Oscar Rodriguez

Who is Oscar Rodriguez?

Oscar

Rodriguez is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years

of experience in the communications industry, including specific expertise

in voice, video, data and related telecommunications technologies.

As CEO of IP Unity Glenayre, Oscar is leading the company in the charge

to transform the way communications services are created and delivered,

and to enable carrier and enterprise customers to drive new revenues

and greater market share, as they move to embrace the new world of

IP-based services.

His corporate experience includes positions at multi-national

companies such as Motorola, DuPont, Nortel Networks and

Alcatel-Lucent, where he gained experience in Enterprise

and Carrier wireline and wireless applications and systems

design. He also participated in the startup and scaling of three communications

companies, and an initial public offering in which he

brought leading-edge technologies and applications to the global marketplace.

Prior

to his current role, Oscar held the position of Chief

Marketing Officer for Alcatel-Lucent's Enterprise Business

Group, where he worked to re-define the company's strategic

position as a global competitor in the Enterprise marketplace.

Oscar was also President CEO

of Riverstone Networks, a public communications technology

company delivering Carrier MPLS/VPLS/Ethernet solutions.

At Riverstone, he restructured the company to focus on

its core competencies, reconstituted the board of directors

and, with his new management team, executed a turn around

strategy to become the recognized technology leader in

the Carrier Metro Ethernet marketplace. Riverstone was subsequently

acquired by Lucent Technologies in 2006.

At Nortel

Networks, Oscar was responsible for two of the company's

multi-national divisions. As President of Nortel's Intelligent

Internet data products division, he directed the effort to deliver

profitable, high performance IP-based products to both Carrier and

Enterprise customers. As President of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions

division, he led the effort to deliver innovative Customer Care applications,

VoIP, and internet security solutions.

Prior to Nortel,

as President and Chief Operating Officer of Arris Interactive,

he helped established the company as the leading provider of Data

and Telephony Access solutions for the Broadband CATV marketplace.

Oscar is a member

of the board of EXAR Corporation (NASDAQ: EXAR), a semiconductor

company in Silicon Valley. He also sits on the Dean's Board of Advisors

for the College of Engineering at the University of Central Florida.

He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Central

Florida, and an MBA from the University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill. He has completed post-graduate studies in Strategic

Marketing at The Harvard Business School, and the corporate director's

education program at the Director's College at Stanford University's

School of Law