CIENA CORP

Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus·HANOVER, MD·FY end 10/31·CIK 936395

Overview Financials Compensation Governance Insiders Filings

Board of Directors

9 members · 8 independent · FY 2025

Director	Role	Tenure	Age	Committees	Indep.	Annual fees
Gary B. Smith	CEO and Director	24y	65	—	—	—
Joanne B. Olsen	Director	6y	67	CompGovernance and Nominations		$350,971
Mary G. Puma	Director	1y	68	Audit		$334,971
Hassan M. Ahmed	Director	4y	68	CompGovernance and Nominations		—
T. Michael Nevens	Director	10y	76	Audit		$334,971
Bruce L. Claflin	Director	18y	74	AuditComp		$344,971
Patrick T. Gallagher	Director	15y	71	CompGovernance and Nominations		$344,971
Lawton W. Fitt	Chair	24y	72	Governance and Nominations		$434,918
Devinder Kumar	Director	5y	70	Audit		$354,971

Risk-factor diff

FY 2025 10-K vs. FY 2024

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Net-new paragraphs in the most recent 10-K's Item 1A. Companies rarely add risk language without a real reason — additions here are often a leading signal of management concerns.

Policies & disclosures

Clawback, anti-hedging, stock ownership, and related-party policies will populate from extracted proxy sections.