Background
Mr. Lawrence R. Kaplan, also known as Larry, serves as the Office of The Chief Executive Officer at Harmonic Inc. and serves on its Executive Management Staff. Mr. Kaplan has substantial experience in television and computer networking technologies. His tenure in these businesses includes strong relationships with computer network, satellite, television and media companies worldwide. He co-founded Omneon, Inc. in 1998 and served as Advisor since November 20, 2012. He served as its Executive Chairman of Omneon, Inc. from June 2003 to April 2007, Chief Executive Officer and President from May 1998 to June 2003 and Interim Chief Executive Officer and Interim President from May 2008 to January 2009. Mr. Kaplan served as the Senior Vice President of Sony Broadcast at Sony Electronics Inc. from June 1995 to May 1998, where he was responsible for Sony broadcast, production in the US. He joined Sony in 1995. Mr. Kaplan was responsible for both the computer graphic and television operations at Tektronix- including the color printer division and The Grass Valley Group. He served as Vice President and General Manager of the Computer Graphics and Television Groups at Tektronix, Inc. from 1989 to 1992. At that time, these operations included the Tektronix color printer division and Grass Valley Group subsidiary. He served as Vice Chairman of Omneon. He served as a Director of Omneon. He is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Mr. Kaplan holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an M.B.A. from Rutgers University.