Lumentum Holdings Inc. announced the appointment of Caroline Pan as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, reporting to Alan Lowe, President and Chief Executive Officer. Pan will be responsible for leading Strategic Marketing, Corporate Marketing and Communications, and Lumentum Ventures, a company- wide initiative to drive market expansion through breakthrough innovation. Pan is a seasoned industry executive with nearly 30 years of experience across the high-tech, industrial, and automotive sectors.

Before joining Lumentum, she was the Chief Marketing Officer for Bright Machines, a venture-backed software and robotics company that provides intelligent automation solutions for discrete manufacturing. Prior to Bright Machines, Pan was a Vice President at Honeywell International, where she last led Strategy, Innovation, and Ventures for the company's $7B Safety & Productivity Solutions business. She also established Honeywell's first Corporate Marketing function and led Strategy & Marketing for their Global High Growth Regions organization.

Pan also served as Global Vice President of Emerging Markets for Hewlett-Packard's PC and Printing division, and spent 11 years with Intel Corporation, where she held a variety of leadership roles in their core product groups and corporate functions. She began her career as a design engineer and product line manager at Ford Motor Company. Pan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.