Aurora Hires Chow as CFO

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Aurora Networks, a global leader in advanced optical transport systems, announced that Kenton D. Chow has joined its executive team as its vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). In this leadership role, Chow will spearhead the company’s financial strategy, investor relations and direct all financial initiatives.

With more than 20 years of financial experience, Chow’s career has spanned computing, networking, semiconductor and software sectors including executive positions at Azul Systems, Catena Networks, Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Networks, Symantec Corporation and Bay Networks. As Cobalt’s CFO, Chow provided financial and strategy leadership through multiple private financing rounds culminating in the company’s highly successful initial public offering and subsequent merger with Sun Microsystems. Chow has expertise in all aspects of financial management including initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, financial planning, cash flow management and achieving capital growth through private and public financings.

“Over the last five years, Aurora Networks has experienced tremendous worldwide growth and engineered numerous innovations benefiting the industry. By adding Kenton Chow to our executive team, we have strengthened Aurora’s ability to take our success to the next level. We’re pleased to have someone of his caliber spearhead our company’s ongoing financial health and growth,” said Guy Sucharczuk, chairman, president and CEO of Aurora Networks.

Aurora Networks Inc.