Avanex Corp.

Alain Couder , 62, has served as a director and our President and Chief Executive Officer since August 2007. Prior to joining Bookham, Mr. Couder was the President and CEO of Solid Information Technology Inc., a supplier of database solutions, from March 2005 to August 2007. From May 2004 to February 2005, Mr. Couder was a Venture Advisor to Sofinnova Ventures, Inc., a venture capital company. From April 2003 to March 2004, Mr. Couder was the President and CEO of Confluent Software, Inc., a software company. From August 2002 to March 2003, Mr. Couder was President and CEO of IP Dynamics, Inc., a software company. Mr. Couder served as Chief Operating Officer of Agilent Technologies, Inc., a measurement and analysis company, from February 2000 to May 2002. Earlier in his career, Mr. Couder worked for Packard-Bell NEC, Groupe Bull, Hewlett Packard and IBM, each a computer hardware company. Mr. Couder is a director at Sanmina-SCI, an electronic manufacturing services firm, since February 2007. Mr. Couder holds a Master s degree in electrical engineering from the Ecole Superieure d Electricite in Paris.

Mr. Turin has served as the CFO of Oclaro since July 2008. He joined Oclaro in July 2005, with his most recent title prior to being named CFO being Vice President of Finance - Corporate Controller and Treasury. Previously, Mr. Turin was at Silicon Spice, a systems-on-a-chip telecommunications start-up, where he played a lead role in several successful financing rounds and served as a member of the team that closed the sale of the company to Broadcom. In addition, Mr. Turin was the Corporate Controller at Cirrus Logic, a publicly traded semiconductor company. Prior to his corporate finance experience, Mr. Turin spent 12 years with Deloitte & Touche, rising to the position of Senior Manager of Audit Services. A substantial portion of his time with Deloitte & Touche was in the firm's Silicon Valley practice. Mr. Turin earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and commerce from the University of Alberta. He is also a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta.

Ken Johnson joined PSB in May of 2004 as Human Resources Director with 20 years experience in corporate culture, recruiting and retention, employee relations, training, compensation and merger and acquisition integration. He was most recently with Mountain View based Spectra-Physics Lasers, Inc. for 14 years, where he was hugely successful in helping to improve sales and reducing employee turnover. Prior to that, Mr. Johnson was with PG&E in the Bay Area, providing employees with a range of HR services for 7 years. Mr. Johnson holds an MBA from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA, and a BS in Business Administration from San Jose State University.

Dr. Bernard Couillaud currently serves as Oclaro's Chairman of the Board of Directors. He previously served as a director of Oclaro from May 2008 to April 2009. The majority of Dr. Couillaud's career was spent with laser manufacturer Coherent, Inc., where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from July 1996 until October 2002. Dr. Couillaud was the Chairman of Coherent's Board of Directors from October 2002 until his retirement in June 2007. From 2000 to 2005, Dr. Couillaud was the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lambda Physik AG, a German public company. Dr. Couillaud holds a PHD in Physics and was a full Professor at the University of Bordeaux and a CNRS Fellow. Dr. Couillaud is also a member of the French National Academy of Technology.

Dr. Barbarossa has an impressive record of accomplishment in management roles working in some of the foremost companies in the optical communications industry, including Agilent Technologies, Lucent Technologies, AT&T, and BT. Dr. Barbarossa joined Avanex in 2000 as Director of Research and Development. He was then promoted to Chief Technology Officer and Sr. Vice President of Product Development, and served in this capacity until 2004. From 2004 through 2005 Dr. Barbarossa was responsible for the Avanex Active Component Business Unit. From 2005 until his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2008, Dr. Barbarossa continued to serve as Avanex Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Barbarossa has played a pivotal role in all acquisitions that Avanex has made, including the acquisitions of the Photonic Business Division of Corning, Alcatel Optronics, and the Optical Networking Division of Vitesse Semiconductor that radically transformed the company in 2003. Before joining Avanex, Dr. Barbarossa had management responsibilities for the development of advanced optical switching platforms in the Optical Networking Division of Agilent Technologies. In addition, he led the design team of the Optical Application Specific Integrated Circuits department at Lucent Technologies. Earlier, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs and a research associate in the Oxide Glasses for Future Networks Group at BT Labs. Dr. Barbarossa received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering, cum laude, from the University of Bari, Italy.

Susan Wang has served as our director since December 2003. Ms, Wang, who retired from Solectron in May 2002, served in various management positions there from 1984 to June 2002. Her final position at Solectron, an electronics manufacturing services and supply chain solutions company, was Executive Vice President for Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer, a position she held from September 2001 to June 2002. Prior to joining Solectron, Ms. Wang held financial and managerial positions with Xerox Corporation and Westvaco Corporation. She began her career with Price Waterhouse & Co. in New York and is a certified public accountant. Ms. Wang is also a director of Altera Corporation, a programmable semiconductor company, and Avanex Corporation, an optical switching company. Ms. Wang earned an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut and a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Texas.

Dean Emeritus of Darla Moore School of Business of the University of South Carolina. Mr. J. Smith has served on the Company's Board of Directors since December 1999. Mr. J. Smith was the Dean of the Darla Moore School of Business of the University of South Carolina from October 2000 to December 2007. Previously, Mr. J. Smith served as the President of Bank of America East, a financial institution, from October 1998 to September 2000. From July 1991 to October 1998, Mr. J. Smith served as President of Nations Bank Carolinas, a financial institution. Mr. J. Smith serves on the board of directors of First National Bank of the South. Mr. J. Smith received a B.A. from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

"Dr. Joseph A. Miller, Jr. joined Corning Incorporated in July 2001 as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. He was named to his current position in March 2002. Prior to joining Corning, Dr. Miller was with E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc., where he served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for Research & Development since 1994. He began his career with DuPont in 1966 as a Research Chemist in Polymer Science. He also held a variety of positions in research and development, manufacturing, business and marketing. Dr. Miller received a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Military Institute and a doctorate in Chemistry from Penn State University. He is a member of numerous science and technology organizations including the National Science Board, National Academy of Engineering, American Association for the Advancement of Science-Fellow and the Industrial Research Institute. "

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company. Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment." From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. Since 2000, Vint has served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and he has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and was on the ISOC board until 2000. Vint is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering. Vint has received numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computer Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, among many others. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and more than a dozen honorary degrees.