Basil Alwan
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Who is Basil Alwan?
Basil H. Alwan has served as a member of the Omneon board since September
2005. Since July 2003, Mr. Alwan has served as President of the IP
Division at Alcatel-Lucent, a provider of communications solutions to
telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises
for delivery of voice, data and video applications. Prior to that Mr.
Alwan was a founder and President and Chief Executive Officer of
TiMetra Networks, a provider of service routing technology, from
January 2000 until the acquisition of TiMetra by Alcatel in July 2003.
Previously, Alwan was vice president and general manager of Nortel
Networks’ Enterprise Products Division (EPD), a team of 300 developers
and staff primarily focused on scalable Layer 3 switched networks.
Alwan came to Nortel through the Bay Networks acquisition of Rapid City
Communications, where he was vice president of product management and
marketing. Rapid City's market-leading Layer 3 switch sold under the
name Accelar at Bay/Nortel and ramped to more than $1 billion in sales.In addition to Omneon, Mr. Alwan currently serves on the boards of
directors of several privately-held companies. Mr. Alwan holds a B.S.
in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois.
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- Education
- Bachelor of Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Electrical engineering
- Bachelor of Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Employment
- President, IP Division, Alcatel-Lucent
(2003/07 - ) - President and CEO, TiMetra
(2000/01 - 2003/07) - Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Products Division, Nortel Networks
- Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, Rapid City Communications
- Bay Networks
- Advanced Micro Devices
- President, IP Division, Alcatel-Lucent
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on July 23, 2013
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