---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000936395-22-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CIEN"
cik: "0000936395"
company_name: "CIENA CORP"
filed_at: "2022-04-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T06:24:03.937288+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ciena stockholders elect three Class I directors, ratify auditor, approve say-on-pay

## Summary
- Elected Lawton W. Fitt, Devinder Kumar, and Patrick H. Nettles as Class I directors with majority support.
- Ratified PricewaterhouseCoopers as independent auditor for FY2022 with 127,091,906 for, 9,048,451 against.
- Advisory say-on-pay proposal approved with 118,626,832 for, 6,777,983 against, 10,521,813 broker non-votes.
- Total shares outstanding of 153,010,672 as of record date February 4, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000936395-22-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CIEN
- cik: 0000936395
- company_name: CIENA CORP
- filed_at: 2022-04-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639522000035/0000936395-22-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639522000035/cien-20220331.htm

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