Howard Lukens is Vice President of Strategic Sales at Infinera. He
had previously served as Vice President of Worldwide Strategic Sales
for CIENA, where he was responsible for CIENA's largest sales
initiatives and strategic partnerships. Mr. Lukens joined CIENA through
the acquisition of Lightera Networks, where he was Vice President of
Worldwide Sales for the market-leading CoreDirector intelligent optical
switch. Before joining Lightera, Mr. Lu...
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Howard Lukens is Vice President of Strategic Sales at Infinera. He
had previously served as Vice President of Worldwide Strategic Sales
for CIENA, where he was responsible for CIENA's largest sales
initiatives and strategic partnerships. Mr. Lukens joined CIENA through
the acquisition of Lightera Networks, where he was Vice President of
Worldwide Sales for the market-leading CoreDirector intelligent optical
switch. Before joining Lightera, Mr. Lukens served as Vice President of
North America Sales a CIENA from 1996-1998. Previously, Mr. Lukens was
Regional Sales Director for StrataCom up until its acquisition by
Cisco.
Mr. Lukens earned his BS in Management from George Mason
University and has 25 years of executive-level sales and marketing
management experience in the telecommunications area.
