Howard Lukens

Who is Howard Lukens?

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.