Finisar’s Jerry Rawls steps down, Michael Hurlston takes over as CEO
Michael Hurlston has been appointed as CEO and a director of Finisar following the retirement of Jerry Rawls as Chairman ...
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Aquantia appoints Parvarandeh as COO
Aquantia has appointed Pirooz Parvarandeh as Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Faraj Aalaei, Aquantia’s Chairman and CEO. Parvarandeh was formerly ...
Infinera adds two execs to its team
Infinera announced the appointments of Glenn Laxdal as senior vice president of product management and Alexander Derecho as senior vice ...
TELoIP names Roger Davis as CEO
TELoIP, which offers SD-WAN solutions through a network of channel partners, named Roger Davis as its new CEO. Davis previously ...
Nokia appoints Joerg Erlemeier as COO
Nokia appointed Joerg Erlemeier as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and member of the Group Leadership Team, reporting to Nokia President ...
Xilinx names Victor Peng as its new CEO
Xilinx named Victor Peng as its next president and chief executive officer, replacing Moshe Gavrielov, who will step down as ...
Sprint names Michel Combes as president and CFO
Michel Combes has been appointed President & Chief Financial Officer of Sprint, reporting to company CEO Marcelo Claure. Combes will ...
CenturyLink appoints EVP Marketing and EVP Product Management
CenturyLink announced the appointments of Gaurav Chand as executive vice president – marketing and of Shaun Andrews as executive vice ...
Rebecca Jacoby to step down as Cisco’s SVP of Operations
After a distinguished 22-year career at Cisco, Rebecca Jacoby announced plans to retire. She currently serves as senior vice president ...
Fiber Broadband Association elects Kevin Morgan as Chair
Kevin Morgan has been elected to the position of Chairman-Elect for the Fiber Broadband Association (formerly the Fiber to the ...
Digicel appoints new CEO
Digicel has appointed Alexander Matuschka Greiffenclau as Group Chief Executive, replacing Colm Delves who stepped down for personal and family ...
FiberLight appoints Don MacNeil as CEO, formerly XO
FiberLight, which owns over 1,700,000 miles of robust fiber networks in over 44 U.S. cities, appointed Don MacNeil as its ...
Nutanix appoints Ben Gibson as CMO
Nutanix has appointed Ben Gibson as Chief Marketing Officer. Most recently, he was Chief Marketing Officer at F5 Networks, and ...
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