David Rodewald

MRV Communications, Inc. engages in designing, developing, and selling of products and services that enable customers to build networks. It operates through the following geographical segments: United States, Americas (Excluding the U.S.), Europe, and Asia Pacific. The company was founded by Shlomo Margalit in July 1988 and is headquartered Norcross, GA.

CALIENT Technologies, Inc. manufactures photonic optical circuit switching systems. Its systems enable dynamic optical layer optimization in next generation datacenters and software defined networks. The firm designs and fabricates its systems using state of the art MEMS equipment in its own fabrication facility. The company was founded by Daniel Blumenthal, Charles M. Corbalis and John E. Bowers in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.