Van Holland Joins Luxtera as CFO as Silicon CMOS Photonics Company Ramps Up for Rapid Growth and Expansion

New CFO brings post SOX public company experience to drive next phase of growth and expansion: scaling its infrastructure, production and staff

Carlsbad, Calif. – April 30, 2008 – Luxtera Inc., the world leader in Silicon CMOS Photonics, today announced the appointment of Van Holland as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Holland brings three decades of experience and a proven track record of financial accomplishments and leadership to Luxtera as the company prepares to rapidly expand its business.

Van Holland has over 30 years experience with high-technology companies mostly in the Southern California region. He spent 20 years with Wyle Electronics, a publicly traded semiconductor distributor, most recently serving as CFO. During that period, Mr. Holland guided Wyle’s significant growth to revenues of $1.5 billion, and a tenfold increase in the stock price at the time of its acquisition by VEBA. He then joined Cherokee International as CFO in 1999 and led the company through strategic acquisitions and a successful post SOX IPO in early 2004. For the past two years he served as CFO at Telmar Network Technology, a privately held company with an over $300M annual revenue run-rate where he helped lead a series of key acquisitions. Mr. Holland began his career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen in 1975.

“As Luxtera enters its next phase of growth, we’re pleased to add such a capable and accomplished financial executive to our management team,” said Greg Young, President and CEO. “Van’s unique combination of experiences with rapidly growing technology companies is a great fit with Luxtera and will serve us well in the years ahead.”

“I’m excited to join Luxtera at this stage of the company’s development,” said Van Holland. “The technological achievements by an extraordinarily talented team provide tremendous opportunity to become the market leader. I look forward to working with this experienced team as we build the foundation to drive that growth.”

About Luxtera
Luxtera, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company and the world leader in Silicon CMOS Photonics. Luxtera fulfills the world’s insatiable demand for bandwidth by uniting the high performance of fiber-optic communications with the low-cost and high-volume manufacturing advantages of mainstream Silicon CMOS fabrication. The company was founded in 2001 by a team of industry-renowned researchers and technology managers drawn from the communication and semiconductor industries. Luxtera is funded by leading venture capitalists: August Capital, New Enterprise Associates and Sevin Rosen Funds. Luxtera just announced its first commercial product based on its CMOS Photonics technology, Blazar, and will begin shipping later this year. Luxtera is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Former Top Broadcom Executive, Greg Young Joins Luxtera as President and CEO

Greg Young Joins Luxtera as President and CEO to Lead Company as Products Move Towards Commercial Deployment
Wednesday August 29, 10:00 am ET

Former Top Broadcom Executive to Spearhead New Era for the Company

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Luxtera Inc., the world leader in CMOS Photonics, today announced the appointment of Greg Young as its new President and CEO, a move that comes during a time of key accomplishments. Luxtera recently announced Blazar, the world's first CMOS Photonics commercial device, a 40 Gigabit Optical product deployment.

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Luxtera Jobs: 40G Optical Active Cable & 40G Transceiver Module Products

Open Positions or soon to be Open:

We are looking to add Members to our Technology Development team working on Advanced Light Source Development and Advanced CMOS Semiconductor development. Our technology is Silicon Photonics. Please see our Job Listings and Press Releases below for further information.

Positions Currently Open or to be open in the near future:
Title + Short Description.

For full descriptions go to: http://www.luxtera.com/careers.htm

Laser Development Engineer, III-V Devices:
~ DFB lasers and photo diodes 1.3 - 1.5um Experience

Manufacturing Engineer:
~ Optics/High Speed Semiconductors/Storage Drive Exp.

