Industry News Editors

Jane Morrissey, Vice President, Corporate Communications

Jane is responsible for directing Virtela's communications programs, including media and analyst relations and marketing communications initiatives. Prior to joining Virtela, Jane built the technology public relations practice at Qwest, most recently serving as group director for media relations where she led media and analyst relations programs across the company's product initiatives. Earlier in her career, Jane was a technology journalist chronicling the high-tech industry as a freelance writer and editor for publications such as eWeek (formerly PC Week), PC World, Upside and Investor's Business Daily. She previously spent eight years as a PC Week editor, covering business and technology news of the networking and software industries from the leading trade magazine's Silicon Valley bureau and Boston headquarters.

jmorrissey@virtela.net

Liza Adams, Vice President of Marketing

Liza is responsible for all aspects of outbound marketing, product marketing, demand generation, marketing communications and telemarketing for Virtela.

Prior to Virtela, Liza was the Vice President of Marketing for Level 3 Communications' Business Markets Group, responsible for marketing data, voice and converged enterprise services. She also held various strategy, marketing and product management lead positions at WilTel, the service provider that launched the world's first Layer 2 networking services for enterprises. Early in her career at WilTel, as an Applications Engineer, Liza designed some of the largest and most complex enterprise data networks in the world.

She was also Vice President at TeleChoice, Inc., an industry analyst and marketing and strategy consulting firm. She worked with technology vendors and service providers to market enabling technology products and networking services, respectively. Liza is a co-author of Frame Relay Internetworking and a contributor to ATM for Dummies.

Liza has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri - Rolla.

ladams@virtela.net