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AP of the Americas LLC Consortium Elects
`Powerhouse' Management Committee
to
Represent its 85 Members
01/25 09:22

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25,
2001-- Management Team to
Provide Support and Oversight to
Tier-1 Network Access Point in
Downtown Miami

Members of the NAP of the
Americas LLC Consortium elected a
six-member Management Committee
to support and oversee the
operation and future growth of
the NAP (Network Access Point). The
committee will represent the
interests of the 85 NAP consortium
members and will create task
forces to continue carrier recruiting,
provide technological oversight
and support hi-tech educational
initiatives.

"The newly elected Management
Committee of the NAP of the Americas
LLC Consortium is representative
of the different telecommunications
sectors supporting the NAP of the
Americas project," said Benjamin
Finzi, Chairman and CEO of NAP of
the Americas LLC Consortium and
Executive Vice President/COO of
Orlando-based EPIK
Communications Incorporated
(EPIK), a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Florida East Coast Industries,
Inc. (NYSE:FLA,NYSE:FLA.b). "These
individuals are industry leaders
who recognized the importance and
impact of a Tier-1 NAP in South
Florida and the growth opportunities it
brings to Latin America and other
regions. They all provided valuable
input to the NAP initiative
during the past several months."

Internationally respected
telecommunications companies are represented
on the Management Committee.
Companies include Global Crossing,
which controls fiber optic cable
throughout North America and Latin
America; EPIK Communications, the
largest telecommunications
company headquartered in Florida;
FPL FiberNet, a subsidiary of the
FPL Group; NetRail, an
international telecommunications "backbone"
company; and Enron Broadband
Services, a leading provider of high
quality, high bandwidth delivery and
application services.

Members of the Management
Committee are: CEO and Chairman
Benjamin Finzi; Jon Thomsen, Vice
President, Business Development,
Enron Broadband Services; John M.
Zima, Sales Director, Miami,
Central & Caribbean, Global
Crossing; David Eckmann, Director of
Business Development, FPL
FiberNet; Brandon Ross, Executive Vice
President of Engineering,
NetRail; and Rom Mattesich, CEO of
GlobalXchange Communications. A
seventh member will be elected in
March 2001.

"It is clear my fellow Management
Committee members represent the
best talent in the
telecommunications industry," said Finzi. "This board will
represent the NAP of the Americas
LLC Consortium members with
visionary leadership as this
project makes history as the first privately
developed tier one Internet data
exchange."

The Consortium provides a
structure for the 85 domestic and
international telecommunications
companies that support the NAP of the
Americas. The NAP of the Americas
is owned and operated by
Terremark Worldwide, Inc.
(AMEX:TWW) a global leader in Internet
infrastructure and managed
services. The NAP of the Americas, the fifth
Tier-1 carrier-neutral in the
world, is presently under construction in
downtown Miami at 50 NE 9th St.
and is expected to be operational by
the second quarter of 2001. An
interim NAP facility is currently in
operation to serve the demand of
the industry.

A NAP is a high-speed Internet
data exchange and connection facility
that brings together Internet
access providers, enables interconnection
between geographic regions and
allows communication between
customers of various providers.
The NAP of the Americas will route
Internet traffic between the
United States, North and South America, the
Caribbean and Europe. The NAP
will fuel the growth of Florida's
economy by generating high-paying
jobs, attracting many new companies
and creating new technology
infrastructure investments and closes the
digital divide between North and
South America. About the NAP of the
Americas LLC Management
Committee:

Benjamin Finzi is Executive Vice
President/COO at EPIK
Communications. At EPIK, Finzi
has operational responsibility and is the
driver of the aggressive fiber
swapping strategy that has extended the
company's reach to 10,000 fiber
route miles beyond Florida. Prior to
joining EPIK Communications,
Finzi spent six years as global account
manager at Monitor Company, a
leading strategy consulting firm. An
expert in global
telecommunications, Finzi headed Monitor's Internet
Strategy Group. Prior to his work
at Monitor, Finzi worked at the
Boston Consulting Group and was
vice president of sales at Almog, an
Israeli software company. A
native of Italy, Finzi received his MBA from
Insead in France and his
Bachelor's degree in economics and information
system analysis from Tel Aviv
University.

Jon Thomsen is Vice President,
Business Development at Enron
Broadband Services. As Vice
President of Latin America at Enron
Broadband Services, a subsidiary
of Enron Corp. (NYSE:ENE), Jon
Thomsen is responsible for all
EBS business activities in Latin America.
As one of the first employees of
Enron Broadband Services, Jon has
played a critical role in the
development of Enron's broadband business
by managing financial, corporate,
and international business
developments in the U.S. and
abroad. Prior to joining Enron, Jon
worked in the investment banking
and private equity industries within
Latin America. Mr. Thomsen holds
a bachelor's in business economics
from Willamette University and a
master's of business administration from
the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School
of Management at Northwestern
University.

John M. Zima is Sales Director
for Miami, Central & Caribbean at
Global Crossing, Miami. Zima has
over 14 years of experience in the
Telecommunications industry
including domestic and international
assignments. In July 2000, John
joined Global Crossing as a Sales
Director with direct
responsibility for Central America, Caribbean, the
NAP of the Americas, and Global
Crossing's approximate 100,000
square feet of space to be
located in the TECOTA facility in downtown
Miami. John also has
responsibility for Global Crossing's AMPATH
network, which will eventually
connect more than 250 universities
throughout Latin America and the
United States to Internet 2. John views
Miami as strategically critical
to the Latin American market. Prior to
joining Global Crossing, John was
employed for four years as a Branch
Manager, Government and Education
for BellSouth's Business Division.
His position encompassed a wide
range of activities, which include
providing the strategic direction
for the company's sales and marketing
initiatives for the government
and education market in South Florida.
John Zima graduated from Spring
Hill College in 1986, obtaining two
Bachelor of Science Degrees in
four years in Computer Science and
Business Administration.

