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To: Greg h2o who wrote (22405)	7/26/2000 12:24:21 PM
From: D.E. Lee	Respond to of 42804

My turn :) <<Some of our senior management personnel, including Dr. William R. Spivey, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and Eric Blachno, our Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, only recently joined us in July 2000. >> theinternetanalyst.com pennmerchant.com

To: Greg h2o who wrote (22405)	7/26/2000 12:25:10 PM
From: Greg h2o	Respond to of 42804

this sounds like exceptional logic! <<Facilitate Customer Relationships and Future Partnerships. MRV competes with several of our customers in supplying equipment for data networking. As a separate company, we believe we can expand our business with existing and potential customers which may be unwilling to do business with us due to our relationship with MRV. In addition, we believe we will have a greater ability to partner with other companies. In particular, certain companies that compete with MRV directly in the sale of products not currently developed or sold by us may be more willing to enter into arrangements with us as a separate company. ..

To: Greg h2o who wrote (22405)	7/26/2000 12:59:54 PM
From: Joe Fang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42804

Senior Management Profile. Noam Lotan has served on our board of directors since our incorporation and became Chairman of the Board in July 2000. Mr. Lotan has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of MRV since May 1990. From October 1993 to June 1995, Mr. Lotan also served as MRV's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Lotan holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology and an M.A. in business administration from the European Institute of Business Administration. Dr. William R. Spivey has served us as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since July 2000. From October 1997 to July 2000, Dr. Spivey served as Group President of the Network Products group of Lucent Technologies. From February 1994 to September 1997, he served as vice president, systems and components group, member of the Office of the President and Co-chair of the Executive Committee of AT&T Microelectronics. Dr. Spivey holds a B.S. in physics from Duquesne University, an M.S. in physics from Indiana University in Indiana, Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in administration/management from Walden University. Dr. Spivey also serves as a director of Lyondell Chemical Co., Novellus Systems, Inc. and Raytheon Company. Eric Blachno has served us as our Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer and Secretary since July 2000. From February 1999 to July 2000, he served as Managing Director of Research and a Financial Analyst for Pennsylvania Merchant Group, an investment banking firm, where he headed its Technology Group and served as Senior Communications Equipment Analyst. From September 1995 to July 1998, he served as Managing Director -- Equity Research for Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. Mr. Blachno holds a B.S. in computer science from University of Florida, an M.S. in telecommunications from Pace University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Mark Heimbuch has served as our Chief Technical Officer since June 2000. From March 1997 to June 2000, he served as Director of Research and Development for the optical components division of MRV. From August 1990 to March 1997, Dr. Heimbuch attended graduate school, working for MRV part time as a scientist from May 1996 to March 1997, while finishing his education. Dr. Heimbuch holds a 52 B.S. in engineering physics from Oregon State University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Steve Lin has served as our President, FOCI since July 2000. Mr. Lin co-founded FOCI in June 1995 and since then has served FOCI in various senior executive capacities, including its Vice President of Technology, Executive Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating Officer. Since February 2000, Mr. Lin has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of FOCI. Mr. Lin holds a B.S. in physics from Central University and an M.S. in optoelectronic physics from Fu-Jen Catholic University. Dr. C. J. Hwang has served as our President, OIC since July 2000. Dr. Huang founded OIC and has served as the President of OIC since November 1996. From December 1993 to June 1996, he served as the Chief Advisor, Telecommunication Laboratories for the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Taiwan. Mr. Hwang holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Washington. Dr. Shlomo Margalit has served a member of our board of directors since our incorporation. Dr. Margalit is a co-founder of MRV and has been its Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Technical Officer since MRV's inception in July 1988. Dr. Margalit holds a B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technion. Dan Avida has served a member of our board of directors since July 2000. From July 1989 until January 2000, Mr. Avida served in various executive capacities for Electronics for Imaging, Inc. a company engaged in enabling networked printing solutions, his last as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Avida holds a B.S. in computer engineering from the Technion. Richard S. Hill has served a member of our board of directors since July 2000. Since December 1993, Mr. Hill has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novellus Systems, Inc., a capital equipment supplier to the semiconductor device market. In May 1996 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novellus. Since October 1997, Mr. Hill has been a member of the Board of Directors of Speedfam International, Inc. Mr. Hill holds a B.S. in engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Syracuse University. Amos Wilnai has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2000. Since September 1992, Mr. Wilnai has been the Chairman of the Board for MMC Networks, Inc., a provider of network processor chipsets used to build networking and communications platforms. Mr. Wilnai holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Technion and an M.S. in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.