MANAGEMENT

Radu Barsan | President and CEO
25 years of commercial experience in semiconductor and optical components corporate management, development, engineering and operations - Phaethon Communications, Cirrus Logic, AMD, Cypress Semiconductor - Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

Mitch Jansen | Engineering and Manufacturing Management
24 years of technical and executive management experience (CTO,COO, VP of Engineering and GM) in the laser and photonics industry - Novalux, Coherent, Bandwidth9, Uniphase, APT, TRW - Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Lew Stolpner | Director of Product Management
More than 20 years of R&D, product engineering and management experience in electro-optics, fiber optics and integrated optics - K2 Optronics (now EMCORE), Tyco/AMP, PhotoVac Technology, DuPont de Nemours - M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Vilnius University, Lithuania.

Axel Mehnert | Director of Manufacturing
More than 15 years experience in optoelectronic packaging R&D, product development, qualification and manufacturing management in Europe and the US - Finisar, Aifotec GmbH, Daimler Chrysler MEMS Dept. - Master in Physical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany.

Jeff Coburn | VP Finance
13 years experience in International Financial Management and law - Pericom Semiconductor Corporation, Callidus Software, and PCTEL, inc. - B.S. in Finance from CSU Fresno, J.D. from McGeorge School of Law, U.O.P.