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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position
Bosco, Harry 64 2009 Chairman of the Board
Lee, David 59 Co-Chairman of the Board
Bouchard, Gilles 49 2009 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Nobile, Robert 49 2007 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President - Finance
Kanno, Tadayuki 56 2008 President of the Modules and Devices Business Unit; EVP of Opnext Japan, Inc.
Chan, Michael 55 2009 EVP - Business Development and Product Portfolio Management; President of Opnext Subsystems, Inc.
Oki, Kei 61 2004 Executive Vice President; President of Opnext Japan, Inc.
O'Neill, Justin 50 2007 Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Horiuchi, Atsushi 49 2008 Senior Vice President - Global Sales
Wedemeyer, Tammy 40 2005 Vice President of Human Resources, Corporate Secretary
Otsuki, Ryuichi 51 2005 Director
Cowan, Kendall 55 2007 Director
Kuru, Isamu 69 2007 Director
Otto, John 60 2007 Director
Abbe, Charles 68 2009 Director
Otto, Philip 68 2009 Director
Smith, William 52 2009 Director
Iwata, Shinjiro 61 2009 Director
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Biographies

Name Description
Bosco, Harry Mr. Harry L. Bosco has served as a member of Opnext, Inc.'s Board since November 2000 and was appointed Chairman of the Board on April 1, 2009. Mr. Bosco served as President and Chief Executive Officer from November 2000 until his retirement from the Company as an officer and employee on March 31, 2009. Mr. Bosco served in various management, engineering and executive positions at Lucent Technologies, AT&T and Bell Laboratories from 1965 until October 2000, including as Optical Networking Group President. Mr. Bosco holds an Associate of Science and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University/Monmouth University and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York. Mr. Bosco has been a director of Arris, Inc. since 2002.
Lee, David Dr. David A. H. Lee joined the Board of Opnext, Inc. in 2000 and serves as Co-Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee. He is a co-founder and Managing General Partner of Clarity Partners, LP, a private equity firm based in Beverly Hills, California. Prior to the formation of Clarity Partners, Dr. Lee co-founded Global Crossing, Ltd., a global broadband communication services provider, serving as President and Chief Operating Officer from 1997 until 2000, as well as a member of the board of directors from 1997 until 2001. From 1989 until 1997, Dr. Lee was a Managing Director at Pacific Capital Group, a private equity firm. Prior to joining Pacific Capital Group, Dr. Lee was Group Vice President of Finance and Acquisitions at TRW Information Systems Group. He has also held various executive positions at Comsat, a satellite communications company, and practiced public accounting at Arthur Andersen LLP. Dr. Lee is the Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Lee is a trustee of The J. Paul Getty Trust, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Southern California and a director of Trust Company of the West, an investment management firm. Dr. Lee is a graduate of McGill University and holds a Doctorate in Physics with a minor in Economics from the California Institute of Technology.
Bouchard, Gilles Mr. Gilles Bouchard served as Opnext, Inc.'s Chief Operating Officer from November 2007 until April 2009 and was recently appointed as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board on April 1, 2009. Mr. Bouchard served in various management, engineering, and senior management roles at Hewlett-Packard Company (“HP”) from 1989 until 2006, most recently as management, engineering, and senior management roles at Hewlett-Packard Company (“HP”) from 1989 until 2006, most recently as Executive Vice President of Global Operations and a member of HP’s Executive Council from 2004 to 2006. Prior to joining HP, Mr. Bouchard held various roles at IBM’s research and storage division. Mr. Bouchard holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from École Centrale de Lyon and a Master of Science from University of California-Berkeley.
