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Nick Kuenssberg is an experienced businessman with wide-ranging UK and international experience; he is currently chairman of Scott & Fyfe and Canmore Partnership and an honorary professor at the University of Glasgow. He was previously chairman at Iomart Group, Dynacast International, Stoddard International, GAP Group and others, divisional chairman, Coats Viyella, managing director at Dawson International and a non executive director at ScottishPower, Standard Life, Amino Technologies and Chamberlin amongst others. He has also been a visiting professor at Strathclyde University and chairman of the Glasgow School of Art, IoD Scotland, Scotland IS and Scotland the Brand.

 

For over a decade Dr Jim Bonar has been involved with high-tech start-up ventures. He was a member of the management team that raised an initial investment of >£10million in 1999. The company went on to raise a further £100m. Jim has held a variety of commercial and technical positions at companies such as Kymata, Alcatel and Avanex.

He was Director of Product Technology at Alcatel Optronics UK and Managing Director of Ovisor Technologies Ltd. Jim has also worked in the areas of sensors for homeland security, next generation III-V solar cells and more recently GaN LED technology. This has culminated in the recent incorporation of mLED Ltd a company licensing microLED technology designed and developed at the Institute of Photonics, Strathclyde University. Jim has more than 40 technical publications and filed ten patents. Jim has a BEng (Hons) from Strathclyde University and a PhD from Glasgow University.

Don Macleod was Chairman, CEO and President of National Semiconductor Corporation, a $1.5 billion Santa Clara, California-based analog semiconductor company, prior to its acquisition in September 2011 by Texas Instruments for $6.5 Billion.

He joined National in 1978 as financial controller for its United Kingdom Wafer Fab Operations after working for KPMG. Between 1981 and 1990, Macleod held senior management positions in finance, operations and marketing for National in England, Scotland, Germany and the United States. He was subsequently director, Management Services, Europe from 1985 to 1989 and vice president, Volume Products, Europe from 1989 to 1990 before serving as executive vice president and CFO, a position he held for 10 years. In 2001 he was appointed COO and President 2005, CEO in 2009 and Chairman of the Board in 2010.

A native of Scotland, he holds both a bachelor of science degree in economics and an honorary DUniv degree from the University of Stirling and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

Outside of work, Don was a board member and former president of the Cupertino (Calif.) Educational Endowment Foundation for 11 years until 2010 which provides supplemental financial support to a school district of 17,000 students. He was a board trustee and eventually chairman of the Financial Executives Research Foundation, a research foundation of Financial Executives International from 1993-1999 and a member of the International Advisory Board of Scottish Enterprise 2003-09. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Avago Technologies, a private equity-sponsored spinout from Agilent/HP, now a $8 billion market cap NASDAQ listed company.

Richard Laming is a proven technology entrepreneur. He was a Founder & CEO of Oligon Ltd, a MEMS Company. It was acquired by Wolfson Microelectronics plc in 2007 and Richard went on to be Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to this he founded Kymata Ltd in 1998 and established it as a leading supplier of optoelectronic components resulting in its acquisition by Alcatel in 2001 for approx £100m. He went on to serve as CTO and CEO for Alcatel Optronics UK Ltd. Earlier in his career Dr Laming was Deputy Director at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton University and working with industry led several key innovations in optical communications, most notably, the optical amplifier first commercialised via Pirelli as well as optical fibre and waveguide gratings subsequently commercialised via SPI Lasers and Stratophase respectively.

Richard has a track record for IP generation. He has produced over 250 publications and over 40 patents. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Nottingham University and a PhD in Electronics & Computer Science from Southampton University. In addition, Richard holds a number of technology awards including the Marconi International Fellowship, Young Scientist of the Year Award, the IEE Measurement Prize and the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal. He was also a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Alcatel.

Richard is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of both the IET and Royal Academy of Engineering, in the latter case being the youngest Fellow at the time of election.

Jim is a very experienced engineer having worked for National Semiconductor, Plessey, Motorola, Arch Chemicals, Anadigics, Filtronics, KNT and CST. Jim brings a wealth of experience in semiconductor processing and design.  He was accredited with a B.S. EEE, (Semiconductor Mfg) equivalency CEIE Texas in 2001.

Zheng received his PHD from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for work on the MBE growth and characterization of low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures such as quantum wires, quantum dots, and quantum rings. He brings a lot of advanced knowledge and know-how having worked for 6 years at the IoP in the design, manufacturing and testing of GaN-based microLED arrays.

