Jerry Rawls was elected Chairman of the Board in 2006. He has also served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors for Finisar Corporation from 1989 to 2008. From 1968 to 1989, he was employed by Raychem Corporation, a materials science and engineering company. At Raychem he held various management positions including Manager of Product Marketing, National Sales Manager, General Manager of the Aerospace Products Division, and General Manager of the Interconnection Systems Division. Mr. Rawls holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University and an M.S. in Industrial Administration from the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma engineering honorary societies.

Michael C. Child joined Finisar's Board of Directors in June 2010. Mr. Child has been employed by TA Associates, Inc., a Boston-based private equity firm managing over $16 billion of capital, since 1982 where he currently serves as a Managing Director. He has previously served as a board member of more than 20 companies of which 16 were public, including Finisar Corporation from 1998 to 2005. Mr. Child holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Roger C. Ferguson has been a member of our Board of Directors since August 1999. Mr. Ferguson has served as Chief Executive Officer of Semio Inc., an early stage software company, since July 1999 and as a principal in VenCraft, LLC, a venture capital partnership, since July 1997. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Ferguson was Chief Executive Officer of DataTools, Inc., a database software company. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Ferguson served as Chief Operating Officer for Network General Inc., a network analysis company. Mr. Ferguson also serves on the Boards of Directors of Microtest, Inc. and several other private companies. Mr. Ferguson holds a B.A. in Psychology from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth.

Eitan Gertel joined the Finisar Board of Directors in August 2008. Mr. Gertel is currently Chief Executive Officer of Finisar, effective with the merger between Optium Corporation and Finisar Corporation on August 28, 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Gertel was Chairman and CEO of Optium Corporation after joining Optium in 2001. Mr. Gertel brings a wealth of experience in broadband microwave and fiber optic systems. Prior to Optium, he was Vice President/General Manager of JDS Uniphase's TSD Division from 1995 to 2001 where Mr. Gertel had full P&L responsibility for the sub-system division as it transitioned from start-up status to a multi-hundred-million-dollar operation. Mr. Gertel earned a BSEE from Drexel University

Tom Pardun joined the Finisar Board of Directors in December 2009. Mr. Pardun is currently Chairman of Western Digital Corporation, one of the world's largest manufacturers of hard-disk drives for the personal computer and home entertainment markets. He has served in this capacity from January 2000 until January 2002 and again since April 2007. He worked for 8 years in various positions at MediaOne and its predecessor company U S West, with the most recent being President of MediaOne International Asia-Pacific before retiring in July of 2000. Prior to U S West, he was President of the Central Group for Sprint. Previously, Mr. Pardun held a variety of management positions during a 19-year tenure with IBM, concluding as Director of Product Line Evaluation at IBM's New York marketing headquarters. Mr. Pardun is a graduate of the University of Iowa.

Robert N. Stephens joined the Finisar Board of Directors in August 2005. Mr. Stephens is the former Chief Executive Officer and President of Adaptec, Inc., a storage solutions provider. Before joining Adaptec, Mr. Stephens was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Power I/O, a company that developed serial interface solutions and silicon expertise for high-speed data networking. Mr. Stephens has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Emulex Corporation, which designs, develops, and supplies Fibre Channel host bus adapters and held the position of Senior Vice President, General Manger, and Founder of the Microcomputer Products Group at Western Digital Corporation. He began his career at IBM, where he served over 15 years in a variety of management positions. Mr. Stephens holds bachelor's and master's degrees from San Jose State University.

Dominique Trempont joined the Finisar Board of Directors in August 2005. Mr. Trempont is the Chief Executive Officer in residence at Battery Ventures. Prior to joining Battery Ventures, Mr. Trempont was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kanisa, Inc., a software company focused on enterprise self-service applications. Mr. Trempont has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Gemplus Corporation, a smart card company, and Chief Financial Officer and later Chief Operating Officer at NeXT Software. Mr. Trempont began his career at Raychem Corporation, a high-tech material science company focused on telecommunication, electronics, automotive and other industries. Mr. Trempont received an undergraduate degree in Economics from College Saint Louis (Belgium), a bachelor's in Business Administration and Computer Sciences from the University of Louvain (Belgium) and a master's in Business Administration from INSEAD.