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Gary B. Smith is a British-American executive, currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Ciena, an American telecommunications networking multinational.

Patrick Harshman has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Harmonic since May 2006. As CEO Patrick has driven Harmonic’s strategic re-positioning as the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, and overseen the rapid expansion of the company’s customer base, international presence, and video product portfolio. He joined Harmonic in 1994 and prior to being appointed CEO held several other executive management positions for the company. Patrick earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.

Frank Plastina was appointed President and CEO of Tekelec in February 2006. He brings more than 19 years of senior executive and management experience in the telecommunications industry with companies including Proxim Corporation, Warburg Pincus LLC and Nortel Networks Corporation. Prior to joining Tekelec, Mr. Plastina was executive in residence at Warburg Pincus, where he was responsible for evaluating potential investments and providing executive support to its portfolio companies. Previously, Mr. Plastina was executive chairman of Proxim, a provider of Wi-Fi and broadband wireless access products. During Mr. Plastina’s 15-year career at Nortel, he held a series of executive-level positions in the company’s Wireless, Internet Service Providers, Signaling Solutions, Mergers & Acquisitions and Finance Groups. Most recently, he was president of Nortel’s multi-billion dollar Metro and Enterprise Networks business unit, in which he led the successful development and marketing of the company’s VoIP products to service providers, enterprises and government entities.

Rich Schroder is based in Plano, Texas. He has worked as VP Access Business Unit at Dan Ericsson, Manager Product development at Unify, and Senior Director Switching Product Development at DSC Communications.

Bill Crank is a President/CEO at DIALOGIC INC., Board of Directors at Codeherent, and Non-Executive Director at Codeherent and is based in Parsippany, New Jersey. He has worked as Executive Vice President Sales, Marketing, & Business Development at CI Wireless; Board of Directors at Blue Diamond Solutions; and President and CEO at Natural Convergence Inc. Bill works or has worked at Ubiquity Global Services and Jetstream Capital Llc. He attended Department of Homeland Security and Western Connecticut State University.