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Meet AMS Senior Management Team Bret J. Dunlap, President & CEO As the founder and CEO of Advanced Mobile Solutions, Bret oversees many corporate responsibilities including, sales and marketing, product development along with managing the company’s strategic direction Prior to founding Advanced Mobile Solutions, in 1989 Bret co-founded Advanced Telecom Services, Incorporated (ATS)--a leading interactive voice response (IVR) company specializing in 800 and 900 services. ATS has provided IVR applications for hundreds of media companies within the newspaper, radio and TV industries. Over the last 21 years, ATS has grown its business entirely through internal cash flow, reaching its peak sales year of $61 million in 2001. Bret held many positions within ATS. From 1989 to 1996 he served as Chief Financial Officer; from 1997 to 1999 Bret was Managing Director of ATS’ UK office based in London. From 2000 to 2003 he served as Chief Operating Officer and from 2004 to 2006, he served as President of ATS. Bret was responsible for starting the ringtone business within ATS in 2001 through the creation of two B2C websites: www.ringingphone.com and www.monstertones.com. Bret oversaw the licensing of content, development of an e-commerce site, the mobile technology associated with delivering binary content to disparate handsets through various carrier operating systems, and the day-to-day administration and human-resources necessary to operate the business division. The ringtone business model was based primarily on subscriptions. Ringingphone.com had 28,000 subscribers paying $5.00 per month. Ringingphone.com reached a top 5,000 Alexa ranking and consistently averaged over 1 million unique visitors a month. Bret engineered the sale of ATS’ ringtone business to Zim Technologies in April, 2006. Bret Dunlap holds a BS in economics from James Madison University in 1981 and an MBA with a concentration in Finance & Investments from George Washington University in 1983. David Sawyer, EVP Sales & Business Development Working closely with founder and CEO, Bret Dunlap, David has been instrumental in strategic, sales and business development areas in establishing Advanced Mobile Solutions. A veteran of the newspaper publishing and advertising industry, David first worked with newspapers as an Army Photojournalist in 1984. In 1989, he joined the Scripps Newspapers affiliate, United Media/United Features Syndicate, where he marketed interactive audiotext programs to editors, and advertising executives. David joined Bret and the Advanced Telecom Services’ (ATS) management team as Sr. Sales Executive in January 1993. David developed and successfully marketed the company’s IVR and web personals solution to newspapers throughout North America. By 1998, ATS had become the second largest provider of web and telephony personals to the daily newspaper industry (working with 34 of the USA’s top 100 circulation newspapers at the business’ peak in 2001). In December 2003, David joined Builder Homesite, Incorporated (BHI) as Director of Business Development (BHI is an Austin, Texas based technology company owned by a consortium of 35 of the largest new homebuilders in the US).

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