Since 2004, Mr. Anthony Maher has served as Alvarion’s Chairman of the Board of Directors. Since joining Floware’s board in 1997, Mr. Maher has continued his dedicated service throughout the merger, and onwards with Alvarion. In 2002, he became a partner and investment manager with Star Venture Management, a venture capital company with a managing portfolio of $980 million. In addition, he founded and chaired Mustang Ventures responsible for venture capital investments for the wireless and wireline business at Siemens. Until 2002, he served as a member of the Managing Group Board of the Information and Communication Networks Group of Siemens preceded by various managerial positions in the company. He joined Siemens in 1978, after eight years at Bell Laboratories in the USA. Currently, Mr. Maher serves on the boards of Adva Optical Networks, Broadlight, Wavecom and CubeOptics. Mr. Maher graduated cum laude with bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering and physics from the University of Illinois.