Vice President of Marketing

Marek Tlalka is responsible for Luxtera’s marketing organization. Marek has 20 years of marketing and development experience in wide area network systems and semiconductor solutions. Most recently Marek was the Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Ample Communications, where he was responsible for the strategic direction of the company’s marketing initiatives, sales, and product management. While there, he was instrumental in positioning the company as a leader in Ethernet aggregation semiconductors, resulting in a penetration of key customers world-wide and achieving a leading market share in the Ethernet MAC space.

Prior to joining Ample Communications, Marek was the Director of Marketing for SONET/SDH products at Mindspeed Technologies. Marek also worked with Applied Digital Access (acquired by Acterna and subsequently by JDSU) in San Diego, California and AG Communication Systems in Phoenix, Arizona.

Marek holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from San Diego State University.