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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.
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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, 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.
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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. 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 (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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