Derek Bluestone is a product manager at Fiberlink, a managed Internet-based VPN provider toFortune 1000 enterprises. Founded in 1991, Fiberlink was recently named as one of the top 100 innovative companies in the new economy by Information Week and Cap Gemini/Ernst & Young. Over the past 10 years, Mr. Bluestone has served in a number of capacities in the IT arena, including cofounder of StratosWare Corporation, a Michigan, USA-based software development and consulting company; associate director of global IT acquisitions at American Home Products Corp.; and director of technology support services for the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He can be reached at dbluestone at fiberlink.com.