Mr. Weening has served as Calix's president and chief executive officer since October 2022. As Calix's president and chief executive officer, Mr. Weening brings substantial experience and knowledge regarding our business strategy, markets and operations to Calix's board of directors. He also brings to the Board an extensive background in the telecommunications and networking technology industries. From January 2021 until September 2022, Mr. Weening served as president and chief operating officer at Calix; as executive vice president and chief operating officer from August 2020 until January 2021; as executive vice president, global operations from January 2019 until August 2020; and as executive vice president in various capacities over our field operations and sales and marketing organizations from June 2016 until January 2019. Prior to joining Calix, Mr. Weening held various sales executive leadership roles at Salesforce, Inc., a customer relationship management company. From August 2014 until June 2016, Mr. Weening served as senior vice president of global customer success and services at Salesforce, and from May 2012 until August 2014 as senior vice president of customer and sales growth in Japan and Asia Pacific at Salesforce. From May 2009 until May 2012, Mr. Weening served as vice president of business sales at Bell Mobility in Canada. Prior to joining Bell Mobility, Mr. Weening also held various sales leadership roles at Microsoft Corporation in Canada and the United Kingdom. Mr. Weening holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Brock University.