David Eckmann is director of
business development for FPL FiberNet.
FPL FiberNet is the fiber-optic
subsidiary of FPL Group, which is the
parent company of Florida Power &
Light Company. David developed
the business plan under which FPL
Group began offering fiber-optic
services four years ago, and he
has been involved with the business ever
since that time. He believes that
the NAP of the Americas will, "bring
significant benefits not only to
the members of the NAP, but to the entire
South Florida community as well."
David has been with FPL Group for
the past 16 years, working in
finance, accounting, strategic planning, and
telecommunications. He has a BS
in electrical engineering from Duke, an
MS in electrical engineering from
the Polytechnic Institute of NY, and an
MBA from the Wharton School.

Brandon Ross is Executive Vice
President of Engineering at NetRail. Mr.
Ross directs NetRail's overall
network design and implementation from
backbone optical equipment to
core switching and routing. With the help
of his team of engineers with
backgrounds from such well-known
organizations as Hitachi and
MindSpring, NetRail is building the highest
performance network in the
industry. Mr. Ross joined NetRail in March
of 2000 from MindSpring
Enterprises, Inc. where he served as Director
of Network Engineering. While at
MindSpring, he was responsible for
designing and engineering the
company's POP and nationwide backbone
architecture. Since starting with
MindSpring in December of 1996, he
built the MindSpring network from
a few POPs in the Southeast to a high
performance nationwide dial and
broadband access network, as well as
growing the Network Engineering
group from scratch to over 20
engineers. Mr. Ross holds a
Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications
from the University of Florida,
and is an active member of both the North
American Network Operators Group
(NANOG) as well as the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Rom Mattesich is CEO of
GlobalXchange Communications, a company
engaged in the international
delivery of multimedia (broadband)
communications services. He holds
a BSEE degree from the University
of Virginia; an MS from MIT; and
an MBA degree from Rutgers
University. Mr. Mattesich held
senior level positions as network designer
and planner with AT&T Bell
Laboratories, where he became the
principal architect for the
first, high capacity digital switch (4ESS). He
also led a number of task forces
responsible for the transition of the US
toll network from analog to
digital. Mr. Mattesich has consulted
extensively on matters of network
design, operations, and strategies with
incumbent telecom operators for
transitioning efficiently from
monopoly-based telephony to
competitive-based, multimedia- capable
communications which predominate
in the Internet. He has frequently
lectured on this subject in
telecom and Internet trade conferences, and
published articles in related
trade journals. He is also a lecturer at the
University of Miami, where he
teaches international communications to
students enrolled in the MBA
program. About the NAP of the Americas
Consortium:

The NAP of the Americas
Consortium includes 85 telecommunications
companies, including 360networks,
AT&T, Broadwing, Cable &
Wireless, CyberGate, Enron
Broadband Services, EPIK
Communications, FPL Fibernet,
Global Crossing, Level (3), Metromedia
Fiber Network, Net2Phone,
NetRail, NEXTLINK, SBC, Telecom
Argentina, Telia and Williams
Communications. The consortium's
purpose was to spearhead the NAP
initiative and support the
development of a Tier-1 Network
Access Point (NAP) in South Florida.
A NAP is a high-speed, Internet
data exchange and connection point that
ties Internet access providers
together to facilitate Internet traffic between
customers of various providers
and geographic regions. The NAP of the
Americas will handle Internet
traffic between the Americas, the
Caribbean and Europe into the
U.S. through its downtown Miami
location. The initiative has been
facilitated by EPIK Communications, the
wholly owned subsidiary of
Florida East Coast Industries, Inc.
(NYSE:FLA). EPIK is a "carrier's
carrier" providing high capacity
telecommunications circuits, dark
fiber and collocation services to
competitive local exchange
carriers, wireless carriers, Internet Service
Providers, long distance
companies and other carriers. For information
on the NAP of the Americas
Consortium, contact Benjamin Finzi at
(407) 482-8411. About NAP of the
Americas:

The NAP of the Americas, a
TerreNAP(sm) Data Center, is the fifth
Tier-1 Network Access Point (NAP)
in the world. TerreNAP(sm) Data
Centers is a subsidiary of
Terremark Worldwide, Inc. NAP of the
Americas is the first carrier
neutral Tier-1 NAP and it is the first one
housed in a facility built
specifically for a NAP. Located in Miami,
Florida, the NAP of the Americas
will be a premier facility providing
interconnection between global
carriers, ISPs and others as well as
connecting fiber networks in
Latin America, Europe and Africa to those
in the U.S. Terremark Worldwide
is the owner and operator of the NAP
of the Americas; Telcordia
Technologies will engineer it with its latest IP
technology. For more information
on NAP of the Americas can be found
on www.napoftheamericas.com.

This release contains
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of
section 21E of the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
These forward-looking statements
represent the Companies' present
expectations or beliefs
concerning future events. The Companies caution
that such statements are
necessarily based on certain assumptions, which
are subject to risks and
uncertainties, including, but not limited to,
changes in general economic
condition, and changing competition and
technology which could cause
actual results to differ materially from those
indicated herein. Further
information on these risk factors is included in
the Companies' filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.