CENiX Inc. Announces Dr. Krish Prabhu to Join Board of Directors.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers LEHIGH VALLEY The Lehigh Valley or the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area is a metropolitan region in eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey, in the United States. It is the third-most populated metropolitan region in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. , Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2001 CENiX Inc., a leader in the design and automated manufacture of next generation high-speed optoelectronic interfaces, today announced the appointment of Dr. Krish Prabhu to the company's board of directors. Prabhu is a member of the board of directors of Alcatel (Paris:CG) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ALA) and has served as chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Alcatel and chief executive officer of Alcatel Americas. "We are extremely pleased to have Krish join the CENiX board of directors," said Dr. Melvyn Dixon, chairman, president and chief executive officer of CENiX. "Krish's industry experience and visionary leadership in shaping the future of information technology will be extremely valuable as CENiX continues to expand its leadership position in the optoelectronics marketplace." Prabhu joined Alcatel in 1984 when the company acquired Rockwell, where he served as vice president of business development and chief technical officer at Rockwell's Network Transmission Systems Division. Prior to joining Alcatel, Prabhu served as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. Prabhu has served as an adjunct professor for telecommunications at the University of Texas at Dallas History The university was originally started as a research arm of Texas Instruments as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest in 1961. The institute (by then renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies) which at the time was located at Southern Methodist and has also taught courses in telecommunications at the University of Texas at Arlington For other system schools, see University of Texas System. History Established in 1895 as Arlington College, it was renamed Carlisle Military Academy (1902), Arlington Training School (1913), and Arlington Military Academy (1916). . Prabhu holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. from the University of Pittsburgh, and a M.S. degree in Physics from the Indian Institute The Indian Institute in central Oxford, England is located at the north end of Catte Street on the corner with Holywell Street and faching down Broad Street from the east.[1] of Technology, Mumbai, India. About CENiX CENiX was established in July 2000 to supply next generation high-speed integrated optical subsystems satisfying the explosive bandwidth requirements of the Internet age. Optoelectronic interfaces are required to seamlessly move data and voice signals between the electrical and optical domains of the optical communications infrastructure. Early stage funding was led by the Silicon Valley firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and included Cisco Systems, Dongah Elecomm and other strategic individuals. CENiX has its manufacturing operations and corporate headquarters in Lehigh Valley, and its product development and marketing in Irvine, Calif. For more information, go to www.cenixinc.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: CENiX is a trademark of CENiX Inc. |
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