Martin received the B.Sc. degree in physics (1^st Class Hons.) and the Ph.D. degree in laser physics from Imperial College London, London, U.K., in 1981 and 1985, respectively. His thesis work covered optical gain switching in semiconductor lasers and simultaneous mode locking and Q-switching in Nd:YAG lasers. From 1985 to 1991, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Professor A. L. Smirl’s group, first at North Texas State University and subsequently at the University of Iowa, working on the development of femtosecond dye lasers and the application of these sources to ultrafast and nonlinear spectroscopy of III–V semiconductors. From 1991 to 1996, he held the position of Senior Researcher at Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd., Oxford, U.K., performing optical spectroscopy on AlGaAs and AlInGaP semiconductor heterostructures. He is currently a Professor and is Director of Research at the Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., where he founded and leads the III–V semiconductor materials and devices programme. His research interests cover semiconductor disk lasers, dilute (GaInNAs) and wide-bandgap (AlInGaN) III-nitride materials and devices, and microfabrication in a range of hard and soft optical materials. He is the author of over 500 publications in journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Dawson is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Erdan obtained his Ph.D degree in thin film physics from Aberdeen University in 1992. Then, he was appointed as a research fellow in Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University. In Cavendish Laboratory, he worked on epitaxial magnetic film growth, in-situ structural and magnetic property characterizations of epitaxial films, micromagnetic structures and thin film devices. In December 1997, he joined the thin film group, Oxford Instruments plc, UK as a senior engineer. His work in Oxford Instruments focused on superconducting device research and development such as single electron tunneling devices, superconducting photon detectors and transition edge sensors. His research interests include epitaxial growth, in-situ and ex-situ characterizations, process developments, device fabrication and characterization. In the Institute, he is involved in a range of activities and research projects. Presently, he is an Associate Director at the IoP.

Gareth has an extensive background in developing high average power passively modelocked picosecond lasers. He obtained his PhD from the University of St. Andrews working on ultrafast Cr:YAG lasers operating at 1.5 microns. Subsequent work at St. Andrews concentrated on developing compact, low-threshold femtosecond lasers. Before joining the IoP, Gareth was employed on a European TMR grant at the Institut d’Optique in Orsay, France developing a femtosecond source based on Yb:GdCOB . He also worked at Nanometrics Inc. designing metrology solutions for semiconductor applications.

Martin received the B.Sc. degree in physics (1^st Class Hons.) and the Ph.D. degree in laser physics from Imperial College London, London, U.K., in 1981 and 1985, respectively. His thesis work covered optical gain switching in semiconductor lasers and simultaneous mode locking and Q-switching in Nd:YAG lasers. From 1985 to 1991, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Professor A. L. Smirl’s group, first at North Texas State University and subsequently at the University of Iowa, working on the development of femtosecond dye lasers and the application of these sources to ultrafast and nonlinear spectroscopy of III–V semiconductors. From 1991 to 1996, he held the position of Senior Researcher at Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd., Oxford, U.K., performing optical spectroscopy on AlGaAs and AlInGaP semiconductor heterostructures. He is currently a Professor and is Director of Research at the Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., where he founded and leads the III–V semiconductor materials and devices programme. His research interests cover semiconductor disk lasers, dilute (GaInNAs) and wide-bandgap (AlInGaN) III-nitride materials and devices, and microfabrication in a range of hard and soft optical materials. He is the author of over 500 publications in journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Dawson is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Robert Henderson is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Engineering and Electronics in the Institute for Microelectronics and Nanosystems, University of Edinburgh. He obtained his PhD in 1990 from the University of Glasgow. From 1991, he was a research engineer at the Swiss Centre for Microelectronics, Neuchatel, Switzerland working on low power sigma-delta ADC and DACs for portable electronic systems. In 1996, he was appointed senior VLSI engineer at VLSI Vision Ltd, Edinburgh, UK where he worked on the world’s first single chip video camera and was project leader for numerous other CMOS image sensors.

From 2000, as principal VLSI engineer in ST Microelectronics Imaging Division he developed very high volume, low noise image sensors for mobile phone applications. He was responsible for a team of 10 design engineers and participated in the management, technical decisions and design activity. Over this period he saw more than 10 integrated circuits from specification through to volume manufacturing. He joined Edinburgh University in 2005 to pursue his research interests in CMOS integrated circuit design, imaging and biosensors. He is the author of over 70 papers and 14 patents. He was awarded Best Paper Award at the1996 European Solid-State Circuits Conference as well as the 1990 IEE J. J. Thomson Premium.

Wilson Sibbett, who is the Wardlaw Professor of Physics at the University of St Andrews, is recognized internationally as a world-leading pioneer of ultrafast optical science and has published widely in topic areas relating to the generation, characterisation and application of ultrashort laser pulses. Most notably, the first demonstration of Kerr-lens mode locking by his research group in 1989 had an enormous impact on the practicality of mode-locked lasers and their subsequent implementations in femto-science and femto-technology.  Within his ongoing programmes of research, Wilson is actively involved in the development of compact ultrafast laser sources together with a range of photonics-related deployments in biomedicine.