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, which will include evaluating internal and external candidates, to identify a new CEO. A subcommittee has been formed to oversee the search process. Vincent Mattera will retire as CEO of Coherent following the completion of the company's

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....

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....

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...

JENA, Germany — Jenoptik named Sabine Klisch director of corporate identity and communications. Most recently, Klisch served as vice president of global marketing at MOSTLY AI, a startup in the field of AI-generated synthetic data based in Vienna. She spent most of...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug 2, 2023 — Stephen Streiffer was named director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Streiffer serves as interim director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and will join ORNL in October. Streiffer joined SLAC last year as Stanford University’s...

NEWARK, N.J., July 26, 2023 — Epolin, a developer and manufacturer of near-infrared absorbing dyes and thermoplastic compounds, has named Konstantyn Ziabrev as research and development director. Ziabrev has more than 20 years of experience, most recently with Click Chemistry...

PITTSBURGH, July 12, 2023 — Coherent Corp. named Young-Kai Chen deputy chief technology officer, and appointed Paul Silverstein vice president for investor relations and corporate communications. Chen previously served as chief scientist in Coherent’s New Ventures and...

DITZINGEN, Germany, June 21, 2023 — TRUMPF subsidiary TRUMPF Photonic Components named Thomas Dobbertin managing director. He succeeds Berthold Schmidt, who now serves as CTO and a member of the board for parent company TRUMPF SE + Co. KG. Dobbertin previously served as general...

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...

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...

GHENT, Belgium, May 17, 2023 — Indigo Diabetes NV, a developer of a continuous metabolite monitoring device for people living with chronic diseases, named Arun Venkatasubramanian CTO. Venkatasubramanian has more than 15 years of experience leading the design and development of...

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...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 13, 2023 — The New York State Photonics board of directors approved a proposal for the allocation of $27.5 million to fund the AIM Photonics Test, Assembly, and Packaging (TAP) Facility in Rochester, N.Y. The proposal would see $23 million go toward new...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 1, 2023 — Optica named Robert Boyd of the University of Ottawa and the University of Rochester as the 2023 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize recipient. Boyd is recognized for pioneering contributions to nonlinear optics, including slow light, quantum...

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Feb. 1, 2023 — Northrop Grumman’s board of directors has elected Stephen O’Bryan as corporate vice president and global business development officer, effective Feb. 6. O’Bryan succeeds David Perry, who announced his intent to retire effective...

DIDCOT, England, Nov. 2, 2022 — Adrian Mancuso has been appointed as the physical science director for the United Kingdom’s national synchrotron, Diamond Light Source. Mancuso previously served as group leader and leading scientist for the Single Particles, Clusters, and...

NORTHBROOK, Ill., Sept. 28, 2022 — IDEX Corp. appointed Katrina Helmkamp nonexecutive chair of its board of directors, effective Oct. 1. Helmkamp has served as an independent director and member of the IDEX board since 2015 and as a member of multiple board committees, including...

GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 21, 2022 — Vector Photonics named William Coyle operations manager. Coyle joins the company from Terumo Aortic, a medical device manufacturer, where he led U.K. site development. Previously he has held roles at SST Sensing, Intense, Alcatel, and National...

ZÜRICH, Sept. 14, 2022 — Ursula Keller was named as the recipient of the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist for her work in ultrafast lasers. The prize is often referred to as the “Swiss Nobel prize” and is granted to a scientist of Swiss nationality or...

TOKYO, Sept. 7, 2022 — Rigaku Beijing Corporation, a subsidiary of Rigaku, a manufacturer of x-ray analysis, measurement, and testing instruments, has named Jeff Li CEO. Li previously served as vice president and head of Greater China at Qiagen China. Prior to that he...

OXFORD, England, Aug. 10, 2022 — Rockley Photonics named Richard Kuntz to its board as an independent director. Kuntz is senior vice president and chief medical and scientific officer at Medtronic. He was the founder and chief scientific officer of the Harvard Clinical Research...

CARLSBAD, Calif., July 20, 2022 — Ra Medical Systems, a medical technology company focused on developing an excimer laser system for vascular disease treatment, appointed Brian Conn interim CFO, effective immediately. Conn served as a consultant to the company since May. He replaces...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 6, 2022 — Matt Eichenfield, a specialist in quantum photonics and distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, has joined the University of Arizona’s Wyant College of Optical Sciences as the inaugural SPIE Endowed Chair...

TORONTO, June 29, 2022 — Semiconductor technology company POET Technologies appointed Michal Lipson an adviser to its board of directors. Lipson is president-elect of Optica, a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, founder of three startups, and an...