 Emulex Corporation (ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the next step in its transformation with the appointment of Kyle B. Wescoat as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately. In addition, Wescoat has also assumed the role of Emulex Treasurer. Wescoat comes to Emulex with more than 25 years of CFO experience in a variety of well-regarded private and public companies, including Orange County companies VIZIO, VANS, and most recently, Skullcandy. In his many financial executive roles at such a diverse group of companies, he has demonstrated the ability to act as a change agent, bringing increased financial discipline and best practices, as well as strategic insight, to his previous teams.<br /><br />The Company plans to leverage his proven leadership and extensive financial management experience to bring fresh ideas to the team and implement additional fiscal management processes that will help improve return on investment (ROI) on new and current product lines. While Emulex is already a leader in the enterprise networking segment, Wescoat’s experience in building strong brand recognition for top consumer brands such as VIZIO, VANS and Skullcandy, as well as his familiarity with cost and profit management in the high volume, low margin end of the consumer electronics business, will benefit Emulex in the rapidly evolving business and customer base transition that is already underway.<br /><br />“Kyle brings with him strong leadership, teamwork and communication skills and I believe he has the right combination of strategic insight and solid financial execution experience needed to help us continue our transformation,” said Jeff Benck, president and CEO, Emulex. “I look forward to working with Kyle on transforming our position with current and new investors, improving our financial performance and building a stronger and more diversified Company focused on growing shareholder value.”<br /><br />“I want to thank Jeff and the Board for the opportunity to join Emulex at this exciting and important time in its history,” said Kyle Wescoat, SVP and CFO, Emulex. “Emulex is a proven market leader and innovator, and is well positioned to adapt and take advantage of changing technology demands in the market segments we serve. I look forward to partnering with Jeff and the Emulex team as we continue to execute against both our recent restructuring initiatives as well as our longer-term strategic objectives.”<br /><br />Wescoat holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Drexel University and a Master of Business Administration from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Wescoat resides in Huntington Beach, California and is active in the Orange County community. He is a member of the Hoag Hospital Irvine Advisory Board, Chairman of the Hoag Hospital Foundation Healthcare Forum and is a past Treasurer, Audit Committee Chairman and member of the Executive Committee of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Orange County. His charitable engagements align well with Emulex’s value system, which includes active community involvement.<br /><br />Benck concluded, “Lastly, we want to thank Mike Rockenbach, our former CFO, again for his contributions to Emulex over his long tenure with the Company and we wish him well in his future endeavors.”<br /><br />About Emulex<br /><br />Emulex, a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, provides hardware and software solutions for global networks that support enterprise, cloud, government and telecommunications. Emulex products enable unrivaled end-to-end application visibility, optimization and acceleration. The Company's I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of ultra high-performance Ethernet and Fibre Channel-based connectivity products, have been designed into server and storage solutions from leading OEMs, including Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, NetApp and Oracle, and can be found in the data centers of nearly all of the Fortune 1000. Emulex monitoring and management solutions, including its portfolio of network visibility and recording products, provide organizations with complete network performance management at speeds up to 100Gb Ethernet. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif. 