John Kelley Selected for Election as Boards’s Director, Emulex

Emulex Corporation announced the selection of three new industry experts to stand for election to its board of directors at its annual shareholder meeting on February 6, 2014.

The company has selected and received acceptances from Gary J. Daichendt, a former networking executive and current board member of ShoreTel and NCR, John A. Kelley, Jr., a former storage and telecom equipment CEO and current board member of Polycom, and Rahul N. Merchant, currently chief information and innovation officer for the City of New York and current board member of Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO), to be candidates for election to the Emulex board of directors.

The addition of these three board members supports the transformation underway at Emulex originally outlined in an announcement made earlier this month.

“We are honored to have executives the caliber of Gary, John, and Rahul stand as independent director candidates and believe that their expertise will benefit the Emulex management team, our board and our shareholders,” said Jeff Benck, president and CEO, Emulex.

Daichendt brings a wealth of relevant networking industry experience to the Emulex board. He previously served in a number of senior executive positions at Cisco Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of communications and information technology networking products, including most recently as EVP, WW operations from August 1998 to December 2000, and as SVP, WW operations from September 1996 to August 1998. He has extensive public board experience from serving as a director of ShoreTel, Inc. since May 2007 and as COB from July 2010 to March 2013, as well as his membership on the board of directors of NCR Corporation since 2006.

 Kelley brings an amount of storage networking and telecommunications experience to Emulex. He formerly served as the chairman, president and CEO of McDATA Corporation, a provider of storage networking and data infrastructure solutions, until McDATA was acquired by Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., a data infrastructure company, in January 2007. He started at McDATA as president and COO in August 2001. Prior to joining McDATA, he served as EVP of networks at Qwest Communications International, Inc. from August 2000 to December 2000. He also served as president of wholesale markets for U.S. West, Inc. from May 1998 to July 2000. He has significant public board experience from his time at McDATA and has been a director of Polycom, Inc. since March 2000. He has served as the CEO of CereScan Corp., a provider of high-definition functional brain imaging since July 2009, and has been COB of directors of CereScan since March 2009.

Merchant is a seasoned executive with a track record as a transformation leader. He brings unique customer insights to Emulex from his multiple roles as CIO for several large enterprises. He is currently the citywide chief information and innovation officer for the City of New York, which he was appointed to in 2012. Previously he served as EVP, CIO and member of the executive committee at Fannie Mae, where he led the technology and operations groups from 2006 until 2008. He also served as SVP and CIO at Merrill Lynch & Co. from 2000 until 2006. He has computer industry and public board experience as a current director of FICO since February 2010, and as a former director of Sierra Atlantic, Level 3 Communications, Inc. and Sun Microsystems.