a BS degree in business administration from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. Mr. Duffus serves in a number of professional and non-profit organizations including founding the Scholars' Club, now part of Florida Gulf Coast University, which has grown into one of southwest Florida's premier academic organizations having served over 40,000 minority and "at-risk" students since its' inception in 1989.

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Uzoma Onyeije

VP Regulatory Affairs

Uzoma Onyeije is Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for M2Z Networks where he is responsible for the formulation and execution of the company's legal and regulatory strategy in connection with its FCC application for Spectrum.

Before he joined M2Z, Mr. Onyeije worked at the Federal Communications Commission, where he most recently served as the Broadband Legal Advisor to the Chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. In this capacity, Mr. Onyeije developed policies to promote broadband wireless deployment and advised the Bureau Chief, the FCC Chairman, and Commissioners on wide range of spectrum management issues. While at the FCC, Mr. Onyeije also held senior positions within the Wireline Competition Bureau's Competition Policy Division where he managed review of applications to provide in-region telephone service, as well as other initiatives designed to promote competition in the market for voice service.

Prior to joining the FCC, Mr. Onyeije was an associate at the law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, where he specialized in wireline, wireless, and satellite policy and transactions. Mr. Onyeije began his legal career as an associate in the telecommunications practice at Wiley, Rein & Fielding. Mr. Onyeije has previously served as an adjunct law professor at George Washington University. He received his J.D. cum laude from Howard University School of Law and his B.S. in Accounting from Oakwood College.

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Jeffrey Burgan

VP Engineering

Jeffrey Burgan is the Vice President of Engineering for M2Z Networks with responsibility for engineering and designing the architecture of M2Z's nationwide broadband IP network.

Immediately prior to joining M2Z, he served as a consultant to various companies in the networking and telecommunication sector assisting them with technology strategy and product planning. Mr. Burgan was previously Senior Director of Backbone Engineering at Excite@Home where he was responsible for the architecture and engineering of their nationwide backbone network. Previously, Mr. Burgan worked at Bay Networks where he managed the software engineering group that designed and developed router software deployed by ISPs. Mr. Burgan also worked at the NASA Ames Research Center where he was responsible for the engineering and development of the NASA Science Internet network.

Mr. Burgan is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a B.S. in Computer Science. Mr. Burgan currently serves on the technical advisory boards of several companies including Cariden Technologies and Aspen Networks. Additionally, he served for three years on the Internet Engineering Steering Group of the IETF.

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Paul Kolodzy

Senior Technology Advisor

Dr. Paul Kolodzy is currently the senior technology advisor and consultant to M2Z Networks.

Dr. Paul Kolodzy has 20 years of experience in technology development for advanced communications, networking, electronic warfare, and spectrum policy for government, private sector and academic groups.

Most recently, Dr, Kolodzy was the Director of the Center for Wireless Network Security (WiNSeC) at Stevens Institute of Technology. He was also the Senior Spectrum Policy Advisor at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Director of Spectrum Policy Task Force charged with developing the next generation spectrum policy.

Previously, Dr. Kolodzy was Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) in the Advanced Technology Office managing R&D for communications programs developing generation-after-next capabilities. Before DARPA, he was the Director of Signal Processing and Strategic Initiatives at Sanders (now BAE Systems), a premier electronic warfare company in the US. Dr. Kolodzy got his start as the Group Leader and Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory working on Optical Systems for Laser Radars, Signal Processing, and Target Recognition for Acoustics, RF (SAR), and Optical signatures.

Dr. Kolodzy received his PhD and MS in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and his BS in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University.

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Kathy Wallman

Senior Advisor

Kathleen Wallman is a Senior Advisor to M2Z Networks.

Ms. Wallman is currently a professor at Georgetown University in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, teaching in the Communication Culture and Technology Program. Ms. Wallman is also a Senior Advisor to The Brattle Group, an economic consulting firm.

Ms. Wallman served from 1999 to 2002 as Chair of Public Safety National Coordination Committee, a federal advisory committee charged with recommending to the FCC interoperability standards for public safety operations in the Upper 700 MHz band. Ms. Wallman held several senior positions at the FCC and in the White House from 1994 until November 1997, serving as Chief of the Common Carrier Bureau at the FCC and as Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Counselor and Chief of Staff of the National Economic Council.

Prior to joining the administration, she was a partner at the Washington D.C. based law firm of Arnold & Porter. Ms. Wallman received her B.A. from the Catholic University of America where she was graduated in 1979 summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, graduating in 1984 magna cum laude, and at the same time, a M.S. from Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service, graduating with honors.

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Michael Gardner

Senior Advisor

Mickey Gardner is a Senior Advisor to M2Z Networks.

Mr. Gardner is a communications policy attorney specializing in new technologies, programming, broadcasting, and wireless telephony before the Federal Communications Commission, the Congress and agencies of the Federal Government. Mr. Gardner was previously a partner the firms of Akin Gump & Bracewell and Patterson. Since 1982, Mr. Gardner also has served as the pro bono Chairman of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute, a non-profit international training initiative which he founded in 1982 while serving as the U.S. Ambassador to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

Mr. Gardner has been active in national communications policy making for more than 30 years. He served as Chairman of President-elect Reagan's FCC Transition Team in 1980 and 1981, as Vice Chair of the FCC's Advisory Committee on Alternative Financing for Minorities, and on four Presidential Commissions.

Mr. Gardner is a 1964 graduate of the College at Georgetown University and a 1977 graduate of the Georgetown University Law School. Mr. Gardner was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University from 1992-2000, where he taught courses on a range of topics, including communications public policy.

Mr. Gardner has served with countless boards and organizations, including:

  • Board of Trustees of the National Home Library Foundation of Washington, D.C
  • U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy
  • Dean's Advisory Board of UCLA School of Public Health
  • Board of Trustees of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
  • Chairman of the Dean's Board of Advisors at the College of Georgetown University
  • Member of the U.S. Delegation to the G7-ISAD Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Board of Television Telecommunications Advisory Committee of USIA
  • National Board of Directors of Christmas in April
  • Board of Trustees of Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Vice Chair of the FCC's Advisory Committee on Alternative Financing for Minorities,
  • Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Baker's Scholars Program at Georgetown University.

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