Ike Harris is a seasoned supply chain and manufacturing executive who serves on the board of directors for Lumentum Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LITE) as an independent board member. He is a member of the compensation committee and the enterprise risk management workgroup. Lumentum is a market-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and laser applications worldwide. Ike is also a board director for Trajectory Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 2017. Trajectory’s aim is to help African American students accelerate the trajectory of their lives through scholarships to attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Most recently, Ike was corporate vice president, global supply chain operations for ZT Systems. Headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey, ZT engineers and manufacturers hyperscale storage and high-performance compute infrastructure solutions for the world’s largest cloud service providers. ZT is one of America’s fastest-growing private companies, and Ike’s responsibilities included customer operations, global manufacturing, procurement, logistics, import/export compliance, and corporate social and environmental responsibility. Ike led a global team based in the United States, Taiwan, China, and the Netherlands.

Previously, Ike held multiple senior leadership roles at Cisco Systems, including vice president, global planning and fulfillment, for all Cisco hardware and software products ($39 billion). Prior to this role, he was vice president, global manufacturing operations for Asia Pacific, Japan, and China (APJC) and the APJC regional supply chain operations leader based in Hong Kong. Site accountabilities included Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, and India.

Ike also held global leadership positions at HP, including vice president, supply chain for the notebook global business unit. He was based in Taipei, Taiwan, and was part of the executive team that grew HP’s laptop computing business from $7 billion to $22 billion. Ike had team members in the United States, China, and Taiwan.

Ike is a passionate advocate for diversity, inclusion, and equality in the workplace and has made a career of creating opportunities and making positive change. He is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council. He previously served on Howard University’s Business School Advisory Board. He was recognized by Savoy Magazine on its 2020 list of Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America.

Ike holds a master of business administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (finance and strategic policy), a master of business administration from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium (School of Applied Economic Sciences), and a bachelor of business administration from Loyola University Chicago (finance).