Company
Management Team
The management team consists of experts with extensive industry experience
in the development and deployment of optical transmission technology and
their networking applications.
 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 Gb/s 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. 
 Georg
Röll, VP of Operations (Co-Founder)
Mr. Röll is a co-founder of CoreOptics and responsible
for the development of CoreOptics’ technical vision and
strategy in the context of newly emerging technologies and
markets. The availability of the relevant base technology,
the establishment of respective partnerships, the technology
roadmap as well as the Intellectual Property strategy and
patents are amongst Mr. Röll’s key mandates. As the VP of Operations he is responsible for all aspects of high volume production
of CoreOptics product portfolio.
Before co-founding CoreOptics Mr. Röll was director of
lightwave technology development within the Optical Networking
Group of Lucent Technologies at Holmdel, NJ USA. Prior to
this, he was director for hardware development for high-speed
and high-capacity lightwave systems at Lucent in Germany.
He was instrumental in establishing and leading global design
teams for high-speed and high-capacity transmission systems
in Lucent Technologies. Before that, he was head of the SDH
product development of Philips Kommunikations Industrie. He
received the Bell Labs Fellowship for his outstanding contribution
to high-speed optical transmission systems.
Mr. Röll earned an Ingenieur graduate degree in telecommunications
from the Ohm Polytechnikum in Nuremberg, Germany.
 Saeid
Aramideh, Senior VP of Global Sales, Marketing and Business Development
Mr. Aramideh has the overall responsibility for the market
development and product introduction strategies for CoreOptics
suite of transponder products globally. Mr. Aramideh comes to
CoreOptics with over 18 years of experience in product line
management, sales/marketing and development of optical
components, Sonet/DWDM transmission and optical switching
products.
Prior to joining CoreOptics, Mr. Aramideh was the Vice President
of Product Management at iolon Inc, responsible for the company's
outbound marketing efforts to introduce industry's first widely
tunable laser products for the optical networking applications.
Previously, Mr. Aramideh was a member of the leadership team
at Corvis responsible for introduction of the company's all-optical
networking products. Mr. Aramideh played a key role in developing
Corvis' product and marketing strategies. Mr. Aramideh also
spent 10 years with Nortel Networks where he held a variety
of development and marketing management positions in the Nortel
Networks Fiber Optics Transmission Group. In his last position
with Nortel, Mr. Aramideh played a pivotal role in laying
Nortel's marketing strategy for the emerging data centric
carriers and launched a national campaign to introduce Nortel's
services marketing program.
Mr. Aramideh holds both a masters degree in electrical engineering
and an executive MBA from Concordia University in Montreal,
Canada.
 Hans
Schiessl, VP of Research
and Development
Mr. Schiessl is responsible for engineering & operations. Prior to
his current role in the company he was responsible for the
40 Gb/s Advanced
Transponder development program including high-speed analogue and mixed
signal integrated circuit designs in advanced SiGe, GaAs and InP Processes.
Before joining CoreOptics Mr. Schiessl was a Project Manager for sensor
development at Gieseke & Devrient in Munich leading a Banknote Acceptor
development program with a team of 20 high skilled engineers. He started
his career at Philips Kommunikations Industrie in Nuremberg, where he worked
on high-speed ASIC design for high-speed optical transceivers and led the
development of the high speed optical Interfaces for the Philips SDH- product
family.
Mr. Schiessl holds a Diplom-Ingenieur (M.S.) degree in electrical engineering
from the University of Erlangen, specializing on communications technology
and high frequency engineering.
 Achim
Herzberger, VP of Product Line Management (Co-Founder)
Mr. Herzberger is a co-founder of CoreOptics and is leading
the CoreOptics product & business line management. He
is responsible for coordinating all activities related to
the success of the product line, including engineering, manufacturing
and filed trial support. He has outstanding experience in
CMOS ASIC design in leading edge technology for transmission
systems.
Prior to co-founding CoreOptics Mr. Herzberger was the head
of the ASIC department responsible for the CMOS ASIC development
for DWDM, multiplexer and cross-connect products at Lucent
Technologies. He led the design of the advanced forward error
correction algorithms for long distance DWDM systems for 10
Gb/s and 40 Gb/s. Before this, he successfully led highly
complex ASIC design projects for SONET, SDH, PDH und ATM systems
with global teams. Prior to this, he worked for Philips
Kommunikations Industrie. He played a key role in defining
the SDH product family and was responsible for the ASIC
development of SDH interfaces.
Mr. Herzberger earned a Diplom-Ingenieur (M.S.) degree in
electrical engineering from the RWTH Aachen with a specialization
in telecommunication.
Dr. Christoph
Schulien, Chief Technology
Officer (Co-Founder) 
Dr. Schulien is a co-founder and member of the Board of
Directors of CoreOptics and is responsible for next generation
product architectures. Prior to his current role in the
company he held various leadership positions in product
engineering, marketing and business development.
Before co-founding CoreOptics Dr. Schulien held the position
of director for optics & high-speed circuit development
within the Optical Networking Group of Lucent Technologies
in Nuremberg. He led the development of the system hardware
and high speed technology related to the next generation TDM
and terabit DWDM systems with a per channel capacity of up
to 40 Gb/s. Further, he was responsible for securing key
technologies through strategic alliances with renown companies
in the optical networking sector. Prior to that, he led the
development of high-speed optical transmitter and receiver
modules for various applications of the WaveStar product line
at Lucent in Holmdel, NJ USA. His particular focus was on
the development of DWDM interfaces and involved a team of
technical experts in Holmdel, in Nuremberg and in North Andover,
MA. He started his career at Philips Kommunikations Industrie
in 1992 in various management and expert positions in the
area of high-speed integrated circuit design and acquired
vast experience in analog and mixed signal design at speeds
up to 10 Gb/s.
Dr. Schulien holds a Diplom-Ing. (M.S.) and a Dr. Ing. (PhD)
degree (with summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from
the University of Saarbrücken, Germany.
 Claus
Dorschky, Lead Product Architect (Co-Founder)
Mr. Dorschky is a co-founder of CoreOptics and is responsible
for the detailed architecture of all CoreOptics products along
with the definition and the provision of all relevant technologies
for their implementation. He is an expert in the area of high-speed
mixed signal circuit design for ultra high speed digital lightwave
communication systems and has a vast experience in the design
and application of electronic and opto-electronic components.
Prior to co-founding CoreOptics Mr. Dorschky was responsible
for the 40 Gb/s high speed IC design program at Lucent Technologies.
He successfully led design projects in a variety of technologies
including the most advanced SiGe and InP HBT technologies.
Before this he was the lead engineer in the development of
10 Gb/s receiver modules for DWDM systems.
Mr. Dorschky holds a Diplom-Ingenieur (M.S.) degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Erlangen with a specialization
in the areas of digital signal processing and RF design.
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