Raju Kankipati is currently SVP/GM at POET Technologies heading product management, sales, and marketing. He has over 20 years of experience in Optical transceivers, Optical components, Cloud data centers, and Optical networks at companies like Opnext (now Lumentum), Cisco, Arista and Macom. Raju received his MBA degree from UC Berkeley (Haas School of Business) and completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from BITS, Pilani in India