Robert Jandro
SVP Worldwide Sales
Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Robert ‘Bob’ Jandro has been named Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Infinera. The search was led by Mark Lonergan.
About Robert
Prior to joining Infinera, Bob served as VP of Business Development of Openwater Software, Inc., a big data and analytics cloud company, and CEOand President of nSite Software, Inc., an early cloud company acquired by Business Objects. Before joining nSite, Bob served as the EVP of Global Sales and Services for ONI Systems. Joining pre-revenue, he built and led a worldwide sales and support organization. During this time, he also participated as a Member of the Executive Staff in raising $1 billion in capital through an IPO in 2000 and follow-on offerings. Bob worked at Oracle from 1996 to 2000 where he last served as the Group VP of Oracle’s Communications and Utilities Industries. With responsibility for sales, support, professional services, and business development for these markets, his team represented $400 million in revenue. Before joining Oracle, he worked for 14 years at Tandem Computers where he last served as Managing Director of the EMEAdivision. He also held several other sales and marketing management positions.
Bob earned a Masters of Management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a B.S. in Business from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
About Infinera
Infinera specializes in Digital Optical Networking solutions that are designed to continually improve the economics of optical networking by combining the speed of optics with the simplicity of digital. Infinera is unique in its use of breakthrough semiconductor technology: Large Scale Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC). Infinera’s systems leverage PIC technology to provide customers with a service-ready architecture that enables faster time-to-revenue and greater profitability through network efficiency and the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated services without reengineering their optical infrastructure.
We are excited that Bob has joined Infinera to lead the worldwide sales team. Bob’s unique set of executive leadership skills, combined with his demonstrated ability to create and drive growth strategies, make him the ideal leader to accelerate Infinera’s success. I was very impressed with Lonergan Partners. Mark brought clear and practical insight into our business and its corresponding challenges. Most impressive was Mark’s honest assessment of what we needed and his candid review of the many candidates he brought into the discussion. I am certain I will take advantage of his services in the future.
Tom Fallon, CEO, Infinera
Infinera is poised to accomplish great things in the coming era of optical communications. I am happy to be joining this extraordinary team.
Robert Jandro, SVP Worldwide Sales, Infinera
Bob Jandro is one of the top sales and marketing executives in the networking world. I view him as the ideal fit for this dynamic carrier systems company.
Mark Lonergan, Founder & Managing Partner, Lonergan Partners