San Jose, Ca., USA - June 10, 2013, San Jose, Ca., USA - Oclaro, Inc., a provider of lasers and optical components, announced that Alain A. Couder, the company's chair and CEO, has retired and that it has named Greg Dougherty as CEO and Marissa Peterson as chair.
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Mr. Couder has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Oclaro, Inc. since July 7, 2011 and August 13, 2007 respectively. Mr. Couder served as President of Oclaro, Inc. He served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Solid Information Technology Corporation., from 2005 to August 2007. He served as the IT Venture Advisor of Sofinnova Ventures Inc. from June 2004 to 2005. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Confluent Software, Inc. from 2003 to February 2004.
Mr. Couder served as President and Chief Executive Officer of IP Dynamics, Inc. from 2002 to 2003. Prior to this, he served as Chief Operations Officer of Agilent Technologies Inc., from 2000 to 2002 and also served as its Executive Vice President. He served as an Executive of Hewlett-Packard and IBM. He served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Packard Bell NEC Inc. from 1998 to 1999.
Mr. Couder served as Chief Operating Officer of French computer company Groupe Bull. Mr. Couder served as Chief Executive Officer and President of WebSideStory Search and Content Solutions, Inc. He has been Chairman of Oclaro, Inc. since July 7, 2011. He has been a Director of Oclaro, Inc., since August 2007 and Atomz since September 2004. He served as a Director of Sanmina-SCI Corp. from February 2005 to January 20, 2011.
He served as Director of WebSideStory Search and Content Solutions, Inc. He served as Director of Acterna Corp. since October 15, 2003 and also served as Director of Solid Information Technology Corporation. He served as a Director of Vitra Bioscience, Inc. He received Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite, Paris.
Mr. Dougherty has served as an Oclaro board member since 2009. Prior to Oclaro, Mr. Dougherty served as a director of Avanex Corporation from April 2005 to April 2009, when Avanex and Bookham merged to create Oclaro.
Mr. Dougherty has served as a director of Picarro, Inc., a manufacturer of ultra-sensitive gas spectroscopy equipment using laser-based technology, since October 2002. He also served as Picarro's CEO from 2002 through 2003. Mr. Dougherty served on the board of directors of the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford from January 2004 until 2011. From February 2001 until September 2002, Mr. Dougherty was the chief operating officer of JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDS), an optical technology company.
Prior to JDS, he was the chief operating officer of SDL, Inc. from March 1997 to February 2001 when they were acquired by JDS. From 1989 to 1997, Mr. Dougherty was the director of product management and marketing of Lucent Technologies Microelectronics in the Optoelectronics Strategic Business Unit. Mr. Dougherty received a B.Sc. degree in Optics in 1983 from the University of Rochester.
Ms. Peterson who has served as an Oclaro board member since 2011, brings to the chair position her extensive knowledge in the areas of operations, strategy, and customer relations, as well as experience as a senior executive of a large, complex and well-respected technology company.
Ms. Peterson was formerly executive vice president, worldwide operations, services and customer advocacy of Sun Microsystems Inc., until her retirement in 2006 after 17 years with the company. From August 2008 to present, Ms. Peterson has served as a director of Humana Inc., a healthcare provider, and is currently a member of their nominating and corporate governance and organization and compensation committees.
From August 2006 to present, she has served as a director for Ansell Limited, a global public company listed on the Australia Stock Exchange, where she is currently a member of the audit committee and chair of the risk committee.
In addition, Ms. Peterson currently serves as a director of Quantros, Inc. and is a member of their audit committee and chair of the technology committee. She previously served as a director of Supervalu Inc. and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, and served on the board of trustees of Kettering University. ■