varioptic APPOINTS senior MOBILE PHONE EXECUTIVE as new ceo  Varioptic to accelerate its product deployment phase  Lyon (France) – 6^th July, 2007 - Varioptic, the liquid lens company, announced today the appointment of Christian Dupont as Chief Executive Officer. Varioptic is entering a new phase after four years of technology and product development. Thanks to its advantages in robustness, cost and performance, Varioptic’s liquid lens now enables advanced camera applications and can become the third generation of optic lens. Varioptic’s products are now proven and endorsed by major camera module players in mobile telephony. The company is now facing new challenges: high growth, wider international exposure and more complex product offering. Varioptic will now aggressively deploy its products in the mobile imaging market.  Varioptic Board of directors is therefore appointing a new Chief Executive Officer with broad international wireless successful business experience and a proven track record in fast growing high tech companies. Christian Dupont will take his position as new Varioptic’s CEO on 21^st August 2007. Christian  joins Varioptic from Texas Instruments, the wireless semiconductor leader, where he pioneered the Wireless business taking different Marketing and General management positions in Europe and the USA. More recently, he was the General Manager for TI European Wireless Terminals Business Unit. Christian Dupont graduated from the “Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne”, Switzerland, in 1987.  “I want to thank Etienne Paillard for his contribution to Varioptic and I am delighted to welcome Christian Dupont who will bring a new dimension to the company” said Howard Ford, Varioptic’s Chairman of the Board. “I am very excited and honoured to take this new responsibility’’, added Christian Dupont. ‘’This is a great opportunity to join Varioptic which holds such a differentiated product. It is well positioned to address the emergence of advanced camera module in the cellular phone market”.
About Varioptic: Varioptic is the world leader in liquid lens technology supplying liquid lens solutions to meet optical autofocus requirements for a wide range of markets.  Founded in 2002, Varioptic’s investors are Sofinnova, Polytechnos, Iris Capital, XAnge, Dow Chemical, NIF Ventures and Delphis.  Varioptic pioneered the development of Electrowetting Technology to create revolutionary auto focus and zoom lenses with no moving parts.   Liquid lenses feature several crucial advantages over traditional technologies in terms of robustness, cost, size, ease of integration, power consumption and speed.  For more information, visit www.varioptic.com

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