Jagdeep Singh

Who is Jagdeep Singh?

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.