Mr. Bouchard brings to Opnext more than 17 years of experience with HP where he held various senior management roles. In his most recent role as EVP of Global Operations, Mr. Bouchard was responsible for HP's $50 billion supply chain and all customer-facing operations. He reported directly to the CEO and was a member of HP's executive council.

In previous positions at HP, Mr. Bouchard also served as Chief Information Officer, SVP of Operations for the Printing and Imaging Group, and held P&L responsibility for several multi-billion dollar businesses in the Personal Computing Group. He was also in charge of integrating the supply chains of HP and Compaq following their merger, delivering over $1.3B in annual cost synergies.

Prior to joining HP, he held various roles at IBM's research and storage divisions.

Mr. Chan is responsible for business development, marketing, strategy and product portfolio for Opnext, Inc. Prior to joining Opnext, Mr. Chan spent more than 18 years with Lucent Technologies, AT&T and Bell Laboratories, where he rose to be an officer at Lucent. Mr. Chan's last position at Lucent was as chief strategy officer for the Optical Networking Group in 2000. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Chan was chairman and president, Lucent China. Other executive positions held by Mr. Chan include: VP in global marketing for the optical business; president and COO, Lucent China; VP for global SDH product management. During his career, Mr. Chan worked and lived outside the U.S. at various times in Japan, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, and China.

Formerly vice president of North America sales, Mr. Horiuchi has been with Opnext since 2001 where he has been instrumental in building the successful North America sales division. Mr. Horiuchi has more than 23 years of a broad business background of sales, R&D, manufacturing, and senior management in both the Japan and U.S., including more than ten years of experience in the fiber optics industry. Prior to joining Opnext, Mr. Horiuchi was at Infineon Technologies and Hitachi Semiconductor America. Mr. Horiuchi was also General Manager of Construction Material division at a pre-fab housing company in Japan.

James Horiuchi received a MBA degree from Santa Clara University.

Tadayuki Kanno has been working in the fiber optic transmission systems business since joining Hitachi, Ltd. in 1979. From 2000 - 2001 Mr. Kanno served as vice president of Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. In that role, he led fiber optic product development efforts for the US market. In 2001, Mr. Kanno was appointed as the senior vice president of the fiber optic transmission operation for Hitachi's Telecommunication Systems Division. In this capacity, he was responsible for business operation and system development. Currently, Mr. Kanno is leading the product realization activities for the Opnext Module and Device Business Units, which includes all R&D and manufacturing.

Thi La is the Vice President of Procurement for Opnext. Ms. La works with all Opnext business units to identify opportunities for strategic sourcing and procurement leverage through the creation of commodity teams and supporting processes.

Ms. La has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, starting at Micronics Computers, then at Hewlett-Packard. She has held a broad range of senior positions in R&D, Procurement, Manufacturing and Product Marketing; responsible for over three billion dollars in revenue contribution at HP. She holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University.

Robert Nobile has responsibility for all finance functions throughout Opnext. Previously, Mr. Nobile was a key executive in the 1998 establishment of Kodak Polychrome Graphics, a global market-leading graphic-arts joint venture between Eastman Kodak and Sun Chemical, a subsidiary of Dainippon Ink & Chemicals. Most recently, Mr. Nobile held the position of senior vice president of business integration, and before that was senior vice president and chief financial officer. In 1995, he joined Sun Chemical as its global director of internal audit. The following year he became chief financial officer of its Polychrome division. From 1982 to 1995, Mr. Nobile was employed by Arthur Andersen, where he provided financial advisory, operational consulting, and audit-related services to numerous international organizations.

Mr. O'Neill has served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel since May 2007. From January 2004 until April 2007, Mr. O'Neill was Of Counsel with the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins LLP. Prior to joining Latham & Watkins LLP, Mr. O'Neill was an assistant general counsel at Global Crossing, Ltd., a global telecommunications company, from March 1999 until September 2003, and prior to that he was an attorney in the New York office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP from 1994 until 1999. Mr. O'Neill has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and a J.D. from the Columbia Law School.

Kei Oki has worked to develop a global business with Hitachi's Information and Telecommunications sector since joining Hitachi in 1971.His career experience includes Hitachi America, Ltd., Hitachi Data Systems, Inc., Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc. In previous positions, he contributed to developing Hitachi's North American business by leading the sales and marketing efforts of information and telecommunication systems, such as; fiber optic transmission equipment, Main Frames and RAID systems. Recently, he devoted his efforts to support Hitachi's international subsidiaries to expand Hitachi's IT equipment business. As the president of Opnext Japan, Mr. Oki continues to create value added solutions for the company's customers.

As Vice President of Human Resources, Kathleen Swift oversees staffing and talent recruitment, organizational development, employee benefits and compensation strategies and real estate and facilities for Opnext. Ms. Swift brings 15 years of HR experience to her role having managed all key aspects of the HR discipline. This includes anticipating and responding to emerging employee trends and business practices, helping to cultivate a dynamic corporate culture, and finding, developing and compensating top performers throughout an organization. Most recently, Ms. Swift served as vice president of HR for Extreme Networks, a company that provides Ethernet network infrastructures where she ran a global human resources organization as well as the real estate and facilities functions.

Prior to Extreme Networks, Ms. Swift held the position of vice president of HR for Terayon, a leader in cable modem and high definition video systems. Ms. Swift has also held a variety of director and manager-level HR positions at Avanex, Com21, Questlink and Hitachi early in her career. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with honors from the California State University at Chico.

Rich Zoccolillo is the general manager for the Opnext Pluggables and Subsystem business units, with responsibility for coordinating all product development, manufacturing, management and sales activities. Formerly general manager for Lucent Metro WDM Business, Mr. Zoccolillo spearheaded Lucent's drive into the Metro WDM market. While at Lucent, Mr. Zoccolillo also served as director of product management for the Lucent SONET systems in the US, spending two years in Germany to focus on SDH systems, and held a variety of significant positions in Lucent's Consumer Product Organization. Prior to his Lucent tenure, Mr. Zoccolillo held positions at AT&T, within the ATM Network Planning committee, the international ATM Standards committee, and cellular system product development.