Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 23, 2012
Zee Hakimoglu is President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of ClearOne Communications. She joined ClearOne in December 2003 with more than 15 years of executive high-tech management experience. Prior to being appointed President and CEO, she served as ClearOne's Vice President of product-line management. In 2007, Ms. Hakimoglu was named "North American Audio Conferencing CEO" of the Year by Frost & Sullivan. In 2009, under Ms. Hakimoglu's leadership, ClearOne was named one of America's fastest-growing small public companies by Fortune Small Business magazine. Prior to serving as CEO at ClearOne, she served in a variety of executive management roles, including business development, product development and product marketing for several publicly traded companies. She was Vice President of product-line management for Oplink Communications, Inc., a publicly traded developer of fiber optic subsystems and components from December 2001 to December 2002; and President of OZ Optics USA, a manufacturer of fiber-optic test equipment and components from August 2000 to November 2001. Ms. Hakimoglu also was Vice President of business development for Kaifa Technology from October 1998 to August 2000, and she was instrumental in its acquisition by E-TEK Dynamics, then again acquired by JDS Uniphase Corporation. Through these acquisitions, she held the role of Deputy General Manager of the Kaifa business unit. From 1982 to 1996, Ms. Hakimoglu held a number of different positions with Aydin Corp., a telecommunications equipment company, until it was acquired in September 1996. At Aydin, she served as wireless business unit Vice President, and prior to that as its Vice President of wireless engineering. Ms. Hakimoglu earned a bachelor's degree in physics from California State College, Sonoma, and a master's degree in physics from Drexel University. Profile
TWST: Please give us a history and an overview of ClearOne.
Ms. Hakimoglu: ClearOne (CLRO) is a small but very profitable company, currently listed on the Nasdaq. We've been around for about 20 years.
