Chatsworth, Ca., USA – MRV Communications announced that Michael E. Keane has joined its Board of Directors and that it has made several key management changes.[break]
Guy Avidan, Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed to the position of Co - July 31, 2009, Chatsworth, Ca., USA – MRV Communications announced that Michael E. Keane has joined its Board of Directors and that it has made several key management changes.
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Guy Avidan, Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed to the position of Co-President of MRV and President of MRV's Network Equipment business. Near Margalit, Chief Executive Officer of MRV's optical component subsidiary, Source Photonics, will take on the additional role of Co-President of MRV. Chris King, Vice President, Finance and Chief Compliance Officer, has been appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Blima Tuller, Director of Finance, has been appointed to the position of Vice President, Finance.
Michael E. Keane is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Clipper Windpower, Inc. From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Keane served as Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Prior to joining CSC, Mr. Keane was Senior Vice President and CFO of UNOVA, Inc. for eight years following the spin-off of UNOVA from Western Atlas, Inc. Mr. Keane joined Litton, a predecessor to UNOVA, in 1981, was named Assistant Treasurer in 1988, and became Director of Pensions and Insurance in 1991. Mr. Keane was then elected Vice President and Treasurer of Western Atlas when the company was spun off from Litton in 1994, and promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 1996. Prior to his career at Litton, Mr. Keane was a certified public accountant at Price Waterhouse. Mr. Keane currently serves as a member of the City of Hope Board of Directors. Mr. Keane previously served as a member and Audit Committee Chairman of the Zix Corporation Board of Directors from 1998 to 2006, and served on the Advisory Boards of FM Global and Savi Technology, Inc. Mr. Keane holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Illinois State University and a master's degree in business administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Guy Avidan joined MRV in 1995 and has served as MRV's Chief Financial Officer since March 2008 and as acting Chief Financial Officer since July 2007. Prior to this position he served as Vice President and General Manager of the international division of MRV's network equipment business. From 1995 to September 2001, Mr. Avidan served MRV in various executive capacities for other MRV subsidiaries. Prior to joining MRV, from 1992 to 1995, Mr. Avidan served as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Ace North Hills. MRV acquired substantially all of the assets and businesses of Ace North Hills in 1995. From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Avidan practiced accounting with a public accounting firm that became a part of Ernst & Young. Mr. Avidan holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Accounting from Haifa University.
Near Margalit re-joined MRV Communications, Inc. in 2002 and since February 2003 has held the position of Chief Executive Officer of MRV's optical subsidiary Source Photonics. Prior to re-joining MRV, Mr. Margalit was founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer for Zaffire, Inc., a DWDM Metro Platform company, which was acquired by Centerpoint in 2001. At Zaffire, Mr. Margalit was responsible for the product vision and architecture of integrating DWDM and SONET technologies. Prior to the founding of Zaffire, Mr. Margalit was employed by MRV Communications. Mr. Margalit received his bachelor of science degree in Applied Physics from Caltech and a doctorate in optoelectronics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Chris King joined MRV in January 2008 as Vice President of Finance and Chief Compliance Officer. Prior to joining MRV, Mr. King was Senior Vice President, Finance at Tandberg Television Inc, a public company (traded on the Oslo exchange) selling video compression and transmission hardware, which was acquired by Ericsson in 2007. At Tandberg, Mr. King led the Americas Region finance team and after the Ericsson acquisition oversaw the global effort to bring the company into Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Mr. King also served as Chief Financial Officer of GoldPocket Interactive, Inc. from 2000 up until its sale to Tandberg in November 2005. Prior to this Mr. King was an audit manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Mr. King holds a bachelor's degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a certified public accountant. ■