Executive Management
Kevin Kennedy President and Chief Executive Officer Roy W. Bie Advanced Optical Technologies Business Segment Matthew Fawcett Legal Brett Hooper Human Resources Judith Kay Executive Operations Alan Lowe Communications and Commercial Optical Products Business Segment Marti Menacho Chief Information Officer Sharad Rastogi Corporate Development and Marketing David Vellequette Chief Financial Officer Thomas Waechter Test and Measurement Business Segment
Kevin Kennedy
President and Chief Executive Officer
Kevin Kennedy joined the Company as Chief Executive Officer in September 2003 and has been a member of the Company's Board since November 2001. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Openwave Systems, Inc. from August 2001 to September 2003. Prior to joining Openwave Systems, Kennedy spent seven years at Cisco Systems, Inc., most recently as Senior Vice President of the Service Provider Line of Business and Software Technologies Division, and seventeen years at Bell Laboratories as well.
In 1987, Kennedy was a congressional fellow to the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Polycom, Inc. and KLA-Tencor Corporation. Kennedy is a member of the Board of Regents of Loyola Marymount University.Kennedy holds engineering degrees, including: a B.S. from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He also completed the Executive Business Program at the University of Michigan in 1992. Kennedy was an adjunct professor at Rutgers from 1982-1984 and has published more than 30 papers on computational methods, data networking, and issues of technology management. In 2006, Kennedy was honored by the School of Engineering at Rutgers as their alumnus of the year and awarded an Alumni Medal of Excellence. He is a co-author of Going the Distance, a book published by Prentice Hall.
Roy Bie
Advanced Optical Technologies Business Segment
Roy Bie is responsible for JDSU's Advanced Optical Technologies Group, comprised of the Flex and Custom Optics businesses . Bie oversees the group's operations, process/manufacturing engineering, sales and marketing, and science and technology activities. From 1996 to 2000, Bie was Vice President of Operations for Flex Products and oversaw the successful operational expansion activities in Santa Rosa and Beijing, China. From 1993 through 1996, he served as Director of Operations. Prior to joining JDSU, Bie held operational and management leadership positions with Xicor (now part of Intersil), Material Progress (now part of Komag), Mag-Media (bought by Polaroid), and began his career at National Semiconductor.
Matthew Fawcett
Legal
Matthew Fawcett is responsible for leading JDSU’s global legal team, overseeing the Company’s legal strategies and the management of internal and external legal resources. He also serves as the Company’s Board Secretary.
Most recently, Fawcett served as Associate General Counsel and Director of Intellectual Property where he led the development and management of the Company’s intellectual property portfolio and programs. Prior to joining JDSU, Mr. Fawcett provided a broad array of corporate, commercial and intellectual property advice to Fujitsu, and before that in private practice at Morrison & Foerster.
Fawcett holds a bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Brett Hooper
Human Resources
Brett Hooper is responsible for Human Resources at JDSU. Prior to joining the Company in 2006, he served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Credence Systems Corporation from 2004 to 2006. Hooper joined Credence in 2004 through the acquisition of NPTest where he was the Vice President, Human Resources and Communications since June 2003. From 1987 through June 2003, Hooper held several positions, including Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Investor Relations, and Sr. Human Resources Management, at Schlumberger.
Hooper holds a bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin.
Judith Kay
Executive Operations
Judith Kay is responsible for the Company's executive operations. She oversees strategic planning, corporate governance and communication. Before joining JDSU in 2005, Kay held increasingly responsible positions at Lucent Technologies in product management, marketing and business development, culminating in leading its Voice over IP and remote access lines of business. She has also held marketing roles at Analog Devices and Silicon Graphics and began her career in research and development at Watkins Johnson (WJ).
Kay holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She also completed the Program for Management Development executive semester at Harvard Business School.
