Infinera Names Chris Champion VP of Sales, EMEA
November 05 2009 - 9:00AM
Marketwired
Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) has named Chris Champion Vice President of
Sales, EMEA with responsibility for leading Infinera's sales
activities in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa markets. Since
joining Infinera in 2003, Mr. Champion has played a key role in
building Infinera's European business. He was integral in securing
Infinera's initial European customers such as Flag Telecom (now
Reliance Globalcom). Since then, with Mr. Champion playing a key
role, Infinera has been awarded networks by leading Tier One
operators including Deutsche Telekom, OTEGLOBE, Telefonica
International Wholesale Services, and TeliaSonera, as well as some
of Europe's fastest-growing alternative operators like COLT and
Carphone Warehouse Networks. As reported on Oct. 20th, Infinera's
international revenue reached a new peak in Q3 of 37% with success
in the EMEA market driving much of that growth.
"I am pleased to announce that Chris Champion has taken on the
responsibility of leading our sales effort in Europe, Middle East,
and Africa," said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh. "We look forward to
his continuing to drive growth and success in these crucial
markets."
Mr. Champion's previous experience includes sales, marketing,
and business development roles at Corvis Corporation and Nortel
Networks. He started his career at the Yankee Group Europe as a
telecommunications market research analyst. Chris has an MBA from
the EDHEC business school in France and a BSc and BA from the
University of Manitoba.
"Forward-looking telecom operators in Europe are looking for
innovative ways to be faster, more agile, and more competitive, and
that's why Infinera has enjoyed such success in this market," said
Chris Champion. "I look forward to the opportunity to continue to
drive growth and success in EMEA, and deliver excellent service to
our customers."
The Infinera family of optical solutions includes the Infinera
DTN, the first optical system based on large-scale photonic
integrated circuits, and the Infinera ATN, a compact metro edge
platform that extends the benefits of Infinera's Digital Optical
Networks to the metro edge.
About Infinera
Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems to
telecommunications carriers worldwide. Infinera's systems are
unique in their use of a breakthrough semiconductor technology: the
photonic integrated circuit (PIC). Infinera's systems and PIC
technology are designed to provide customers with simpler and more
flexible engineering and operations, faster time-to-service, and
the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated services without
reengineering their optical infrastructure. For more information,
please visit http://www.infinera.com/.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements
based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that
involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are based on
information available to Infinera as of the date hereof; and actual
results could differ materially from those stated or implied, due
to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include
statements regarding Infinera's expectations, beliefs, intentions
or strategies regarding the future. Such forward-looking statements
can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipated,"
"believed," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may,"
"should," "will," and "would" or similar words. The risks and
uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially
from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements
include aggressive business tactics by our competitors, our
dependence on a single product, our ability to protect our
intellectual property, claims by others that we infringe their
intellectual property, our manufacturing process is very complex,
product performance problems we may encounter, our dependence on
sole or limited source suppliers, our ability to respond to rapid
technological changes, our ability to maintain effective internal
controls, the ability of our contract manufacturers to perform as
we expect, a new technology being developed that replaces the PIC
as the dominant technology in optical networks, general political,
economic and market conditions and events, including war, conflict
or acts of terrorism; and other risks that may impact Infinera's
business are set forth in our annual report Form 10-K, which was
filed with the SEC on February 17, 2009, as well as subsequent
reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange
Commission. These statements are based on information available to
us as of the date hereof and we disclaim any obligation to update
the forward-looking statements included in this press release,
whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
For media and analysts: Media: Jeff Ferry Tel. (408) 572-5213
jferry@infinera.com Investors: Bob Blair Tel. (408) 716-4879
bblair@infinera.com
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