Board of Directors
The board of directors of CoreOptics Inc. consists of the
following distinguished members:
Hamid
Arabzadeh, Chairman of the Board, President & Chief Executive Officer
Formerly, Mr. Arabzadeh was the General Manager and Vice President
of Next Generation Metro Optical Networks at Nortel Networks.
In this role, he had global responsibility for Nortel’s
Metro Optical Profit & Loss, Portfolio & Technology
Strategy, Research & Development, Product Line Management
and Product Marketing.
Mr. Arabzadeh joined Nortel Networks in 1995 and led the Product
Marketing and Business Development of Optical Networks in
the CALA Market. He spent the next 4 years working with the
incumbent operators throughout the peak of deregulation in
Mexico and Brazil to modernize the Long Haul and Metropolitan
Optical Networks. He then moved to England to lead the Product
Line Management team for the International Optical Networks
division spanning CALA, EMEA and Asia. During his tenure,
Nortel secured 90% market share in Pan European optical networks
with the introduction of 10 Gbit/sec platform with over $1B revenue
and became the number one supplier of Metro DWDM products
in the global market. Mr. Arabzadeh's professional career
in Telecommunication and Information Technology began as the
founder and President of UNICAD Information Systems in 1988
in Canada. UNICAD specialized in CAD/CAM custom software development,
system integration, training, and customer care service for
Construction, Manufacturing, Telecommunication, and Apparel
sector.
Mr. Arabzadeh holds an M.B.A. from the University of McGill
and a Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from
the University of Waterloo in Canada. 
Syrus Madavi
Mr. Madavi is currently
the President of SPM Capital, a private fund with focus
on high growth market sectors within semiconductor, digital
consumer, communications, and green energy. Mr. Madavi's
career has included terms as Chairman, President and CEO of
Burr-Brown Corporation; President and Chief Operating Officer
of JDS Uniphase; Senior Vice President of Texas Instruments;
President of Raytheon Semiconductor; and Vice President of
Honeywell Signal Processing Technologies. Under his leadership
at Burr-Brown Corporation, which focused on high-performance
analog and mixed-signal IC products, the company's valuation
increased more than hundred folds before Texas Instruments
acquired the company for over $7 billion. At Texas Instruments, Mr. Madavi was the Senior Vice
President of the high-performance signal processing business
sector. This business with well over $1 billion revenue,
offered power management, analog, mixed-signal, and DSP
products for digital consumer, personal computing, industrial
and communication markets. Mr. Madavi currently serves
as a board member of Akros Silicon, CoreOptics,
Aurora Networks, Exalt Communications, and Envia Systems.
Mr. Madavi received his BS in Electrical
Engineering and MS in Computer Sciences from Stevens Institute
of Technology, as well as an MBA in finance from UCLA Anderson
School of Management. He
is based in Palo Alto, California.
Niel Ransom
With 35 years of leadership in the telecommunications
industry, Dr. Niel Ransom was until 2005 the worldwide Chief
Technology Officer of Alcatel, Inc. in Paris and a member of
its executive committee. There he managed corporate-wide
activities in research, corporate and product strategy,
R&D investment, M&A strategy and intellectual
property. Earlier, he held various general management roles at
Alcatel including directing Alcatel’s North American access
and metro optical business. Previously he directed the
Advanced Technology Systems Center at BellSouth where he led
an organization responsible for successfully expanding
BellSouth’s offerings into ADSL, PCS wireless, Internet
services, video entertainment, and advanced intelligent
networks. He started he career at Bell Labs where he led an
applied research organization that gave birth to a number of
highly successful products in data and voice switching. He
is currently serves on the board of directors of AMCC,
Ellacoya Networks, Teknovus and Overture Networks. He serves
on the advisory boards of three venture capital companies:
Focus Venture in California, Pond Venture Partners in the
U.K., and Carmel Ventures in Israel, and is on the advisory
boards of a number of early stage high-technology companies
primarily in the Bay Area. In 2000, Dr. Ransom was appointed a
member of the Technological Advisors Council of the U.S.
Federal Communication Commission. He holds five patents in
telecommunications technology and is co-author of the book,
Broadband Access Technologies, published by McGraw-Hill. Dr.
Ransom received a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering at Old
Dominion University in 1970 and 1971, respectively, a Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in
1973, and an Executive MBA from the University of Chicago in
1986.
John Borchers
John Borchers joined Crescendo Ventures in 1997 and has played a
leading role in developing the firm's international presence.
After spending nearly three years working in Crescendo's
London office, Mr. Borchers relocated to Palo Alto where he focuses on
opportunities in the software, wireless and network-connected
application areas. Prior to joining Crescendo Ventures, Mr.
Borchers worked in the data warehousing and predictive analytics fields
where he held various operational roles including a two-year
posting to Sydney, Australia, where he opened the first
Asia-Pacific office for a U.S.-based data warehousing firm.
Mr. Borchers received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a
bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond.
Christian
Claussen
Christian Claussen joined TVM Capital in June 1998.
Focusing on communications and internet enabling technology,
he leads or co-leads TVM Capital's investments as a director
of Arteris S.A., Coreoptics Inc., Definiens AG, Infitel
International NV and as case manager for Telesnap AG (acquired
by Netwise AB), Time AG (acquired by Genesys S.A.) and Tantau
Inc. (acquired by 724 Solutions). Prior to joining TVM
Capital, Mr. Claussen was responsible for strategic business
development and product line management in optical
transmission networks, a $1.5billion business unit part of
Siemens' Public Networking Group. Before going into venture
capital, he spent more than eight years gathering operational
experience in the international telecommunications industry
including a one-year sales assignment in the Philippines back
in 1992. Mr. Claussen holds a European MSc. degree in
Communications Engineering from the Technical University of
Karlsruhe [D], the University of Essex [GB] and the Ecole
Superieure en Electronique et Electrotechnique in Paris [F].
Bart Diels
Bart Diels is Investment Director within GIMV. Mr. Diels brings
to GIMV strong dealmaking, negotiating and business building
skills through more than 10 years of private equity knowledge
& experience. Mr. Diels did some successful exits through IPO
of Metris and the trade sale of FICS, Barconet, Beyers &
Partners, eXiumius, LMS, SCIA and Filepool. Currently, Mr. Diels holds board positions in Business Architects International,
Captor, Clear2Pay, Coreoptics, Metris and Dialog Imaging Systems.
Before joining GIMV in 1995, he worked for a medium sized
Belgian bank and as a PhD student at the University of Antwerp. Mr. Diels holds a Master in financial & quantitative economics
complemented with an MBA, both at the University of Antwerp.
Dr.
Erich Hacker
Dr. Erich Hacker is managing director of High Tech Private Equity
GmbH since April 2002. From 2000 to 2002 he was director of
the research department of DEWB AG. Before that he headed
the strategic technology development department of JENOPTIG
AG (Holding). He has many years of experience in the optical
technology business and a wide-ranging international network/connections.
In 1995 he became a managing director of the newly founded
JENOPTIK Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH in Jena and headed the
optics business up to 1998. From 1991 to 1995 he formed and
headed the optics division of JENOPTIK GmbH. During the ten
years before, he had several leading positions at Carl Zeiss
Jena.
Dr. Hacker received his academical degrees at the Electrotechnical
University of St. Petersburg (MS) and the Friedrich-Schiller-University
Jena (PhD). He is author and co-author of more than 100 papers
and more than 40 patents.
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