NetStar-1

Jim Dean

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Jim Dean is NetStar-1's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and leads the company's finance organization and has responsibility 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. Prior to joining NetStar-1, Mr. Dean was the CFO at Northrop Grumman Computing Systems, Inc. (NGCS), Laurel, MD., where he led the company's financial, contractual, operational and proposal activities and was a member of NGCS' Executive Committee.

Previously, Mr. Dean was Vice President and CFO for Federal Data Corporation, Bethesda, MD. where he provided 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, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration - University of Virginia and the Government Contracts Program - George Washington University Law School.