Alan Lowe
Communications and Commercial Optical Products Business Segment
Alan Lowe is responsible for the Company's Communications and Commercial Optical Products business. Prior to joining JDSU in September 2007 as Senior Vice President of the Commercial Lasers business, Lowe was Senior Vice President, Customer Solutions Group at Asyst Technologies, Inc. a leader in automating semiconductor and flat panel display fabs. From 2000 to 2003, he was president and chief executive officer of Read-Rite Corporation, a manufacturer of thin-film recording heads for disk and tape drives. From 1989 to 2000, Lowe served in roles of increasing responsibility at Read-Rite, including President and Chief Operating Officer, and senior vice president, customer business units. Prior to joining Read-Rite, he served in various sales positions with Microcom Corporation and IBM Corporation.
He is a member of the advisory board of ETM Inc., a privately held provider of tailored power subsystems. Lowe holds bachelor's degrees in computer science and business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and also completed the Stanford Executive Program in 1994.
Marti Menacho
Chief Information Officer
Marti Menacho is responsible for JDSU's Information Technology function. Prior to joining JDSU she was Vice President and CIO at Brocade Communications, where she was responsible for the companywide IT function that enabled the company to expand into adjacent markets. Before Brocade, Menacho was at TIBCO Software, where she was responsible for TIBCO's global IT presence. Prior to joining TIBCO, Menacho was the Sales and Marketing Executive Vice President for Saama Technologies.
Menacho also held Chief Information Executive positions at Nortel Networks and Clarify Corporation. At Nortel she was an integral part of integrating new company acquisitions into the business structure. Menacho has also held management positions at 3Com, SGI, ASK Computer Systems and Syntex. She was a member of Vice President Gore's eGovernment committee during the Clinton administration.
Sharad Rastogi
Corporate Development and Marketing
Sharad Rastogi is responsible for corporate strategy, business development and corporate marketing for JDSU. Prior to joining the Company in 2008, he served as vice president of corporate development at Avid Technology and general manager of Pinnacle Systems, Avid’s consumer business unit. In his corporate development role, Sharad was responsible for strategy, acquisitions, and new business opportunities.
Prior to Avid, Sharad was a partner at management consulting firm Bain & Company, Inc., where he advised technology, media, venture capital, and private equity clients in corporate strategy, operational improvement, mergers and acquisitions, and post-merger integration. Before Bain & Company, he was senior automation engineer at hard-disk manufacturer Komag, Inc.
Rastogi holds a bachelor of technology in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi and an M.S. in manufacturing engineering from Boston University. He also holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
David Vellequette
Chief Financial Officer
David Vellequette accepted the position of Chief Financial Officer in June of 2005. Since joining JDSU as Vice President and Operations Controller in July 2004, Vellequette has spearheaded a series of initiatives intended to reduce operational complexity throughout the corporation. Prior to joining JDSU, Vellequette was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Service Operations at Openwave Systems. Between 1992 and 2002, Vellequette held increasingly responsible positions at Cisco Systems, first as Corporate Controller of StrataCom Corporation (acquired by Cisco in 1996) and later as Vice President of Finance supporting the multi-billion dollar service provider line of business. From 1984 to 1992, Vellequette was Controller at Altera Corporation.
After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.S. in Accounting, Vellequette started his finance career as an auditor with Ernst and Young, where he became a Certified Public Accountant.
Thomas Waechter
Test and Measurement Business Segment
Thomas Waechter is responsible for JDSU's Communications Test and Measurement business. Prior to joining JDSU, Waechter was the chief operating officer of Harris Stratex Networks, an independent supplier of wireless transmission systems, where he was responsible for global operations, sales, services, and customer satisfaction. As president and chief executive officer of Stratex Networks, he was instrumental in the merging of Stratex and Harris, while growing revenues substantially and improving profitability. Prior to that, Waechter was the president and chief executive officer of REMEC Corporation and has also served as president and chief executive officer of Spectrian Corporation.
Additionally, he held a number of executive level global operations positions during his 14 year career with Schlumberger as well as a senior executive position with Asyst Technologies. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from The College of William and Mary. Waechter also serves as a trustee for the College of William and Mary Foundation.
