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Michael Hurlston was appointed Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors in 2018. Prior to joining Finisar, he served as  Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Mobile Connectivity Products/Wireless Communications and Connectivity Division at Broadcom Limited. Previously, he held senior leadership positions in sales, marketing and general management at Broadcom. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2001, Mr. Hurlston held senior marketing and engineering positions at Oren Semiconductor, Inc., Avasem, Integrated Circuit Systems, Micro Power Systems, Exar and IC Works. Mr. Hurlston received a B.S.E.E., an M.S.E.E. and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Davis.

Prior to becoming Chief Financial Officer in March 2010, Mr Adzema served as Finisar's VP of Strategy and Corporate Development since joining the Company in 2005. During such time, he led Finisar's corporate development initiatives including the merger with Optium. Prior to joining the Company, he held various positions at SVB Alliant, a subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bank which advised technology companies on M&A transactions, at Montgomery Securities/Banc of America Securities, an investment banking firm, and in the financial restructuring group of Smith Barney. Mr. Adzema holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Todd Swanson was named Chief Operating Officer in 2018. Since joining Finisar in 2002, Mr. Swanson has held a variety of progressive roles, including Product Line Manager, Director of Marketing, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing, Research and Development. Prior to Finisar, he served in various R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales related roles for Princeton Lightwave, Aegis Semiconductor and Hewlett Packard's OptoElectronics Division from 1995 to 2002. Mr. Swanson holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from MIT.

Rafik Ward was named Chief Strategy Officer at Finisar in 2018. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Marketing and was primarily responsible for Product Management, Strategic Marketing, and Corporate Communication functions. Since joining the company in 2003, Rafik has held a variety of progressive roles including VP of Global Marketing,  Product Marketing Manager, Product Line Management and Senior Director of Marketing.  Prior to Finisar, he served in various engineering and marketing positions at West Bay Semiconductor, Aegis Lightwave, and Ballard Power Systems. He holds an MBA degree from MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia.

Martin Zirngibl was named Corporate CTO in June 2018. He joined Finisar in 2016 as a VP Technology Fellow responsible for coherent product strategy. Prior to Finisar, he held progressive managerial roles at Nokia Bell Labs including Director of Optical Networking Research and Executive Director of Device and Subsystems Research. He also served as a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Dr. Zirngibl holds a PhD in Physics from the Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne and a Diploma in Theoretical Physics from the same Institute. He received the Bell Labs Fellow award in 2008 and has published more than 100 scientific papers and filed over 50 patents.

Joseph Young is currently Executive Vice President of Global Operations. Mr. Young joined the company in 2004 as Finisar's Senior Vice President, Operations. Before joining the Finisar team, Mr. Young was employed by Intel where he was responsible for the Enterprise Optics business unit. Prior to Intel, Mr. Young was Vice President of Operations at LightLogic and Lexar Media and, in his last position at Tyco/Raychem, served as Director of Worldwide Operations for the OEM electronics division of Raychem Corporation. Mr. Young has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. in Operations Research from the University of New Haven, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Julie Sheridan Eng is Executive Vice President and General Manager of 3D Sensing. She has held various senior management positions within Finisar’s engineering organization since joining the company in 2003, most recently as EVP of the Datacom Engineering group. Prior to joining Finisar, Dr. Eng was part of AT&T/Lucent/Agere. She holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude in Physics from Bryn Mawr College and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with honors from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She earned M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She has published over a dozen papers and holds seven patents.

Chris Brown joined Finisar in August 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Brown was General Counsel and Vice President of Corporate Development for Optium Corporation after joining Optium in 2006. Prior to joining Optium, Mr. Brown was a partner at the law firms of Goodwin Procter LLP and McDermott Will & Emery. Mr. Brown holds a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.

Jianhui Zhou is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Prior to this position, he served as Vice President of Asia Pacific Sales.  He joined Finisar in 2010 through the acquisition of Broadway Networks where he served as CEO.  In his early career, Dr. Zhou held various technical and management positions at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Laboratories, ONI Systems, Ciena Corporation, and ComVentures, a venture capital firm.  Dr. Zhou holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Applied Physics from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He is a recipient of the 1998 Bell Labs President’s Gold Award and holds six US patents.

Chris Theis joined Finisar in 2008.  He was previously Director of Quality at Optium, a Reliability Engineer at Triquint, and Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs/Lucent.  Chris has a B.S. from University of Pennsylvania, and M.S., and Ph.D. from Penn State in Materials Science and Engineering.

Shirley Reha joined Finisar in 2017 and is responsible for managing worldwide human resources and employee services.  She has served in a wide range of human resource management posts for several companies, including Vice President of Human Resources for Space Systems Loral, Trident Microsystems, and Adaptec Inc. Ms. Reha holds a B.A. in Mass Communication and Business Education from Eastern Illinois University and an M.S. in Organizational Communication from Southern Illinois University.