Lumentum Appoints Wajid Ali Executive VP and CFO

Lumentum Holdings Inc. has appointed Wajid Ali as executive vice president and chief financial officer, replacing Christopher Coldren, who had been serving as the company’s Interim CFO since June 2018.

Lumentum officials said Ali brings extensive financial management expertise to the company, as well as a deep knowledge of the technology industry. He joins Lumentum from Synaptics Inc., where he served as senior vice president and CFO. Prior to that, he was vice president and controller of Teledyne Technologies, after having served as CFO at DALSA Corp., a public semiconductor company that was acquired by Teledyne in 2011.

In addition, Ali held key financial management positions at AMD and ATI, overseeing the finance functions for large business groups.

Ali has an MBA from the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada; M.A. and B.A. degrees in economics from York University; and CPA and CMA designations from Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario, Canada.