Dan Fairfax CFO, Brocade

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. announced that
Richard Deranleau, Brocade Chief Financial Officer, has left the company
effective as of June 20, 2011 to pursue other interests and that Dan Fairfax
has been appointed Brocade’s new Chief Financial Officer.

"We are excited to announce the appointment of Dan
Fairfax as Brocade’s new Chief Financial Officer and I would like to thank
Richard Deranleau for his eight years of service to the company," said Mike
Klayko, Brocade CEO. "Dan brings over 25 years of experience to this role,
most notably, as the CFO of Foundry Networks. He has been a key member of my
senior management team since the acquisition and I am confident that he will
continue to help drive Brocade’s vision of helping companies build
cloud-optimized networks as our CFO."

 
Mr. Fairfax previously served as Brocade Vice President of
Global Services from August 2009 to June 2011 and Brocade Vice President of
Business Operations from January 2009 to August 2009.

Prior to Brocade, Mr.
Fairfax served as Vice President, Finance and Administration, and Chief
Financial Officer of Foundry Networks, Inc. from January 2007 until December
2008, when Foundry was acquired by Brocade. Mr. Fairfax brings over 25 years of
senior financial and operations management experience including Senior Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of GoRemote Internet Communications and
Chief Financial Officer of Ironside Technologies, Inc., ACTA Technology, and
NeoVista Software.