Dr.
Giovanni Barbarossa
Senior Vice President
and CTO
 As
Avanex's senior technical officer,
Giovanni Barbarossa has overall
responsibility for the technology
direction of the company.
Dr. Barbarossa has an impressive record
of technical achievement and broad
experience with some of the foremost
companies in the optical communications
industry, including Lucent and Agilent
Technologies. His responsibilities
at Avanex encompass continued innovation
in the company's pioneering photonic
processing technologies, and rapid
development of viable passive components
with immediate application and multi-functional
intelligent modules and subsystems
for optical network applications.
Dr. Barbarossa began his career at
Avanex in February 2000 as Director
of Research and Development. He subsequently
was promoted to VP, Product Development
and was assigned responsibility for
all product development, including
optical platform design, process engineering,
packaging, automation, electronics
and software development.
Throughout his career, Dr. Barbarossa
has been instrumental in a number
of key product development initiatives.
He had management responsibilities
for the development of advanced optical
switching platforms during his tenure
with the Optical Networking Division
of Agilent Technologies. In addition,
he led the Lucent Technologies Arrayed
Waveguide Grating design team in the
Optical Application Specific Integrated
Circuits department, with overall
responsibility for Planar Lightwave
Circuit design and wafer technology
as well as packaging and test development.
Earlier, he was a member of the Technical
Staff of Bell Laboratories. Before
joining Bell Laboratories, he served
on the faculty of Polytechnic of Bari,
Italy, and was an assistant researcher
in the Oxide Glasses for Future Networks
Group at British Telecom Research
Laboratories.
Dr. Barbarossa received his Ph.D. in
electrical engineering from the University
of Glasgow, Scotland, and a bachelor
of science in electrical engineering,
cum laude, from the University of
Bari, Italy.
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