Dr. Ghazi Chaoui
Senior Vice President – Global Manufacturing and Digital Transformation
An industry veteran of nearly 40 years, Dr. Chaoui (widely known as “Ghazi”) is the former Chief Procurement Officer at Coherent Corp. Ghazi holds PhD and MS degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering and an MBA. He began his career as an R&D lead designer and manager with AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Microelectronics in Reading, PA. Over the next 40 years Ghazi held key manufacturing and supply chain roles in several countries with Lucent Technologies, Corvis Corporation/Broadwin Communications, Infinera, Oclaro, Teraxion, Kaiam Corp. and Macom Technology Solutions Holdings.