William A. Owens

Overview

William A. Owens has been a director of Polycom since December 2005 and was previously a director of Polycom from August 1999 to May 2004. Mr. Owens joined AEA Holdings and AEA Investors, a New York private equity company, on April 1, 2006. He served as Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Nortel Networks Corporation, a provider of end-to-end networking products and solutions, from May 2004 to November 2005. Prior to that, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Teledesic LLC, a satellite communications company, from February 1999 to May 2004. During that same period, he also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Teledesic"s affiliated company, Teledesic Holdings Ltd. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Owens was President, Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). From 1994 to 1996, he was Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. Owens is also a member of the Board of Directors of Daimler Chrysler AG, Embarq Corporation, Wipro Ltd., and several philanthropic and private company boards. Mr. Owens holds a B.A. in mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy, Bachelor"s and Master"s degrees in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University, and a Master"s in Management from George Washington University.