Hamid Arabzadeh

Mr. Hamid Arabzadeh has been the Chairman and CEO of RANOVUS, a leading technology provider of photonic interconnect solutions for scaling AI Compute in hyper scale data centres, since its inception in 2012.

Prior to RANOVUS, Mr. Arabzadeh was the Chairman and CEO of COREOPTICS, based in Nuremberg Germany, an innovative provider of signal processing based photonic subsystems for high-capacity networking applications, before being acquired by Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) in 2010.

Formerly, Mr. Arabzadeh held various senior management positions at Nortel Networks in Brazil, Mexico, England, and USA. Mr. Arabzadeh’s last role at Nortel Networks was VP & GM of Metro Optical business unit, Nortel’s Cambrian acquisition.

Since his return to Canada in 2010, Mr. Arabzadeh has co-Founded several Canadian scaleups in fields of AI Sovereign Cloud, Security and Healthcare with an eye to benefit Canada in a competitive Data and IP driven global economy.

Mr. Arabzadeh holds a B.A.Sc. from University of Waterloo in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MBA from McGill University.