Alnoor Shivji

General Partner

Mr. Shivji is currently serving as Chairman and CEO of Wafergen, a GAC portfolio company. Mr. Shivji was President of CIENA, Metro Switching Division. Prior to that, he founded Cyras Systems and served as its President and CEO until it was acquired by CIENA for $2.6 billion in March 2001. He also co-founded Fiberlane Communications, which changed the face of the networking communications industry when it split into Cerent (acquired by Cisco for $7 billion) and Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks for $4.3 billion). Mr. Shivji also founded OSIware, a communications software company that was sold to Infonet, a value added service provider. Mr. Shivji currently serves on the Board of Directors for ASVC Wireless, Wafergen, and is a Charter Member of TiE.