Murugesan “Raj” Shanmugaraj has served as a director since January 2024. Mr. Shanmugaraj is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Coherent Products and Components Group at Cisco Systems, Inc., a multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (“Cisco”), which he joined in March 2021 when Acacia Communications, Inc., a provider of high-speed coherent optical interconnect products (“Acacia”), was acquired by Cisco. Mr. Shanmugaraj served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Acacia from February 2010 to March 2021. Prior to joining Acacia, Mr. Shanmugaraj served in leadership roles for various technology companies, including as the Vice President of Business Development of the optical networking division of Alcatel-Lucent USA, a cloud, network and communications solutions technology provider, from January 2002 to January 2010, and as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Astral Point Communications, a developer of optic-based telecommunications networks and metro optical systems, from September 1998 to January 2002. Mr. Shanmugaraj holds an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Iowa and a B.E. (Honors) in electronics and communications from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy. Mr. Shanmugaraj brings decades of telecom and communications experience to our board of directors and provides strategic perspective and expertise to matters facing our board.