Kambiz Hooshmand

Who is Kambiz Hooshmand?

Kambiz Hooshmand joined AMCC as president and chief executive

officer in March 2005. Prior to AMCC he was with Cisco Systems, where

he most recently served as vice president and general manager of

Cisco's Optical and Broadband Transport Technology group. At Cisco, Mr.

Hooshmand held several executive-level positions in Multi-Service

Switching, DSL, Carrier Core and Multi-Service, and Optical and

Broadband Transport business units. He joined Cisco as a director of

engineering as part of the StrataCom acquisition in 1996. Mr. Hooshmand

was one of the early leaders at StrataCom that developed the nascent

Frame Relay market into what is now a multi-billion dollar worldwide

services market. Mr. Hooshmand's work with both domestic and

international carriers led to the deployment of many of the largest and

most high-availability data networks in the world.

Mr. Hooshmand has over two decades of experience in core routing, VoIP, ATM, access and transport technologies.

Mr. Hooshmand holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering

Management from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science degree in

Electrical Engineering from California State University at Chico.