Olympus Microsystems America Inc. Selects Dr. Zouheir Mansourati as CTO and VP Product Management.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Olympus Microsystems America, Inc., developer of MEMS-based products and technologies for the optical communications industry, announced that Dr. Zouheir Mansourati has joined Olympus Microsystems America, Inc. (OMI) as chief technical officer (CTO) and vice president, product management with responsibility for product marketing, business development, and sales. Dr. Mansourati has 19 years experience in the telecommunications industry, with expertise in the areas of voice switching systems, data communications, and optical networking.

Before joining Olympus Microsystems America, Dr. Mansourati was president of the Jazuc Group, where he was responsible for the global operation of the company. Dr. Mansourati held the positions of CTO and VP product management with Movaz Networks, a metro/regional optical networking equipment supplier. While there, he provided strategic leadership in identifying new opportunities in metro networking and directing a team of network architects and systems engineers.

For thirteen years prior to joining Movaz, Dr. Mansourati managed and directed a variety of strategic and innovative solutions for Nortel Networks, where he held several positions including Director of Metro Optical Solutions, Business Strategy.

"We are extremely pleased to have Dr. Mansourati join OMI," said Olympus Microsystems America, Inc. president Larry Wang. "Not only does he bring the advanced technical knowledge of the products and industry, but his years of experience in strategic business and technology development, product and network planning, product management and marketing, systems engineering, and software project management will be a great asset as we build OMI's foundation and take the products and technologies to a higher level."

Dr. Mansourati holds a Maitrise es Sciences Mathematiques from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris and M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in mathematics from Queen's University, Canada. He has authored numerous papers on optical networking and has been published by the Quarterly of Applied Mathematics and the Canadian Applied Mathematics Society. His expertise has earned him many invitations to speak at high-tech industry events. He is a member the American Mathematical Society and the Optical Society of America.

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About Olympus Microsystems America, Inc.

Olympus Microsystems America, Inc., based in San Jose, California, is a majority owned subsidiary of Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. It was established in April 2006 as the result of an innovative partnership between the Olympus Partnership Development Group (PDG) and Movaz Networks, Inc. to develop a MEMS-based Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) for Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Modules (ROADMs). In August of 2005 the companies successfully collaborated in the world's first in-service deployment of a Multi-Degree RAY-ROADM in an all-optical network. Contact us at 408-514-3900, [e-mail], or visit our website www.olympusmicrosystems.com.