Rick Seeto

Rick Seeto is currently vice president and general manager of Asia Pacific and Japan. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for sales and sales strategy within the geographical area encompassing Japan, Korea, Greater China region and southeast Asia. In this role, he leads the Ciena field sales teams and interfaces with a variety of communication service providers and internet content players to understand their business needs and ensure Ciena is delivering networking solutions that underpin their business success.

He brings to Ciena a wealth of experience working in the Asia Pacific region, previously holding several leadership roles within Nortel Networks including CMO of APAC, vice president of enterprise networks as well as positions managing partner programs. Prior to joining Ciena, Seeto oversaw sales and services at Citrix Systems APJ for their mobile data optimisation platform, and prior to that was a senior director at Avaya responsible for the APAC channel business and marketing.