Scott Kettle - Chairman and CEO

Mr. Kettle is the founder of a series of successful family-owned and operated public companies in the telephony and telecommunications industry in the wake of the government-mandated break-up of AT&T’s monopoly some 25 years ago. Beginning with Thrifty-Tel (TTEL) in partnership with his father William Kettle, a steeply discounted provider of long-distance telephone service and pioneer of Flat Rate Communications, Kettle moved on to the wholesale sector serving as CIO for Five Star Telecom from 1994 to 1999. In 1998, Mr. Kettle founded and served as President and CEO of Tele Com Specialists, Inc. a software company. Kettle moved into the emerging DSL area, founding SpeeDsl, Inc. Within two years, from 1999 until 2002, SpeeDsl became the largest provider of DSL services to businesses in America ranking as high as #1 in customer satisfaction. The next venture was as the visionary driving force behind eWAN 1, Inc. (EWAN) serving in the capacity of CEO and President. eWAN pioneered the burgeoning IPTV sector.

Mr. Kettle’s extensive public company experience and more than twenty-five years of executive management give him the qualifications and skills to serve as a senior executive for the Gawk team.

Michael Selsman - Director and Secretary

Michael Selsman has been an executive with 20th Century-Fox, Paramount, MGM, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., at Goldwyn Studios, and Universal. He was also a talent agent, representing Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Peter Sellers, Marlene Dietrich, Henry, Jane, and Peter Fonda, Mervyn LeRoy, James Stewart, Lawrence Harvey, Rock Hudson, James Mason, James Garner, Alan Arkin, and Robert Redford, as well as authors Truman Capote and Roald Dahl, among others. He also worked with Bing Crosby Productions on "Ben Casey", "Medic", "Slattery's People" and "Hogan's Heroes".

As a film producer, he associate-produced “Gotcha,” distributed by Universal, co-developed 18 motion picture projects at MGM, facilitated production of the feature film "Dirty Little Billy,” for Columbia Pictures, and was involved in developing "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," by Dee Brown, 'World Without End, Amen," by Jimmy Breslin, "I, Robot," by Issac Asimov, “ RFK Must Die ,” and "The Fortunate Pilgrim," by Mario Puzo. He also co- or line-produced films made in Berlin, Spain, Arizona, Florida, Montana, Wyoming, Texas and Arkansas. With Orson Welles, he developed “ RFK Must Die ,” a film project about the assassination of Robert Kennedy. He has written screenplays for Hemdale Pictures, MGM, Robert Halmi Production, New World Pictures, and others.

He is considered an expert source on international entertainment and has been quoted in such publications as Time, Newsweek, TV Guide , and in various newspapers and books on the subjects of contracts and changing mores and social values in the media and commenting on Hollywood studio history,. He has also appeared on national and international television programs, such as ABC-TV’s “The Dark Side of Camelot,” hosted by the late Peter Jennings,“Current Affair,” on Fox-TV, “Hard Copy,” for CBS-TV, “Marilyn: Contre-Enquette Sur Une Mort Suspect,” one-hour investigative program for French TV, “The Final Day ,” one-hour investigative program for London’s Channel 4, and, most recently, filmed a segment for CBS News’ “48 Hours.”

He also served US Senator Dianne Feinstein as Deputy State Finance Director for her initial Senatorial campaign. He was recently in an advisory capacity for Marianne Williamson in her campaign for the 33 rd Congressional District, and is advising Heidi Shink in her campaign for City Council, West Hollywood.

Serving for five years as Chairman of the Public Relations Committee and on the Foundation Board of Directors of St. Vincent Medical Center, Los Angeles, Selsman created and edited a quarterly, leading-edge journal, Medical-Science News .

Selsman has represented and worked with Neah Power Systems (NPWZ), where he was also a member of the Board of Directors; Buzz Technologies, Inc. (BZTG), Archer Entertainment Media Communications, Inc. (AEMC), where he also functioned as CEO; Advanced Technetix (AKYI), The Sinclair Private Fund, Signal Capital Hedge Fund, Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (APDN), Herman Miller Workplace Resource, Inc., BKM Total Office, Investprivate.com, Alpha Spacecom, Inc. (ASPC) Creditz, Inc. (CEOA), Innovative Marketing, Inc. (INOV), Advanced Recycling (ARYC), Color Imaging, Inc.(CIMG), Electropure (ELTP), XO Communications (XOXO), Gene Cell (GCLL), Precom Technology (PMMT), Cyper Media (CYPR), Los Angeles Stars ABA franchise, Travel Dynamics (TDMN), Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Koo Koo Roo, American Technology Group, Texas Capital, Securities America, Newport West Financial, 20th Century-Fox, MGM, Donald T. Sterling Corporation, Los Angeles Clippers NBA franchise, and Fred Sands Realtors, among others.

Chris Hall - Director

Chris Hall is a noted VoIP Networking Leader. Chris has been designing, deploying and operating VOIP networks since 1998 and has been in telecommunications since his initial four year entry to the industry with AT&T (Pacific Telephone) beginning in 1978. He has been a serial entrepreneur for the last twenty years, starting up or advancing many telecom companies to the point where they could be sold to larger (often public) firms.

Global deregulation of telecoms and the development of VOIP technology combined to give Chris the opportunity to apply his USC undergraduate degree in International Relations and his UCLA M.B.A. in Finance to start building wholesale international simple resale (ISR) routes in 1998, he built and operated routes under FCC Section 214 license to every region of the world - a total of 15 countries, including: Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, Vietnam, China, Thailand, Philippines, Japan, India, Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, Netherlands, the United Kingdom and most recently Panama, Uruguay and Argentina. In most cases, he visited each of these countries personally (more than once), and became familiar with the local business practices and import/export requirements. He returned with more than just "routes" and extra passport pages as he collected children’s dolls, in native costume, from each country for his youngest daughter - giving her the best doll collection in the neighborhood.

During this time Chris became operationally qualified on Cisco, Excel and Nuera equipment, building on top of his degree in Data Communications Engineering, as well as mastering telecom billing applications software and advanced database programs (like MS Sequel). With a staff of three people, he did most of the operational work, and sub-contracted out as required. Chris also did much of the sales, and is well known amongst the international wholesale community.

The proliferation of Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC's) made possible by the 1996 Telecom Act, the declining cost of VOIP equipment and the availability of next generation Session Border Controllers (SBC's) like Nextone and Sansay gave Chris a new challenge and opportunity in 2003 - to apply his VOIP expertise to the domestic (USA) market, this time building on his AT&T experience. This meant less travel and more stability. He built a profitable 30 million minute per month carrier with a capital investment of less than $350,000, annualized revenue reached over $3.5M from scratch in a short two year period, while still preserving his operational & sales involvement. Chris is operationally well qualified on OpenSIPS, Nextone and Sansay Session Border Controllers (aka Softswitches) and is well known to most major and minor wholesale carriers in the USA and many abroad.

Chris is a recognized VOIP industry leader, he has spoken at several trade shows and conferences such as Comptel, VON and Intelecard, and is a member of several industry associations, including Comptel, the Pacific Telecommunications Council and the West Coast Carrier Forum.