WorldGate Positioned for Growth with Announcement of Industry Luminaries to New Board of Directors and Senior Management Changes

Business Wire, April 13, 2009

Geoffrey Boyd

Mr. Boyd has over 17 years of experience in telecommunications. He is currently working with an early stage competitive telecommunications company that provides WiMax-based local, long distance and internet services in Eastern Europe. From 2000 to 2007 he was Chief Financial Officer of Eschelon Telecom and was instrumental in helping to grow the company from approximately $40 million in revenue to over $345 million. From 1997 to 2000 Mr. Boyd served in a variety of executive roles at Dobson Communications, one of the largest rural cellular telephone providers in the United States. From 1995 to 1997 Mr. Boyd was a Vice President in charge of business development at MLC Industries, a company with cellular telephone and paging operations in the United States and South America. Mr. Boyd began his career working in telecommunications finance at CoreStates Bank. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1989.

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