---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000936395-24-000014"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CIEN"
cik: "0000936395"
company_name: "CIENA CORP"
filed_at: "2024-04-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T13:19:45.373369+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ciena VP & Principal Accounting Officer Petrik to retire effective April 2025

## Summary
- VP & Principal Accounting Officer Andrew C. Petrik notified retirement effective April 25, 2025.
- Petrik has served since 1996 and will remain in role through effective date to assist transition.
- No successor named; company expects orderly handover over next 12 months.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000936395-24-000014
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CIEN
- cik: 0000936395
- company_name: CIENA CORP
- filed_at: 2024-04-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639524000014/0000936395-24-000014-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639524000014/cien-20240422.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000936395-24-000014
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000936395-24-000014.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000936395-24-000014.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Andrew C. Petrik departed as Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer and Controller at CIENA CORP.
  - Action: notified retirement
  - Role: Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer and Controller
  source text: On April 22, 2024, Andrew C. Petrik, (age 60), Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer and Controller of Ciena Corporation (the “Company”), notified the Company of his decision to retire in twelve months, effective April 25, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639524000014/0000936395-24-000014-index.htm

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