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Vellequette currently serves as chief financial officer of JDSU a position he has held since June of 2005. As CFO of JDSU Vellequette has played an integral role in improving the company’s profitability metrics through an extensive program of cost reductions. During his tenure and in support of JDSU’s strategic objective to diversify its revenue both organic growth and acquisition have contributed to annual revenue growth of more than 70 percent. He joined JDSU as vice president and operations controller in July 2004. Prior to joining JDSU Vellequette was vice president of worldwide sales and service operations at Openwave Systems.
Between 1992 and 2002 Vellequette held increasingly responsible positions at Cisco Systems first as corporate controller of StrataCom Corporation (acquired by Cisco in 1996) and later as vice president of finance supporting the multi-billion dollar service provider line of business. From 1984 to 1992 Vellequette was controller at Altera Systems. Vellequette started his finance career as an auditor with Ernst and Young where he became a Certified Public Accountant.
He holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of California Berkeley. | 