Jagdeep Singh

A leader in digital optical telecommunications systems, Jagdeep Singh has been president and CEO of three companies, AirSoft, Inc., Lightera and now Infinera, which he founded in 2001 in the heart of Silicon Valley. The company has radically innovated fiber-optics – the underpinning of internet service and modern communication networks – by creating a circuit called a “photonic chip” that combines multiple fiber-optic components, is capable of transmitting more than 100 billion bits of information per second, and has the potential to reduce equipment and operating costs for service providers throughout the world.