Infinera Expands Leadership Team, Increasing Focus on Growth and Operational Efficiency
12 January 2018 - 1:45AM
Infinera, the leading provider of Intelligent Transport
Networks, announced the appointment of two new executives,
increasing the company’s focus on growth and operational
efficiency. Glenn Laxdal joins Infinera as senior vice president of
product management and Alexander Derecho joins Infinera as senior
vice president of global customer service. The new positions report
to David Heard, general manager of the recently established Product
Realization organization, and are instrumental in bringing
Infinera’s optical networking innovations to market faster with a
focus on improving the company’s bottom line.
As senior vice president of product management, Glenn Laxdal is
tasked with driving profitable growth of Infinera’s
industry-leading optical networking portfolio with an expanded
go-to-market approach. Previously, Mr. Laxdal was head of Ericsson
North America’s multi-billion dollar network products business,
overseeing strategy, product management and solution development.
Mr. Laxdal also served as chief technology officer and head of
strategy for Ericsson North America. Prior to Ericsson, Mr. Laxdal
served as vice president of global product management at Research
in Motion.
As senior vice president of global customer service, Alex
Derecho is tasked with growing Infinera’s global services business
while continuing to deliver the differentiated Infinera experience.
Previously, Mr. Derecho served as the senior vice president of
global services and support at Harmonic Inc. Mr. Derecho helped
establish Harmonic as a premier provider of digital media
infrastructure solutions. Prior to Harmonic, Mr. Derecho held
various executive leadership positions with telecommunications
equipment providers.
“As we increase the cadence and breadth of our industry-leading
portfolio of optical networking platforms, I’m excited at the
opportunity to align top notch talent with disruptive technology.
This combination will continue to deliver unprecedented economic
and operational advantage to Infinera’s customers,” said David
Heard, Infinera general manager of Product Realization. “I expect
Glenn and Alex will be great partners, working to increase the
reach of our optical networking solutions into new markets and
applications. Their appointments reflect the significant
opportunity ahead for Infinera.”
Contacts:
Media: Anna VueTel. +1 (916) 595-8157avue@infinera.com
Investors:Jeff HustisTel: + 1 (408)
213-7150jhustis@infinera.com
About InfineraInfinera (NASDAQ:INFN) provides
Intelligent Transport Networks, enabling carriers, cloud operators,
governments and enterprises to scale network bandwidth, accelerate
service innovation and automate optical network operations.
Infinera’s end-to-end packet-optical portfolio is designed for
long-haul, subsea, data center interconnect and metro applications.
Infinera’s unique large scale photonic integrated circuits enable
innovative optical networking solutions for the most demanding
networks. To learn more about Infinera visit www.infinera.com,
follow us on Twitter @Infinera and read our latest blog posts at
blog.infinera.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements based on
current expectations and assumptions that involve risks and
uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements include, without
limitation, Infinera’s ability to bring its optical networking
innovations to market faster; Infinera’s ability to deliver
world-class quality and industry leading technology; Infinera’s
ability to provide a superior economic and operational advantage to
Infinera’s customers; and Infinera’s expectations regarding the
ability of its new appointments’ to increase the reach of optical
networking solutions to new markets and applications. These
statements are not guarantees of results and should not be
considered as an indication of future activity or future
performance. Actual results may vary materially from these
expectations as a result of various risks and uncertainties.
Information about these risks and uncertainties, and other risks
and uncertainties that affect Infinera’s business, is contained in
the risk factors section and other sections of Infinera’s Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 as
filed with the SEC on November 8, 2017, as well subsequent reports
filed with or furnished to the SEC. These reports are available on
Infinera’s website at www.infinera.com and the SEC’s website at
www.sec.gov. Infinera assumes no obligation to, and does not
currently intend to, update any such forward-looking
statements.
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