To achieve this, Openlight is enabling design and development engineers in all industries to do their own PASIC designs using OpenLight’s Process Design Kit (PDK).
This open platform strategy is aimed at making OpenLight’s unique technology widely available to many different industries, including datacom, telecom, LiDAR, healthcare, HPC, AI, and optical computing.
# The OpenLight Leadership Team
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Dr. Adam Carter
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Carter is a semiconductor communications industry veteran, with an impressive 35-year track record. He has been instrumental in the growth of some of the world’s leading manufacturers of integrated, optical communications systems, optical components, modules and subsystems, and has been involved in several successful business exits, turnarounds, and acquisitions.
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James Dixon
Chief Financial Officer
James Dixon brings over 25 years of finance leadership experience spanning global technology companies and high-growth environments. At Cisco, he served as Divisional CFO for the Data Center Networking Group and previously for the Enterprise Networking and Services Group, where he supported the optics and transceiver businesses. Earlier at Intel, James served as a Senior Finance Manager at Intel Capital, supporting mergers and acquisitions. He was also Corporate Accounting Manager, leading the company’s financial and SEC reporting, and was an early finance leader in Intel’s Network Products Group.
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Dr. Volkan Kaman
VP Operations
Dr. Kaman was formerly the Senior Director of Engineering at Juniper’s silicon photonics group. Before joining Juniper, he was the VP of Engineering at Aurrion Inc. (acquired by Juniper in 2016), which developed the core silicon photonics technology that forms the foundation of OpenLight. Early in his career, Dr. Kaman was Chief Systems Architect and Director of Product Management at Calient Networks. Dr. Kaman holds a PhD from UCSB and a BSc from Cornell University, both in Electrical Engineering.
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John Parker
Senior Director, Engineering
Dr. Parker is an expert in photonic chip design for LIDAR and Data Communications with 12 years of industry experience. He has worked on laser and modulator design, mask layout, cleanroom fabrication, testing, reliability, and optical module control and validation. He was formerly a Senior Staff Hardware Engineer in Juniper Networks' silicon photonics group and held positions as an OptoElectronic Device Scientist at Aurrion Inc and a Photonic Device Scientist at Freedom Photonics. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has 26 granted US patents.
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Molly Piels
Senior PIC Architect
Molly Piels is an integrated photonics expert with over 10 years’ experience in IMDD and coherent systems, PIC design, and test. She received her Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of California Santa Barbara and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) before joining Juniper. She has been on the Juniper, and now OpenLight, Silicon Photonics team since then. She has authored or coauthored over 50 papers and is active in the organizing committee for the Optical Fiber Communications Conference, the premier conference in the field.
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Chris Barnard
Senior Director, Test & Software
Dr. Barnard has 30 years’ experience in WDM systems, free-space and integrated optics , IOT, and test automation with engineering leadership positions at Ciena, Infinera, Nortel, and Juniper Networks. He has a Ph.D. In the field of optical amplifiers, 40 US patents granted or pending , and 20 journal and conference publications.