• Collaborated with board members to fulfill wishes of children with life-threatening conditions in the greater Chicago-land area.• Organized fundraising events to support wish-granting efforts for children and young adults.• Implemented efficient processes to ensure over 90% of donations directly impacted wish recipients.

Cogent is a multinational Tier 1 Internet Service Provider consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Our primary service offering consists of Internet access and data transport, offered over our award-winning fiber optic, IP data-only network, along with colocation in any of our 44 Internet data centers. We service two customer segments: "Corporate" (small businesses to Fortune 100 companies) and "NetCentric" (Carriers / Service Providers and Application / Content Providers, whose businesses rely primarily on Internet access).Our innovative, facilities-based network spans across North America, across the Atlantic throughout Europe, and across the Pacific to Asia. With over 57,000 route miles of intercity fiber and more than 27,100 metro fiber miles, we provide service to over 185 major markets and interconnect with over 4,870 other networks.Cogent was founded on the premise that bandwidth can be treated like a commodity—produce mass amounts and position it for sale based on price. Leveraging new technologies, we built our own IP data network independent of the traditional voice-based networks owned by the RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating Companies). By doing so, we believed we could reduce the cost of high quality bandwidth down to a level never before offered in the marketplace. Less than five years after lighting our network backbone, we have become widely recognized as one of the largest carriers of Internet traffic in the world.Our customer connections are dedicated and non-oversubscribedOur prices are the lowest in the industryOur diversity from traditional carriers enables redundancy for customer dataOur simple network structure allows for rapid provisioningOur 'self-healing' ring architecture design minimizes outagesCogent Communications is a public company trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol CCOI. Cogent is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America.

Cogent is a multinational Tier 1 Internet Service Provider consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Our primary service offering consists of Internet access and data transport, offered over our award-winning fiber optic, IP data-only network, along with colocation in any of our 43 Internet data centers. We service two customer segments: "Corporate" (small businesses to Fortune 100 companies) and "NetCentric" (Carriers / Service Providers and Application / Content Providers, whose businesses rely primarily on Internet access).

Internap (NASDAQ: INAP) is an Internet solutions company founded in 1996. Our founders recognized that the Internet’s inherent technical limitations would hinder the growth potential for many companies who use the Internet to deliver products and services. Then and now, our mission has been to deliver the technology, innovation, integrated solutions and business processes to offer products and services that have the availability, performance and support you need for your business.

First Communications is a leading integrated telecommunications carrier in the Midwestern United States. Founded in 1998, First Communications has built a highly scalable telecommunications platform, infrastructure and support system, which represents a combination of world-class technology, and cutting-edge product offerings. First Communications has over 214,000 customers and owns and operates network comprised of 4,500 route miles of fiber which offers industry leading low latency metro and long haul routes unique to most other carriers. First Communications is led by a strong management team that has operated telecom companies throughout all cycles of the telecommunications market.

Using a 100% private all IP network, Cbeyond provides IT and communications services to small business throughout the United States. We offer more than 30 productivity-enhancing applications, including local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet, mobile, BlackBerry®, broadband laptop access, voicemail, email, web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing and virtual private networking. Cbeyond is a publicly traded, Atlanta-based company (Nasdaq: CBEY) and the world's first 100% Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) local phone network. Cbeyond serves customers in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego, Detroit, San Francisco, Miami, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Washington DC.