UTStarcom Names Dr. Zhaochen Huang as COO

UTStarcom

announced today that it had promoted Dr. Zhaochen Huang to Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. Dr. Zhaochen Huang will oversee Global Sales and Business Development as well as Global Operations, which includes Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, Procurement, and Information Technologies. Dr. Huang brings more than twenty-five years of business and management expertise to the Company. He previously served as the Vice-President, Global Operations, at UTStarcom and General Manager of UTStarcom India. Prior to that, Dr. Huang served various positions at Soliton Systems, K.K. including General Manager of Soliton Systems USA and VP of Research and Development of Soliton Systems Shanghai. Prior to that, Dr. Huang served at SECOM Co., LTD. and Nanjing Institute of Solid Device. He received a Doctor of Engineer's degree in Electrical and Electronics from Tokyo Institute of Technology. "We are thrilled to promote Zhaochen to Chief Operating Officer," stated Mr. Tim Ti, UTStarcom's Chief Executive Officer. "Zhaochen has tremendous amount of international experience having worked in China, Japan, United States, and India. Since he joined the Company