Sunit Patel
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Patel is a Group Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Level 3. He joined the company in 2003 and was named CFO in May of that year.

Mr. Patel was formerly CFO and a co-founder of Looking Glass Networks Inc., a facilities-based provider of metropolitan telecommunication transport services. Prior to co-founding Looking Glass, Mr. Patel was Treasurer of long-distance service provider MCI WorldCom from 1997 to 2000. From 1994 to 1997, he was Treasurer of MFS Communications, Inc., a competitive local exchange carrier acquired by WorldCom.

He has extensive experience in financial planning, capital raising, capital allocation, budgeting, management reporting systems, risk management, and mergers and acquisitions.