Management Team

David Gudmundson
President & CEO

David has a proven history as a senior executive building teams, expanding market-share and revenue, and delivering upon aggressive measurable goals across a number of industries, including Networking, Optics, and Government and Defense. His experience spans the globe in the technology and engineering fields, working for companies such as JDSU and Cisco Systems. In these roles, he has managed businesses with over $1 Billion in total annual revenue, acquired and integrated a dozen companies, and led globally distributed organizations.

As President of JDSU’s Optical Communications Product Group and a Corporate Executive VP, David led a 3,000-person team to significantly increased profitability, revenue growth, and market share. In his role as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, M&A and Marketing, he played a critical role in identifying and executing a number of acquisitions as well as a corporate restructuring that helped JDSU become a profitable portfolio company.

Prior, David served as a Group Vice President and General Manager for Cisco Systems. He was a driving force behind Cisco’s entry into both the access router and broadband markets, and he led the company’s successful entry into the security server market. He also held engineering positions at ArgoSystems, a subsidiary of Boeing, and ESL Incorporated, now part of Northrop Grumman. David earned a BSEE from the University of Missouri-Rolla and an MBA from San Jose State University.