James Barr III
President and CEO

James Barr III is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of TDS Telecom. During Barr’s 15-year tenure as CEO, TDS Telecom’s revenues and income have more than quintupled. Barr recently announced his intention to retire at the end of 2006, and has appointed his successor David Wittwer. He will remain a member of the TDS Board of Directors upon his retirement.

Before being appointed to his present position in 1990, Barr spent many years with AT&T. During his tenure there, Barr held positions in engineering, planning, regulatory, marketing and sales. His last position with AT&T was as vice president of Sales for major accounts in New York and New England.

Barr is a member of the TDS Telecom board of directors and of the board of its parent company, Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. He is also a director of the National Rural Telecom Association, the United States Telephone Association and the Center for Telecommunications Management, an institute of the University of Southern California. Additionally, Barr is a charter member of the Aspen Institute's FOCAS (Forum on Communications and Society) Committee. He serves on the board of the United Way of Dane County, Wisconsin, an executive council member of the International Engineering Consortium as well as a member of the Dean's Advisory Board of the School of Business of the University of Wisconsin.

Barr has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago, as well as an engineering degree from Iowa State University.

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Dave Wittwer
Chief Operating Officer; CEO (2007)

David Wittwer represents TDS Telecom as Chief Operating Officer and has been appointed to succeed current President, Jim Barr as CEO in 2007.

He previously served for eight years as president of Staff Operations and chief financial officer. He became chief financial officer in 1997. In 1995, he assumed the position of vice president of Finance; in 1992, controller; and in 1990 was accounting manager for the company’s Pacific division. He joined TDS Telecom in 1983 as an internal auditor.

During his 22 years with the company, Wittwer has been integrally involved in several key projects for the company. Among these include assisting the company with presentations to the investment community during the proposed equity carve-out of TDS Telecom in 1998, and preparing the company for the transition to changes in regulatory accounting rules for telephone companies in 1985.

A certified public accountant, Wittwer holds a Master of Business Administration in Management and Quality from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

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James W. Butman
Group President – Marketing, Sales & Customer Operations

Jim Butman represents TDS Telecom as group president of Sales, Marketing and Customer Operations.

Previously, Butman was president of TDS Metrocom, TDS Telecom's Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) for nine years. Prior to his appointment to that position in May of 1997, Butman was president of TDS Telecom's long distance operation in Minnesota and North Dakota formerly known as USLink.

Butman joined TDS Telecom in 1985, where he has held several positions in state and federal regulatory affairs and product management. Prior to his time at TDS Telecom, he held various financial positions with GTE. He has a total of 26 years of telecommunications experience in the local exchange, long distance and competitive local exchange segments of the telecom industry.

Butman is on the Board of Directors for COMPTEL, the competitive local telecom industry's national association. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin Madison and is a certified management accountant.

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Lisa Cvengros
Executive Vice President – Technology and Service Delivery, CTO

Lisa Cvengros represents TDS Telecom as the executive vice president of Technology and Service Delivery & Chief Technology Officer.

Cvengros joined TDS Telecom in 1997 as the director of Network Management and was appointed to vice president of Network Services in October 1999. She took on her current position in April 2006

Priorto Joining TDS Telecom Cvengros spent over 10 years with Ameritech in a variety of positions. Her last role at Ameritech was as director of Wisconsin Field Operations, which included a team of 300 employees across the state of Wisconsin that cared for all central office, hi-capacity and video services.

Cvengros has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater.

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Kevin Hess
Senior Vice President - Government and Regulatory Affairs

Kevin Hess serves TDS Telecom as senior vice president - Government and Regulatory Affairs

In his position, Hess works closely with industry organizations and meets frequently with regulatory bodies, members of Congress and state legislatures representing the interests of TDS Telecom in regulatory, legislative, judicial, industry and public affairs matters.

Hess joined TDS Telecom in 1984, and prior to his current role, had held a number of different positions within the Government and Regulatory Affairs group. Most recently, Hess was the Vice President of Federal Affairs.

Prior to joining TDS Telecom, Kevin spent eight years at a regional accounting and consulting firm which specializes in providing local exchange carriers with audit, accounting, tax and regulatory expertise.

Hess currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), and chairs the High Cost Low Income Committee of the Board. He is a certified public accountant, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison and has an MBA from the University of Tennessee.

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Mike Pandow
Senior Vice President - Human Resources and Administration.

Mike Pandow reperesents TDS Telecom as Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Administration. In this role, he leads an array of administrative services, including new company transition, procurement, staffing and recruiting, safety and labor relations, compensation management, employee relations training and development, and employee communications. Pandow is also responsible for driving process improvement initiatives throughout the organization.

Pandow joined TDS Telecom in 1982, following four years with GTE. In his tenure with TDS Telecom he has held various management positions in the regulatory affairs and marketing areas. He also served as a district manager in Wisconsin prior to being named vice president of the Mid-Central Division in April 1995. In July of 1995, he was named vice president of the Eastern Region, and in 1999, he was named vice president of Customer Operations.

Pandow has an undergraduate degree in Business Law and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

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Bill Megan
Senior Vice President - Finance, Strategic Planning & CFO

Bill Megan serves as TDS Telecom's Senior Vice President - Finance & Chief Financial Officer

Megan first joined TDS Telecom in 1989 and has worked in Customer Service, Marketing, and Planning & Business Development. Following seven years in the New York office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was a management consultant focused on strategy and finance, Megan re-joined TDS Telecom in 2001

Megan, a chartered financial analyst, has a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.