Michael Hurlston
Michael E. Hurlston is the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Lumentum Holdings Inc., a designer and manufacturer of optical and photonic products, a position he has held since February 2025. He is best known as a veteran technology executive who has led three public companies, having previously served as CEO of Synaptics Incorporated from 2019 to February 2025 and CEO of Finisar Corporation in 2018 and 2019. Prior to his CEO roles, he spent sixteen years at Broadcom Limited in senior leadership positions. He holds advanced degrees in electrical engineering and business administration and serves on the Board of Executive Trustees of the UC Davis Foundation.
“Michael Hurlston is the CEO of Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE), one of the world's leading suppliers of optical networking and laser technologies powering AI data centers.”
“In those five quarters, we've tripled our top line revenues. So the stock price has gone up 10 or 12 times.”
Source→“What I've done is said, OK, look, let's focus our efforts on the data center. There's enough here going on that we really want to simplify our business as much as we possibly can, focus on where we think the biggest opportunities are.”
Source→“The board of directors showed me a forecast and they said, hey, here's what we think the company is going to do. And I, of course, discounted it by about 50 percent. And it's been probably 4x over what they even showed me.”
Source→“Tony was sort of framing... what all of these different things mean and what Lumentum's role is in all of that... one of the bright minds in the industry”
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