Joanne B. Olsen

Joanne B. Olsen has served as a Director of Ciena since October 2018. Ms. Olsen chairs Ciena’s Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors. Ms. Olsen also serves on the board of directors of Teradata Corporation. From November 2016 to August 2017, Ms. Olsen was the Executive Vice President of Oracle Global Cloud Services and Support. From September 2010 to October 2016, Ms. Olsen served as Senior Vice President and leader of Oracle's applications sales, alliances, and consulting organizations in North America. Previously, during a 31-year tenure at IBM, Ms. Olsen held various executive management positions in sales, global financing and hardware. She began her career with Oracle as a systems analyst in 1979. Ms. Olsen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics, Economics and Accounting from East Stroudsburg University.