Charles Chi

Charles Chi is the founder of Lightera Networks, Inc. He worked as a Chief Executive Officer at Lytro, Inc. and held director positions at Siliquent Technologies, Inc., Aquantia Corp., Kickfire, Inc., Sanera Systems, Inc., Espial Group, Inc., SiTime Corp., Calista Technologies, Inc., and ZeroG Wireless, Inc. Prior to that, he worked as a Marketing Manager at Cisco Systems, Inc., a Customer Systems Engineer at StrataCom, Inc., and a Vice President-Marketing at Ciena Corp.
He started his career as a Principal at The Bell Telephone Company of Canada and later worked as a Manager-Product Line at AT&T Canada Corp.
He also worked as a Partner at Greylock Management Corp.
Mr. Chi earned an undergraduate degree from Carleton University in 1988.