Mr. John D. Crowley

JOHN D. CROWLEYPresident

jcrowley@chesapeakepartners.net

Mr. Crowley is a seasoned business executive with a successful track record spanning more than 20 years in leadership positions growing large corporations, consulting firms, mid-market technology enterprises and working with international investors to restructure businesses and investments.

He is the Co-founder and President of Chesapeake Partners, Inc., a firm specializing in building Equity Programs, providing Mergers and Acquisition-related Investment Services, and delivering Strategic Business Advisory Services to Fortune 500 Companies and large private/public technology and non-technology investor groups seeking to improve the performance of business units and investments or to diversify or restructure their portfolios.Chesapeake provides buy-side and sell-side representation, investment strategy, acquisition valuations, due diligence and assessments, financial and business restructuring, and overall strategy and business plan development assistance.

His industry experience spreads across telecommunications, systems integration, IT services, healthcare, and government services.He also presently serves as Chairman of Chesapeake Healthcare Technologies, Inc., an equity investment of Chesapeake Partners.

Prior to founding Chesapeake, Mr. Crowley was Vice President for Global Partnerships and Alliances at AT&T Corporation, a division that he founded.There, he successfully built multiple highly strategic business partnerships and launched several value added go-to-market initiatives.

Prior to AT&T, Mr. Crowley was a Vice President/Director at MCI where he successful launched its Strategic Ventures and Alliances unit, which is still in place and growing today.He also held positions as Chief Marketing Officer for MCI Wireless and Vice President - Strategy, Marketing and Business Development - Special Markets Unit - where revenues grew to $2.5B.During his wireless tenure, Mr. Crowley opened 80 markets for MCI, participated in successful acquisitions and partnership initiatives, and helped grow wireless revenues from $350M to greater than $1.5B.

Prior to joining MCI, he held various consulting and leadership positions including one as Chief Operating Officer of a privately-held $80M computer technology and services firm.

Mr. Crowley is a former senior management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers' New York City Practice Group.He is a graduate of the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and a member of the Potomac Officers Club, a non-profit organization of "C-level" executives from various industries.

While jointly selling products is the arrangement's focus, it also entails some product collaboration, said Jack Crowley, AT&T's vice president of strategic partnerships and alliances, in an interview.

The two companies plan to offer a service that will analyze a client's networking infrastructure and offer design guidance for optimizing the network's handling of Siebel's applications.

Crowley declined to comment on whether the "network optimization analysis" service will carry a fee, or will be offered as an inducement to potential buyers.

The partnership with Siebel, which is based in San Mateo, California, is similar to one AT&T forged in February with Cisco Systems.The alliances are part of AT&T's strategy of spotlighting its managed service offerings by partnering with leading IT vendors, Crowley said.AT&T is based in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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John Crowley was elected to serve as a Class III director at the Company's Stockholders Meeting on January 27, 2005 and presently serves as the President of Chesapeake, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.The Company acquired Chesapeake on March 24, 2004.Mr. Crowley was a co-founder of Chesapeake and has served as its President since its inception in February 2004.From September 2002 to March 2004, Mr. Crowley served as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Alliances at AT&T Corp.From March 1992 to September 2002, Mr. Crowley served as Vice President of Strategic Ventures and Alliances at MCI Telecommunications, Inc.From 1983 to 1992, Mr. Crowley held various management and consulting positions with different companies, including United City Traders and PricewaterhouseCoopers.Mr. Crowley received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University.Effective as of April 8, 2005, John Crowley resigned from the Board of Directors of WidePoint pursuant to the contractual terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated March 24, 2004, by and among WidePoint and Chesapeake, as a result of a notice terminating the employment agreement between WidePoint and Mr. Crowley.

A mutual friend then introduced us to Mark Fuller and Jack Crowley of Chesapeake.
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Mark and Jack had gotten together a couple of years ago to establish Chesapeake Partners, and as it turned out, our business models were very similar.

While jointly selling products is the arrangement's focus, it also entails some product collaboration, said Jack Crowley, AT&T's vice president of strategic partnerships and alliances, in an interview.

The two companies plan to offer a service that will analyze a client's networking infrastructure and offer design guidance for optimizing the network's handling of Siebel's applications.

Crowley declined to comment on whether the "network optimization analysis" service will carry a fee, or will be offered as an inducement to potential buyers.

The partnership with Siebel, which is based in San Mateo, California, is similar to one AT&T forged in February with Cisco Systems Inc.The alliances are part of AT&T's strategy of spotlighting its managed service offerings by partnering with leading IT vendors, Crowley said.AT&T is based in Bedminster, New Jersey.