Dr. Hassan M. Ahmed Ph.D. serves as Director of the Company. He most recently served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Affirmed Networks, which was acquired by Microsoft in April 2020. Before founding Affirmed Networks in 2010, he was a senior advisor at Charles River Ventures. From 1998 to 2008, Dr. Ahmed served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sonus Networks. Prior to that time, he served in various executive roles at Ascend Communications, Cascade Communications and Analog Devices. He also served as President and founder of WaveAccess, and founded and served as director of the VLSI Systems Group of Motorola Codex. Dr. Ahmed previously served as Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering and Associate Professor of Finance at Boston University. Dr. Ahmed holds a BSEE and MSAE from Carleton University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Hassan Ahmed is 60, he's been the Director of CIENA since 2020. There are 13 older and 10 younger executives at CIENA. The oldest executive at CIENA Corp. is Dr. Patrick H. Nettles, 78, who is the Exec. Chairman.
Hassan's mailing address filed with the SEC is C/O CIENA CORPORATION, 7035 RIDGE RD., HANOVER, MD, 21076-1426.
Over the last 21 years, insiders at CIENA have traded over $213,933,156 worth of CIENA stock and bought 67,500 units worth $272,750 . The most active insiders traders include Devinder Kumar, Gary B Smith et Don H Jr Davis. On average, CIENA executives and independent directors trade stock every 4 days with the average trade being worth of $383,227. The most recent stock trade was executed by Joseph Cumello on 15 August 2024, trading 1,289 units of CIEN stock currently worth $67,569.
ciena corporation is a global manufacturer of communications network equipment and solutions, with expertise in packet-optical transport, packet-optical switching, carrier ethernet, and network support services. many of the world’s largest carriers and service providers have deployed ciena solutions in their network; including at&t, bt, cable & wireless, centurylink, comcast, france telecom, korea telecom, sprint, reliance, southern cross, tata communications, telecom argentina, telmex, virgin media and verizon. ciena also counts numerous national research and education networks as customers, as well as enterprises in the healthcare, finance, transportation and retail industries for real-time, latency sensitive applications such as disaster recovery/business continuity, san/lan extension, data center consolidation and grid computing. we specialize in helping customers transition to service driven networks that fundamentally change the way they compete. with expertise in optical a
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