Chad Clawson

President and CEO

Mr. Clawson has over 20 years of professional operating experience in various corporate leadership roles, including having served previously as Chairman, CEO, President, Director, and General Manager of a variety of companies. Prior to joining Global Conference Partners, Mr. Clawson was Managing Director at Patriarch Partners, a $7BB private equity firm specializing in restructurings and turnarounds, where he was responsible for the performance of the firm's manufacturing and distribution platform. Before joining Patriarch Partners he served as Vice President of Operations at American Capital Strategies (NASDAQ: ACAS), a publicly traded buyout and mezzanine investment company with $18BB of assets under management.

In his various roles in the private equity industry, Mr. Clawson has provided board level oversight to numerous companies in nearly every major industry. He currently serves on the boards of Denali, Inc. and NetSteps, Inc., the 11th fastest growing privately held software company in the U.S., according to Inc. Magazine.

Mr. Clawson earned a master's degree in Business and a master's degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Utah State University, where he received the honors of Valedictorian and the University's Scholar of the Year in 1991.

Cliff Kaylin

CTO

Cliff Kaylin has been the principal architect of the software and hardware systems at Global Conference Partners over the last eighteen years. He is a pioneer in the architecture and development of software, network infrastructure and enabling technologies in CTI (Computer/Telephone Integration). Mr. Kaylin has overseen and actively coded large-scale technology projects for both telecommunications and internet applications for over eighteen years. He holds a master's degree from UCLA and BA degrees from UC Berkeley.

Dennis Pascual

VP Strategic Partners

Dennis Pascual is leading efforts to build partnerships with telephone carriers globally. He joins from j2 Global Communications, Inc. (www.j2global.com, www.efax.com) where he spent the last six and a half years building the telecommunications and network infrastructure for a company that grew from a market cap of less than $100 million to over one billion. He also managed the growth of the company's network from 500 cities in thirteen countries to over 2,500 cities in thirty-five countries during his tenure.

Prior to j2 Global, Mr. Pascual was responsible for the Telecommunications infrastructure for Protection One Alarm Monitoring Company, Inc. and its parent company, Western Resources. He also helped build the Information Technology department for Trust Company of the West as a Vice President, Information Technology.

He graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a BA in Information Systems and from Claremont Graduate University with an MS in Management Information Systems with an emphasis on Telecommunications.