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Infinera Names Ron Martin Vice President, Worldwide Sales
| Source: Infinera
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - August 6, 2009) - Infinera (NASDAQ : INFN ) has appointed Ron
Martin Vice President for Worldwide Sales. Mr. Martin joins Infinera with a
distinguished thirty-year track record at some of the most successful
companies in the networking industry. He joins Infinera's world-class
sales executive team, including Scott Chandler and Howard Lukens, who led
Infinera's sales team to #1 market share in the North American long-haul
market (according to data from independent analyst firm Ovum) and to
international customer wins including Germany's leading service provider
Deutsche Telekom, Nordic-based international carrier Telia Sonera, and NTT
Communications of Japan, the world's second largest service provider.
Ron Martin has extensive experience building and managing large
international optical networking businesses. From 1987 to 2001, Mr. Martin
worked at Fujitsu Network Communications, based in Richardson, Texas, where
he played a key role in Fujitsu's growth to become one of the largest
suppliers of optical systems to leading US telecom companies. In those
years, FNC grew from a $30 million company to a $3 billion organization
with 3000 employees worldwide. Mr. Martin held several roles at FNC
culminating in the position of Chief Operating Officer. From 2001 to 2007,
Mr. Martin was at Cisco Systems, where he served as Vice-President and
General Manager of Cisco's optical business unit. Mr. Martin was involved
in the consolidation of multiple international Cisco acquisitions into one
streamlined business unit, the success of several optical products, and the
leadership of a business unit with revenues that reached more than $1
billion a year. From 2007 until last month, Mr. Martin was at Adva Optical
Networking, where he served as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer and
president of Adva's North American subsidiary. In his time at Adva, he
successfully built the Adva brand in the US market and led the creation of
a US direct sales force.
"I am excited to join Infinera, a company with fantastic technology and a
first-class management team," said Ron Martin. "I believe I bring the
skills and experience to help Infinera continue its successes and become
one of the giants of the industry."
Customer Focus
Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh said, "Infinera lives and dies by the
professionalism and capability of its sales team. Based on what our
customers tell us, we believe Infinera has the easiest and most transparent
sales experience in the industry. We're thrilled to have Ron on our team
to help us as we drive the business forward."
Infinera products include the Infinera DTN, the first optical system based
on large-scale photonic integrated circuits. Combining high-capacity DWDM
transport, integrated digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered
service intelligence in a single platform, the DTN is deployed in long-haul
and metro networks worldwide.
About Infinera
Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems to telecommunications
carriers worldwide. Infinera's systems are unique in their use of a
breakthrough semiconductor technology: the photonic integrated circuit
(PIC). Infinera's systems and PIC technology are designed to provide
customers with simpler and more flexible engineering and operations, faster
time-to-service, and the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated services
without reengineering their optical infrastructure. For more information,
please visit http://www.infinera.com/.
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technology being developed that replaces the PIC as the dominant technology
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