Salira - Management Team

At Intel Corporation, David House was the principal architect of the microprocessor division's breathtaking success. As the division's General Manager and prime strategist, Mr. House ceased second-sourcing of the microprocessor product line, a decision that propelled Intel to its dominant market share position in that marketplace. Later Mr. House's team developed the "Intel Inside" branding campaign that has made Intel a household name. In 1996, he left Intel to become CEO of Bay Networks. After turning Bay Networks around, Mr. House negotiated the merger of Bay Networks and Nortel Networks creating an increase from $1 billion to $9 billion in shareholder value for Bay shareholders. He subsequently served as Nortel's President for over a year before leaving the company to pursue other interests. Mr. House is currently investing in new opportunities and consulting with various technology firms.

Mr. Lee received his Bachelors degree from National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan and he received a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from New York State University. Prior to his current position at Cisco Systems, Mr. Lee was Founder and CEO of TransMedia Communications which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999. TransMedia builds innovative products that capitalize on the tremendous opportunities created by the convergence of data, voice and video. In 1987, Mr. Lee founded Digicom Systems, a company devoted to high speed modem communications applications in both software algorithms and the first Company implementing single chip DSP V.32bis technologies. Digicom Systems was purchased in 1994 by Creative Technology. Prior to Digicom Systems, he held positions of senior engineering management responsibility with Silicon Valley firms including Anderson Jacobson, Racal-Datacom and Cermetek Microelectronics.

Mr. Wan joined Vertex in 1996 as an Investment Manager. He has been involved with many start-ups and early stage companies in Taiwan, Singapore and more recently in the U.S. Mr. Wan played a key role in helping Vertex focus on investing in optical and communication companies. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Hyperchip, Mobileway, Stream Machine and Salira. He also sponsored Vertex's investment in Axon Photonics, Geyser, KangarooNet, Metastream, Morecom, Newport Communications, Optimight Communications, Orchid Communications and SAN Valley Systems. His interest is mainly in communications and the Internet infrastructure. Prior to Vertex, he was with the Singapore Armed Forces for twelve years, holding such positions as Battalion Intelligence Officer, Honorary Aide de Camp to the President of the Republic of Singapore and Company Commander. He holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore, where he was awarded the Dean's Letter of Commendation.

Management Team

Mr. Martin received a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Liverpool University and an MBA from Santa Clara University. Mr. Martin has over 20 years experience as a senior executive in Silicon Valley leading a variety of private and public technology firms. He began his career as a product design engineer for Plessey Telecommunications in England and later was in engineering for LM Ericsson. In 1979, he founded Mercator Business Systems, later acquired by Onyx Systems, a public company, in 1983. Retained by Onyx to become Vice President of European Operations, Mr. Martin was named President two years later. As President, he negotiated the merger of Onyx with Corvus Systems.

Mr. Martin was subsequently recruited to lead The Wollongong Group as its President and Chief Operating Officer. Under Mr. Martin's leadership Wollongong became the prime mover in TCP/IP network infrastructure software. Mr. Martin convinced AT&T, Digital Equipment Corporation, NCR and IBM and many other large equipment suppliers to deliver IP software as part of their product offerings. Mr. Martin also worked with the Regional Bell Operating Companies convincing them of the value of IP as the transport of choice for their in-house networks. As a consequence, IP networks became ubiquitous throughout government, educational institutions and most major corporations. Mr. Martin later negotiated the sale of Wollongong to Attachmate Corporation in January of 1996. While serving as a Board member, Mr. Martin was recruited to become President and COO of ESS Technology, a publicly-traded semiconductor manufacturer. After turning the organization around, he left to pursue other interests, including high technology investing and consulting with various high tech firms.

One of the company's original founders, Mr. Gao earned his Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering in Tsinghua University and then a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988. As a doctoral candidate in Computer Science at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mr. Gao performed research related to Real Time Distributed System and Software Engineering. Mr. Gao's area of expertise is in fiber optic communications, LAN/WAN internetworking, network management systems and network security. Mr. Gao left academia to work for Scotia High End Computing in Nova Scotia, Canada where he designed and implemented Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) systems used for parallel super computing systems. In 1993, he joined Nortel (Bell Northern Research) in Canada.

At Nortel, Mr. Gao delivered the first OC-192 SONET product available in the market. He also built a software platform to provide system boot-up, diagnostics, and LAN/WAN internetworking. He integrated all application components such as OAM&P, hardware and software interface, performance management, fault management and switching software into this platform. In 1996, Mr. Gao left Nortel to join Cylink Corporation, where he designed and implemented the security and network management systems for ATM, Frame Relay, TDM (T1/E1/T3/E3) and IP VPN LAN/WAN products which led to five major commercial releases. Mr. Gao conceived the original concept of combining Gigabit Ethernet/IP with passive optical networks that led to the formation of the company.

Mr. Liu received his Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the Information Engineering University in Henan, China in 1984. His area of expertise is in creating and growing new enterprises in China and he has extensive distribution contacts in China. Mr. Liu began his career in 1984 as a hardware engineer for the Jiangnan Institute of Computing and Technology where he was responsible for the implementation of numerous supercomputer programs. In 1994, he established sales offices in Southern and Western China for Lestina International where he grew total sales from $500,000 per year to more than $20 million per year. In 1997, Mr. Liu founded Cytech Technologies in China to distribute semiconductor products for eight vendors including Altera, IDT and Linear with revenues growing to more than $70 million annually .

