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Xponent Photonics Names Alex Leibovich Vice President of Sales

Xponent Photonics, the leading provider of PLC optical components, today announced that Alex Leibovich has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. Leibovich joins Xponent from Cortina Systems where, as Vice President of Sales, he developed and managed customers in North America, Japan, China, Europe and Korea.

"Alex Leibovich has a successful track record in leading key sales initiatives, and his industry knowledge will prove to be invaluable to Xponent," said Jeffrey S. Rittichier, Xponent President and CEO. "As we broaden our product offering well beyond the FTTx market, Alex's sales leadership will allow us to focus aggressively on customer needs."

"Xponent has achieved a technology leadership position that is the envy of the FTTx optical component market," said Alex Leibovich. "I am very excited about the opportunity to help expand this into other markets such as CATV and high resolution displays and grow our market share worldwide."

Leibovich has held senior sales, marketing and business development positions at Pine Photonics (acquired by OpNext), Auroranetics (acquired by Cisco Systems), Picolight and AMP (now Tyco Electronics). He received an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Engineering & Applied Science from California Institute of Technology.

About Xponent Photonics

Xponent is the innovator of Surface Mount Photonics and the leading provider of PLC-based optical components. Surface Mount Photonics dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of optical devices while providing industry-leading specifications for reach, thermal performance, reliability and footprint. For more information, visit http://www.xponentinc.com.