Louise Bell

LOUISE BELL is Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of
Administration & HR at Sphera Optical Networks, Inc. Ms. Bell, a former
investment banker, joined Sphera in April 2000. Prior to joining the
company, Ms. Bell had been a Managing Director in the Leveraged Finance
Group of CIBC World Markets Corp. and was Head of Project Finance. Ms.
Bell has specialized in international financing transactions with a
particular emphasis on project finance for telecommunications companies.
She was responsible for structuring the financing for the Atlantic
Crossing, Pacific Crossing and Mid-Atlantic Crossing undersea cable
systems for Global Crossing and more recently has been involved in
arranging financing for numerous start-up CLECs. Ms. Bell’s career in
investment banking spans 15 years, six of which were spent in the London
project finance market with CIBC World Markets Corp. as well as the
long-term Credit Bank of Japan.