Mr. Hamid Arabzadeh has been the Chairman and CEO of RANOVUS, www.ranovus.com, a leading technology provider of photonic interconnect solutions for AI/ML workloads, since its inception in 2012.  Ranovus is headquartered in Kanata, Ontario, Canada with European R&D center in Nuremberg, Germany, and business development presence in Sunnyvale CA USA.

Prior to RANOVUS, Mr. Arabzadeh was the Chairman and CEO of CoreOptics, an innovative provider of photonic subsystems for high-capacity networking applications based in Nuremberg Germany, 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.

Prior to joining Nortel, Mr. Arabzadeh was the President of UNICAD information systems, a custom CAD/CAM software development company in Montreal, Canada.

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. He resides with his family in Toronto and enjoys soccer, tennis, and downhill skiing.