Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. Adds Two Regional Sales Directors in North America.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 2000 Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: AFOP AFOP Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. AFOP Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs AFOP Association Française des industries de l'Optique et de la Photonique AFOP and for other purposes AFOP acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia ), a leading supplier of fiber optic components and integrated modules for the optical network equipment market, today announced the addition of two Regional Sales Directors for North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Michael Schneider Michael A. Schneider is a Democratic member of the Nevada Senate, representing Clark County District 11 (map) since 1996. Previously he was a member of the Nevada Assembly from 1992 through 1995. External links
"We are pleased to have these two experienced, talented sales people on board," said Peter Chang, President and 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. . "Michael and Rodrick will play aggressive roles in developing key accounts and in increasing sales in their regions." Michael Schneider will be based in New England. He has over 20 years of sales experience in the telecommunications and fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber industry. Most recently, Schneider was a co-founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Noyes Fiber Systems, which was acquired by Alcoa Fujikura, Inc. He previously held technical sales positions at Wilcom Products, Inc. Schneider holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). and an M.B.A. degree from New Hampshire College. Rodrick Cross will operate out of AFOP's corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. He most recently served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Deposition Science, Inc., a manufacturer of thin film 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 filters. Cross previously served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing with Sony's Materials Research Corp., and held several marketing roles with Hewlett-Packard. Cross holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, at Provo, Utah; Latter-Day Saints; coeducational; opened as an academy in 1875 and became a university in 1903. It is noted for its law and business schools. . The Company Founded in 1995, Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets a broad range of high performance fiber optic components and integrated modules. AFOP's products are used by leading and emerging communications equipment manufacturers to deliver optical networking systems to the rapidly growing long-haul, metropolitan and last mile access segments of the communications network. AFOP offers a broad product line of passive optical components including interconnect systems, couplers and splitters, thin film DWDM components and modules, fixed and variable optical attenuators, and depolarizers. AFOP is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with manufacturing and product development capabilities in the United States and Taiwan. AFOP's Web site is located at http://www.afop.com. |
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