Jud Berkowitz
Jud, President and CEO of ATRIS Telecommunications, has almost 40 years experience in telecommunications, beginning his career at AT&T in 1967, and spending 16 years in operations management. In 1983 he resigned AT&T to found NTG Telecommunications (www.ntgtelecom.com), one of the first companies to specialize in low voltage fiber, copper, and coax cabling. NTG installed communication wiring throughout the Philadelphia area during the 1980s. Beginning in the early 1990s, NTG became a leading PBX and telephone systems installation and maintenance company throughout the northeastern U.S. for Lucent, Nortel, Comdial, and others. In 2000 NTG was selected to install the first Intel VoIP switch and began investigating and developing software based phone systems leading to the founding of Atris Inc. Jud is a graduate of The City University of New York, has an MA from Temple University and is a graduate of The Wharton Executive Management Program.

Edward Sager
Ed has been CTO of ATRIS since May 2002 where his duties have been to design the technical infrastructure in use today, manage deployments and assist in ATRIS’s business development and planning. Prior to joining ATRIS, Ed was an IT consultant working on projects for GlaxoSmithKline, VerticalNet and SN.com, a web development consultancy. Before consulting, Ed was a founder of Novaeon, a health care case management company employing over 400 people, which was formed by the roll-up of 20 case management firms around the country and an infusion of $10 million in venture capital. Ed’s primary role after consummation of the Novaeon acquisitions was that of CIO, where he managed all IT infrastructure, application development, billing and accounts receivable of approximately $2 million of revenue per month. Prior to the roll-up of Novaeon, Ed was President of a case management firm that employed approximately 60 people at its peak. Ed earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. Ed will be the CTO of Atris.

Leigh Wood
From 1996 through 2000, Leigh was the Chief Operating Officer of NTL Inc., the largest cable company in the UK. NTL, with annualized revenues in excess of $2 billion and employees greater than 20,000, is a full service telecommunications company offering telephone, cable, Internet and broadband services to consumers and businesses across the UK and Ireland. Prior to NTL, Leigh was CEO for Cellular One of Ohio and Michigan, a joint venture between AirTouch Communications and Cellular Communications Inc. Cellular One was serving in excess of 2 million customers at its buyout in 1996. Leigh was the fifth employee at Cellular Communications Inc in 1984 and held various operational roles leading up to CEO of the joint venture with AirTouch from 1993 through 1996. During her transition year from the UK back to Philadelphia, Leigh directed the startup of a software company formed to commercialize a suite of knowledge management tools developed by British Telecom. Leigh earned a B.A. from Williams College and a MBA from NYU. Leigh is the CFO of Atris.

Patty Hayes
Patty was a senior vice president with NTL, Inc. from 2001 until through 2003, directing the development and ongoing maintenance of the software that rates all the telephone, cable and Internet transactions as well as the e-channel development for customer acquisition. Prior to NTL, in 1989 Patty became the VP of Information Services for Cellular One of Ohio and Michigan, leveraging her strong background in high volume transaction processing and customer operations. In 1996, when Airtouch acquired Cellular One, Patty helped launch a start up CLEC company for which she served as President from 1996 until 2001. Patty began her career with 18 years in operations and information technology at Medical Mutual and its successor organization, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Northeast Ohio. In her final three years, she achieved the rank of Senior VP of Operations with responsibility for the claims, customer service and information technology divisions. Patty earned a B.S. in Business Administration and MBA from Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio. Patty is the VP of Operations for Atris.

Richard Lubasch
From 1981 through June 1987 (as outside counsel) and from July 1987 through August 2003 (as an officer), Rich filled the role of General Counsel for Cellular Communications Inc. (CCI), a startup non-wireline cellular telephone company and its numerous successor and spun off communications companies. Those companies included CCI’s operating company, Cellular One of Ohio and Michigan, Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico, Inc., Cellular Communications International, Inc., CoreComm Inc., and NTL Inc. In his 20 plus years working with these companies, Rich guided the companies through their initial formation, seed and mezzanine capital raising, IPOs and sales of three of the businesses. Along the way, Rich provided the legal framework for dozens of small and large acquisitions and dispositions and billions of dollars in fundraising that were required to grow the businesses and to consummate these acquisitions. Prior to 1987, Rich was an associate and then a partner at Berlack, Israels & Liberman where he specialized in corporate and securities law. He graduated from NYU Law School in 1971 and started his career with Berlack, Israels & Liberman shortly thereafter. Rich serves as Atris’ corporate secretary and
outside counsel.