Marc-Antoine Boutin leads Ciena’s Blue Planet product management team. In this role, he helps drive the product vision to reduce operational complexity, accelerate the deployment of 5G, and enable automation in next-generation SDN/NFV networks.

Marc-Antoine has over 20 years of experience in product management and product development in the networking and OSS industry and is passionate about products, emerging technologies, and go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining Ciena, Marc-Antoine was a Vice President at Spirent where his primary responsibility was 5G product strategy.

Marc-Antoine received his MBA from the University of Ottawa and his BASc in electrical engineering from the University of Sherbrooke.