Ambient has built a strong team of operational and financial professionals that provide a sound management team with extensive experience in industry and project management. The management team is well augmented by a solid technical team with experience in pioneering advances in the telecommunications and the BPL industry. The team continues to develop, with new skills and capabilities being added to support the drive to commercialization.

John J. Joyce, President & CEO
Mr. Joyce leads the organization. He has over 20 years experience as a senior executive working with international utilities and financial industries. Mr. Joyce has held senior positions with companies such as ABB, Price Waterhouse and Citicorp. He has extensive international experience in business development, consulting and financial markets. From November 2000 through August 2001, Mr. Joyce was the Chief Operating Officer of the Company. In September 2001, Mr. Joyce assumed the leadership of the Company.

Prior to joining Ambient, Mr. Joyce served as Senior Vice President of ABB Financial Services Inc., while also serving as President of Financial Consulting - The Americas, where he led the global energy consulting practice within ABB Financial Services. A CPA in the United States, Mr. Joyce holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business, New York University, where he majored in Finance and International Business.

Mr. Joyce is a founding member and Vice Chairman of the Universal Powerline Association (UPA). He is also on the Board of Directors for the United Power Line Council (UPLC).

Ramdas Rao, Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Rao has experience in various senior management positions within the technology industry. Mr. Rao has extensive experience with network, system architectures, and new product development. Prior to Ambient, Mr. Rao was the Chief Information Officer at Mullen, Inc. a large advertising agency based in New England. From November 1995 through February 2000, he was the President and Co-Founder of Gaialinks, Inc. a company engaged in the development of network management software tools that also provided network analysis for large heterogeneous, multi-vendor, multi-protocol networks and systems.

Mr. Rao represents Ambient on the IEEE PHY/MAC Working Group, formed to develop standard(s) for a common standard for BPL equipment to coexist and/or interoperate. He is also the Chairman of the Universal Powerline Association's (UPA) Access Working Group and the Co-Chairman of the United Power Line Council's (UPLC) Technical Action Committee. Mr. Rao has also presented at a variety of PLC industry events and has published articles on Power Line Communications.

Mr. Rao also was affiliated with Boston University's Office of Information Technology where he held a variety of positions including, Associate Director, Network Systems, and Network Systems Manager. Mr. Rao received a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering (Cum Laude) from Boston University, College of Engineering in 1988.

Dr. Yehuda Cern
Dr. Cern is the inventor of Ambient’s coupling technology and a major technology resource for the advancement of BPL. Dr. Cern has extensive experience in R&D and new product development. He founded a forerunner of Ambient in 1999 to pursue an invention that enabled power line telecommunications.

From September 1997 to January 2000 he worked as Chief Technology Officer of Ambient’s subsidiary, Ambient Ltd. Prior to his employment at Ambient, Dr. Cern served as COO and CTO of AirOptics, Inc., an infrared communications company located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. From 1991 to 1993, Dr. Cern served as R&D Manager of News Datacom Research Ltd., a subsidiary of News Corp located in Israel. In 1976, he founded and served as Chief Scientist of Micro-Shev Ltd., which developed, produced and marketed medical diagnostic equipment for sensing brain potentials.

Dr. Cern is also the Chair of the IEEE BPL Hardware & Installations WG sub-group for developing standards for BPL Hardware devices.