Ciena
® (NYSE: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced
that Philippe Morin will step down as senior vice president of worldwide
sales and field operations, effective October 31, 2015. Morin joined
Ciena through its acquisition of Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN)
business in March 2010, having served in various leadership positions
for more than 20 years at Nortel.
“Philippe played an instrumental role in Ciena’s successful integration
of the Nortel MEN business and has made significant contributions toward
our continued growth and diversification as we lead the industry into a
new era of open, software-defined, multi-vendor networking,” said Gary
B. Smith, president and CEO, Ciena. “On behalf of the entire Ciena team,
we thank Philippe for his dedicated leadership and wish him the very
best as he pursues his next challenge.”
Supported by a strong and stable management team, succession planning is
underway to ensure a smooth transition for Ciena customers and the
global field organization upon Morin’s departure.
About Ciena
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is the network specialist. We collaborate with
customers worldwide to unlock the strategic potential of their networks
and fundamentally change the way they perform and compete. Ciena
leverages its deep expertise in packet and optical networking and
distributed software automation to deliver solutions in alignment with
its OPn architecture for next-generation networks. We enable
a high-scale, programmable infrastructure that can be controlled and
adapted by network-level applications, and provide open interfaces to
coordinate computing, storage and network resources in a unified,
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