Cisco Adds Executive Vice President: People in the News: 3/27/24

Luna Innovations appointed Richard Roedel as interim executive chairman and interim president. The appointment follows the announcement that current president and CEO Scott Graeff is retiring. Roedel has served as chairman of Luna’s board since 2010. The company has begun a search for a new president and CEO, and appointed Mary Beth Vitale to serve as lead independent director during Roedel's service as executive chair. Graeff's departure, after more than 20 years at the company, comes after Luna announced earlier this month that it would delay sharing the results of its fourth quarter and FY23 financial results. On March 12, the company announced that it is reviewing "certain transactions" for which revenue was recognized in calendar year 2023 that did not qualify for revenue recognition under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

KISTA, Sweden — CEO of integrated chips and lasers supplier Sivers Semiconductors AB Anders Storm resigned from his position. Storm has been CEO of Sivers since 2016, and previously served as the company’s COO in 2015. Storm will remain in his position until a new CEO has taken office or until the end of his six-month notice period.

Martin Lund. Courtesy of Cisco.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Cisco promoted Eyal Dagan to executive vice president of strategic projects. Dagan previously led the company's Common Hardware Group since 2020. To fill Dagan's role, the company named Martin Lund executive vice president of its Common Hardware Group. Prior to joining Cisco, Lund was corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Azure for Operators, where he was responsible for delivering Azure-based solutions for public and private 5G, packet core, voice, and AI operations. Martin was CEO of Metaswitch Networks, a cloud native communications software company, before it was acquired by Microsoft.

Brad Booth. Courtesy of NLM Photonics.

SEATTLE — Networking photonics solutions developer NLM Photonics appointed Brad Booth CEO, replacing co-founder Gerard Zytnicki, who will serve as COO and chairman of the board. Booth is a current board member of NLM Photonics and previously served at Meta Platforms and Microsoft Azure where he focused on developing optical connectivity solutions for cloud and AI data centers. He also led the formation of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, the Ethernet Technology Consortium, the Consortium for On-Board Optics, and the Ethernet Alliance.

Tom Dunlap. Courtesy of WaveFront Dynamics Inc.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — WaveFront Dynamics Inc., a venture backed wavefront sensing technology company, added Tom Dunlap to its board as an independent director to support the company's ongoing commercialization efforts. Dunlap has held executive management positions at companies including HOYA Surgical Optics, Allergan Medical Optics (J&J Vision), Bausch + Lomb, Surgilase, Inc., and Coherent, Inc. He brings experience as an independent board member, non-executive director, and chairman of the board with private ophthalmic medical device companies.