MRV Communications

Mr. Lotan has served as MRV's President, Chief Executive Officer and Director since May 1990. Mr. Lotan also served as Chief Financial Officer from October 1993 through June 1995. From 1987 to 1990, he served as Managing Director of Fibronics (UK) Ltd., the United Kingdom subsidiary of Fibronics International Inc. (Fibronics), a manufacturer of fiber optic communication networks. MRV purchased the Fibronics business in September 1996. From January 1985 to March 1987, Mr. Lotan served as a Director of European Operations for Fibronics. Prior to such time, Mr. Lotan held a variety of sales and marketing positions with Fibronics and Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Lotan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in Business Administration from INSEAD (the European Institute of Business Administration, Fontainebleau, France). Since June 2005, Mr. Lotan has served as a Director for Capstone Turbine Corporation, (Nasdaq: CPST).

Guy Avidan has served as VP and General manager of MRV International since September 2001. Mr. Avidan is focused on the deployment of MRV's Optical Ethernet Access product line worldwide. Prior to that, Mr. Avidan served as the Chief Executive Officer and President and various executive capacities for other subsidiaries of the Company from 1995 to 2001. Mr. Avidan holds a B.A. degree in business management, economics and accounting from Haifa University and also is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant.

A founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Technical Officer and Secretary of MRV since MRV's inception in July 1988. From May 1985 to July 1988, Dr. Shlomo Margalit served as a founder and Vice President of Research and Development for LaserCom, Inc. ("LaserCom"), a manufacturer of semiconductor lasers. From 1982 to 1985, Dr. Margalit served as a Senior Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology ("Caltech") and from 1976 to 1982, a Visiting Associate at Caltech. From 1972 to 1982, Dr. Margalit served as a faculty member and Associate Professor at the Technion. During his tenure at the Technion, Dr. Margalit was awarded the "Israel Defense" prize for his work in developing infrared detectors for heat guided missiles and the David Ben Aharon Award for Novel Applied Research. Dr. Margalit holds a Bachelor of Science degree, a Masters degree and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion.

Dr. Igal Shidlovsky serves as Managing Director of Global Technologies, an investment and consulting organization, which he founded in 1994. He has extensive management and consulting experience with international companies and start up technology companies. From 1982 to 1991, Dr. Shidlovsky was a Director of Sentex Sensing Technologies. Dr. Shidlovsky held several executive positions including Vice President Corporate Development at Siemens Pacesetter, a division of Siemens AG Medical Group, Director of Strategic Planning and Technology Utilization and Director of the Microelectronics Department at Siemens Corporate Research. From 1969 to 1982 he was with RCA Laboratories, a leading electronic R&D organization. Dr. Shidlovsky holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the Technion and Master and Ph.D. degrees from the Hebrew University in Israel.

Professor Baruch Fischer currently serves as a professor at the Electrical Engineering Facility at the Techniion. Professor Fischer had served as Dean of the Electrical Engineering Faculty at the Technion. Professor FischerÕs current research activities include solid state devices, lasers and optical amplifiers; WDM technology; fiber gratings; "all optical" networks; non-linear effect in fiber, wave mixing; and optical computing, optical data storage and optical image processing. He has authored or co-authored approximately 180 papers and holds several patents in the field of optics and opto-electronics. He received his Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University, Israel in 1980. He subsequently became a Post-Doctorate Fellow at CalTech and joined the faculty of the Technion in 1983.

Dr. Guenter Jaensch, Chairman of the Board, has been with Siemens for more than 25 years holding a number of executive positions with this company in Europe and in the United States. Among his assignments were service as President of Siemens Communications Systems, Inc.; President and Chairman of Siemens Corporate Research and Support, Inc.; Chairman and CEO of Siemens Pacesetter, Inc.; and head of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Division of Siemens AG Medical Group. Dr. Jaensch also served as Executive Director of Siemens Worldwide Accounting and Budgeting Operations and as controller of Siemens Data Systems Group. Dr. Jaensch holds a Masters degree in Business Administration and a Ph.D. degree in Business and Finance from the University of Frankfurt; he also taught business for three years. He has been a director of MRV Communications (NASD: MRVC) since 1997 and is a director of BioForce NanoSciences (BFNH.OB).

Mr. Furchtgott-Roth founded Furchtgott-Roth Economic Enterprises in 2003. He frequently consults on issues related to the communications sector of the economy. From 2001-2003, Mr. Furchtgott-Roth was a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he completed the writing of A Tough Act to Follow, a book about the difficulties implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996. From 1997 through 2001, Mr. Furchtgott-Roth served as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. In that capacity, he served on the Joint Board on Universal Service. He is one of the few economists to have served as a federal regulatory commissioner, and the only one to have served on the Federal Communications Commission. Before his appointment to the FCC, he was chief economist for the House Committee on Commerce and a principal staff member on the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Earlier in his career, he was a senior economist with Economists Incorporated and a research analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses. Mr. Furchtgott-Roth is a member of the Washington Legal Foundation's Legal Policy Advisory Board. He is the coauthor of three books: Cable TV: Regulation or Competition, with R.W. Crandall, The Brookings Institution, 1996; Economics of A Disaster: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, with B.M. Owen et al, Quorum Books, 1995; and International Trade in Computer Software, with S.E. Siwek, Quorum Books, 1993.