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Mr. Luis Spinelli was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Coherent, Inc. in March 2004. Mr. Spinelli has over 25 years of experience in the photonics industry, including almost 19 years at Coherent. He joined Coherent in May 1985, and until April 1997 held various engineering and managerial positions. In February 1998, he led Coherent’s Advanced Research Unit (ARU) from its inception, whose charter is to identify and evaluate new and emerging technologies of interest for the Company across a range of disciplines in the laser field. Since October 2002 he has served as Vice President for Corporate Research and as Chair of the Company’s Technical Advisory Board. Mr. Spinelli holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina with post-graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Luis holds nineteen patents in various areas of laser technology. | 