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Near Margalit Ph.D. re-joined MRV in May 2002 as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. From 1998 until re-joining MRV Dr. Margalit was founder Chairman and Chief Technology Officer for Zaffire Inc. a DWDM Metro Platform company which was acquired by Centerpoint in October 2001. At Zaffire Dr. Margalit was responsible for product vision and architecture of integrating DWDM and SONET technology. Prior to founding Zaffire Dr. Margalit was employed by MRV both in the optical component and networking divisions. Dr. Margalit holds a B.S. in applied physics from Caltech and a Ph.D. in optoelectronics from the University of California Santa Barbara. In February 2003 Dr. Margalit was appointed Chief Executive Officer of LuminentOIC Inc.
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