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UTStarcom's executive team features broad and deep management and technology innovation expertise coupled with a unique global perspective. Our management team has spearheaded the development of a wide variety of products and patents, using expertise in network architecture, software, high-speed voice and data services, handsets, and telephone systems. We're proud of these accomplishments that span the world of telecommunications applications, customers, and markets.

Hong Liang Lu - Chief Executive Officer

Peter Blackmore - President and Chief Operating Officer

Fran Barton - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President

Philip Christopher - President, UTStarcom Personal Communications,
                              a division of UTStarcom, Inc.

Dr. Moon Song - President, Terminal Business Unit

David King - Senior Vice President, International Sales & Marketing

Mark Green - Senior Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources and Real Estate

Ari Bose - Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Business Transformation Office

Susan Marsch - General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Ethics Officer

Jack Mar - President, Mobile Solutions Business Unit

K.P. Lim - Vice President and Chief Quality Officer

Brian Caskey - Vice President, Worldwide Marketing

Steve Shaffer - Vice President, Custom Solutions Business Unit



Hong Liang Lu

Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Lu has been UTStarcom's President, CEO and a director since June 1991. Prior to founding Unitech Telecom, Inc. (which would later merge with Starcom Networks, Inc. to form UTStarcom), Mr. Lu was President and CEO of Kyocera Unison, a majority-owned subsidiary of Kyocera International, Inc. From 1983 until its merger with Kyocera in 1986, he was President and CEO of Unison World, Inc., a software development company. Prior to 1983, he was Chief Operating Officer of Unison World, Inc. Mr. Lu holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and English.
 


Peter Blackmore
 

President and Chief Operating Officer

Prior to joining UTStarcom in July 2007, Mr. Blackmore was president of Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Technology for the Unisys Corporation, as well as executive vice president of the Unisys Board of Directors since 2005.  Prior to joining Unisys in 2004, Peter held roles as both executive vice president of the Hewlett-Packard Customer Solutions Group, and executive vice president of the Enterprise Systems Group.  From 1991 until its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard in 2002, he was with Compaq Computer Corporation, serving in a number of senior management positions including senior vice president of worldwide sales, services and marketing. Prior to joining Compaq, Peter was marketing director for Rank Xerox UK, and held senior positions in the UK and internationally for Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys).

Peter attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and holds a master's degree in economics. Peter is also on the Boards of both MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. and M-Flex USA

   


Fran Barton
 

Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President

Prior to joining UTStarcom in September 2005, Mr. Barton was the chief financial officer at Atmel Corporation, where he was responsible for finance and administration at the semiconductor company. Barton was the senior vice president and chief financial officer at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. from 1998 to 2001 and from 1996 to 1998, he was vice president and chief financial officer at Amdahl Corporation. From 1974 to 1996, Barton worked at Digital Equipment Corporation in Maynard , Mass. , beginning as a financial analyst and moving his way up through various financial roles to vice president and chief financial officer of the company's personal computer division. A U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, Barton is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, and holds a MBA with a focus in Finance from Northeastern University.


Philip Christopher

 
President, UTStarcom Personal Communications,
a division of UTStarcom, Inc.

Prior to joining UTStarcom in 2004 as President of UTStarcom Personal Communications. Mr. Christopher was President and CEO of Audiovox Communications Corporation and Executive Vice President of Audiovox Corporation. Prior to the UTStarcom acquisition, he had been with Audiovox Corporation since 1970 and was elected to the company’s Board in 1987. Mr. Christopher was a member of the White House Economic Council, and also serves on the Board of Directors of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA). Mr. Christopher is also the recipient of numerous industry and humanitarian awards and honors, including the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

 



Dr. Moon Song

President, Terminal Business Unit
Dr. Song spent 6 years as President & CEO of Pantech & Curitel Communications, one of the world’s leaders in handset design and manufacturing. Prior, Dr. Song was Corporate Senior VP at Samsung Electronics. Other positions have included Director of Technology at DSC Communications, Senior Researcher at Korea’s Agency for Defense Development, and Assistant Manager at Hyundai Heavy Industries. In 2003, Dr. Song was elected ‘Best CEO of the Year’ by Korean Business Weekly. He received his BS in EE from Seoul National University, MS in EE from Korean Advanced Institute of Science, and his PhD in EE from Stanford University, California.
 


David King

 

Senior Vice President, International Sales and Marketing

On completion his MBA from London Business School David King spent seven years consulting in the telecoms industry in Europe & US. He joined the management team of Ericsson's wireline business in 1999 where he led sales and marketing in Europe followed by Global Product Management before becoming the General Manager for the wireline operations in 2002. In 2004 he left Ericsson to become CEO of Visual Wireless a venture backed company selling telecom software solutions for fraud management. Following the successful sale of Visual Wireless David joined UTStarcom as Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing in April 2006.

