Franco Plastina

Overview

Mr. Plastina joined our Company as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director in February 2006. From September 2005 until joining our Company and from March 2003 until joining Proxim Corporation in May 2003, Mr. Plastina served as an Executive in Residence at Warburg Pincus LLC, a private equity firm. From May 2003 until July 2005, he held various executive positions with Proxim Corporation, a provider of wireless infrastructure equipment for wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, and wireless broadband markets, including Executive Chairman from January 2005 until July 2005 and President and Chief Executive Officer and a director from May 2003 until December 2004. In June 2005, Proxim Corporation filed a voluntary petition for relief under the reorganization provisions of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. From 1987 until November 2002, Mr. Plastina held various management and executive positions at Nortel Networks, where he most recently served as President, Metro/ Enterprise Networks, from October 2001 until November 2002 and as President, Wireless and Core Networks, from February 2001 until October 2001.