Mr. Kroogman is an IT professional with more than 16 years of project management, system design, applications programming and service delivery experience. At Rydex Industries Corporation, which specializes in data communications and network management for the marine industry, he designed and developed the core software for the global satellite messaging system. (The Rydex e-mail system is deployed in more than 400 organizations in 19 countries.) Most recently at Orion Technologies Inc. (Orion provides electronic commerce services to financial institutions, governments and corporations), where Mr. Kroogman was Vice President of Product Delivery, he was responsible for technical project management of all Orion projects, including management and coordination of several development teams in different countries. He was also responsible for management of the Network Control Center, finalizing contractual arrangements and managing third-party service providers (BC-TEL, Teleglobe, Telecom Malaysia) as well as for functional management of subsidiaries and joint ventures (Philippines and Malaysia). Mr. Kroogman has a Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Chemical Engineering in Moscow.