VIAVI Solutions CEO and leadership

Oleg Khaykin joined Viavi in February 2016 as President and CEO, bringing more than 28 years of industry experience to Viavi. Prior to joining Viavi, Mr. Khaykin was a Senior Advisor with Silver Lake Partners. Before that, Mr. Khaykin was President and CEO of International Rectifier from 2008 until its acquisition by Infineon AG in the January of 2015. He has also served as Chief Operating Officer of Amkor Technology and Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at Conexant Systems. Earlier in his career he spent eight years with The Boston Consulting Group and prior to that, he was an engineer at Motorola. Mr. Khaykin holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with honors from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Paul McNab joined VIAVI (then JDSU) in September 2014, following a 16-year career at Cisco Systems where he held executive-level marketing, strategy and engineering positions. In these roles, he worked closely with leading public and private data center operators and spearheaded corresponding strategic initiatives and product roadmaps for next generation network architectures, including software-defined networking. He also led the enterprise marketing organization, with an associated $25 billion product portfolio, and built and managed an architecture team that delivered cross-portfolio solutions for the services provider and enterprise markets. McNab also founded a startup that developed a disruptive software-based network solution, managed as portable code, for global public and private cloud and enterprise customers. McNab holds a B.S. degree from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Henk Derksen joined VIAVI in March 2021 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Derksen came to VIAVI from Belden Inc. In his 21-year career at Belden, he held multiple senior leadership roles in corporate finance, treasury, financial planning and analysis, and EMEA leadership. Derksen most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since January 2012. Early in his career, Derksen worked in public accounting at Price Waterhouse Coopers. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Arnhem in the Netherlands, and holds a Master’s degree in Business Economics and Tax from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Mr. Hendrikus P. C. Derksen is Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President - Finance of Belden Inc. Prior to that, he served as Vice President, Corporate Finance from July 2011 to December 2011 and Treasurer and Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis of the Company from January 2010 to July 2011. In August of 2003, he became Vice President, Finance for the Company’s EMEA division, after joining the Company at the end of 2000. He was Vice President and Controller of Plukon Poultry, a food processing company from 1998 to 2000, and has 5 years’ experience in public accounting with Price Waterhouse and Baker Tilly. Mr. Derksen has a M.A. in Accounting from the University of Arnhem in the Netherlands and holds a doctoral degree in Business Economics in addition to an Executive Master of Finance & Control from Tias Business School in the Netherlands.

Oleg Khaykin joined Viavi in February 2016 as President and CEO, bringing more than 28 years of industry experience to Viavi. Prior to joining Viavi, Mr. Khaykin was a Senior Advisor with Silver Lake Partners. Before that, Mr. Khaykin was President and CEO of International Rectifier from 2008 until its acquisition by Infineon AG in the January of 2015. He has also served as Chief Operating Officer of Amkor Technology and Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at Conexant Systems. Earlier in his career he spent eight years with The Boston Consulting Group and prior to that, he was an engineer at Motorola. Mr. Khaykin holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with honors from Carnegie-Mellon University.