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Mark Dunaway

President and Chief Operating Officer

As President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, Mark Dunaway has full responsibility for the execution of Verso's business strategy. He works closely with Steve Odom, Verso's Chief Executive Officer/Chairman, and other members of the board.

He has more than three decades of experience in growing and leading telecommunications and industrial companies and has served on the Verso board since 2005. Most of his career has been in the telecommunications sector, including 25 years in the wireless sector. Prior to accepting the President and Chief Operating Officer position at Verso, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Composite Materials Technology.

Mark has successfully founded several startups in his career and has also acquired a number of companies. Most recently, he co-founded Criterion Partners and Growth Strategies Group and was a founder of Preferred Networks, a wireless network and services business. He also co-founded and served as CEO at two national wireless companies, both of which grew to more than $100 million in revenues and were later sold to Bell Atlantic Corporation. Mark has also served as President of British Telecom's pager subsidiary in North America, founded The Beeper Company, a national company which was later sold to Arch Communications Group, and co-founded Friend Technologies in San Francisco, California which was later sold to a public technology company in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition, Mark has served as a board member for several telecommunications and technology companies.

Marty Kidder

Chief Financial Officer

As Chief Financial Officer, Marty Kidder is responsible for leading all corporate finance, human resource, legal and administrative functions for Verso Technologies. During his career, Marty has gained much experience managing merger, acquisition, divestiture and restructuring initiatives, financing transactions, and business integrations and business systems implementations. He has led accounting, tax, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and SEC reporting functions for several global technology companies.

Previously, Marty served as corporate controller of CipherTrust, Inc., a global provider of messaging security products that merged in August 2006 with Secure Computing (Nasdaq:SCUR). Prior to that, he was controller of both GE Energy's Network Reliability Products and Services and Rentals businesses (NYSE:GE). Other positions include controller at Glenayre Technologies, Inc, (Nasdaq:GEMS), a global provider of next-generation messaging solutions and enhanced services for wireless and wireline carriers and MSO/cable operators, and vice president and controller of World Access, Inc., an international provider of voice, data and Internet products.

Marty began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Detroit, Michigan and received his certified public accountant license. He earned a bachelors degree in accountancy from Michigan State University.