Nobile, Robert Mr. Robert J. Nobile has served as Senior Vice President of Finance of Opnext, Inc. since March 2001 and as Chief Financial Officer since February 2007. Mr. Nobile served in various financial positions throughout his career, his most recent at Kodak Polychrome Graphics, a global joint venture between Eastman Kodak and Sun Chemical, where he held the position of Senior Vice President of Business Integration from July 2000 until February 2001, and before that as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from January 1998 until June 2000. Mr. Nobile holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from St. John’s University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Kanno, Tadayuki Mr. Tadayuki Kanno has served as President of the Modules and Devices Business Unit and Executive Vice President of Opnext Japan, Inc. since April 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Kanno served as Senior Vice President of Opnext Japan, Inc. from May 2004 until April 2008 and as President of Opnext Japan, Inc. from May 2002 until May 2004. Mr. Kanno joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1979 and served in various management and executive positions at Hitachi Ltd. until 2002. Prior to joining Opnext, Mr. Kanno was General Manager of Optical Transmission Systems, Telecommunications Division at Hitachi, Ltd. Mr. Kanno holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from Yamagata University and a Master of Engineering in Electronics from Yamagata University Graduate School of Engineering.
Chan, Michael Mr. Michael C. Chan has served as Opnext, Inc.'s Executive Vice President of Business Development and Product Portfolio Management since January 2001 and as President of Opnext Subsystems, Inc. since April 1, 2009. Mr. Chan spent more than 18 years with Lucent Technologies, AT&T and Bell Laboratories. Mr. Chan’s most recent position at Lucent Technologies was as Chief Strategy Officer for the Optical Networking Group and prior to that he served as Chairman and President of Lucent Technologies (China) Co., Ltd. Mr. Chan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Brandeis University and a Master of Science in Operations Research from Columbia University, and is a graduate of the Wharton Advanced Management Program, University of Pennsylvania.
Oki, Kei Mr. Kei Oki has served as Executive Vice President and President of Opnext Japan, Inc. since April 2004. Mr. Oki joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1971 and served in various management and executive positions at Hitachi, Ltd. until 2004; his most recent position was as Executive Project Manager at Information and Telecommunication Systems, International Sales Division. Mr. Oki holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Keio University.
O'Neill, Justin Mr. Justin J. O'Neill has served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Opnext, Inc. since May 2007. From January 2004 until April 2007, Mr. O’Neill was Of Counsel with the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins LLP. Prior to joining Latham & Watkins LLP, Mr. O’Neill was an Assistant General Counsel at Global Crossing, Ltd., a global broadband communications services provider, from March 1999 until September 2003, and prior to that he was an attorney in the New York office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP from 1994 until 1999. Mr. O’Neill has a Bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Horiuchi, Atsushi Mr. Atsushi Horiuchi has served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales of Opnext, Inc. since February 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Horiuchi served as Vice President of North America Sales from April 2003 until February 2008 and as Director of North America Sales from 2001 until 2003. Mr. Horiuchi has more than 24 years of experience in sales, research and development, manufacturing, and senior management in both the Japan and U.S., including more than ten years of experience in the fiber optics industry. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Horiuchi was Product Marketing Manager — Fiberoptics Department at Infineon Technologies from 1999 until 2001 and Product Marketing Manager — Optics at Hitachi Semiconductor America from 1998 until 1999. Mr. Horiuchi holds an Masters of Business Administration from Santa Clara University.
Wedemeyer, Tammy Ms. Tammy L. Wedemeyer has served as Opnext, Inc.'s Vice President of Human Resources since January 2001 and Corporate Secretary since May 2005. Ms. Wedemeyer spent more than ten years at Lucent Technologies in a variety of business management roles, most recently as Senior Operations Manager of the Optical Networking Group. Ms. Wedemeyer holds an Associate of Arts in Administration from Brookdale Community College.
Otsuki, Ryuichi Mr. Ryuichi Otsuki joined Opnext, Inc.'s Board in December 2005. He is currently the Executive General Manager, Global Business Planning & Operations Division of Hitachi, Ltd. and has held various positions at Hitachi, Ltd. from 1981 until the present, including Vice President, Business Planning and Coordination, PC Servers at Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi PC Corporation as well as many functions within the Global Business Planning and Operation Division. Mr. Otsuki graduated from Nagoya University School of Law.
