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IPG Names Industry Veteran Mark Gitin CEO
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., April 30, 2024 — The board of IPG Photonics has appointed Mark Gitin as the company’s next CEO and member of the board, effective June 5. Gitin succeeds IPG co-founder Eugene Scherbakov who will remain a member of the board and will serve as an advisor to Gitin. Following Gitin’s addition, the board will expand to 11 members. Gitin currently oversees the Photonics Solutions Division at MKS Instruments, Inc. Prior to joining MKS, he held several executive roles at Coherent. Gitin holds a Ph.D.
OptoSigma Bolsters Presence in Germany, Central Europe
MUNICH, Germany, April 18, 2024 — OptoSigma Europe SAS, a provider of photonics and optical components, appointed Alain Schebath as CEO of the newly established OptoSigma Germany GmbH. Based in Munich, OptoSigma Germany will serve as a central hub serving customers in Germany,...
Syntec Optics Shuffles Leadership Team
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 16, 2024 — Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc., a provider of optics for defense and aerospace OEMs, has made changes to its executive team to support strategic growth initiatives, including potential inorganic growth. The company appointed current chair Al Kapoor...
QED Technologies Names Michael Mohammadi President and CEO
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 8, 2024 — QED Technologies has appointed Michael Mohammadi, current vice president of global sales and business development at Thorlabs, president and CEO. Mohammadi, who will assume the position next week, takes over from outgoing president and CEO Andrew...
Coherent CEO Mattera to Retire
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 21, 2024 — Coherent Corp. CEO Vincent Mattera has informed the company’s board of directors that he will retire as CEO following the hiring of a successor. The board has retained a leading executive search firm to commence a comprehensive search process,...
TKH Group Executive Assumes Helm at Member Company SVS-Vistek
GILCHING, Germany, Jan. 25, 2024 — Robert Franz has been appointed CEO of machine vision company SVS-Vistek. Franz also serves as group CEO for the German 2D vision companies within the TKH Group, which includes SVS-Vistek. He was appointed CEO of Allied Vision last year.In the new...
PhotonDelta Names Eelko Brinkhoff CEO
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Dec. 29, 2023 — Dutch photonics consortium PhotonDelta has named Eelko Brinkhoff CEO in a move that will take effect Feb. 19. Brinkhoff currently serves as managing director of foreign investments and international trade at Brabant Development Agency, a public...
Hamilton Thorne Appoints CEO; David Richardson Awarded: People in the News: 12/27/23
BEVERLY, Mass., Dec. 27, 2023 — Biotechnology company Hamilton Thorne appointed Ekaterina Torchilin as its new president and CEO, effective Jan. 15. Torchilin succeeds David Wolf, who is retiring as president and CEO. Wolf will continue to serve in his executive chairman role....
ASML to Appoint Christophe Fouquet President and CEO
VELDHOVEN, Netherlands, Dec. 1, 2023 — The supervisory board of ASML intends to appoint Christophe Fouquet, currently ASML’s chief business officer and member of the board of management, as the company’s next president and CEO. The appointment is subject to notification of...
Excelitas Taps Top Executives, Appoints CEO and CFO
WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 24, 2023 — Excelitas Technologies appointed Ron Keating CEO and Ben Stas CFO. Keating and Stas succeed former CEO David Nislick and former CFO Jim Rao, who have announced their retirements. Keating and Stas join Excelitas from Evoqua Water Technologies, where...
Coherent Appoints Board Directors: People in the News: 10/11/2023
PITTSBURGH — Coherent Corp. appointed two directors to its board: Elizabeth Patrick and Michelle Sterling. Patrick recently served as senior vice president and chief people officer for Diebold Nixdorf, a multinational financial and retail technology company....
Tandem PV Transitions CEO; NUBURU Appoints John Bolton to Board: People in the News: 08/30/2023
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 30, 2023 — Silicon Valley-based solar energy company Tandem PV appointed Scott Wharton CEO. Wharton, who previously held positions at Logitech and founded cloud-based video conference services provider Vidtel, replaces company co-founder Colin Bailie, who will...
