ADVISORY/CEO and President of Agility Communications, Ron Nelson, to Present At Prestigious Technologic Partners' Optix2001 Conference.Business/Assignment Editors & High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Feb. 13) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Ron Nelson Ron Nelson is a composer of both classical and popular music and a retired music academic. He was born in Joliet, Illinois, on December 14, 1929. After earning bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of Agility Communications(TM), Inc., will participate in a panel discussion at the Technologic Partners' Optix2001 conference being held Sun., Feb. 11 through Wed., Feb. 14 at the Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel Huntington Hotel may refer to:
Titled, "Under the Hood under the hood - [hot-rodder talk] 1. The underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to grok it. -- Comes the Revolution: Looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. Progress in Optical Manufacturing," the panel will be moderated by John Verity John Verity, born 3 July 1949 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England was a member of the band Argent from 1973 to 1976. When Argent split up he formed Phoenix with Bob Henrit and Jim Rodford from Argent. , managing editor, ComputerLetter. During this forum, optical networking experts will discuss and debate the integration of photonic devices, the near-term market for planar lightwave circuits, and which substrate materials hold the greatest promise for device integration. Panelists, in addition to Nelson, include: Ron Keith, vice president and general manager of Flextronics; Fariborz Maseeh, president and CEO of IntelliSense; and Malcolm J. Thompson, president and CEO of Novalux. This optical communications executive forum features CEOs of 48 specially selected optical communications organizations. The groups were chosen by Technologic Partners' market experts for the strength of their product/service lines as well as the depth and breadth of their management teams. When and Where Attendees of Technologic Partners' Optix2001 conference are invited to attend Ron Nelson's panel discussion on Tues., Feb. 13 at 8:40 a.m. in the Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, Calif. Nelson will also be presenting a corporate overview about Agility on Mon., Feb. 12 at 2:20 p.m. and 4 p.m. in the Diplomat room. To register for Opitx2001 visit http://www.optix2001.com. For more information about Agility visit www.agility.com or call 805/690-1700. Biography for Ron Nelson, CEO and President Ron Nelson has established a distinguished 25-year record and is widely regarded for his development and operations accomplishments in the photonics arena. Prior to becoming president and CEO of Agility, he was vice president and an officer at Motorola and director of the Phoenix Advanced Technology Center. In that capacity, he assembled and led world-class teams developing high-speed optical interconnects, vertical lasers, flat-panel displays, and components and software for wireless products, helping Motorola generate more than $1 billion in revenues. He set up and directed Motorola's manufacturing line, delivering the highest performing and reliable vertical lasers available in the marketplace at that time. Prior to his accomplishments at Motorola, Nelson was one of two co-founders of Lytel, Inc. Lytel, a successful startup company that produced optoelectronic components and subsystems for telecommunication and data communication applications, was acquired by AMP (now Tyco). At Lytel, Nelson held various positions including: vice president of product development, vice president of device Manufacturing, and vice president and general manager of the Telecom Division. A seasoned veteran, Nelson started his career in 1976 at Bell Laboratories, where he worked on short- and long-wavelength lasers. He led the team that developed the Bell Systems' first long-wavelength lasers for use in submarine cable and terrestrial fiber systems. He has a long-standing history of activity with the Optoelectronic Industry Development Association (OIDA OIDA Optoelectronics Industry Development Association ), serving on the board of directors and as the vice-chairman of the Technology and Market Opportunity Roadmap Committee. This committee produces a comprehensive set of roadmaps and opportunities, helping to establish a cohesive direction for university and industrial R&D and government-funded optoelectronics research. Nelson holds a doctorate degree from the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
About Agility Communications, Inc. Agility Communications, Inc. is pioneering breakthrough optical networking infrastructure solutions that dramatically reduce the costs and complexity of supporting agile networks. Developed for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing See WDM. (DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing ) networks, Agility's first products, high-power, widely tunable lasers, will help communications providers to increase network capacity, maximize existing network resources, streamline the planning process for network growth, and dynamically provision bandwidth. Industry analysts from RHK RHK Ratahallintokeskus (Finnish: Finnish Rail Administration) RHK Ryan Hankin Kent (RHK, Inc. marketing consulting firm) RHK Rigshospitalets Kollegium (Copenhagen, Denmark dorm) expect the global optical networking industry to top $41 billion by 2003. Light Reading has recently selected Agility as one of the hottest IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. prospects in optical networking, placing it on their Top Ten Privately Held Companies privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. list. Founded by a team of optical networking veterans in Oct. 1998, Agility is headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif. and has manufacturing facilities in Allentown, Pa. Agility investors include Amerindo Investment Advisors, Berkeley International Capital Ltd., Comdisco Ventures, Dell Ventures, Hammer Capital Management, Inc., Milton Chang, Meritech Capital Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Mustang Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, and Worldview world·view n. In both senses also called Weltanschauung. 1. The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world. 2. A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group. Technology Partners. For more information about Agility solutions visit, http:www.agility.com, send email to info@agilitycom.com or call 805/690-1700. Note to Editors: Agility Communications and the Agility logo are trademarks of Agility Communications, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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