CLEC-People  - July 26, 2001

ITC DeltaCom, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM: ITCD) announced that Larry F. Williams has been elected to the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. To facilitate the addition of Williams, Campbell B. Lanier, III moved from Chairman to Vice Chairman and Andrew M. Walker stepped down as Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Walker will remain President and director and will take on the additional newly created position of Chief Operations Officer. Williams was appointed as a director of the company in February 2001 following his retirement from his position as Chief Executive Officer and Director of AAPT Ltd., a publicly traded telecommunications carrier in Australia. Williams also has served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of AAPT, as Executive Vice President, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Telecom USA (SouthernNet) and as Vice President of Finance and Administration for MCI Communications Southern division.

RCN Corporation (Nasdaq: RCNC) announced the appointment of Wendy Rasmussen as Vice President and General Manager of the company's Chicago Regional office. Rasmussen brings almost 20 years of experience in the cable television industry to RCN, where she will manage the company's operations in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. Prior to joining RCN, Rasmussen served as vice president of Customer Care for AT&T Broadband's Southern California market and as director of both Business Operations and Systems Operations for AT&T Broadband/Media One's Western Division. She also held various marketing leadership roles with Colony/Continental Cablevision (now AT&T Broadband) and Comcast. Ramsussen has served as the Vice President of CTAM of Southern California and on the Board of Directors for the Southern California Cable and Telecommunications Association. Wendy was awarded a 1996 LEA Award by Women in Cable & Telecommunications as the "1996 Woman to Watch."

Net2000 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTKK), a competitive provider of broadband telecommunications services for businesses, announced the appointment of John A. DiSarlo as vice president and general manager for the company's New York City sales operations. Bringing eight years of telecommunications management experience to Net2000's team in the North East, DiSarlo recently served as regional director for XO Communications covering the New York metro area territory. Under his leadership at XO Communications, DiSarlo generated significant growth by selling and billing nearly $70 million dollars of new incremental annual revenue in the New York metro market, and held top regional sales honors for 12 consecutive months. He originally joined that company in 1998 as national accounts sales manager in New York City where he built carrier sales to $31.2 million dollars in annual revenue in less than one year, and was ranked consistently as a top manager. DiSarlo's earlier industry experience included serving in sales and management positions in New York with TeleGlobe Communications and Frontier Communications. Net2000 has been serving large and mid-tier businesses in New York since it opened its Manhattan office and network facilities in 1999.

Broadwing Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of the optical communications leader Broadwing Inc. (NYSE:BRW), announced that Richard D. (Rick) Calder, Jr. has joined the company, effective immediately, as president of Business Markets. In this position, Calder will direct Broadwing's sales and service, alternate channel programs, business solutions and partner marketing for business markets. Prior to joining Broadwing, Calder held multiple senior management positions at Winstar Communications, most recently as president of the Winstar South Division where he was responsible for revenue and profit growth, as well as network deployment, in the South Division branches. Prior to joining Winstar, Calder co-founded GO Communications, a wireless communications company, held various marketing and business development positions at MCI, and several engineering and marketing positions at Tellabs. Calder received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Yale and an MBA from Harvard University. Broadwing's prior president of Business Markets, Richard Putt, was named president of National Accounts, where he will oversee sales and service professionals responsible for earning and maintaining relationships with lucrative national customers.

PaeTec Corp., a holding company whose principal subsidiary is PaeTec Communications, Inc., an integrated communications provider ("ICP"), announced that Douglas C. Grissom of Madison Dearborn Partners, Inc. has joined PaeTec's board of directors. Grissom is a director with Madison Dearborn Partners, Inc., a Chicago-based private investment firm, where he specializes in investing in companies in the communications industry. Prior to joining Madison Dearborn Partners, Grissom worked in private equity investing with Bain Capital, Inc., management consulting with McKinsey & Company, Inc., and investment banking with Goldman, Sachs & Co. Grissom currently serves on the boards of directors of Cbeyond Communications, LLC, Looking Glass Networks, LLC, Neoworld, Inc., @stake, Inc., and Storability, Inc. Grissom holds an A.B. degree from Amherst College and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

New Edge Networks announced the appointment of Jonathan Mapes as vice president of engineering and chief technology officer. Before joining New Edge Networks, Mapes was chief technology officer for WorldCom Broadband Solutions in Dallas. Prior to that Mapes was vice president of emerging technologies for Skytel, which was later acquired by WorldCom. He previously also held network, engineering and technology planning positions with Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Comstock Communications and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Mapes will be responsible for overseeing New Edge Networks' day-to-day engineering functions as well as evaluating emerging technologies and applications. Mapes has a bachelor's degree in computer sciences from the University of Texas in Arlington. He will be based in Vancouver, Wash.