TIA welcomes its new Board Members: Michael C. Dumas, Vice President, Comm/Data Business, Graybar; and Fred McDuffee, President & COO, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave. Charlie Fox, General Manager, Tyco, and Carlos Munoz, CEO, Cam Communications, were confirmed for their second terms as Board Members. The elections took place at the TIA Board meeting held March 2-3, 2008, in Tahoe, Nev.

Dumas is a 21-year career veteran with Graybar, a leading distributor of high quality electrical, telecommunications and networking products and related supply chain management and logistics services. Prior to becoming Vice President, Comm/Data Business in 2005, he held a variety of management positions at the company, including Treasury Manager – Corporate Accounts; Vice President, Electrical Sales – St. Louis District; and Vice President, Corporate Accounts. He holds a B.S. degree in General Business Administration from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas.

Prior to becoming President of Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, a leading developer and manufacturer of fiber optic cable, McDuffee served for six years as Senior Vice President in charge of manufacturing, product engineering and marketing for the company’s Research Triangle Park and Whiteville facilities in North Carolina. He has held various management positions at the company. He holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Virginia Tech.

Recently, TIA was proud to announce that its Chairman of the Board, Robert W. Pullen, has assumed the roles of Chief Executive Officer, President and Director at Tellabs. TIA’s Board of Directors includes senior-level executives from ACS, ADC, ADTRAN, Alcatel-Lucent, ANDA Networks, ArrayComm, AttivaCorp, Avaya, Bechtel Communications, Inc., Cam Communications, Cisco Systems, Corning Incorporated, Ericsson, Inc., Graybar, Henkels & McCoy, Intel Corporation, LGE, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, OneChip Photonics Inc., OnSite Systems, Panasonic Computer Solutions Co., QUALCOMM, Research In Motion, Sumitomo Electric, Lightwave Corporation, Telcordia Technologies, Tellabs, Tyco Electronics, Ulticom, Inc., Westell Technologies, Inc. and Zebra Technologies Corporation. Advisors to the Board include FAL Associates, ILS Technology and Orca Systems.

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