Dr. Yanming Liu, Chief Executive Officer 

Dr. Liu is President and CEO of Salira Systems, Inc. He has held several management positions, including VP, Business Development at Optovia and VP, Marketing and Strategic Development at Walsin Management Company. Prior to this, Dr. Liu was Director, Communication Electronics and Integration in Corning Incorporated. Prior to that, he held several management positions in Corning, as Manager of International Market Development Engineering, Program Manager of Metro Fiber, as well as Manager of Access Fiber in the Optical Fiber Division. Earlier, Dr. Liu was inventor and one of the principal developers of Corning’s award-winning LEAF fiber. Subsequently, he led the international technical marketing of the LEAF fiber, which became a multi-billion dollar product line. LEAF fiber has been selected as one of the most important product developments in the fiber optics industry and deployed on 6 of the earth’s 7 continents. Dr. Liu has an MBA degree from MIT’s Sloan School of Management as a Sloan Fellow (sponsored by Corning) and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He also received M.S.E. and B.S.E. degrees in Precision Instruments Engineering from Tianjin University in China.

Takashi Mori, Chief Operating Officer, Salira China 

Mr. Mori joined Salira Systems, Inc. as Chief Operations Officer from Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd. He is responsible for all operational aspects of the company’s products including logistics, development and customer support in China. Mori has been working in the field of telecommunications for more than twenty years, developing and deploying optical transport systems, SDH/SONET transmission systems and DWDM systems. He has deployed core network infrastructure in major telecom carriers in both Japan and the U.S. Mori holds a bachelor’s degree in Physical Engineering from Tokyo University, Japan.

James Chen, VP Engineering 

Mr. Chen is a twenty year veteran in the telecommunications and data networking industry with an extensive background in RISC, Compiler, Massively Parallel Computer Systems and complex Telco Communications Systems. Mr. Chen had held capacities in well-known corporations—MIPs computer, Silicon Graphics, Tandem Computer, Sun Microsystems, Hitachi Data Systems, Com21 and Cisco Systems—both as principal designer as well as engineering management and planner. Prior to joining Salira, Mr. Chen led an engineering team at Iospan Wireless, Inc. in San Jose, developing fixed-wireless broadband access systems. Mr. Chen holds an M.S.E.E degree from Villanova University, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Jeffrey R. Stribling, VP Systems Engineering and Customer Service 

Dr. Stribling received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he developed multi-carrier transmission methods for wireless data networks. Stribling then ran the System Integration Laboratory for the Wireless Broadband Network Division of Lucent Technologies. He also has managed System Engineering groups at Geyser Networks and Iospan, now a division of L3 Communications.