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John W. Sidgmore

John W. Sidgmore (46), Chief Executive Officer UUNET Technologies and Vice Chairman & Chief Operations Officer WorldCom, Inc.

Mr. Sidgmore joined UUNET Technologies in June of 1994 as President and Chief Executive Officer. Over the past 3 years, UUNET increased its annualized revenues from approximately $7 million to over $300 million, and is the world's largest Internet Access Provider with over 1,500 employees worldwide. In May of 1995, UUNET completed the third most successful initial public offering on NASDAQ in the year 1995. On August 12, 1996 UUNET Technologies, Inc. merged with MFS Communications Company, Inc., in a transaction valued at nearly $2 billion. Shortly following that merger, on December 31, 1996 MFS Communications, Inc. and UUNET Technologies, Inc. were acquired in the fourth largest merger in corporate history for $14 billion by WorldCom, Inc. (NASDAQ: WCOM). WorldCom has two very large strategic mergers pending. The first is the highly-publicized, largest merger in U.S. history of MCI. The other is a three way transaction in which WorldCom/UUNET will acquire ANS' and CompuServe's network infrastructures and secure a multi-billion dollar five year contract with AOL.

Prior to this he was President and Chief Executive Officer of CSC Intelicom (formerly Intelicom Solutions) since 1989. CSC Intelicom was the largest independent software company in the telecommunications industry with approximately $100 million in annual revenue and 600 employees worldwide. While at CSC Intelicom he engineered a major turnaround in performance, and the company grew at a rate of ap. 60% per year since 1991 - following four straight years of decline. Mr. Sidgmore successfully sold Intelicom Solutions Corporation to Computer Sciences Corporation in 1991 and remained as CEO of CSC Intelicom until June of 1994.

For fourteen years previous to his association with CSC Intelicom, Mr. Sidgmore was with General Electric Information Services (GEISCO), most recently as Vice President and General Manager of GEIS North America, a $240M business segment. During his four year tenure as Vice President and General Manager, Mr. Sidgmore engineered a turnaround in GEIS U.S. performance which led to a tripling of net income and a 20% growth in revenue after three straight years of decline. Mr. Sidgmore received his B.A. in Economics from the State University of New York in 1973.

This information from the UUNET Web Site

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