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Austin Duke
has a wealth of experience in financial and production management in the technology sector. Past roles include production management at General Electric, operational management at the Fitzwilton Group and financial and production management consultancy at Authur Andersen. He is the director of a number of photonics companies and, during his tenure at Enterprise Ireland, served as director of Optronics-Ireland, the Irish national programme for advanced optoelctronic technology.
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Jim Somers, CEO
Jim obtained a B. Eng ( Electronics Eng. ) from University of Limerick ( Irl ) and M. Sc. ( Industrial Eng ) from the University of Tennessee. Jim worked in various engineering roles and ultimately in sales and marketing management during the 1990s with Verbatim Corp. a US data storage products company. Before joining Eblana Photonics Jim worked for the last ten years as a General Manager for Bourns Inc., a California based electronic components company. Jim’s division focused on semiconductor and passive components for the Telecom and Industrial markets.
Chris Herbert, COO
comes from the electronic component industry where he held positions at Bourns Electronics as product line General Manager supplying components to the mass-market telecomms sector and at Analog Devices as Senior Product Engineer at their Limerick device fabrication facility. He has also worked in the aerospace sector where he spent time at Dornier and MBB (Germany) in the commissioning of hardware for space science instrumentation. He has had an operations role at Eblana Photonics since the company was founded.
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John Flynn (ACT Venture Capital)
graduated from Trinity
College, Dublin in 1990 with an honours BSc degree in Physics and Mathematics.
He subsequently joined EDS Group, the international IT services company, in the
UK. Whilst at EDS he had responsibility for project management, consultancy of
computer systems development projects and other technology related consultancy,
working in the UK, Germany and the US. He obtained an MBA from Trinity College,
Dublin in 1996 and joined ACT Venture Capital in October, 1996.
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Eike Marx (TLcom Capital LLP)
obtained a PhD in Physics (nanotechnology and optoelectronics) from the University of Cambridge (UK) and a Dipl.-Ing. (MSc equivalent) from the RWTH Aachen (Germany) in mechanical engineering. Prior to joining TLcom he has worked as an M&A professional at Perella Weinberg Partners and Morgan Stanley focussing on companies in the technology and industrial sectors. Eike has several publications in international scientific journals and has spoken at conferences in Europe and the US.
Michael Field, Chairman
is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants with over twenty years experience in commercial business. Field has been a director of companies operating in the following sectors; retail, pharmaceutical, technology and property. Currently he is a director of Cerus Partners Ltd, an investment company and Rockwell Engineering Ltd, a company which supplies sophisticated engineering solutions to the Pharmaceutical, IT and Food sectors.
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