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"Mr. Bouchard brings to Opnext more than 17 years of experience with HP where he held various senior management roles. In his most recent role as EVP of Global Operations, Mr. Bouchard was responsible for HP's $50 billion supply chain and all customer-facing operations. He reported directly to the CEO and was a member of HP's executive council. In previous positions at HP, Mr. Bouchard also served as Chief Information Officer, SVP of Operations for the Printing and Imaging Group, and held P&L responsibility for several multi-billion dollar businesses in the Personal Computing Group. He was also in charge of integrating the supply chains of HP and Compaq following their merger, delivering over $1.3B in annual cost synergies. Prior to joining HP, he held various roles at IBM's research and storage divisions."

Robert Nobile has responsibility for all finance functions throughout Opnext. Previously, Mr. Nobile was a key executive in the 1998 establishment of Kodak Polychrome Graphics, a global market-leading graphic-arts joint venture between Eastman Kodak and Sun Chemical, a subsidiary of Dainippon Ink & Chemicals. Most recently, Mr. Nobile held the position of senior vice president of business integration, and before that was senior vice president and chief financial officer. In 1995, he joined Sun Chemical as its global director of internal audit. The following year he became chief financial officer of its Polychrome division. From 1982 to 1995, Mr. Nobile was employed by Arthur Andersen, where he provided financial advisory, operational consulting, and audit-related services to numerous international organizations.

Kei Oki has worked to develop a global business with Hitachi's Information and Telecommunications sector since joining Hitachi in 1971.His career experience includes Hitachi America, Ltd., Hitachi Data Systems, Inc., Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc. In previous positions, he contributed to developing Hitachi's North American business by leading the sales and marketing efforts of information and telecommunication systems, such as; fiber optic transmission equipment, Main Frames and RAID systems. Recently, he devoted his efforts to support Hitachi's international subsidiaries to expand Hitachi's IT equipment business. As the president of Opnext Japan, Mr. Oki continues to create value added solutions for the company's customers.

Mr. Chan is responsible for business development, marketing, strategy and product portfolio for Opnext, Inc. Prior to joining Opnext, Mr. Chan spent more than 18 years with Lucent Technologies, AT&T and Bell Laboratories, where he rose to be an officer at Lucent. Mr. Chan's last position at Lucent was as chief strategy officer for the Optical Networking Group in 2000. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Chan was chairman and president, Lucent China. Other executive positions held by Mr. Chan include: VP in global marketing for the optical business; president and COO, Lucent China; VP for global SDH product management. During his career, Mr. Chan worked and lived outside the U.S. at various times in Japan, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, and China.

"Formerly vice president of North America sales, Mr. Horiuchi has been with Opnext since 2001 where he has been instrumental in building the successful North America sales division. Mr. Horiuchi has more than 23 years of a broad business background of sales, R&D, manufacturing, and senior management in both the Japan and U.S., including more than ten years of experience in the fiber optics industry. Prior to joining Opnext, Mr. Horiuchi was at Infineon Technologies and Hitachi Semiconductor America. Mr. Horiuchi was also General Manager of Construction Material division at a pre-fab housing company in Japan. James Horiuchi received a MBA degree from Santa Clara University."

Chris Lin has responsibility for sales and marketing operations for Opnext in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Formerly chief operating officer for Lucent Technologies China, Mr. Lin held responsibility for the Lucent China business unit's daily operations, including sales and marketing, business management, business development, technical support, project management and implementation, and joint venture management. Mr. Lin served previously as vice president of the wireless networks group, responsible for wireless business throughout China. Mr. Lin also held the position of managing director for the China region, Lucent Optical Networks Group. Prior to Lucent, Mr. Lin held product development and product marketing positions at Siemens Telecommunication Systems, Limited (Taiwan) and System Engineering positions at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies).

Mr. O'Neill has served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel since May 2007. From January 2004 until April 2007, Mr. O'Neill was Of Counsel with the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins LLP. Prior to joining Latham & Watkins LLP, Mr. O'Neill was an assistant general counsel at Global Crossing, Ltd., a global telecommunications company, from March 1999 until September 2003, and prior to that he was an attorney in the New York office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP from 1994 until 1999. Mr. O'Neill has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and a J.D. from the Columbia Law School.

