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| PAUL
MEISSNER (CEO, Santur Corporation) |
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Paul is
an industry veteran with over 18 years of leadership
experience in optics and semiconductors. He joins Santur from Coherent, where he most recently served as the EVP
of Global Business Operations. Prior to that, Paul held
several executive management and technology leadership
positions at KLA-Tencor and Applied
Materials. In addition,
he advises entrepreneurs through the Global Social Benefit
Incubator at Santa Clara University, and through the
Digital Visions Program at Stanford University. Paul
holds an undergraduate degree from the University of
California, Berkeley in materials science and engineering,
and he obtained both his masters and doctorate degrees
in materials science and engineering from Stanford University. |
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| BARDIA
PEZESHKI (CTO) |
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Prior to
founding Santur, Bardia managed the
Technology Development group at SDL INC.
(now part of JDS Uniphase). From 1996
to 2000, the group developed numerous diode-based technologies
for high power and telecom applications. Before SDL,
he managed an optoelectronics group at IBM T.J.Watson
Research Center, where his own work centered
on novel devices for WDM telecommunications. Bardia has
numerous publications and patents in the field, including
the first patent on micromechanically tunable VCSELs,
currently being commercialized by a number of companies.
Bardia obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from
Stanford University in 1991, with a graduate thesis on
vertical cavity modulators. |
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| BYRON
TROP (VP, Sales) |
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Byron joins Santur from Bookham, where he served as the
VP of Sales for over 3 years. During this time, he built
a world-class sales team that contributed greatly to
Bookham's success and emergence as an industry leading
optical components supplier, growing from a few million
in quarterly revenue to more than $40M/quarter. Byron
began his career as a Naval Officer serving in Nuclear
Submarines. From there he has assumed roles of increasing
responsibility in Sales and Marketing with several companies
including Raychem Corporation and another
Bay Area Telecommunications start-up company, WaveSplitter
Technologies. |
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| ED
VAIL (Director, Packaging) |
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Ed Vail received
his BS from Caltech in 1991 and Ph.D. from Stanford
in 1996 both in Electrical Engineering. His thesis work
included demonstrating the first working micromechanical
tunable VCSEL, a technology now being commercialized
by several companies. Ed then joined SDL (now
part of JDS Uniphase), and worked on
a number of different research and development projects
including red lasers, high speed lasers, 2.5 Gb/s transceivers,
and Raman pumps, before helping to found Santur
in 2000.
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