Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 30, 1998

Anthony J. Ley – Harmonic Lightwaves (hlit)

ANTHONY J. LEY has served as President and Chief Executive Officer since the founding of Harmonic, Inc. in 1988. Mr. Ley was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors in February 1995. From 1963 to 1987, Mr. Ley was employed at Schlumberger, both in Europe and the United States, holding various business management and research and development positions. These included that of President, Schlumberger Montrouge Research, the Schlumberger research center in Paris, for seven years, and as Vice President, Research and Engineering at Fairchild Semiconductor/Schlumberger in Palo Alto, California from 1983 to 1987. Mr. Ley holds an MA in Mechanical Sciences from the University of Cambridge and an SMEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is named as an inventor on 29 patents and is a Fellow of the IEE (UK) and a senior member of the IEEE. Profile
TWST: Let's start out with an overview of Harmonic Lightwaves and some

of it's history?

Mr. Ley: Harmonic is a public company, we were founded in 1988, we were

a typical venture-funded