Xtellus has assembled a dynamic leadership team that combines outstanding optical networking business expertise and optical component design and manufacturing expertise.
Krishna Bala, Ph.D., President and CEO.
Dr. Bala is a recognized innovator and leader in the optical networking industry. As a founder of Tellium and its chief technical officer, Dr. Bala's leadership was pivotal in the company completing a very successful IPO in 2001 despite a downturn in the financial markets as well as the company amassing over $1 billion in contracts. Dr. Bala's architecture work at Tellium revolutionized optical networks with the development of the world's first optical switch and advanced optical mesh networking software - a networking approach now adopted by carriers worldwide. Prior to Tellium Dr. Bala was the lead architect for Bellcore's multiwavelength optical networks project which laid the basis for today's ubiquitous DWDM networks that underlie all data, video and voice services. Dr. Bala has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.

Gil Cohen, Ph.D., COO, Founder.
Dr. Cohen was a Founder and GM of Licom Technologies, a maker of optical communications components, that has since been partially sold, and VP of Instrumentation at Visionix, a supplier of technology to the ophthalmic industry. Dr. Cohen brings a proven ability to bring new optical products to market, and has multidisciplinary optical business management experience covering international sales and marketing, R&D and technical support.

Sam Suh, Ph.D., CTO, Founder.
Dr. Suh has held key founding stage positions in two optical communications startups, Licom Technologies, and Yafo Networks where he was Head of Optics. Dr. Suh has unique experience and a successful track record in applying liquid crystal technology to leading edge fiberoptic communications and military devices.

Yaron Silberberg, Ph.D., Xtellus Chief Scientist, Founder.
Dr. Silberberg has an international reputation for his work on optical devices, nonlinear optics and ultra fast optics, and owns several significant patents related to optical communication devices. Dr. Silberberg spent eleven years at Bellcore (currently Telcordia) in the optical communications section of their Applied Research division, and was made a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1991. Dr. Silberberg is currently also a Professor of Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Jonathan Homa, VP Marketing & PLM.
Mr. Homa is a telecommunications market and business development executive with twenty-five years experience in defining and driving market acceptance of products and solutions for optical, Internet, wireless and telephony networks. Mr. Homa's previous position was Nortel Networks Vice President for Architecture Marketing and Telcordia Relationship.

Clarel Thevenot, VP Sales.
Mr. Thevenot's career spans over twenty years of leadership positions in sales, marketing, and product line management. Prior to joining Xtellus Mr. Thevenot was a Principal at Waypoint Solutions, a telecom industry consultancy. Previously Mr. Thevenot held top marketing and sales positions at Celion Networks, OptiMight Communications, and Tyco Electronics. Mr. Thevenot began his professional career at Corning Incorporated and holds a BSEE degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Il Lee, GM Xtellus Korea.
Mr. Lee has twenty years of LCD industrial experience. He was head of Deawoo's LCD Division, founder of an LCD design and manufacturing company, Orion Display Technologies, and built three state of the art LCD manufacturing facilities from the ground up. Mr. Lee also has extensive personal contacts in the Korean LCD manufacturing industry.

Yossi Corem, GM Xtellus Israel.
Mr. Corem has fifteen years experience in electro-optic system design and integration, in industry and the military. His previous experience includes managing Trellis Photonics' Optical Integration Group and team leader at Applied Material in the reticle inspection product unit.


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