Beatriz Infante Board's Director, Emulex

Emulex Corporation announced that Beatriz Infante has been appointed to its board of directors.

  She brings executive management, leadership and industry experience to Emulex, developing and executing on growth strategies for companies in the telecommunications, server, and unified communications industries.

"Beatriz Infante's extensive business leadership experience in cultivating high-growth companies fueled by innovative or disruptive technologies is well-suited to the objectives of our Board, as we continue our expansion into emerging markets," said Jim McCluney, CEO, Emulex. "On behalf of the board, we welcome her to the team."

Infante is the CEO of Business Excelleration LLC, a business transformation consultancy she founded in 2009, and also serves as director at Sonus Networks since 2010. Prior to these roles, she was the CEO and director of ENXSuite Corporation, a supplier of energy management solutions, from 2010 until its acquisition by Infor Global Solutions, Inc. in 2011. She served as CEO and director of VoiceObjects Inc., in voice application servers, from 2006 to 2008, until its acquisition by Voxeo Corporation. From 2004 to 2005, she served as interim CEO and director of Sychron Inc., which was acquired by an investor group. From 1998 to 2003, she held various positions with Aspect Communications (at the time listed under NASDAQ), a provider of call centers and unified communications solutions, including the roles of chairman, president and CEO. Under her leadership, Aspect achieved record revenues and transformed from a primarily hardware company to a high-margin software and services provider. Infante was also an executive-in-residence at U.S. Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, from 2009 to 2010; and from 1994 to 1998 held various roles at Oracle Corporation, including senior vice president Application Servers reporting directly to Larry Ellison.

Infante currently serves on the Advisory Committee to the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science and is an advisor and investor in several early-stage technology companies. She is currently a member of the board of directors of 1010data, Inc., a company which provides a cloud-based data warehouse/business intelligence platform. She has also served as director at Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network.

Infante holds a Bachelor of Science and Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Science from California Institute of Technology.

"It is a pivotal time for Emulex, as it extends into new markets and verticals, and continues to bring high performance I/O connectivity to enterprise data centers as they deploy next-generation servers and new technologies," said Beatriz Infante. "The convergence of server and storage networking is one of the industry's great growth trends, and one which Emulex is well positioned to capture. I am very excited to join the Emulex board, leveraging my background in cultivating company growth and expansion into new market segments."