Alan Lowe is responsible for the company's Commercial Laser Products Group. He brings over 20 years of experience in general management operations sales and business development with technology companies to JDSU.

Before joining JDSU in September 2007 Lowe was Senior Vice President Customer Solutions Group at Asyst Technologies Inc. a leader in automating semiconductor and flat panel display fabs. From 2000 to 2003 he was president and chief executive officer of Read-Rite Corporation a manufacturer of thin-film recording heads for disk and tape drives. From 1989 to 2000 Lowe served in roles of increasing responsibility at Read-Rite including President and Chief Operating Officer and senior vice president customer business units. Prior to joining Read-Rite he served in various sales positions with Microcom Corporation and IBM Corporation.

He is a member of the advisory board of ETM Inc. a privately held provider of tailored power subsystems. Lowe holds bachelor's degrees in computer science and business economics from the University of California Santa Barbara and also completed the Stanford Executive Program in 1994.