Rick Dodd Jr. — Chief of Open Architecture at CIENA CORPORATION

Mr. Rick Dodd Jr., is a Partner of K&L Gates and has been Chief of Open Architecture at Ciena Corporation. Mr. Dodd served as Senior Vice President of Portfolio Marketing and Strategic Markets Development Ciena Corporation and served as its Senior Vice President of Global Marketing since December 15, 2010. He served as an Executive at Verizon Business Global LLC. He served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Vice President of Product Marketing of Infinera Corporation. He was chair of the Preston Gates & Ellis business department. Mr. Dodd served as an Associate Partner of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers (KPCB). Mr. Dodd served as Head of Sales and Marketing of Cisco Systems. He served as Product Manager for multi-service carrier switches at Cisco Systems and in network and systems engineering at WorldCom. He was also a Network Engineer of WilTel Communications Group Inc. He is a Director at FTI Consulting Technology Software Corp. Mr. Dodd earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, LLM degree from New York University, JD degree from University of Washington and his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.