Mark Olson became our executive vice president and chief financial officer on February 1, 2012. Mark Olson served as senior vice president and controller for CommScope since November 2009. He served as vice president and controller for Andrew LLC since the closing of the company’s acquisition of Andrew Corporation in December 2007. Prior to the Andrew acquisition, he was vice president, corporate controller and chief accounting officer of Andrew. Mr.

Michael Cross has been senior vice president and chief information officer since May 2012 when he joined the company. Michael came to CommScope with over 23 years’ experience in information technology, product development, and services, having been promoted to increasingly responsible roles within two major corporations. He spent nine years with NCR in Columbia, South Carolina and 14 years at Dell, Inc. in Round Rock, Texas.

Michael has a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering

Peter Karlsson has been our senior vice president, Global Sales since July 2011. Mr. Karlsson previously served as senior vice president, Enterprise Sales since our acquisition of Avaya’s Connectivity Solutions division in 2004. From 2002 to that acquisition, he was global vice president, Sales for Avaya’s SYSTIMAX division. Mr.

Joanne has been our Senior Vice President, Human Resources, since November 2012.  Prior to joining CommScope she was the Chief Human Resource Officer at Zebra Technologies Corporation. Joanne has more than 30 years of experience in HR, including a long-term career with Motorola where she spent time in the Asia Pacific region as an expatriate in Hong Kong and had global responsibility for sales and marketing organizations; functional experience in employee relations, compensation and

Burk Wyatt has been senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of CommScope since 2000. Prior to joining the company as general counsel and secretary in 1996, Mr. Wyatt was an attorney in private practice with Bell, Seltzer, Park & Gibson, P.A. (now Alston & Bird LLP). Mr. Wyatt is also the company’s corporate compliance and ethics officer.

Marco De Benedetti became a member of our Board of Directors following the consummation of the acquisition by Carlyle. He is a managing director and co-head of Carlyle’s European Buyout Group, particularly focusing on the telecommunications and branded consumer goods sectors. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. De Benedetti was the chief executive officer of Telecom Italia. Mr. De Benedetti was the chief executive officer of Telecom Italia Mobile from 1999 until its merger with Telecom Italia.

Steve Gray became a member of our Board of Directors following the consummation of the acquisition by Carlyle. He currently serves as a senior advisor to The Carlyle Group. Mr. Gray is the Founder of Gray Venture Partners, LLC and previously served as President of McLeodUSA Incorporated from 1992 to 2004. Prior to joining McLeodUSA, he served from 1990 to 1992 as vice president of Business Services at MCI Inc. and before that, from 1988 to 1990, he served as senior vice president of National