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Fahri Diner is a communications executive with extensive experience in conceiving new value propositions and building high-tech organizations to successfully execute aggressive business plans.
Fahri was the Founder, Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Qtera Corporation, founded in September 1998. Qtera quickly became the leading provider of ultra-long-haul photonic networking solutions for the Optical Internet and was acquired in January 2000 by Nortel Networks for $3.25 billion. Subsequent to the acquisition, Fahri continued to lead Qtera as a wholly owned subsidiary of Nortel in his capacity as President until May 2001.
Before founding Qtera, Fahri was with Siemens, where as a member of an executive team, he helped establish and manage the company's Optical Networks business unit in North America, which was later spun-off as Optisphere Networks in April 2000.
Prior to joining Siemens, Fahri led Pirelli's pioneering activities in the optical amplifier and Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) markets, including the introduction of the first terrestrial WDM system and the first multi channel, bi-directional optical amplifiers in North America. The optical systems division of Pirelli, where Fahri had overall product strategy, product management, and marketing responsibility was later acquired by Cisco Systems in March 2000 for $2.15 billion.
During his 13-year career in fiber optic telecommunications, Fahri's areas of responsibility have spanned product strategy, design and development, marketing, product line management, operations, business development, finance, and executive management. A native of Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean, Fahri came to the United States in 1985 on full academic scholarship to the Florida Institute of Technology, where he earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. Fahri holds five patents in the field of fiber optics and optical communications.
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