Failure Analysis Engineer:
~ Reliability engineering: electronic optoelectronic devices

Electronics Reliability Technician:
~ Optics, oscilloscopes, BERT, DCA, 1G+

Test Engineer:
~ Wafer Test, LabView, Wafer Probe, Write Plans

Modeling Engineer:
~ 10G High Speed IC; SPICE parameter model extraction

RF/High Speed Layout:
~ Sr Layout Engineer, Top level integration, floor planning, CMOS

Production Manager:
~ ESD Program, Supervise Operators, WIP Tracking

Database Developer:
~ sql*Plus, scripting, DataPower, Oracle 9i; for Test Data

http://www.luxtera.com/careers.htm

If interested in this company and their opportunities, please contact me:
(Pls put a reference to the title you are interested in the subject line)
rmunson@luxtera.com

~ We have 70 people now and are making a push to hire 15 more people as we go into our product delivery phase.
~ Not all positions are posted, feel free to inquire with me. Thanks~

Best Regards,
Rachelle Munson
rmunson@luxtera.com
Staffing Manager
http://www.luxtera.com/
Carlsbad, Ca (North San Diego Coastal Tech Area)

Luxtera Careers in Optics - Silicon Photonics

Latest Press Releases:

Press Release: Carlsbad, CA, August 14, 2007
Luxtera Introduces Industry’s First 40G Optical Active Cable, World’s First CMOS Photonics ProductEnables InfiniBand backbones to become ubiquitous for high capacity applications.
http://www.luxtera.com/news_press_2007_0814.htm

Press Release: Carlsbad, CA, April 17, 2007
Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) Endorses Alternative to Copper Cables – Enables Optical Video Interconnect in DisplayPort StandardHybrid Device Subgroup led by Luxtera

– Luxtera Inc., the world leader in CMOS Photonics, today announced the results of its efforts with the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) DisplayPort™ Task Force. The new DisplayPort 1.1 standard has achieved an industry first by enabling Hybrid Devices, such as fiberoptic transceivers, to be recognized and utilized as an endorsed alternative to copper cables to connect PCs to flat panel displays and other applications. The DisplayPort task force and subgroups, led by Luxtera and other member companies, unanimously approved the addition of Hybrid Devices to the specification as a standard alternative solution to copper cables. High performance optical video interconnect based on Luxtera’s CMOS Photonics technology is now possible with the addition of Hybrid Devices to the standard resulting in an improved visual user experience...
http://www.luxtera.com/news_press_2007_0814.htm


Press Release: Carlsbad, Calif., March 14, 2007
Luxtera Announces Technology Breakthrough of Germanium-Enabled Integrated Photodetector on Mainstream SOI-CMOS Wafer Orders of magnitude cost–savings, making photodetectors virtually free.
http://www.luxtera.com/news_press_2007_0814.htm

About Us here at Luxtera:

Luxtera, Inc.
Location: Carlsbad, California
(North San Diego Beach City – Tech Area “Silicon Beach”)

About Us:
Luxtera is a technology development Silicon Photonics company. Our technology platform enables a new breed of monolithic opto-electronic devices manufactured in a low cost CMOS process. Our vision is to deliver economic optical connectivity everywhere, from network level to intra-system level, and eventually chip-to-chip. Today, the company is applying this technology to single chip transceiver products that aim to deliver optical performance at cost points associated with legacy copper solutions.

Culture:
We place a high value on diversity as we can achieve our goal of hiring only “the best and brightest”. Our staff includes both experienced veterans from the world’s largest semiconductor companies and newly minted graduates from the world’s most respected educational institutions. We work closely with our board of directors and advisory board, who provide us with the valuable perspective that can only be gained from many years of experience at the uppermost levels of venture capital, industry, academia and government.

Quality of life is a key value at Luxtera and is a big part of the reason we’ve located in southern California. Carlsbad, just north of San Diego, offers an idyllic climate, the warmest ocean on the West Coast and access to over 70 miles of beaches. If you enjoy surfing, boating or scuba diving, this is a great place to live. The city of San Diego is within commuting distance and offers all of the amenities of a large city combined with a uniquely laid back attitude. The region offers some of the best schools in California.