ECOC2022 Show Guide

Yung Son CTO at Optomind Inc. Yung invented and developed very unique optical engine platform

Prof. Zeev Zalevsky Cognifiber Prof. Zalevsky is a Full- professor and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Bar Ilan University. His research expertise involves

Dr. James Pond Distinguished Engineer Ansys

based on selfaligned optical assembly at

Optomind. Currently he is doing technical marketing as well. Optomind is a global leader in advanced active optical cable (AOC) solution including 400/800Gbps PAM4 SR products. Yung holds over 40 patents related to optical interconnects. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST in Korea.

biomedical optics, super-resolution, and electro-optical devices. He has published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers, 10 books, 30 book chapters, and around 100 patents. For his work and great service to science, he received many national and international scientific prizes. He is also a co-founder and technological leader in many successful start-up companies that originated from technologies commercialized from his lab. Together with Dr. Cohen in 2012, Prof. Zavlevsky began the promising research endeavor which explored the implementation of in-fiber neural networks, enabling de-facto light speed inference computing.

Raza Khan Senior Market Manager- Wireless Products, Signal Integrity Products Group, Semtech Corporation Raza Khan is Semtech’s senior market manager

Erik Pennings Business Development Director, Shanghai Ensure As the Business Development Director for ENSURE, Erik Pennings uses

for Wireless Products in Semtech’s Signal Integrity Products Group with over 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. In his current role, he oversees the strategy, product line development and market development for integrated circuit (IC) solutions for optical transport needs within the wireless market. This includes the Tri-Edge™ 50G PAM4 product portfolio and ClearEdge® 25G product portfolio for the emerging 5G wireless market as well as the FiberEdge™ 10G product portfolio for the 4G wireless market. Mr. Khan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Western University and a double major Masters of Business Administration in Strategic Marketing and Management of Innovation and Technology (MINT) from McMaster University.

his extensive knowledge and experience to help grow ENSURE’s Premium Connectivity business, particularly in North America and Europe. In order to achieve the necessary experience for this position, Erik worked for over 30 years in executive sales, marketing, and product management roles at companies such as Philips, JDSU (now Lumentum), CyOptics (now Broadcom), and Eudyna (now Sumitomo) as well as various business development consulting roles for 7 Pennies Consulting. Throughout his career, Erik has been able to take a product from the initial idea, have it developed, introduce it to the market, and have it lead to multimillion dollar revenues. Erik says: “Our economy depends on people who come up with new inventions or ideas for innovative products or services, with the drive to bring them to the market. Having invented new technologies and brought them successfully to the market myself, I find great enjoyment working with entrepreneurs in order to help them reach their business goals”. Erik has a MSc degree (Cum Laude) in Physics, a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, and Executive MBA degrees from Simon Business School as well as Nyenrode Business University.

David Binder Product Manager Data Networking David Binder joined Yamaichi

Electronics in 2017 as Business Development Manager for Data

Networking. In this position he works closely with our headquarter in Tokyo and supports our global sales team by developing new sales channels, strategies and price models. His professional background is radio frequency and optical-electronics, he worked with customers in electronic manufacturing (OEM’s and EMS), defence, aerospace, RF- broadcasting and the telecom industry. He holds a BSEE from a Swiss university of applied sciences and an executive MBA.

Arturo Mayoral López de Lerma Telecom Infra Project, Meta Inc. Arturo Mayoral is Technical Program Manager for the Telecom Infra Project

Foundation driving several project groups within the Open Optical and Packet Transport project in TIP. He received a Ph.D. degree in telecommunications engineering with his thesis Integrated IT and SDN Orchestration of multi-domain multi-layer transport networks, from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), while it was at the Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) as optical researcher till 2017. Then, he starts at Wipro Ltd as Technology Expert in Optical networking and SDN and later in 2019, became full employee of Telefonica GCTIO. In 2021 joined Meta Connectivity as Technical Program Manager for the Telecom Infra Project.