GalayOr appoints Dr. Alka Swanson and Prof. Alan Willner to its Advisory Board

GalayOr (Light Waves" in Hebrew), a provider of low cost, mass producible and dynamically configurable, All-Silicon Integrated Optical Components, announced today that Dr. Alka Swanson and Prof. Alan E. Willner have joined the company's Advisory Board.

Lod, ISRAEL 14th of May 2003 -- GalayOr (Light Waves" in Hebrew), a provider of low cost, mass producible and dynamically configurable, All-Silicon Integrated Optical Components, announced today that Dr. Alka Swanson and Prof. Alan E. Willner have joined the company's Advisory Board.

Most recently, Dr. Swanson worked for JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ:JDSU) as Vice President and General Manager of JDSs West Trenton site. In this role she managed more than 1000 employees and was responsible for 210% growth in revenue and 250% growth in profits in 4 quarters. Prior to that she was VP of Sales, Marketing and Project Management at JDS. Dr. Swanson also served for 5 years in AT&T labs. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics at Boston University, and was granted 4 patents.
Prof. Alan Willner received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, has worked at AT&T Bell Labs and at Bellcore, and is presently Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House, the Packard Foundation Fellowship, the National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award, the Fulbright Foundation Senior Scholar Fellowship, and the IEEE LEOS Distinguished Traveling Lecturer Award. Prof. Willner is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, is General Co-Chair of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, and has 400 publications.

"We are delighted to have Alka and Alan on our advisory board," said Dr. Uri Geiger, GalayOrs Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer. "Dr. Swanson brings GalayOrs Advisory Board vast experience in the optical components industry and Prof. Willner, brings a world class of talent coupled with extensive academic and industry experience. I know both Alka and Alan will provide GalayOr valuable insight and guidance as our presence in the global marketplace continues to grow."

GalayOrs Moving Silicon Waveguide technology can potentially deliver cost-effective building blocks needed to address many of the passive module configurations required for optical networks, something that holds promise for significant change in the optical component market", said Prof. Willner on his reasons for joining GalayOrs advisory board. Dr. Swanson said that In the short term, with GalayOrs technology, we are able to see a line of products replacing basic optical components such as VOAs, Switches and OADMs at significant lower cost and size. Where in the future, the ability of the waveguides to adaptively align themselves to the fiber can become a corner stone of a new world of optical and electronic integration".

About GalayOr
GalayOr is a privately held company, founded in late 2000 following four-years of research at Tel Aviv University. GalayOr is headquartered in the US, with an R&D facility in Israel. The company delivers low cost mass producible and dynamically configurable All-Silicon Integrated Components for optical communications vendors and optical interconnects. For more info - www.galayor.com