Eyal Shaked was appointed EVP & General Manager of the Optical Networks Division (OND) in October 2005. In January 2007 OND was merged with DND (Data Networking Division) and the Transport Networking Division (TND) was formed under Mr. Shaked’s leadership. In 2008, ECI’s Broadband Access Division was merged with TND, and formed the Network Solutions Division (NSD). Mr. Shaked has been leading this division since then. Mr. Shaked has been part of the ECI team since 1990. As of January 2000, he served as Vice President of Research and Development of the Optical Networks Division. Mr. Shaked holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. After completing his B.Sc., Mr. Shaked joined the IDF for a period of five years where he led a team of hardware engineers and at the same time he completed his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computers from Tel Aviv University in 1990.