Earn a superior return by enabling our customers to build and operate the world’s best optical networks
Chairman of the Board
Kambiz Y. Hooshmand has been a member of our Board since December 2009 and has served as Chairman of our Board since October 2010. From March 2005 to May 2009, Mr. Hooshmand served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, a communications solutions company, or AMCC. From February 2000 to March 2005, Mr. Hooshmand served as Group Vice President and General Manager at Cisco. From June 1997 to February 2000, Mr. Hooshmand served as Cisco’s Vice President of Engineering.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Thomas J. Fallon has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2010 and as a member of our Board since July 2009. Mr. Fallon served as our Chief Operating Officer from October 2006 until December 31, 2009 and as our Vice President of Engineering and Operations from April 2004 to September 2006. From August 2003 to March 2004, Mr. Fallon was Vice President, Corporate Quality and Development Operations of Cisco Systems, Inc., a networking and telecommunications company. From May 2001 to August 2003, Mr. Fallon served as Cisco’s General Manager of the Optical Transport Business Unit.
Director
Kenneth A. Goldman has been a member of our Board since February 2005. Mr. Goldman has been the Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration, and Chief Financial Officer of Fortinet Inc., a provider of unified threat management solutions, since September 2007. From November 2006 to August 2007, Mr. Goldman served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Dexterra, Inc. From August 2000 until March 2006, Mr. Goldman served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration, and Chief Financial Officer of Siebel Systems, Inc., a supplier of customer software solutions and services. From December 1999 to December 2003, Mr. Goldman served as an advisory council member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Advisory Council. Mr. Goldman serves on the Board of NXP Semiconductor, a mixed signal and standards product semiconductor company and BigBand Networks, Inc., a provider of broadband multimedia infrastructure. Mr. Goldman is currently on the board of trustees of Cornell University and was formerly a member of the Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession, a public committee that made recommendations in September 2008 to encourage a more sustainable auditing profession.
Director
Philip J. Koen has been a member of our Board since February 2010. Mr. Koen has been the Chief Executive Officer of Montero Partners, an advisory services company, since February 2010. From March 2006 to January 2010, Mr. Koen served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of SAVVIS, Inc., an IT infrastructure services company. From July 1999 until March 2006, Mr. Koen was employed by Equinix, Inc., a provider of network neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, as President and Chief Operating Officer and as Chief Financial Officer.
Director
Dan Maydan, Ph.D. has been a member of our Board since September 2001. From December 1993 to April 2003, Dr. Maydan served as President of Applied Materials Inc., a semiconductor equipment manufacturing company, and was appointed President Emeritus of Applied Materials in April 2003. Dr. Maydan was a member of the Board of Applied Materials from June 1992 until March 2006. Dr. Maydan serves on the Board of Electronics for Imaging, Inc., a digital imaging and print management solutions company, or EFI.
Director
Paul J. Milbury has been a member of our Board since July 2010. Mr. Milbury served as Vice President of Operations and Chief Financial Officer of Starent Networks Corp., a provider of mobile network solutions, from January 2007 until its acquisition by Cisco in December 2009. From December 2009 to July 2010, he played a key role in integrating Starent Networks into Cisco to create the Mobile Internet Technology Group. From December 2000 to March 2007, Mr. Milbury served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Avid Technology, Inc., a digital media creation, management and distribution solutions company. Mr. Milbury serves on the Board of Crossbeam Systems, Inc., a network security company.
Director
Carl Redfield has been a member of our Board since August 2006. From September 2004 to his retirement in May 2008, Mr. Redfield served as Senior Vice President, New England executive sponsor, of Cisco. From February 1997 through September 2004, Mr. Redfield served as Cisco’s Senior Vice President, Manufacturing and Logistics.
Director
Mark A. Wegleitner has been a member of our Board since May 2011. From September 2007 until his retirement in July 2010, Mr. Wegleitner served as the Senior Vice President, Technology, for Verizon Communications Inc., a telecommunications company, where his responsibilities included technology assessment, network architecture, platform development and laboratory testing for wireline and wireless communications networks. From January 2000 to September 2007 he served as Chief Technology Officer for Verizon Communications, with responsibility for wireline communications technologies. Prior to the creation of Verizon, Mr. Wegleitner held various positions Bell Atlantic Network Services, a telecommunications company, including Chief Technology Officer from January 1999 to January 2000. Prior to joining Bell Atlantic, he worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T General Departments. His career in telecommunications spans more than 38 years. Mr. Wegleitner received a B.A. in mathematics from St. John's University, and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer
David F. Welch, Ph.D. co-founded our Company and has served as our Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer since January 2007 and as a member of our Board since October 2010. From May 2004 to January 2007, Dr. Welch served as our Chief Strategy Officer. From May 2001 to May 2004, he served as our Chief Development Officer/Chief Technology Officer. From May 2001 to November 2006, Dr. Welch also served as a member of our Board. From January 1985 to April 2001, Dr. Welch served in various executive roles at JDS Uniphase Corporation, an optical component company and SDL, an optical component company acquired by JDS Uniphase, including Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Corporate Development.