Mintera Adds to Executive Management Team Industry Veteran to Grow EMEA Sales



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	Mintera Adds to Executive Management Team Industry Veteran to Grow EMEA Sales Acton, Mass., September 15, 2008 – Mintera® Corporation, the high bit-rate optical transport systems solution leader, today announced that Mike Hamilton-Smith has joined the company as Vice President of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). “Mintera’s customer base in EMEA has expanded significantly and we are extremely pleased that Mike is joining our team to support our rapid growth,” said Mintera President and CEO, Terry Unter. “Mike’s experience as an engineer in sales coupled with his knowledge of our customers will be very valuable to those customers and to Mintera as we continue to execute on our growth strategy.” An engineer with more than 28 years experience in optical communications, Hamilton-Smith has extensive experience in sales, operations and development. For nine years he has led sales functions in Europe, successfully developing new business and revenue opportunities for a number of optical communications companies, including SDL, iolon and CoreOptics. While at SDL, he developed the European market and generated multi-million dollar sales in a two-year period, making Europe a key market for the company. In addition to his sales expertise, Hamilton-Smith has held key operations and engineering positions in EMEA. He was responsible for opening JDSU’s UK, laser module manufacturing plant and for developing the market for these new products. The factory was built, commissioned and operational on-time and in-budget with products qualified at a number of key customers. He spent the early part of his career at ITT/STC where he developed laser modules for terrestrial and submarine optical systems and at Alcatel Optronics in France where he headed a team developing active components (lasers and receivers). “I’m delighted to be part of a great Mintera team and look forward to adding to the success of the company which is driven by a strong culture of customer focus and support,” said Hamilton-Smith. “Mintera’s leading edge 40 Gbps products are world class and well-positioned to enable cost-effective high-speed DWDM transmission.” About Mintera Corporation Mintera is a high bit-rate optical transport systems solution leader enabling migration to 40 and 100 Gbps in metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra long-haul networks. Mintera’s flexible multi-service product-set enables service providers to upgrade their existing infrastructure in an evolutionary and seamless fashion. Mintera continues to gain customer traction since demonstrating the world’s fastest ultra long-haul optical transport connection in June 2004. The company is working on higher bit-rate solutions with multiple research and development labs at carriers, systems suppliers, component manufacturers, research institutes and universities aiming to drive down optical transmission costs further. For more information, visit www.mintera.com. # # # Contact: Leah Wilkinson WilkinsonShein Communications for Mintera 703/907-0010 leah@wilkinsonshein.com Printer friendly version Adobe Acrobat Reader will be needed to view and print this file Get Adobe Reader: