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Board of Directors - Gregory Sukornyk , Founder, Chairman & CEO
Gregory Sukornyk is founder, chairman & chief executive officer of Panorama Solutions Inc., a Fort Lauderdale, Florida based internet company that operates Project Breakout.
Gregory was a founder, Chairman and CEO of The X-Stream Network (1997-2000), the UK's first free Internet Service Provider that launched in March 1998. Gregory led X-Stream to become one of the largest ISPs and online portals in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands. In the UK, X-Stream became the third largest ISP within 12 months of launch. As an independent company, X-Stream competed head on with large, well-backed ISPs such as Dixons' Freeserve and AOL in the UK. In 1999, Gregory also helped to establish Japan's first free ISP, negotiating a minority equity stake in return for licensing X-Stream's proprietary software technology.
In March 2000, Gregory successfully sold X-Stream for US $75M to LibertySurf, France's leading free ISP at the time, backed by Bernard Arnault (LVMH) and the U.K.'s Kingfisher, one of Europe's largest retailing groups. LibertySurf went public on the Paris Bourse in March 2000, raising more than 518M through a public offering led by Deutsche Bank. Gregory remained with LibertySurf as Chief Executive of LibertySurf's northern European operations, until late 2000. LibertySurf was later acquired by the Italian group Tiscali, a publicly traded company that is today the leading pan-European Internet Communication Company.
Before founding X-Stream, Gregory was a principal in a Toronto-based consulting business he co-founded, GS & Associates, which assists technology and Internet companies in operations, financing and corporate structuring issues.
Gregory completed a B.A. (Honours) in Political Studies at Queen's University in Canada, and in 1992 he completed a law degree (LLB) at The London School of Economics in England.Gregory was admitted to the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario, Canada) in 1995 and practiced law briefly with the Toronto firm of Smith, Lyons, Torrance, Stevenson & Mayer.