Iwan Kwak
AVP Strategic Sourcing, Calix
Iwan Kwak leads Sourcing and Procurement Operations at Calix, which supplies broadband platforms to service providers from rural cooperatives in the US to fibre operators across Europe. He has spent more than 20 years in technology supply chains. He started in customer care at Lucent Technologies, then moved into sourcing at Avaya, where he ran international procurement from the UK before relocating to the US to manage contract manufacturing, OEMs and raw materials. He later led the supply chain organization at an embedded computing company in Oregon before joining Calix in 2020. Iwan's team is deliberately lean, so he relies on supplier partnerships, tested continuity plans and risk intelligence tools to spot disruption early. He's focused on using AI and market data to give sourcing teams earlier warning of supply risk and more room to act.