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Austin Duke, Chairman and CEO
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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James O'Gorman, Founder
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.
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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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.
John Wendelboe (Photonics Venture Partners)
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.
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