Wayne Cullen Placed as Vice President Marketing of Luminous Networks

February 2004 - Executive search firm ChampionScott Partners has placed Wayne Cullen as Vice President Marketing of Luminous Networks (www.luminous.com). Based in Cupertino, California, Luminous has redefined the economics of fiber-optic Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) with the industry's first carrier-class packet-optimized transport switches for transporting voice, data, video, and wavelength services on a single multi-service platform. The major venture investors in Luminous Networks include Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, DynaFund Ventures, Vanguard Venture Partners, DCM-Doll Capital Management, Pyramid Technology Ventures and Firsthand Venture. Scientific-Atlanta and CIENA Corporation have also made strategic corporate investments. Mr. Cullen previously served as Vice President of Marketing at Transparent Networks.

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