Scotty Benda

Scotty Benda has over 27 years of experience developing, installing, supporting and selling voice, data and optical networking solutions while working with enterprises, governments and service providers globally.  Scotty was appointed as VP & GM, Global Services in 2011 at Ciena.  Prior to this role, he was Global VP, Sales Systems Engineering from 2006 - 2010.  Scotty came to Ciena from the ONI Systems acquisition in 2002 where he held Senior R&D Management and Global Product Introduction Director posts.  He lead the ONI east coast R&D lab and drove development of the first GA software release helping prepare ONI Systems for a successful IPO and secondary offering. Scotty started in the telecom industry in 1986 at Northern Telecom as a professional services engineer; he also served as a software developer for the DMS-100, software architect for the Remote Switching Center and manager of the Global Product Support team.  After Nortel, Scotty worked at Lucent from 1996 - 1999 in the Integrated Network Systems division as a Regional SE Manager and Systems Engineering Director helping shape their data networking portfolio for next generation service providers.