Richard Fredrick Dea

Aspire International, Inc. engages in the exploration and production of mineral properties. The firm explores for gold, iron, and manganese. It also operates a mining business in China and Cambodia. The company was founded on October 14, 1997 and is headquartered in Markham, Canada.

SubMicron Systems Corp. designs, manufactures, and supplies advanced wafer processing equipment to the semiconductor and related industries. The private company is based in Allentown, PA, and has subsidiaries in the United States.

GlobalNet Corp. provides international voice, data, fax, and Internet and wireless services. Its Internet Protocol network, utilizing the convergence of voice and data networking, offers customers global reach and platform that guarantees delivery of value-added services and applications. The company's retail prepaid services consist of retail calling cards targeted primarily at the U.S. market and prepaid mobile satellite services targeted internationally. GlobalNet was founded in May 1997 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Perfisans Network Corp. manufactures semiconductor chips. The company is headquartered in Markham, Canada.

VoIP, Inc. provides wholesale long distance and local telephone services through its network. It serves as a real time transmission of voice communications in the form of digitized packets of information over the public Internet or its own private network similar to the way in which e-mail and other data is transmitted. The company services allow customers to communicate at significantly reduced costs compared to traditional telephony networks. VoIP, Inc. goal is to become the premier enabler for packet communication services for carriers, service providers and cable operators seeking to offer value-added voice, data and enhanced services products using its technology.

Part of Zaiq Technologies, Inc., ASIC Technology Corp designs semiconductors. The company is based in Andover, MA. ASIC Technology was acquired by Zaiq Technologies, Inc. on April 20, 1999.