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Contents April 2008
Voltaire appoints networking veterans Rafi Maor and Yaffa Krindel to Board of Directors
Billerica 10 March 2008 Voltaire Ltd., a provider of Grid backbone solutions for the data centre, has appointed Rafi Maor and Yaffa Krindel to the company's Board of Directors. Mr. Maor is president and CEO of ECI Telecom Ltd., a global telecommunications company and Ms. Krindel is a general partner in Tamarix Ventures, a new cleantech venture capital fund.
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"We are delighted to have Yaffa Krindel and Rafi Maor join Voltaire's Board of Directors", stated Ronnie Kenneth, CEO and Chairman, Voltaire. "Their experience in top management positions running publicly-traded global networking companies will provide great value as we continue to grow Voltaire into a world-class company."

"Voltaire is a rapidly growing leader in the data centre networking space", stated Rafi Maor. "Voltaire solutions deliver the high performance and efficiency that is required by businesses building new data centres. I look forward to actively contributing to Voltaire's next phase of growth."

"Voltaire's approach to delivering unified fabrics for the data centre by partnering with leading server OEMs and independent software vendors is helping them compete and win in the data centre market", stated Yaffa Krindel. "I am excited to work with Voltaire to capitalize on the tremendous opportunity they have as companies architect their next generation data centres with an ever-increasing focus on performance, efficiency and the use of 'green' technologies."

Rafi Maor is President and Chief Executive Officer of ECI Telecom Ltd., a global telecommunications company that was publicly traded on Nasdaq until September 2007, when it was acquired by the New York-based Swarth Group and the London-based Ashmore Fund. Mr. Maor Joined ECI in September 2004 as Chief Operating Officer, and was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2006.

Prior to joining ECI, Mr. Maor spent nine years at Indigo N.V. where he served as the company's President and Chief Operating Officer and was a member of the management board of Indigo's Board of Directors. Following Indigo's acquisition by Hewlett-Packard Company in March 2002, Mr. Maor served as General Manager of HP/Indigo Division and Vice President at Hewlett-Packard with worldwide responsibility for the Indigo product line. Prior to joining Indigo, Mr. Maor was employed by Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd. for twenty years, where he served in senior managerial positions.

Yaffa Krindel is a general partner in Tamarix Ventures, a private venture capital fund headquartered in Herzeliya, Israel. From 1997 until 2007, Ms. Krindel served as managing partner in Herzeliya and later as a partner of STAR Ventures, a venture capital fund headquartered in Munich, Germany. Between 1992 and 1996, before joining STAR Ventures, Ms. Krindel served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President - Finance of Lannet Data Communications Ltd., then a publicly traded company on Nasdaq and now part of Avaya, Inc. From 1993 until 1997, she served as Chief Financial Officer and a director of BreezeCOM Ltd., which is now part Alvarion Ltd. Prior to joining Lannet, Ms. Krindel held several executive positions in companies and banks in Israel. Ms. Krindel currently serves on the board of directors of several publicly traded and privately held companies.

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