Basil Alwan

Basil H. Alwan has served as a member of the Omneon board since September 2005. Since July 2003, Mr. Alwan has served as President of the IP Division at Alcatel-Lucent, a provider of communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications. Prior to that Mr. Alwan was a founder and President and Chief Executive Officer of TiMetra Networks, a provider of service routing technology, from January 2000 until the acquisition of TiMetra by Alcatel in July 2003. Previously, Alwan was vice president and general manager of Nortel Networks’ Enterprise Products Division (EPD), a team of 300 developers and staff primarily focused on scalable Layer 3 switched networks. Alwan came to Nortel through the Bay Networks acquisition of Rapid City Communications, where he was vice president of product management and marketing. Rapid City's market-leading Layer 3 switch sold under the name Accelar at Bay/Nortel and ramped to more than $1 billion in sales.In addition to Omneon, Mr. Alwan currently serves on the boards of directors of several privately-held companies. Mr. Alwan holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois.