Louis is an independent consultant and senior advisor to the telecommunications and information management industries. He has committed to spending 10% of his time on Kirusa, focusing on sales and business development activities. Until 1999, he served as President of AirTouch International, the international division of AirTouch Communications - a wireless communications business.

Vodaphone Group Plc merged with AirTouch in 1999 to form Vodaphone AirTouch, the world's largest wireless communications company. Louis joined AirTouch in 1997 from AT&T where he was President and CEO of AT&T-Japan. He was elected to this position in 1994 and was instrumental in successfully growing this $2 billion business. The business units he led in Japan are now organized as AT&T, Lucent and NCR. Prior to his assignment in Japan, Louis held a series of senior management positions at AT&T. From 1991 to 1994, he headed AT&T's business sales force with revenues exceeding $17 billion and an employee force in excess of 10,000 people.

He started his career with AT&T in 1964. He serves on the Board of Directors of CLARITI Telecommunications International as Vice Chairman, SBS Technologies, US Wireless Corp, and Grupo Telca International. He also serves as a board member of the Japan Society of Northern California.

Louis graduated from the University of Denver in 1963 and earned an MBA from the same university in 1964. He graduated with a Master of Science in Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1980 as a Sloan Fellow.

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