Robert Richardson joined Xtera in 2008 and serves as the CSO. Prior to joining Xtera Robert’s experience includes working at Nortel Networks Telecordia and AT&T. At Nortel Networks he held various Executive and Leadership positions in Marketing, Product Management and Sales positions. His experience at AT&T included various engineering and management positions.

Robert attended the US Naval Academy and the Illinois Institute of Technology and majored in Engineering. He has completed Executive Education Programs in Marketing at Harvard Business School, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and The London School of Business.