Advisory Board

Dr. Mike Scott
Market advisor telecom
Advisor to Bookham Inc, Former CTO of Bookham, and President of Bookham Canada

Dr. Scott is a highly qualified executive and engineer with 23 years experience in all aspects of the optical communications industry. He has held senior executive positions in a large multinational corporation and been officer of NASDAQ quoted technology company. Dr. Scott has 20 years plus experience of running complex multi country development teams and projects and is an experienced people manager and team developer. He also has extensive experience of M&A activities. He has working experience and extensive networking of photonics and academic communities in UK, US and Canada. He also holds non -exec positions on government and not for profit advisory boards.

Don Spalinger, MBA
Business advisor
Co-founder and Sr. Vice President, Southampton Photonics, Inc.

Mr. Spalinger is the driving force behind Southampton Photonics. Since its inception, he has led the team in defining the company and its products, hiring the senior management and technical team, and overseeing the ramp-up of marketing, design, and production operations. It is his role to work with customers, matching their needs with products made possible by the company's application specific fiber platform. Mr. Spalinger serves as company spokesman, interfacing with investors, the investment community, and the press. Mr. Spalinger is the former Managing Vice President/Practice Leader of worldwide telecom research for the GartnerGroup. Before that, he was founder and President of On-Stream Networking (acquired by 3Com). Mr. Spalinger developed one of the first wireless LANs and led the team that developed the first commercial multi-megabit drop and insert multiplexer.
Spalinger graduated from the University of Texas Phi Beta Kappa in Physics, and has an MBA in Technical Management also from the University of Texas.

Dr. Jörg Neukum
HPLD Market advisor
World wide Sales & Marketing Manager, Dilas

Dr. Neukum received doctoral degree in laser spectroscopy in 1995 from Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Since then he has held manager positions in laser industry including ROHM-Europe, Coherent and DILAS/Rofin Sinar. In 1997-2003 he worked as Market development manager & European sales manager at Coherent, Inc. in Santa Clara, California. Since Jan 2004 he has held Sales and marketing manager position at DILAS / Rofin Sinar in Germany. Dr. Neukum has extensive experience in high-power laser market and in depth understanding of product requirements of unmounted laser bars.

Dr. Pekka Savolainen
Technology advisor
Founder

Dr. Savolainen has been instrumental in developing new products in start-up phase due to his extensive scientific experience. Prior to joining Modulight Pekka worked part-time for Coherent as process expert for demanding high-power laser projects and was primarily employed by Tampere University of Technology where he was part of the management team of the research unit. Pekka was also a founder in Tutcore, a company that later became Coherent Finland after it was sold to world's biggest high-power laser manufacturer Coherent.