Scott Stouffer

Who is Scott Stouffer?

Scott Stouffer was appointed Chief Executive Officer in June 2004.

With more than 20years of entrepreneurial experience in high technology

markets, Stouffer brings a uniqueunderstanding of the processes

involved with introducing Optinuity®'s products to marketand

building a management team. As CEO, Stouffer is responsible for

developing andexecuting the company's broader business strategy,

defining target markets, and forging relationships with investors,

partners, and customers. Stouffer played an instrumental role in

securing the company's $6.5 million Series A venture capital funding. Stouffer

recently served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Visual

Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ-SCM: VNWK), which he founded in 1993. Under

Stouffer's leadership, Visual Networks, Inc., a leading provider of

performance management systems for wide-area data networks, grew to

more than $100 million in annual revenue and a market capitalization

approaching $3 billion. As President and CEO, Stouffer raised four

rounds of institutional venture financing all at significant valuation

increases. He led the company's public offering (IPO) in February 1998,

which subsequently became one of the top 10 public offerings of that

year. Before founding Visual Networks Inc., Stouffer served

three years as Director of Marketing for Telecommunications Techniques

Corp. (now Acterna), a communications test and measurement company.

Prior to assuming that role, Stouffer held a number of progressively

responsible product management and marketing roles at Timeplex, Inc.,

the leading provider of networking T-1 multiplexers. Early in his

career, Stouffer held a number of engineering, sales, and marketing

roles in the semiconductor industry.