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Gary Cuccio

Director at Nexant

Gary Cuccio has over 35 years of broad operating experience in wireless, software, engineering, operations, sales, and marketing. Mr. Cuccio was CEO of ATG, a CLEC based in California, Oregon, and Washington. Prior to ATG, Mr. Cuccio was CEO of LHS group (Nasdaq: LHSG), a Telco billing software supplier. LHS was acquired by Sema, a French software company, in Q3, 2000 for 6.8BB. Mr. Cuccio was also COO of Omnipoint, a PCS mobile wireless carrier which went public (Nasdaq OMPT), merged with Voicestream and the combined company was acquired by Deutsche Telekom to form T-Mobile USA. Mr. Cuccio's experience also includes several positions held at Airtouch, most notably Vice President of Operations for Europe, Vice President Asia, and President of Airtouch Paging. The company was merged with Vodafone in 1999. He has also served as chairman of the board and audit committee chairman of several privately held companies and has helped sell and merge several public and privately held companies. Mr. Cuccio started his career with 27+ years at PacificTel in Operations, Engineering, Customer Service, and Sales & Marketing, ending his tenure there as VP / General Manager. Mr. Cuccio received his AMP from Harvard University, his MBA from St. Mary's College and his BA in Political Science from California State University Los Angeles.