Board of Directors

Kamran Elahian, Chairman and Co-founder
Mr. Elahian joined as a co-founder and chairman of Actelis Networks, Inc. in 1998. Mr. Elahian is a Silicon Valley veteran with over 24 years of experience in the semiconducter, software, and telecommunications industries. Mr. Elahian founded CAE Systems, Inc., Cirrus Logic, Inc., Momenta Corporation, NeoMagic Corporation, and Centillium Communication Corporation.

Marty Kaplan, Director
Mr. Kaplan joined the board of Actelis Networks, Inc. in 2000. Mr. Kaplan also serves as  Chairman of the Board for JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ:JDSU). Mr. Kaplan brings one of telecommunications distinguished track records to Actelis. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President of SBC, where he was responsible for the integration of SBC Communications with Pacific Bell, Southern New England Tel Co and Ameritech. While at Pacific Bell, he served in a broad range of strategic executive roles, including president of the Network Services Group and chief technology, quality, and re-engineering officer. Mr. Kaplan also served on the Bellcore/Telcordia board for 10 years.

Jere Drummond, Director
Mr. Drummond joined the board of Actelis Networks in 2006. Mr. Drummond retired as Vice Chairman of BellSouth Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia on December 31, 2001. He was responsible for public relations, advertising, brand management, and regulatory and external affairs, including the Washington, D.C. office. He also led BellSouth’s continued effort to enter the long-distance market. A native of Rome, Georgia, he received an undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech University, an MBA from Georgia State University and MSM from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Sloan Fellow.

Hatch Graham , Director
Mr. Graham joined the board of Actelis Networks, Inc. in 2005. Hatch is the co-founder and Managing Director of ATA Ventures, a venture capital firm in the Silicon Valley area of California. In addition, Hatch has co-founded several innovative telecommunications companies in wireless, optical, and wireline telecommunications, such as Wave7 Optics in Atlanta, a leader in the fiber-to-the-home systems industry and California-based Resonext (acquired by RF Micro Devices), a successful pioneer in the wireless 802.11 "wi fi" chipset sector. Prior to his activities with privately owned companies, Hatch held executive officer positions within industry leading public companies, including World Access, TCSI Corporation, and Stanford Telecom. As a technologist, Hatch's architectures have led to key patents in direct digital synthesis, programmable logic device, digital filtering, forward error correction, spread spectrum wireless, cable TV, and cellular telephone applications. For his invention in digital modulation for cable TV, he was granted the coveted "reverse path" patent which enabled cost effective bidirectional communication over CATV -- a primary enabler for the cable modem industry. Hatch was also granted an error correction patent that contributed to the introduction of Direct Broadcast Satellite television. Hatch has been a recipient of Idaho State University's Professional Achievement Award, where he graduated in 1982 with a B.S. Engineering degree.

Frederic Veyssiere, Director
Mr. Veyssiere joined the board of Actelis in 2005. Mr Veyssiere has been in the venture capital industry since 2000 with Innovacom Venture Capital, a pionneer fund of early stage venture capital in Europe. Mr. Veyssiere is currently a Director of Atrica Inc., Metconnex Inc. and a board observer at Aperto Networks, Bitphone, Bytemobile and Radioframe Networks. Before joining Innovacom, Mr. Veyssiere was Vice President Business Development & Operations at France Telecom NA in New York, heading several key projects including the implementation of the company¹s Internet backbone in the US, the investment of France Telecom in Sprint PCS, and the business planning and implementation in the U.S. of the first gateway allowing seamless roaming between GSM-900 and DCS-1900 networks. Mr. Veyssiere holds an MS in physics from Paris Science University, an MS in telecommunications engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris and an MBA from the Columbia Graduate School of Business.

David Lam, Director
David Lam is a Vice President at Carlyle Group and is focused on U.S. venture and growth capital opportunities. He is based in San Francisco. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Lam served as Director of Business Development at Panasas, Inc., a Carlyle portfolio company that develops distributed network storage systems. While at Panasas, Mr. Lam structured OEM partnerships, managed product pricing and positioning, and built an ecosystem of technology alliances. Previously, he held marketing and business development positions at CIENA Corp., ONI Systems, Cisco Systems and Proxim, and worked in the M&A group at Robertson Stephens & Company. Prior to joining Robertson, Mr. Lam served as an Executive Fellow in the administration of California Governor Pete Wilson. Mr. Lam received his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he was a Merit Scholar and recipient of the Patrick J. McGovern, Jr. Entrepreneurship Award. He earned his M.A. in sociology and B.S. in industrial engineering from Stanford University, and completed coursework at Beijing University.

Tom Dolson, Director
Mr. Dolson joined the board of Actelis in 2006. Mr. Dolson is a Partner at Adams Street Partners, one of the oldest and largest private equity firms. Since joining Adams Street Partners in 1998, Mr. Dolson has been involved with companies in both semiconductor technology and communications, including cBeyond Communications, Synchronoss Technologies, 0-In Design Automation, Alien Technology, Danger, Inc., and Quallaby. Mr. Dolson is currently on the boards of directors for Enfora Inc. and U.S.Bid, as well. Previously, Mr. Dolson was a Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Experian Group when it acquired Metromail Inc., where he was Vice President, Strategy. Prior to that Mr. Dolson worked in two different divisions of Motorola in both business development and technical marketing roles. During the mid-to-late 1980’s, Mr. Dolson was an investment banker working for first PaineWebber, Inc., and thereafter, for the boutique firm of Benedetto, Gartland & Company in New York. Mr. Dolson has a B.S.E.E. from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Tuvia Barlev, President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Prior to joining Actelis Networks, Inc. as a co-founder in 1998, Mr.  Barlev was head of the R&D organization at Teledata, a high-speed communications company, where he managed the product development that generated 70% of the company's sales. Previously, Mr. Barlev held a top management  position in the Israeli Defense Forces, as the head of several major communications projects. Mr. Barlev holds a Bachelor and a Masters degree in  Electrical Engineering, both with honors, from Tel Aviv University.


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