SuperLight Photonics Names CEO; Diamond Light Source Taps Leader: People in the News: 08/16/2023
ENSCHEDE, Netherlands — SuperLight Photonics, a developer of supercontinuum generation lasers, named Cees Links CEO. The University of Twente spinout is focused on applications spectrometry, OCT, crop management, surface inspection, and pollution detection enabled by PIC...
Edmund Optics Appoints CFO; Luminus, LightRiver Name CEOs: People in the News: 08/09/2023
BARRINGTON, N.J., Aug. 9, 2023 — Edmund Optics named Linda Fonner CFO. Fonner has more than 30 years of global management experience at companies including Phillips & Cohen Associates, Atotech (an MKS brand), and Bristol Myers Squibb. She has led financial and operational...
AFL, Block Engineering Name Presidents: People in the News: 06/14/23
SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., June 14, 2023 — Block Engineering, a developer of broadly tunable quantum cascade lasers and chemical threat detection products, named Steve Buckley president. Buckley previously served as vice president at Ocean Insight and general manager of Ocean Applied, a...
Marantz Electronics Adds to Leadership Team: People in the News: 06/07/2023
TILBURG, Netherlands, June 7, 2023 — Mek (Marantz Electronics), a provider of automatic optical inspection solutions, appointed Maria Dzionk operations manager. Most recently, Dzionk served as returns coordinator at GXO Logistics where she was responsible for maintaining company...
ADVA Details CEO Change; VELO3D Names CTO: People in the News: 05/31/23
MUNICH, May 31, 2023 — Christoph Glingene, CEO of optical networking company ADVA, will step down and transition to his previous role as CTO for ADVA, effective June 30, and will continue as CTO for Adtran. Tom Stanton will be appointed as ADVA’s CEO, effective July...
Optica Awards Theodor W. Hänsch Prize: People in the News: 04/19/23
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 19, 2023 — The Optica Foundation awarded the inaugural Theodor W. Hänsch Prize in Quantum Optics to Victoria Xu, a postdoctoral scholar at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research LIGO Laboratory. The prize recognizes Xu’s...
EPIC Adds Shahida Imani to Board: People in the News: 04/05/23
HELSINKI, April 5, 2023 — During its Annual General Meeting 2023, the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) confirmed the selection of Shahida Imani, CEO of Chromacity, to its board of directors. Imani is a chartered management accountant and has worked for a number...
Leuze Names CEO: People in the News: 03/29/23
NEW HUDSON, Mich., March 29, 2023 — Sensor technology company Leuze named Xavier Hamers CEO and chairman of the executive board of the global Leuze electronic Inc., effective April 1. Hamers joins the company from BARTEC Safe.t Technology, where he served as CCO, and formerly as vice...
Semtech, Zebra Add to Executive Teams: People in the News: 03/22/23
NEW YORK, March 22, 2023 — The PerkinElmer Life Science & Diagnostics business acquired by New Mountain Capital named Dirk Bontridder CEO. Bontridder has more than 25 years of global management experience, including 11 years at Eurofins Scientific Services, where he was...
White House Adds Corning CEO to Advisory Committee: People in the News: 03/15/23
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2023 — Corning CEO Wendell Weeks has been named to the U.S. Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations, a committee established to provide policy advice to the U.S. trade representative. Weeks has served as CEO of Corning since 2005 and as...
BluGlass Names its Company President Haden as CEO
SILVERWATER, NSW, Australia, March 3, 2023 — Semiconductor technology company BluGlass Ltd. has appointed company president Jim Haden to the position of CEO. Haden joined the company in September 2021. BluGlass named laser industry veteran and current president Jim Haden CEO. Courtesy of...
Robert Franz Appointed CEO of Allied Vision, TKH Group Companies
STADTRODA, Germany, March 1, 2023 — Allied Vision Technologies GmbH, part of TKH Group NV, appointed Robert Franz CEO. Franz will also assume the CEO role for the German 2D Vision companies within the TKH Group. Robert Franz, CEO of Allied Vision and the German 2D Vision segment of...
Quantinuum Names CEO: People in the News: 02/22/23
TOKYO, Feb. 22, 2023 — Quantum computing firm Quantinuum named Rajeeb Hazra CEO. Outgoing CEO Ilyas Khan will assume the roles of chief product officer and vice chairman of the board of directors. Hazra most recently served as senior vice president and general manager of...
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