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Special Advisors

Dr. Jeong H. Kim

PhotoDr. Jeong H. Kim has served as a Special Advisor since October 2007. Since April 2005, Dr. Kim has served as President of Alcatel—Lucent’s Bell Labs, a communication industry research organization. From 2001 to March 2005, Dr. Kim served in both the department of electrical and computer engineering and the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland. From 1992 to May 1998, Dr. Kim was the founder and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Yurie Systems, a high—tech data communications company which went public in February 1997 and was ranked by Business Week in May 1997 as the #1 hot growth company among all public companies in the United States. Yurie was subsequently acquired in 1998 by Lucent Technologies. Dr. Kim then continued with Lucent Technologies as president of Lucent’s former Broadband Carrier Networks. In 1999, Dr. Kim was named chief operating officer and later president of Lucent’s Optical Network Group. A member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering and of the Washington Business Hall of Fame, he was inducted into the University of Maryland’s Innovation Hall of Fame in 2004. The university also named its new Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building in his honor. Dr. Kim serves on the boards of many academic, corporate, and nonprofit organizations, including the NASDAQ Listing and Hearing Review Council. Dr. Kim received a Ph.D. in reliability engineering from the University of Maryland, a master’s degree in Technical Management and bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Johns Hopkins University.