Tellabs names Andrew B. Szafran as new CFO

Tellabs named Andrew Szafran as new chief financial officer (CFO) and executive vice president, effective April 16, 2012.

Szafran succeeds Timothy J. Wiggins, who resigned in December to accept the CFO position at DeVry.

Szafran, 45, will be responsible for all of Tellabs' global finance operations, including finance, accounting, treasury, audit, financial planning, risk management, tax and investor relations.

He will report to Robert W. Pullen, Tellabs chief executive officer(CEO).

Prior to joining Tellabs, Szafran served as senior vice president and CFO at APAC Customer Services, a leading BPO (business process outsourcing) firm, since 2008. Szafran previously served as vice president and CFO for Communications Supply Corp., a distributor of IP infrastructure products and solutions. He was senior vice president — finance for Alliant Foodservice (now U.S. Foodservice), and started his career at Chemical Banking Corporation (now JP Morgan Chase & Co.).