Rian J. Wren President and Chief Executive Officer

Rian J. Wren is a telecommunications industry veteran and pioneer of IP telephony. As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Telephony for Comcast Cable, Wren was responsible for the overall delivery of telephony services for the country's leading cable and broadband communications provider until joining Neutral Tandem in February 2006.

Wren joined Comcast in 1999 and was named CEO of Broadnet, Comcast's international wireless company in 2000. After returning to Comcast Business Communications (CBC), he served as the business unit's President where he had management and leadership responsibility for providing network solutions to Comcast's business customers.

Prior to joining Comcast, Wren held several senior management positions at AT&T, including President of the Southeast Region, and worked in the Consumer, Business, Network Services, and Network Systems Manufacturing organizations for more than 20 years.

Wren holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He is also a winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 award for the Lake Michigan Area.

Rob Junkroski has been with Neutral Tandem since its inception in 2003. Prior to Neutral Tandem, he held the position of Vice President of Finance with Focal Communications Corporation (now part of Broadwing), and was responsible for managing all working capital functions within the company including accounts payable and receivable, credit and collections, carrier and end-user billing, regulatory compliance, and real estate management. Junkroski previously served as Treasurer and Controller and was responsible for all accounting, revenue assurance, audit, cash and risk management and customer credit functions at Focal. With over 20 years experience, he has helped raise over $1 billion in capital.

Before joining Focal, he was Controller for Brambles Equipment Services, Inc., and Focus Leasing Corporation, where he was responsible for establishing and maintaining the accounting, financial reporting and budgeting functions for both entities.

Junkroski is a C.P.A. He earned a B.B.A. from the University of Dubuque and an M.B.A. with honors from Roosevelt University, concentrating in Finance and Accounting. He is also a winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 award for the Lake Michigan Area.

Most recently, Surendra Saboo was the Vice President of Operations for wireless services at Comcast. He brings more than 20 years of executive management experience in the telecommunications industry to Neutral Tandem. Saboo joined Comcast in June 2000 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Broadnet, a pan-European subsidiary of Comcast, where he was responsible for launching broadband services in six countries within 12 months. In 2002, he returned to the U.S. and became the Vice President of Product Development and Operations for Comcast's voice business. In this capacity, he was responsible for the turn-around of the circuit-switched business to profitability and launching of the VoIP based Comcast digital voice service.

Prior to joining Comcast, he was the Chairman, CEO and Founder of Teledigm, an e-CRM software product company in Dallas. Prior to starting Teledigm, he spent 14 years at AT&T in a variety of operating areas including research and development, engineering, product management, strategy, systems development and operations. He began his career with AT&T in 1986 as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ.

Saboo holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, a masters in Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a Ph.D in Operations Research. He has also completed the Advanced Management Program at Hawaii University.

As Senior Vice President of Sales, Mr. Lopez oversees the management and growth of all Neutral Tandem carrier accounts. Mr. Lopez brings a wealth of sales management experience to Neutral Tandem and has more than 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry. He has been with the company since its inception and has secured agreements with nearly every national wireless carrier and over three dozen other competitive landline and cable providers.

Mr. Lopez has held national account and sales management positions at Centel, Sprint, and Focal Communications Corporation (now part of Level 3). In his most recent position, Mr. Lopez was instrumental in opening Focal's largest and most successful market (Chicago), where he grew sales to nearly $40 million per year.

Lopez holds a B.S. in Marketing from Illinois State University

Richard Monto joined Neutral Tandem in 2007 and has over a decade of telecommunications law experience. Prior to becoming General Counsel and Secretary, Monto served as Neutral Tandem's Assistant General Counsel, and was involved in all of the company's ongoing legal and regulatory matters

Before joining Neutral Tandem, Monto held senior legal positions at several different companies. Monto served as the Chief Legal Officer of Universal Access Global Holdings, Inc., a Chicago based wholesale telecommunications carrier. Monto also worked at MCI, where he was responsible for the provision of legal support for sales to MCI's largest enterprise users in the Mid-West region. Monto began his career at the law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal.

Monto has an undergraduate degree in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the Boston University School of Law.