POET Technologies Inc. announced that it has appointed Theresa Lan Ende, currently Chief Procurement Director of Arista Networks, as an advisor to the company's board of directors. The company also announced that it intends to nominate Theresa Lan Ende as a director at its annual general meeting currently scheduled for October 6, 2022. Before her appointment as Chief Procurement Director of Arista Networks in 2019, Theresa Lan Ende served for 10 years as its Senior Director of Global Supply Chain Management.

Prior to Arista, she held senior positions at JDSU Optical Division and Force10 Networks. At Cisco Systems and ROLM Telecommunications, Ms. Ende held various program management and planning management positions over a 20-year period. In 2019, she was honored as one of the “Top 100 Women of Influence” by Silicon Valley Business Journal.