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Henry R. Nothhaft is the Board Chairman of Comverse Inc.

Mr. Nothhaft, 68, has served as Chairman of the Comverse Board since October 2012.

He served as president and chief executive officer of TESSERA Technologies, Inc. from August 2008 to May 2011 and served as a member of the board of directors of that company from June 2004 to May 2011, acting as chairman of the board from January 2010 to May 2011.

Mr. Nothhaft is also the author of “Great Again: Revitalizing America’s Entrepreneurial Leadership,” a business policy book published in 2010 by Harvard Business Review Press.

Prior to joining TESSERA, Mr. Nothhaft served as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Danger Inc., a software company for wireless service providers from October 2002 to April 2008 when it was sold to Microsoft Corporation.

From May 2001 to October 2002, he served as president and chief executive officer of Endforce, an IP software company, where he remained non-executive chairman of the board from October 2002 to March 2005.

Mr. Nothhaft joined Concentric Network Corporation, a recognized market leader in Enterprise Virtual Private Networks, high-speed access and electronic commerce enabled web hosting, as president and chief executive officer in 1995, and became chairman of the board in 1998. Mr. Nothhaft led Concentric to a successful initial public offering, resulting in the listing of that company on the NASDAQ in August 1997.

In June 2000, Concentric merged with Nextlink and became XO Communications, Inc., with Mr. Nothhaft serving as vice chairman until April 2001.

From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Nothhaft was President & Chief executive officer of David Systems, a data networking equipment firm, until it was sold to Chipcom Corporation.

From 1983 to 1989, he held various executive positions and served on the Board of Directors of DSC Communications Corporation, a telecommunications company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets digital switching, access, transport and private network system products for the worldwide telecommunications marketplace.

From 1979 to 1983, Mr. Nothhaft was Vice President of Marketing & Sales for GTE Telenet Communications Corporation (now Sprint), the first public data network provider in the U.S.

Mr. Nothhaft currently serves on the Board Of Directors of Unwired Planet, Inc. (from October 2011) . The chairman of the boards of directors of, Vantage Data Centers (from June 2012), SPTS Technologies (from November 2011). Mr. Nothhaft previously served on the Boards Of Directors of a number of public and private companies including, DSC Communications Corporation (formerly known as Digital Switch Corporation), Openwave Systems, Inc., Ocular Networks, VMX, Inc., XO Communications, Inc.

He received an M.B.A. in Information Systems Technology from George Washington University. B.S. with distinction in Politics & Economics from the U.S. Naval Academy. He is a former officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Mr. Nothhaft has also completed the Stanford Law School’s executive education training on corporate governance and the AEA executive M.B.A. program at Stanford University.