Meru Networks Names Brett White Chief Financial Officer.

Former Oracle VP Adds Depth to Meru Team as Company Gains Momentum in Wireless LAN Market

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Brett White has joined wireless infrastructure provider Meru Networks as chief financial officer. Responsible for Meru's finance and information technology groups, he reports to Meru CEO Ihab Abu-Hakima.

White brings to Meru a breadth of financial leadership experience that spans a range of high-technology organizations from privately-held startups to billion-dollar public global enterprises. He was previously CFO at business security systems provider Fortinet. Before that he had held the CFO title at two publicly-held companies: application service provider Corio and customer relationship management vendor Kana Software. In his 10 years at Oracle, White rose from finance manager for the International Division to vice president of finance. He holds a B.A. degree in business economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

"Having moved into the number-four position worldwide among wireless LAN vendors in the past year, Meru continues to see increased adoption of its fourth-generation wireless LAN systems for business-critical networks," said Abu-Hakima. "Brett's depth of experience in financial management for fast-growth high-tech companies will give Meru added capability to scale the business and address the needs of our global operations. His track record of building solid financial infrastructures and instituting compliance controls and corporate governance processes will be invaluable as Meru continues to execute on its plan for revenue and market-share growth."

"I'm very excited to be joining Meru just as it has been ranked as the fastest-growing company in the wireless LAN space," White said. "The company is rapidly building market share through a continuing series of technology innovations that make it a truly formidable player in a highly competitive arena."

About Meru Networks

Meru Networks develops and markets wireless infrastructure solutions that enable the All-Wireless Enterprise. Its industry-leading innovations deliver pervasive, wireless service fidelity for business-critical applications to major Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, healthcare organizations and local, state and federal government agencies. Meru's award-winning Air Traffic Control technology brings the benefits of the cellular world to the wireless LAN environment, and its WLAN System is the only solution on the market that delivers predictable bandwidth and over-the-air quality of service with the reliability, scalability and security necessary to deliver converged voice and data services over a single WLAN infrastructure. Founded in 2002, Meru is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, visit www.merunetworks.com or call [phone].