Josh Finke joins Lumen as SVP, public sector

Josh Finke—a veteran networking industry executive with 25 years of technology leadership experience in networking, security, cloud, artificial intelligence and communications—has joined Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) as Senior Vice President, Public Sector.

Finke leads Lumen's multifunctional, customer-facing organization responsible for sales, business development, capture management, and the program management office, with accountability for the Public Sector team's overall go-to-market strategy and profit and loss. The Lumen Public Sector business encompasses the federal government, state and local government, military agencies, K-12 schools, research and education institutions, healthcare, and public safety organizations.

Jason Schulman, National Vice President of Lumen's Federal business, and Michelle Watson, National Vice President of Lumen's State, Local and Education business, along with Dan Klein, Lumen's Vice President of Program Management, will report to Finke, who will report to Ashley Haynes-Gaspar, Lumen's Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer.

Finke's experience spans the enterprise, mid-market and public sector segments, with an in-depth focus on government agencies. He has held leadership positions at Compucom as Chief Solutions Officer, at Zones as Chief Strategy Officer, at Iron Bow as Vice President, Advanced and Emerging Technologies, and with leading integration and consulting leaders.

Read the full press release here.

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