San Jose-based Oclaro is helping create a new generation of chip technology that uses microscopic fiber optics instead of microscopic electrical wiring to carry power and data. The advantage? Smaller, faster and eventually cheaper digital brains in every electronic device we use. Oclaro (Nasdaq: OCLR) is the product of a 2009 merger between optical component rivals Bookham Inc. and Avanex Corp. The company last week reported third-quarter revenues of $116.5 million and a net loss of $9 million, compared with $101 million in revenues and a profit of $200,000 for the same period last year.
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Kate Rundle joined Bookham in November 2007 and is Oclaro’s executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Born in Oakland and raised in Berkeley, Rundle is a 1978 magna cum laude graduate of UC-Berkeley with a dual degree in political science and sociology. She earned her JD at Hastings College of the Law in 1983.
