Corrigent Systems

Izhak Tamir
Chairman and CEO
Izhak Tamir has been President and a Director of Orckit since its founding in 1990, Chairman of the Board of Corrigent Systems since 2001 and Chief Executive Officer of Corrigent Systems since May 2007. Mr. Tamir has served as a Director of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. and of Scopus Video Networks since 2005. From 1987 until 1989, Mr. Tamir was employed by Comstream Inc., in San Diego, California. From 1985 until 1987, he was vice president of A.T. Communication Channels Ltd., a subsidiary of Bezeq - the Israel Telecommunications Corporation Ltd. From 1978 to 1985, he was a senior engineer in the Israeli Government.

Zvika Menahemi
COO and VP R&D
Mr. Menahemi has more than 15 years in communications R&D and has been responsible for Corrigent's software development since the company's inception. Previously, Mr. Menahemi was the director of research and development for Orckit Communications, where he was responsible for the development of Orckit's DSLAM product. Prior to joining Orckit, Mr. Menahemi was project manager for the Next Generation DLC (IAN) at ADC Teledata. He also held R&D positions at Lannet a leading switch vendor that was acquired by Avaya.

Eli Aloni
EVP Technology and Marketing
Eli Aloni has more than 18 years experience in various roles in the communications industry. Previously, Mr. Aloni served as VP System Engineering in Siliquent Technologies (acquired by Broadcom in 2005). Prior to that, Mr. Aloni was the founder of Frontalis Technologies. Mr. Aloni also previously served as CTO of Corrigent Systems since its inception, and as VP Planning in Orckit Communications, where he led the development of Orckit's DSLAM products. He also formerly held R&D positions in the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Oren Tepper
Vice President, Corporate Sales
Mr. Tepper is responsible for corporate sales, business development, reseller and partner relationships. Prior to assuming his current position he was VP Business Development in Corrigent responsible for development of strategic alliances and global reseller agreements. Before Corrigent he was Regional Sales Director at Siemens Communications Fixed Networks (currently NSN) responsible for sales in APAC, Latin America and portions of Europe. Prior to Siemens, Mr. Tepper serve as Technical Sales Director for Speedwise, a start up company which was acquired by Orsus Solutions.

Akio Ogiso
Vice President Asia-Pacific
Mr. Ogiso has more than 13-years of experience in pre and post sales management in the telecommunication industry. He is responsible for the establishment and success of Corrigent KK and runs all sales and service for the APAC region. Prior to Corrigent Systems, he was Managing Director for Lucent Technologies responsible for Project Management, Technical Support and Operations in Japan.

Warren Roddy
Vice President Sales & Support - America
Mr. Roddy is a veteran telecommunications executive with more than 15 years experience in service provider sales. He is responsible for sales and service for Corrigent in North America. Prior to Corrigent Mr. Roddy was Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales at Venturi Wireless and Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing at Pluris. He also held Vice President roles at Parigain and Cisco during their periods of rapid growth.

Uri Shalom
CFO
Uri Shalom has more than 13 years experience in financial positions. Mr. Shalom joined Orckit Communications in 1998, and managed the finance department of Corrigent since its inception in 2000. Prior to joining Orckit, Mr. Shalom served as a CPA for Kesselman & Kesselman, PricewaterhouseCoopers' Israel office.

Inbar Rozenberg
Vice President, Human Resources
Inbar Rozenberg joined Orckit Communications in 1996, bringing experience and finance expertise from several high-tech companies. In January 2001 Mrs. Rozenberg established Corrigent's HR and Benefit & Compensation Department. Mrs. Rozenberg is currently responsible for all HR, organizational development, training, benefit and compensation, and labor law issues for Corrigent worldwide.

Oren Maymon
Vice President, Operations
Oren Maymon has served as Vice President, Operations of Corrigent Systems since March 2007. From 2000 to 2007, he served as a Purchasing Manager and as Planning and Supply Chain Director of Corrigent Systems. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Maymon served as a Purchasing Manager of Mobilecomm Communications Ltd.

Sharon Mantin
Vice President, Marketing
Sharon Mantin has 12 years of experience in marketing, product management and system engineering. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Mantin served as Product Line Management Director at Corrigent. Mr. Mantin joined Corrigent form Texas Instruments (TI), where he served as Product Management Manager responsible for all cable product lines. Prior to TI, Mr. Mantin was Marketing Director at Axonlink (subsidiary of ECI Telecom) responsible for all marketing and product management activities. Previously, Mr. Mantin held several system engineering positions at Orckit communication.

Ronen Solomon
Vice President, System Engineering
Ronen Solomon has more than 16 years experience in various roles in the telecommunications industry. Previously, Mr. Solomon served as Director of System Engineering at Corrigent system where he was responsible for the design of the CM100 and CM4000 product line. Prior to that, Mr. Solomon served as director of system engineering at NetReality which was acquired by Allot communication, developing L2-L7 QoS and traffic management algorithms. Previously, Mr. Solomon held several telecommunication positions in the Israeli Ministry of Defense

Gari Brizinov
Vice President, Customer Service
Mr. Brizinov is responsible for Professional Customer Services activities, customer-related project management and Technical Support at Corrigent Systems, providing worldwide Professional support.
Mr. Brizinov has more than 18 years of experience in communications R&D with expertise in Project Management, Testing and Quality Management in multidisciplinary technologies and platforms. Previously, Mr. Brizinov served for the past 7 years as Director of QA where he led the development of Automation company-wide and has been responsible for Corrigent's Quality Assurance and Test Engineering activities since the company's inception.