Ciena Appoints Joanne Olsen to Board of Directors
October 18 2018 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
Ciena® Corporation (NYSE: CIEN), a networking systems, services,
and software company, today announced that Joanne B. Olsen has been
appointed to Ciena’s Board of Directors. Ms. Olsen also serves on
the board of directors of Teradata Corporation.
Ms. Olsen, 60, most recently served as Executive Vice President
of Oracle Global Cloud Services and Support until her retirement in
2017. In that role, she drove Oracle’s cloud transformation
services and support strategy, partnering with leaders across all
business units. Ms. Olsen led a team of cloud customer experience
experts, covering consulting, support, implementation, education
and managed cloud services. She previously served as Senior Vice
President and leader of Oracle's applications sales, alliances and
consulting organizations in North America. Ms. Olsen began her
career with IBM, where, over the course of more than three decades,
she held a variety of executive management positions across sales,
global financing and hardware.
“We are very excited to welcome Joanne to Ciena’s board. She
brings a strong combination of sales, support and product
experience in global cloud services as well as a shared philosophy
about how to guide customers through strategic transformations and
seize new opportunities,” said Gary B. Smith, president and CEO of
Ciena. “We look forward to her perspectives on building intelligent
and adaptive networks and her contributions to the continued
execution of our strategic plan.”
Ms. Olsen received a B.A. in Mathematics, Economics and
Accounting from East Stroudsburg University.
About Ciena
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is a networking systems, services, and
software company. We provide solutions that help our clients create
more adaptive networks in response to the constantly changing
demands of their users. By delivering best-in-class networking
technology through high-touch consultative relationships, we build
the world’s most sophisticated networks with automation and scale.
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