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john wendelboe

John Wendelboe (Chairman)
is an experienced technology company executive, corporate financial advisor and a private investor in technology companies. Currently a partner in Photonics Venture Partners, he has served as a director of several emerging companies in both the US and Europe. He has considerable background in international investment banking, investment management, commercial banking and venture capital serving as President of the U.S. subsidiary of Baring Brothers, a British merchant bank. He also served as Sr. VP Schroders in NY where he was responsible for the bank’s business with international groups and was also in charge of bank operations. He is former COO of Datacraft, a computer manufacturing company that he transitioned for disposition, culminating in its sale to Harris Corporation. He began his career with Citibank following his graduation from the University of Michigan.

james o'gorman

James O'Gorman, Founder and CEO
founded Eblana Photonics with John Hegarty then Professor of Laser Physics at, and now Provost of, Trinity College Dublin. James was awarded a PhD in Laser Physics by Trinity College Dublin in 1989. Subsequently, he joined Bell Laboratories, the R&D arm of AT&T (now Lucent Technologies) where he carried out research on high speed laser diode design and high speed data communications applications using laser diodes and laser diode arrays for Access and Enterprise applications. James was General Manager in Trinity College of Optronics Ireland - the Irish National programme for commercialisation of Optics in Ireland.

john hegarty

John Hegarty, Founder & Non-Executive Director
is Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. He was awarded a PhD in Physics by University College Galway in 1976. He then spent ten years in the U.S. carrying out optoelectronics research, mostly at AT&T Bell Laboratories (7 years), where in 1984 he performed the first DWDM transmission experiment demonstrating error-free transmission of 0.1 Tbit/s of data over a single fibre. This landmark demonstration was recognised by Time Magazine as a key milestone in the development of the communications industry. He has served as Dean of Research in Trinity and is a co-founder of Eblana.


   
john flynn

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.

colin watts

Colin Watts (TLcom Capital Partners)
has extensive operational and venture capital experience in Europe, Israel and the USA. He currently serves on the boards of IXI Mobile, Eblana Photonics and Cognima. Prior to joining TLcom Capital Partners, Colin was a Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet Ventures in London, an affiliate early stage venture capital fund of DFJ, one of the oldest and most successful Silicon Valley VC funds. During his 18 months at DFJ ePlanet, Colin successfully led both early and expansion stage investments in communication technology. Prior to joining DFJ he was with Cisco Systems Inc where he established and developed the company's European investment and acquisition programme where he lead six investments and one acquisition. Before joining Cisco, he held senior positions within Racal-Datacom and Cable & Wireless. Colin holds a 1st class honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nottingham University in the UK and a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance. Also he was a Chartered Engineer (C Eng) and a Chartered Accountant (Association of Certified Accountants of England and Wales).
Colin served on the Board of Directors of many technology companies, such as IXI Mobile, Eplication, Enition, ID2 Technologies, HarmonyCom and RiverSoft.

paddy prendegast

Paddy Prendegast (Trinity College Dublin, Eblana Photonics Company Secretary)
graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1987 and obtained a PhD in 1991, both from TCD. After post-doc positions in Italy and The Netherlands, he was appointed to a lectureship in 1995, elected to Fellowship in 1998 and promoted to associate Professor in 2001. His research area is in medical devices design and tissue engineering. In 2002 TCD was awarded a grant of £4.2 m to establish the Trinity Center for BioEngineering (TCBE) of which he is the Scientific Director.

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