VISION

 NexTalk has a clear and ambitious vision.

Board of Directors
Jeffrey T. Webber

Mr. Webber has more than 25 years of experience as a successful early-stage investor and has served as a close advisor to scores of emerging growth technology companies. He is currently a managing director of BW Management, LLC, BW Management II, LLC and Wildcat Management, LLC, general partners operating The Entrepreneurs’ Funds, a family of four private equity venture funds.

He was the founding partner of R .B. Webber & Company, Inc., which provided strategic planning consulting services to high technology companies. Prior to R. B. Webber, Mr. Webber founded New Venture Consultants, Inc., a firm specializing in advisory services to start up ventures, and served as its president from 1980 to 1987. Mr. Webber began his professional career in 1977 as a member of the strategic planning team at McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles.

Mr. Webber serves as a member of the board of directors at Accept Software, Inc., BorderWare Technologies, Inc., Enquisite Software, Inc., LignUp Corporation, and techTribeNetworks, Inc. and is chairman of the board at Vizible Corporation. He has served on six public company boards, including Aurum Software, Inc., AvantGo, Inc., Commerce One, Inc., Persistence Software Inc., Sagent Technology and Sybase Inc. Mr. Webber holds a BA from Yale University.


William N. Shiebler

Mr. Shiebler joined the board of NexTalk in February 2008 as Chairman after a career as a senior executive in the asset management and finance business. He is now active in a variety of business, community, and charitable organizations.

Until January 2007, Mr. Shiebler served as advisory Vice Chairman of Deutsche Asset Management, the asset management and mutual funds arm of Deutsche Bank. Previously, Mr. Shiebler had served as CEO of the Americas for that Deutsche Bank business, which formed out of the merger several leading investment organizations including Kemper, Scudder, Alex.Brown and others. Before joining Deutsche Asset Management, Mr. Shiebler was Managing Director of Putnam Investments, where he led the business through one of the company’s most successful periods of growth. Prior to that, he was President and COO of Dean Witter in its Intercapital Division.

Mr. Shiebler is currently active in investment businesses including TreeTops Investment LLC and TreeTops Corporation LLC. He is a Director of Palo Alto, California based Attensity Corp., and OxiGene (NASDAQ: OXGN), a biotechnology company based in Lund, Sweden and Boston, MA. Mr. Shiebler served at the invitation of President George W. Bush on the Presidential Commission on Medicaid, and was a Trustee of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee. Currently he is Chairman of the Park City Center for Public Policy, and a Trustee of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation, among other charitable and community organizations.


Todd D. Wakefield

As President and Chief Executive Officer of NexTalk, Inc., Todd Wakefield is responsible for driving the overall strategic direction of the company and driving its current rapid growth. Through a combination of strategic vision, strong team-building skills and an eye for detail, Todd’s leadership has helped NexTalk rapidly take its place at the forefront of providing accessible telecommunications solutions to organizations around the globe.

An experienced technology entrepreneur, Todd was named one of 50 Worldwide Reader Favorites in Fast Company magazine’s Fast 50 Global Readers’ Challenge. Prior to NexTalk, he was co-founder, president and CEO of Attensity Corporation. There, he successfully led Attensity through three rounds of funding and the longest sustained revenue growth in the company’s history. Todd also was instrumental in the development and execution of the company’s strategy as well as its products and technology, for which he holds six patents. Attensity was named in 2005 to Fortune magazine’s list of 25 Breakout Companies. Before founding Attensity, Todd worked in private law practice in Park City, Utah and served as general counsel to the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding.

Todd currently serves as Chairman of the US Ski and Snowboard Association (USAA) Judicial Council. He also is a venture partner with the Entrepreneurs Fund, a San Mateo, California-based venture capital firm and is a member of the 85-lawyer firm of Jones Waldo Holbrook & McDonough based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He serves of the Board of Trustees of the non-profit Work Activity Center in Salt Lake City which helps people with disabilities become more active and independent members of the community. Todd has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards including Attensity Corporation, SpectrumDNA, and the Park City International Jazz Festival, where he was a founding trustee.

Todd earned both his Juris Doctorate and his Bachelor of Science degree in Philosophy (Honors) from the University of Utah, and he has been admitted into Mensa


Carmelo J. Santoro, PhD

Dr. Santoro brings extensive executive leadership experience in the computer, semiconductor and software industries. He has served as Chairman, President and CEO of major public and private technology companies including AST Research, Silicon Systems, Platinum Software and Ashton-Tate. He also has served on a number of both public and private high tech boards of directors such as Seagate Technology, Dallas Semiconductor, S3, Inc. and Mentor Graphics.

Dr. Santoro began his career as a senior scientist with Motorola Inc., where he headed the team that developed the original 6800 microprocessor. He later held served as senior vicepresident of manufacturing for American Microsystems Inc., and then served as vice president of integrated circuits for the solid state division of RCA prior to joining Silicon Systems where he became CEO.

Dr. Santoro is a graduate of Manhattan College in New York, and earned his Ph.D. in solid state physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1967.

In addition to corporate interests, Dr. Santoro has been involved with fund raising for cancer research and treatment and with his wife, Nancy, has headed successful fund-raising campaigns at St. Joseph's Hospital in Orange County. They have been founding contributors to the Park City and Orange County Performing Arts Centers and the SOS Foundation for the Egyptian Theater.


Thomas F. Eggers

Mr. Eggers was chief executive officer and president of The Dreyfus Corporation and a member of its Board of Directors. He also served as chief executive officer of Founders Asset Management LLC, manager of the Dreyfus Founders Funds. Additionally, Mr. Eggers was a member of the Executive Committee of BNY Mellon Asset Management and a member of the Operating Committee of The Bank of New York Mellon.

Originally joining Dreyfus in April 1996 as president of Dreyfus Investments, Mr. Eggers was appointed vice chairman of The Dreyfus Corporation in January 1999, promoted to president in October 2001 and named Chief Executive Officer in December 2006.

Prior to joining Dreyfus in 1996, Mr. Eggers was managing director and principal of Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management, a subsidiary of PaineWebber where he began his career. Mr. Eggers rejoined Dreyfus as president from Scudder Investments in April 2005, where he served as president and chief executive officer since May 2002. He was appointed chief operating officer of Dreyfus in April 2006 and promoted to chief executive officer at the end of 2006.

In 2007, Mr. Eggers was elected to the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute. In 2008, Mr. Eggers retired from Dreyfus, after having spent three decades in the financial services business and achieving record assets under management at Dreyfus. The Dreyfus Corporation, established in 1951 and headquartered in New York City, is one of the nation's leading asset management and distribution companies, currently managing more than $280 billion in mutual funds and institutional portfolios. Dreyfus is part of BNY Mellon Asset Management, a leading global provider of investment management products and services that offers a broad range of equity, fixed-income, hedge and liquidity management products through individual asset management companies and multiple distribution channels.