Executive Biographies
Vice-President, Service Assurance Division
Vivian Hudson was nominated Vice-President for EXFO’s Service Assurance
Division in September 2008.
Prior to joining EXFO, Ms. Hudson held various general management positions
at Nortel, including those of General Manager for the Systems Integration unit:
the Microsoft-Nortel Innovative Communications Alliance; the GSM business in
France; and the High-Capacity Optical Networks group.
Ms. Hudson first began at Nortel in 1990 and worked through the ranks, namely
in European Marketing (based in the UK and in France), Optical Product
Management, Wireless Operations, as well as Optical and Wireless General
Management. Prior to this, she held positions at Bell Canada as a business/
services planner, at Canadian Pacific as a telecommunications networking end
user, and at DMR as a telecommunications consultant.
A recognized global high-tech business leader, Ms. Hudson has also pursued
sustainable development activities in the telecommunications area and serves
on several boards. Namely, she is a member of the Board of Directors of Nakina Systems Corporation and Shad International. She also holds the ICD.D
designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors of Canada.
Vivian Hudson holds a Bachelor of Science from
Université Laval in Quebec City,
and a Master of Business Administration from McGill University in Montreal.