Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 3, 2003
JERRY RAWLS is Chief Executive Officer of Finisar Corporation and
a member of the Board of directors. He previously served as
Finisar's President and CEO from March 1989 to August 2002. From
1968 to 1989, Mr. Rawls was employed by Raychem Corporation, a
materials science and engineering company. At Raychem, he held
various management positions, including Manager of Product
Marketing, National Sales Manager, General Manager of the
Aerospace Products Division, and General Manager of the
Interconnection Systems Division. Mr. Rawls holds a BS in
Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University and an MS in
Industrial Administration from the Krannert Graduate School of
Management at Purdue University. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi
and Pi Tau Sigma engineering honorary societies. Profile
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Mr. Rawls: Finisar is a fiber-optic company focused on high
performance LANs, SANs and metropolitan area networks. We