Cowan, Kendall Mr. Kendall W. Cowan joined the Board of Opnext, Inc. in March 2007 and currently serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Cowan serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Cowan Group, LLC, an investment and consulting firm, Cowan Holdings, Inc., and is a shareholder and board member of several privately owned businesses. In addition, Mr. Cowan serves as a board member and chairman of the audit committee of DBSD North America, Inc., a provider of satellite and terrestrial wireless service, and as a board member of Lea County Bancshares, Inc. Mr. Cowan was the Chief Financial Officer of Alamosa Holdings, Inc., a wireless telephone network operator, from December 1999 until February 2006. He became a partner in an international public accounting firm in 1983, and from January 1986 until September 1993, he was a partner at Coopers & Lybrand. He received his Bachelors in Business Administration in accounting in 1976 from Texas Tech University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Kuru, Isamu Dr. Isamu Kuru joined the Board of Opnext, Inc. in March 2007. Dr. Kuru held a number of positions in both the U.S. and Japan from 1962 until his retirement in 2005. Dr. Kuru was the President and Representative Director of NEXNET, Inc., Japan, a wireless network operator, from 2002 until 2005. From 1990 until 2001, Dr. Kuru served in a number of positions at Motorola, Inc., specifically as Senior Vice President, Motorola, Inc., and President and Representative Director, Motorola Japan. He also had a distinguished career spanning 28 years with Toshiba Corporation in both Japan and the U.S, where he served in a number of positions including general manager of new business strategy, general manager of the semiconductor engineering center, and group executive of the technology semiconductor group. Dr. Kuru holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Doctorate in Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University. He has also been engaged in research at Stanford University, Sheffield University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.
Otto, John Mr. John F. Otto, Jr. joined the Board of Opnext, Inc. in February 2007 and currently serves as Chairman of the Compensation Committee. An investment banker by training, Mr. Otto’s career has extended over 30 years and included various positions, including Managing Director at Merrill Lynch & Co., Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. and Managing Director at Salomon Brothers/Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup, from which he retired in 2002. He has been a Principal of Waterfront Partners, LLC, a private equity investment firm, since 2003. Mr. Otto is a graduate of Boston College and holds an Masters of Business Administration degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
Abbe, Charles Mr. Charles J. Abbe joined Opnext, Inc.'s Board of Directors (the “Board”) in January 2009. Mr. Abbe served as president, chief operating officer and a director of JDS Uniphase Corporation from February 2000 until his retirement in June 2001. He served as president and chief executive officer of Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. (OCLI) from April 1998 until it merged with JDS Uniphase in February of 2000. In 1996, Mr. Abbe joined OCLI as vice president and general manager of its principal operating unit. From 1990 to 1996, he served in several positions of increasing responsibility, including senior vice president, electronics sector, at Raychem Corporation. Mr. Abbe practiced business consulting with McKinsey & Company in San Francisco from 1971 to 1989, serving the last seven years as a senior partner. Mr. Abbe holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Stanford University, as well as a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University. Mr. Abbe has been a director of CoSine Communications, Inc. since 2000 and a director of Cymer, Inc. since 2003.
Otto, Philip Mr. Philip F. Otto joined Opnext, Inc.'s Board in January 2009. Mr. Otto served as chief executive officer and director at Schilling Robotics, Inc., a privately held manufacturer of subsea control systems, remotely operated vehicles and other high technology equipment for offshore oil and gas exploration and production from February 2008 through June 2009. In 2006 and 2007, Mr. Otto was president, chief executive officer and director of Optical Communication Products, Inc., a fiber optic component supplier, until its acquisition by Oplink Communications Inc. in 2007. From 2003 to 2006 and earlier from 1998 to 1999, Mr. Otto was a corporate strategic and financial advisor providing financial, strategic and business development services to technology and growth-oriented companies and investors. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Otto was the chairman and chief executive at MedioStream, Inc., a multi-media software company. Prior to that, Mr. Otto served as chief financial officer of California Microwave from 1975 to 1981 and later as chairman and chief executive officer from 1992 to 1997. From 1989 to 1991, Mr. Otto served as the chief financial officer of General Cellular Corporation, until its acquisition by Western Wireless Corp., and from 1986 to 1988, he was the founder and chief executive officer of Technology Investment Associates and Netline Communications Corp. Mr. Otto holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Yale School of Engineering and a Master’s degree with concentration in marketing and financial management from Harvard Business School.
