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Jed Arkin has been a Director of Orckit since August 2001. From January 2000 through April, 2007, Mr. Arkin served as Chairman of MadahCom, Inc, a manufacturer of digital wireless public alerting systems. MadahCom was acquired by Cooper Industries (NYSE: CBE) in April, 2007. From March 2005 until April 2007, Mr. Arkin served as a director of Shamir Optical Industries Ltd. Since January 2005 he has been a director, and is currently Chairman, of Mosaic Crystals Ltd., a developer of Gallium Nitride semiconductor materials. From 1999 to 2001, he served as General Manager of merchant banking for Oscar Gruss & Son, a New York-based investment bank. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Arkin served as Vice President of The Challenge Fund, an Israeli venture capital firm. He holds a B.A. from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. | 