 


Mark Green

 

Senior Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources and Real Estate

Mark joined UTStarcom as Vice President of Human Resources in January 2006. He is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of UTStarcom's worldwide Human Resources strategy, as well as real estate and facilities management. He brings to the position broad HR experience in hi-tech gained in North America, Asia and Europe. Most recently, Mark led HR for VeriSign's Internet Security Services Business. Prior to that, he spent 14 years in the telecommunications and data networking industry at Nortel, where he held a variety of HR leadership positions in the UK, Hong Kong and Silicon Valley. Mark received his BEng, Electronic Engineering from Leeds University, and MSc in Human Resource Management from the London School of Economics.



Ari Bose
 
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Business Transformation Office

Ari joined UTStarcom in April 2006 as Chief Information Officer. Prior to this, Mr Bose was was vice president and chief information officer with 3com with global responsibility for the company's IT organization. During his tenure, Information Week selected 3Com as having the top High Technology IT organization for 2005. Previously, Ari was director of strategy, architecture, and advanced development at Nortel Networks and Director of Information Systems at Claris. He also held management and technical positions at Quantum; Pacific Telesis Group; Systems Consultants Pte, Ltd., of Singapore; and Engineers India Limited. He received a B.S. from Delhi University in India and holds an MS in software engineering from National University, San Diego.

 



Susan Marsch

General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Ethics Officer

Susan Marsch joined UTStarcom in April 2007 as the company’s general counsel and corporate secretary and is responsible for worldwide legal affairs as well as advising the company’s management and board of directors on strategic and corporate governance matters. Susan also serves as UTStarcom’s first chief ethics officer to provide focused leadership in the area of corporate ethics and integrity.

Prior to joining UTStarcom, Susan served as general counsel, corporate secretary and vice president at several California-based technology companies including Firefly Mobile, Redback Networks, AltaVista Company and Beatnik, Inc. During her tenure at AltaVista, Susan played an integral role in the acquisition of the company by Overture Services, Inc. in April 2003. Before moving to Northern California, Susan was vice president and associate general counsel at Trust Company of the West, a privately held investment management firm based in Los Angeles. Before joining Trust Company of the West, Susan was a corporate attorney at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles, where her practice focused on securities offerings and merger and acquisition transactions. A certified public accountant, Susan is a graduate of both the University of Michigan Law and Business Schools and is a member of the State Bar of California.

 



Jack Mar

President, Mobile Solutions Business Unit

Jack has spent his entire career of over 30 years in the telecommunications industry. Following senior management roles with GTE International, he founded TELOS International Inc. as a telecommunications consultancy company. In 1985, Jack established GT Optical Cable, the first successful fiber optic company in China. In 1994, Jack founded TELOS Technology Inc., a developer of mobile wireless networking products. In May 2004, UTStarcom, Inc. acquired TELOS which now serves as the CDMA business division under Jack’s leadership as president of the UTStarcom Mobile Solutions Business Unit.

 



K.P. Lim

Vice President and Chief Quality Officer

Mr. Lim has 27 years of diversified operational, product engineering and quality management experience with Hewlett Packard, NovAtel and JDS and other start ups in semiconductor assembly and testing, wireless (handset, base station, wireless data and GPS) and optical industry in Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, USA and Taiwan. KP graduated with a degree in Electronic Engineering from The City University of London, UK in 1978.

 



Brian Caskey

Vice President, Global Marketing

As the vice president of worldwide marketing, Brian Caskey oversees all aspects of marketing at UTStarcom, Inc. Caskey has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications and IP networking industry and extensive experience in the successfully design of large, IP-based voice and data networks for Fortune 500 companies and telecommunications service providers. Caskey began his career with UTStarcom as vice president of strategic technical marketing in 2003, responsible for lecture and consultation on the design and implementation of large-scale Voice over IP (VoIP) and next-generation networks.

A frequent featured lecturer at telecommunications and networking conferences around the world, Caskey's professional career includes an extensive array of telecommunications expertise with more than 12 years in the satellite communications industry at GTE SpaceNet and  AscomTimeplex designing Voice, TDM and SS7 networks for some of the largest service providers and enterprises in the world and over 10 years at 3Com/CommWorks in various executive, technical marketing and strategic technical advisory rolls.
   
 



Steve Shaffer

Vice President, Custom Solutions Business Unit
Steve Shaffer joined UTStarcom as part of the acquisition of CommWorks, a 3Com company, where he was the Vice President of the Worldwide CommWorks Professional Service organization. Steve has over thirty years of sales and service executive management experience with both telecom and enterprise focused organization. Prior to UTStarcom he held executive level positions with Bay Network, NCR, SynOptics Communications and Comten. Steve is a graduate of Control Data Institute and has attended numerous executive level certification courses in technology, management and sales.