NetStar-1

Jim Dean

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Jim Dean is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of NetStar-1. Mr. Dean leads the company's finance organization and is responsible for accounting, strategic planning, treasury, tax and audit. He also leads the corporate development and facilities teams. Mr. Dean is a Certified Public Accountant and has over 25 years of financial and management experience in the information technology sector.

Mr. Dean is a Certified Public Accountant and has over 25 years of financial and management experience in the information technology sector. Prior to joining NetStar-1, Mr. Dean was the CFO at Northrop Grumman Computing Systems, Inc. (NGCS) in Laurel, MD., where he led the company's financial, contractual, operational and proposal activities while also serving as a member of NGCS' Executive Committee.

Previously, Mr. Dean was Vice President and CFO for Federal Data Corporation in Bethesda, MD. where he played a leadership role in all financial, merger and acquisition, banking, shareholder and public bond market activities and served on the company's Corporate Management, Operations Review, Strategic Planning and Pricing Committees. Mr. Dean was previously employed at Price Waterhouse for 14 years before joining Federal Data Corporation.

Mr. Dean has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, MD, and has participated in the Executive Education Program at the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and the Government Contracts Program at George Washington University Law School.