Smith, William Mr. William F. Smith joined the Board of Opnext, Inc. in April 2009. Mr. Smith has been at AT&T since February 1979, and presently serves as President, Local Network Operations at AT&T where he is responsible for all local network-related operations across AT&T’s domestic footprint, including construction and engineering, installation and maintenance, U-verse field operations, mobility construction and maintenance, and operations planning since March 2008. From October 2007 to March 2008, Mr. Smith was Vice President Shared Services, in charge of mass market and enterprise operations, corporate real estate, procurement, regional wireline planning, and business planning and integration and Senior Vice President of Network Operations in the Southeast from January 2007 to October 2007. Before joining AT&T, Mr. Smith served as Chief Technology Officer for BellSouth, responsible for setting the overall technology direction for BellSouth’s core infrastructure. In that position, he was responsible for network and operations technology, internet protocol applications, next generation strategy, and BellSouth Entertainment, LLC. A native of Asheville, N.C., Mr. Smith graduated with honors from North Carolina State University at Raleigh in 1979, and is on the Board of Advisors for the graduate school there. He is the former Chairman of the Board of the Make a Wish Foundation of Georgia and Alabama and has served on several other non-profit boards.
Iwata, Shinjiro Mr. Shinjiro Iwata joined the Board of Opnext, Inc. in May 2009. Mr. Iwata serves as Vice President and Executive Officer, CEO of Service and Global Business, Information and Telecommunication Systems Group of Hitachi, Ltd. Mr. Iwata began his career at Hitachi, Ltd., in 1972 in the Overseas Business Department and has held numerous key positions within the company. In 1996, Mr. Iwata was named Business Planning Department Manager for Hitachi’s Information Systems Group, which is one of the largest business segments of Hitachi, Ltd. Mr. Iwata subsequently joined Hitachi Data Systems in 1997 as an Executive Vice President in the storage line of business and served in such capacity until August 2000. He then returned to Hitachi, Ltd. in August 2000 and served as the General Manager of Hitachi’s Global Business Development Division until August 2001. From there he returned to Hitachi Data Systems in September 2001 as CEO until March 2006. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc. until March 2009, with responsibility for various fields, such as sales, operations, logistics, marketing, and business planning. Mr. Iwata is a native of Hyogo, Japan, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Waseda University.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total
Bosco, Harry 1,099,000
Lee, David 9,250
Bouchard, Gilles 809,940
Nobile, Robert 437,310
Kanno, Tadayuki --
Chan, Michael 578,881
Oki, Kei --
O'Neill, Justin 555,657
Horiuchi, Atsushi --
Wedemeyer, Tammy 281,259
Otsuki, Ryuichi --
Cowan, Kendall --
Kuru, Isamu --
Otto, John --
Abbe, Charles --
Otto, Philip --
Smith, William --
Iwata, Shinjiro --
As Of 30 Mar 2009

Insider Trading

Name Shares Traded Price
BOUCHARD GILLES P 7,122 $2.49
OKI KEI 325 $1.55
HORIUCHI ATSUSHI 1,749 $1.55
NOBILE ROBERT J 3,305 $1.55
WEDEMEYER TAMMY L 3,055 $1.55
ZOCCOLILLO RICHARD 3,971 $1.55
BOSCO HARRY L 10,884 $1.55
BOUCHARD GILLES P 7,132 $3.79
LIN CHI HO CHRISTOPHER 8,333 $0.00
OKI KEI 488 $4.50
WEDEMEYER TAMMY L 3,055 $4.50
LIN CHI HO CHRISTOPHER 3,305 $4.50
NOBILE ROBERT J 3,305 $4.50
ZOCCOLILLO RICHARD 3,305 $4.50
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