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George Riedel

Chairman at Infinera

George Riedel has been a member of the Board of Directors since June 2020 and has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since November 2020. Mr. Riedel has served as a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit at Harvard Business School since 2017. From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Riedel served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CloudMark, Inc., a cybersecurity company, overseeing the company’s sale to Proofpoint, Inc. in 2017. From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Riedel served in executive leadership roles at Nortel Networks Corporation, a Canadian telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturing company, including the Chief Strategy Officer and Vice President of Business Units. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Riedel served as Vice President of Strategy and M&A at Juniper Networks, a networking and cybersecurity company. From 1987 to 2003, Mr. Riedel worked at McKinsey & Company, including as a senior partner. Mr. Riedel has served as an independent director at Cerner Corporation, a health information technology company, from April 2019 to June 2022. Between 2010 and 2020, Mr. Riedel also served on various boards, including as Chairman of Accedian Networks Inc., a Canadian network communications software company; as a director of PeerApp Ltd., a caching solution provider; and as a director of NextDocs Corporation, a compliance innovation company (acquired by Aurea Software, Inc.); and as a director of Xperi Corporation, a technology licensing company. Currently, Mr. Riedel is a board member of Juvare, a private company that provides emergency preparedness and response software solutions, and Bridgeway Benefit Technologies, a private company that provides healthcare and retirement benefit administration software focused on the end-to-end needs of self-administered multiemployer benefit funds and third-party administrators.

Mr. Riedel received a BS with distinction in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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