IntexyS Names CFO and VP Engineering

IntexyS Names CFO and VP Engineering

September 06, 2007

Management Team Expands as New Optical Link Products Debut


    TOULOUSE, France, Sept. 6 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 

    IntexyS Photonics SA, a leader of integrated optical
modules for telecommunications, data communications,
defense and avionics, announced Kevin Taylor as chief
financial officer and Jiashu Chen as vice president of
engineering with both appointments effective in third
quarter.  The executives strengthen the French company's
growing management team as new products are scheduled to
debut at ECOC 2007.  In Q2, IntexyS had named Terry Thomas
as VP of sales and marketing to drive commercial growth of
high bandwidth optical interconnects.

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    Kevin Taylor joined IntexyS in early September, and
leads the company's finance and administration.  He reports
directly to CEO and co-founder Jean-Charles Garcia, and
operates from the Toulouse headquarters.  

    Prior to joining IntexyS, Mr. Taylor served as CFO for
15 years with companies including Dane-Elec Memory, an
assembler and distributor of DRAM and Flash memory modules;
Pertec, a designer and manufacturer of data storage systems;
and Lectra Systemes, a CAD/CAM systems manufacturer.  In
addition, he has nine years of international audit
experience with two Big Four accountancy and professional
service firms, Price Waterhouse in Paris and Arthur Young
& Co. in England.

    As VP of Engineering, Jiashu Chen joined IntexyS in
July, responsible for design and development of
optoelectronic modules and subassemblies. Dr. Chen is based
at the IntexyS' office in Sunnyvale, California directly
reporting to CEO Garcia.

    Dr. Chen previously held engineering and technical
manager positions with Finisar Corporation, Agere Systems,
and Lucent Technologies.  He brings over 20 years of
experience in research and development for hardware and
software solutions, including optoelectronics, embedded
system architecture, and large scale telecommunications
media servers.  

    "We are excited to have industry experts such as
Kevin, Jiashu and Terry to develop the financial, technical
and commercial strategies to bring our innovative,
'system-in-a-package' products to market," said CEO
Garcia.  

    About IntexyS

    IntexyS Photonics SA designs, manufactures and markets
highly integrated optical-electronic modules for high speed
applications based on its well patented and industrial
proven flip chip hybridization technology. The company
provides multi-standard compliant transmitter and receiver
solutions for serial and parallel optical interconnects.
Headquartered in Toulouse, France, IntexyS Photonics has a
joint R&D laboratory with the CEA/LETI in Grenoble,
France and a U.S. commercial and engineering office in
Sunnyvale, Calif.


    For more information, please contact:

     Terry Thomas 
     IntexyS Photonics SA
     Tel:   [phone]
     Cell:  [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]