FatPort establishes Technical Advisory Board

Announces appointment of five industry and academic thought leaders

The well-respected industry and academic leaders who sit on this board bring both the comprehensive knowledge and diverse experience necessary to grasp FatPort's full market potential and to provide varied external perspectives - essential to the company's continued growth and success.

The first five members of the team include:

* Dr. James Cavers - Professor of Engineering Science, SFU
James K. Cavers received his BASc in Engineering Physics and PhD in Electrical Engineering from UBC. A prolific author on the topic of the transmission and detection of signals in radio channels, he is co-director of SFU's Mobile Communications Laboratory and holds a Canada Research Chair in wireless communication. He was the 1998 recipient of the Principal Innovation Award from the E.C. Manning Foundation, Canada.s most prestigious technology award. In 2002, Dr. Cavers was named a IEEE fellow for "contributions to the theory and practice of digital transmission over wireless channels."

* Dr. Dave Michelson - Adjunct Professor, UBC
David G. Michelson received his BASc, MASc, and PhD, all in Electrical Engineering, from the University of British Columbia. Since 1994, Dr. Michelson has extensively studied RF propagation, channel modeling, and wireless communications system design with MDA/NSERC and AT&T. Since August 2001, he has served as a consultant to UBC's University Networking Program as they deploy one of Canada's largest Wireless LAN's.

Dr. Michelson was appointed Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC in August 2000 and became a full-time faculty member in January 2003. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Applied Computational Electro-magnetics Society. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, chair of the IEEE VT-S Technical Committee on Propagation and Channel Modeling, and chair of the IEEE Vancouver Section's Joint Communications Chapter. A strong advocate of Linux and Open Source software, he is the founder and chair of the Vancouver Linux Users Group.

* Dr. Ed Casas - Adjunct Professor, UBC
Ed Casas received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 1989. Since 1983, Dr. Casas has focused on mobile data communication using terrestrial and satellite based methods. As an adjunct professor at UBC, Dr. Casas supervises graduate students in wireless communications. He is currently employed by Vivato Inc, a manufacturer of advanced Wi-Fi infrastructure equipment.

* Mark Teolis - CTO, Peer 1
Mr. Teolis co-founded Peer 1 Network with Lance Tracey in August 1999. He is responsible for the architecture, design, implementation and operation of the entire network. Prior Peer 1, Mr. Teolis worked as a Network Engineer with AT&T Canada, Metronet and Starcom. Mr. Teolis graduated from Concordia University in Montreal in 1987 with a BSc. degree.

* Dr. Loki Jorgenson . Director, Research, jaalaM Technologies
With a Ph.D. in computational physics from McGill University, Dr. Jorgenson has been active in computation, physics and mathematics, visualization, and simulation for over 19 years. He has published in areas as diverse as philosophy, graphics, educational technologies, statistical mechanics, logic and number theory. Dr. Jorgenson is an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University where he was previously the Research Manager of the Center for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics. He has headed research in numerous academic projects from high performance computing to digital publishing, working closely with private sector partners and government. He has also worked as an e-business consultant with Idea Integration in the Bay area. At jaalaM, Dr. Jorgenson is responsible for leading research efforts, and for creating practical collaborative efforts with academics and other thought leaders.

"We are fortunate to have assembled this group of industry luminaries for our Technical Advisory Board," said Ken Simpson, CTO of FatPort Corporation. "FatPort is committed to technical innovation - this board will be both a catalyst for great ideas and a vital outside perspective to keep us on track."

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