Dr. Rajiv Ramaswami has served as a director of NeoPhotonics since March 2014. Dr. Ramaswami serves as executive vice president and general manager of Broadcom’s Infrastructure & Networking Group. Previously he was Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Services and Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc., where he also served as Vice President and General Manager for a variety of business units in Optical, Switching and Storage Networking. Prior to joining Cisco, he served in various technical and leadership positions at Xros, Tellabs and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Ramaswami holds both a master of science degree and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras. He holds 34 U.S. patents primarily in optical networking, and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).