---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000936395-25-000029"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CIEN"
cik: "0000936395"
company_name: "CIENA CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T04:00:50.852297+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ciena appoints Marc D. Graff as CFO effective Aug 1, 2025

## Summary
- Marc D. Graff named SVP and CFO, reporting to CEO Gary B. Smith, effective August 1, 2025.
- Graff brings nearly 30 years of finance experience, most recently as CFO at Altera (Intel subsidiary).
- Compensation: $650K base salary, target 100% cash bonus, $1.95M sign-on bonus, $10.486M equity grant.
- Outgoing CFO James E. Moylan Jr. retires after 16+ years; effective August 28, 2025, to assist transition.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000936395-25-000029
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CIEN
- cik: 0000936395
- company_name: CIENA CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639525000029/0000936395-25-000029-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639525000029/cien-20250618.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000936395-25-000029
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000936395-25-000029.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Marc D. Graff was appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at CIENA CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On June 18, 2025, Ciena Corporation (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Marc D. Graff as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and that the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) has designated Mr. Graff as the Company’s principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, effective, in each case, as of August 1, 2025 (the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639525000029/0000936395-25-000029-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.