Tadayuki Kanno has been working in the fiber optic transmission systems business since joining Hitachi, Ltd. in 1979. From 2000 - 2001 Mr. Kanno served as vice president of Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. In that role, he led fiber optic product development efforts for the US market. In 2001, Mr. Kanno was appointed as the senior vice president of the fiber optic transmission operation for Hitachi's Telecommunication Systems Division. In this capacity, he was responsible for business operation and system development. Currently, Mr. Kanno is leading the product realization activities for the Opnext Module and Device Business Units, which includes all R&D and manufacturing.

Rich Zoccolillo is the general manager for the Opnext Pluggables and Subsystem business units, with responsibility for coordinating all product development, manufacturing, management and sales activities. Formerly general manager for Lucent Metro WDM Business, Mr. Zoccolillo spearheaded Lucent's drive into the Metro WDM market. While at Lucent, Mr. Zoccolillo also served as director of product management for the Lucent SONET systems in the US, spending two years in Germany to focus on SDH systems, and held a variety of significant positions in Lucent's Consumer Product Organization. Prior to his Lucent tenure, Mr. Zoccolillo held positions at AT&T, within the ATM Network Planning committee, the international ATM Standards committee, and cellular system product development.

Tammy Wedemeyer oversees business operations for Opnext, where she has global responsibility in the areas of Human Resources, Facilities, Legal and Corporate Communications. Prior to joining Opnext, Ms. Wedemeyer spent over 10 years at Lucent Technologies in a variety of business management roles, most recently as senior operations manager of the Optical Networking Group and finance manager of the Business Communications Systems group. Earlier in her career, Ms. Wedemeyer held several business management positions at AT&T.

Eric has served as the IT Director for Opnext, Inc. at their headquarters in Eatontown, NJ since 2001. His primary responsibility is to manage the resources for Opnext's single global ERP instance, Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 11i. Eric shares direct functional support with his staff for the Inventory, Cost Management, Purchasing, Payables, Receivables, and General Ledger modules and writes SQL scripts for custom Oracle Alerts and Discoverer workbooks. Opnext is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance optical components for telecom and datacom optical networking systems and industrial devices. Opnext used its implementation of Oracle EBS 11i in 2001 to unify business processes globally. Eric may be contacted at Eric.Guether@ERPtips.com Eric.Guether@ERPtips.com

Dr. Isamu Kuru has held a number of positions in both the U.S. and Japan. Most recently, he was the president and representative director of NEXNET, Inc., Japan. From 1990-2001, Dr. Kuru served in a number of positions at Motorola, Inc. specifically; senior vice president, Motorola, Inc., president, Motorola Japan, corporate vice president, Motorola, Inc. and deputy president, Motorola Japan. He also had a distinguished career spanning 28 years with Toshiba Corporation in both Japan and the U.S. Dr. Kuru holds an undergraduate Electrical Engineering degree and PhD from Kyoto University. He has also been engaged in research at Stanford University, Shefield University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.

Ryuichi Otsuki joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1981 after graduating from Nagoya University School of Law. Over the past 20 years, he has held various positions within Hitachi including the Hitachi Data Systems and PC Corporation as well as many functions within the Global Business Planning and Operation Division. His responsibilities have included M&A, Investment, Business Planning and Alliance. He is currently the Executive General Manager, Strategic Planning & Development, the Global Business Planning & Operation Division, Information & Telecommunication Systems of Hitachi, Ltd.

Mr. Iwata came to Hitachi GST in August 2006. He began his career with Hitachi Ltd. in 1972 in the Overseas Business Department. He worked his way up through various positions until he became manager of the Business Planning Department for the Information Systems Group in 1996. From there, he joined Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) in 1997 as executive vice president. In 2000, Iwata returned to Hitachi Ltd. to serve as deputy general manager of the International Business Promotion Division. He was promoted to general manager of the Global Business Development Division in 2001. Later that year, he returned to HDS as chief executive officer. After almost five years leading HDS, he returned to Hitachi Ltd. to serve as CMO of Hitachi Ltd.'s Information and Telecommunication Systems Group. Mr. Iwata earned a B.S. of engineering degree from Waseda University in Japan.