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Infinera Appoints Cloud Infrastructure expert

Pinterest's head of cloud engineering Rajal Patel joins board of directors

Infinera, a maker of InP photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and networks based on them, has appointed Rajal M. Patel to the board of directors effective September 17, 2015.

Patel brings more than 20 years of experience in scaling cloud infrastructure for consumer Internet, SaaS and other service providers globally. Since March 2014, he has served as the head of cloud engineering at Pinterest. Prior to Pinterest, Patel served as senior vice president for technical operations at Salesforce.com from July 2013 to December 2013.

Patel was vice president for cloud services engineering at Cisco Systems from April 2010 to July 2013, and held various engineering and management roles at Yahoo! Inc. from 2004 to early 2010.

"We welcome Raj to our board," said Kambiz Hooshmand, chairman of the board of Infinera. "Raj has played key roles in building cloud network infrastructure at several major technology companies and brings a unique perspective on how end users, content providers and network operators are transforming to stay ahead of this market. His perspectives should be particularly useful as Infinera continues to introduce new solutions for cloud network operators."

"The cloud represents a significant and growing market opportunity," said Patel. "Infinera is very well positioned to capitalize on the growth of cloud network infrastructure. I am excited to join Infinera at this important stage of cloud network transformation and I look forward to working with the team to develop Intelligent Transport Networks that are optimised for the evolving requirements of cloud network operators."

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