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Frank Plastina was appointed President and CEO of Tekelec in February 2006. He brings more than 19 years of senior executive and management experience in the telecommunications industry with companies including Proxim Corporation Warburg Pincus LLC and Nortel Networks Corporation. Prior to joining Tekelec Mr. Plastina was executive in residence at Warburg Pincus where he was responsible for evaluating potential investments and providing executive support to its portfolio companies. Previously Mr. Plastina was executive chairman of Proxim a provider of Wi-Fi and broadband wireless access products. During Mr. Plastina’s15-year career at Nortel he held a series of executive-level positions in the company’s Wireless Internet Service Providers Signaling Solutions Mergers & Acquisitions and Finance Groups. Most recently he was president of Nortel’s multi-billion dollar Metro and Enterprise Networks business unit in which he led the successful development and marketing of the company’s VoIP products to service providers enterprises and government entities. | 