Jagdeep Singh is President, CEO and founder of Infinera. Mr. Singh was
President and General Manager of CIENA Corporation's Core Switching
Division (CSD) and served as a director of CIENA Corporation. Mr. Singh
joined CIENA, a leader in the optical communications equipment market,
after its acquisition of Lightera Networks. At Lightera, Mr. Singh
served as President and CEO and led the company from startup to a
leadership position in the market ...
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Jagdeep Singh is President, CEO and founder of Infinera. Mr. Singh was
President and General Manager of CIENA Corporation's Core Switching
Division (CSD) and served as a director of CIENA Corporation. Mr. Singh
joined CIENA, a leader in the optical communications equipment market,
after its acquisition of Lightera Networks. At Lightera, Mr. Singh
served as President and CEO and led the company from startup to a
leadership position in the market for optical switching equipment for
telecommunications networks.
Prior to founding Lightera, Mr. Singh was a Venture Partner at the
venture capital firm InterWest Partners, focusing on investments in the
data communications and telecommunications sectors. Before joining
InterWest, Mr. Singh was Vice President, Technology Strategy at Shiva
Corp. He joined Shiva following its acquisition of AirSoft, Inc., where
he was President and CEO. Prior to founding AirSoft, Mr. Singh held
technical and marketing positions at Sun Microsystems and
Hewlett-Packard.
Mr. Singh holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, an
MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in Computer
Science from the University of Maryland.