Dr. Song received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University in 1991. Dr. Song's specific area of expertise is in communications systems and data networking. As a research fellow, he published 11 articles concerning microwave circuit optical design. In his post-doctoral research, he published 2 additional articles on high-speed laser detector characterization and modeling and high speed/frequency device design and modeling optimization. Dr. Song left academia in 1993 to join Nortel's Bell Northern Research unit where managed the hardware development on a variety of projects involving high speed Cu and Optical interconnect technology strategy, and led research on new technologies for Terabit Router/ATM-switch/3G-wireless/CDMA/WLL products. Most recently, he was tapped to work in Nortel's Optera Metro unit where he led the hardware design team as manager of system architecture to deliver a key Metro Optical Networking product that resulted in 2 patents filed.

Mr. Li received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Fudan University in Shanghai in 1985. He went on to receive his Masters in Computer Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1987 and his Masters in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan in 1992. Mr. Li's specific area of expertise is in developing and implementing software solutions in a variety of telecommunications applications. Mr. Li began his career as a Program Analyst for Hewlett Packard in China. At the University of Saskatchewan he developed congestion traffic policing algorithms for ATM networks and cell multiplexing and buffering mechanisms in ATM switching fabrics. After he left the university, he joined SED Systems where he designed and implemented the Facsimile Interface Unit for British Telecom's ACSE project. Mr. Li went on to join Nortel (Bell Northern Research) as a Senior Engineer to develop DMS-100 Switch Services in the DMS Telephony group. In Nortel Networks/Fore Systems joint-group, he was the manager of group of 10 and developed the 4 ports T1/E1 ATM/FR FUNI card for Vector ATM Switch. Mr. Li was later responsible for the delivery of the Fast-to-the-Market ATM features for Nortel's key customers of the Magellan ATM development group. Mr. Li was Nortel ATM Forum Representative for TM (Traffic Management) and AAL2/5 working group.

Mr. Li joined Cisco Systems in 1996. Most recently, Mr. Li was senior engineering manager of a group of 40 software managers and engineers in Cisco's Multi-Services Business Unit. He was responsible for SW architecture on multi-service MGX switch (1.2 G and 45G version); managing a number of key new initiatives, including OC48 POS/1GE and 10GE card; UCP (unified control plan - this include MPLamdaS); high density ATM card; high RAS feature including hitless rebuild/redundancy/SONET APS; SONET mapper and distribution card. He is the Member of STF (Strategic Task Force for MSSBU, for new product priority and direction). He is the Member of Cisco/PMC-Sierra partnership team and Cisco-MSSBU/Windriver partnership team. He has two patents pending (one on statistics collection, one on simultaneous mapping of POS and ATM into STS-1 payload envelope).

Mr. Clayden received his Bachelors degree in Physics from the University of Nottingham in England and went on to earn his Masters in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. Mr. Clayden has over 20 years of industrial engineering experience and an established reputation in the design and start-up of new manufacturing facilities. In his career, Mr. Clayden has coordinated the design, engineering and installation of over 5 million square feet of production and warehousing facilities in the U.S., Europe and Asia. A partial list of the companies for which Mr. Clayden has produced significant manufacturing operations includes: Seagate, Memorex, ITT, Commodore, SyQuest, IGT, NCD and Irwin. In addition, Mr. Clayden has extensive management experience with several start-up manufacturers, and he held key positions with established industrial firms including Anaconda Telecommunications (General Manager), Genisco Technology (VP Operations), and Varian Associates (Manager Industrial Engineering).

Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Paris, France in 1989. Dr. Zhang's area of expertise is in telecommunications, networking and voice over IP (VoIP). As a senior staff engineer, Dr. Zhang led the Sony Communications Center. He left Sony to join TDK Systems where he was the principal system architect for TDK's Telemerge IP telephony products group. During that time, he also consulted for TDK's Dynamic Ventures group where he led numerous customer software development projects. Upon completion of these projects, Dr. Zhang joined Cisco to be the senior system architect for the Enterprise Collaboration Platform.

Mr. Meng received his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 1982 and his Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1993. Mr. Meng's specific area of expertise is in telecommunications hardware and optical fiber engineering. Mr. Meng began his career in 1982 as an electrical engineer for the China Railway Telecommunications and Signal corporation. In 1993, he worked in software development for Plustek Corporation, and then joined Innovision to develop products based on ASIC/FPGA designs. Mr. Meng then joined Transcomm where he led the design of TDM-based PON hardware development products. Mr. Meng is one of Salira's original founders.

Mr. Shi received his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1982. Mr. Shi also earned two Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering, first from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1985 and later from the University of Ottawa in 1991. His area of expertise is in software development for real-time telecommunications systems and transport software. Mr. Shi joined Nortel Networks in 1992 and designed various OAM&P features for four SONET OC-48 transmission systems. He joined C-COR Electronics and developed the SONET video transmission system product specifications and TL-1 interface specifications. In 1996, Mr. Shi joined Pliant Systems where he began to work on ATM-based PON products. He moved on to Marconi Communications after his division at Pliant Systems was acquired. At Marconi, he completed the OAM&P other transport software features for their ATM-based PON system. In addition, he developed the PON system's UNI signaling and other communication protocols.