Board of Directors

Vivian Hudson
Vice-President and General Manager, Service Assurance Business Unit, Exfo Inc,.

Vivian Hudson was nominated Vice-President and General Manager for EXFO’s Service Assurance business unit 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 governor of Carleton University’s Board of Governors and sits on the board of 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.