Lumentum Holdings Inc. announced the appointment of Wajid Ali as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective February 11, 2019. Mr. Ali will also serve as the company's principal financial officer, replacing Christopher Coldren who had been serving as the company's Interim Chief Financial Officer since June 2018.Mr. He joins Lumentum from Synaptics Incorporated, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He was Vice President and Controller of Teledyne Technologies, after having served as Chief Financial Officer at DALSA Corporation, a public semiconductor company that was acquired by Teledyne in 2011.

Mr. Ali holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business, York University, a Master of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from York University, and CPA and CMA designations from Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario, Canada.