As Vice President for Asia Pacific for Infinera Asia, Simon Naylor focuses on extending the superior features and economics of Infinera’s unique, photonic integrated circuit-based Digital Optical Networks architecture, already embraced worldwide, to Asia Pacific. Mr Naylor’s operational responsibility is setting up of the company’s operations, building a strong technology and support team and establishing a network of partners to propel Infinera’s growth in this region. I

Mr Naylor brings more than fifteen years of technology experience in the Asia Pacific region to his position at Infinera.  Prior to joining Infinera in 2006, Mr Naylor was Vice-President, Asia Pacific and Japan for Sonus Networks, Inc, a pioneer in carrier class Voice-over-IP (VoIP) market. At Sonus, Mr Naylor was responsible for sales, marketing and business operations throughout the entire Asia Pacific region, including Japan.  He was instrumental in anchoring Sonus as a preferred provider of VoIP solutions throughout the region and for establishing strategic partnerships with industry-leading telecommunications providers, resellers and channel partners. 

Before Sonus, Mr Naylor was the Vice President, Asia Pacific for leading security and encryption software company RSA Security, overseeing the company’s regional operations. With Mr Naylor at the helm, RSA Security Asia Pacific’s revenues quadrupled in the three years since 1997 when Mr Naylor was running the company.  The company’s distribution channels also grew from 16 partners in six countries in 1997, to 65 partners in thirteen countries in 2000.  In addition, new offices were set up in Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Sydney, and an R&D centre was also set up in Brisbane. 

Mr Naylor began his career in Asia in 1989 with Case/Dowty Communications, ending his tenure there in 1992 as General Manager (GM) for Asia Pacific.  In 1992, he joined ITS (now named Equant) as General Manager, South Asia and was later promoted to Sales Director, Asia Pacific, in addition to the South Asia GM role.  In 1995, Mr. Naylor was further promoted to Managing Director, Asia Pacific, for ITS, a post he held until his departure from the company in October 1997.  While at ITS, Mr Naylor was instrumental in ITS meeting its revenue targets every year, with revenues quadrupling from US$20 million to US$80 million and with 400 staff in 11 countries across Asia Pacific. 

Mr Naylor holds a BA in Economics from the University of Manchester, UK