Yuki is a director of product management in Alcatel Lucent's Cloudband business unit.In his role, Yuki is responsible for driving the product strategy for the Cloudband NFV product line - he is focused on networking and SDN integration as well as performance acceleration technologies. He also works closely with the various Alcatel Lucent product lines to move them to run on top of Cloudband.Prior to joining Alcatel Lucent, Yuki spent the better part of his career in working in engineering, architecture and product management positions in P-Cube, a networking startup later acquired by Cisco, where he continued to work almost five years. He left Cisco to pursue an executive leadership role in an early stage startup named Comsleep.Yuki holds a B.Sc in physics and math and an MBA. He is also the co-author of two patents.