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Cutting Edge Optronics (CEO), a TRW laser company, recently made two new appointments to their sales staff at the St. Charles, Mo. location. Dean Micke has been promoted to sales manager for CEO's laser diode division, and Kevin O'Donnell is now CEO's industrial laser sales manager.

Francis J. Nedvidek, a photonics industry veteran has joined Resonance Photonics (RPI) as vice president of sales and marketing. Nedvidek will have global strategic responsibility for sales and marketing initiatives as they relate to RPI’s key product line of next generation passive optical components.