Adam CarterFounder

United States - San Jose, California

Experienced, highly driven, strategic thinking, results orientated business executive with over 25 years experience in optical communications, data center, service provider and semiconductor global markets.

Major Accomplishments

Foxconn Interconnect

As CCO of Foxconn Interconnect developed new GTM plan for the
Group including restructuring sales and marketing. Developed Strategic
Plan that led to the divestment of the group to Broadcom in Dec 2019

Oclaro Inc

As a key executive officer at Oclaro transformed a loss making
company ($35M/Qtr) to making +10% Operating Income/Qtr in
16 quarters. A result of this turn around was the company was acquired
by Lumentum Holdings for $1.85Bn (3xAnnual Revenue) in Dec 2018.

Cisco Systems

As General Manager of TMG at Cisco drove revenue growth of 130%
in 6 years and increased GM by 20% in a multi billion dollar business.
During this period acquired and integrated a Silicon Photonics
company (Lightwire). The result of the acqusition was the first Cisco
internally developed 100G singlemode optical module (CPAK) resulting
in $100M in revenue in the first 12 months of release.

Key Skills include :-

- P&L and Budget Management,
- Strategic Marketing/Planning
- R@D Management
- Product and Product Line Management
- Optical Transmission and Data Networking Systems
- Investor relations
- Complex Problem Solving
- Negotiating Complex large Supply Contracts
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Global Sales, Sales Processes and Customer Management
- III-V Fabrication and Manufacturing processes
- Supply Chain/ Back End Manufacturing processes and Quality
Management
- Program Management
- Public Speaking/Customer Presentations
- Thorough understanding of international cultures and managing
large global teams