Loukas Paraschis

Loukas Paraschis is from Menlo Park, California, United States. Loukas is currently Vice President of Business Development, Optical AI/ML infrastructure at Lumentum, located in San Francisco Bay Area. Loukas also works as Optical Fiber Communication steering and long-range planning committees at IEEE Communications Society, a job Loukas has held since Dec 2020. In Loukas's previous role as a Vice President of Product and Business Development at Stealth Start-Up incubated by Sutter Hill Ventures, Loukas worked in Palo Alto, California, United States and Athens, Greece until Nov 2025. Prior to joining Stealth Start-Up incubated by Sutter Hill Ventures, Loukas was a Vice President of Business Development at Alphawave Semi and held the position of Vice President of Business Development at San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Loukas was a Chief Business Officer at Banias Labs USA (DCI DSP start-up, acquired by Alphawave), based in Menlo Park, California, United States from Jun 2022 to Dec 2022. Loukas started working as Vice President Of Product and Business Development at Banias Labs USA (DCI DSP start-up, acquired by Alphawave) in Menlo Park, CA in Dec 2021. From Jan 2020 to Aug 2021, Loukas was Senior/Managing Director, Internet and cloud providers network architecture and technology at Infinera, based in San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Loukas was a Senior Director, System Engineering Internet Cloud and Content Providers at Infinera, based in San Francisco Bay Area from Jan 2016 to Dec 2019. Loukas started working as Senior Technology Solution Architect, Global Service Provider Sales at Cisco in San Jose, CA in Jan 2011.