Team

Join the team behind industry-defining breakthroughs at Apple, Intel, AMD, Meta, Google, Magic Leap, Metacept, Lightmatter, Luminous, and Micron—spanning augmented reality, metamaterials, optical interconnects, and cutting-edge semiconductors.

Patrick Bowen

CEO, Co-Founder

Serial entrepreneur and metamaterial physicist with 20+ high-impact publications.

Brad Sissom

Principal Optical Engineer

Optical Architect / Tech Lead for Magic Leap, Micron, Apple/Akonia, Google/Raxium, and Omnivision building AR headsets, holographic data storage, imagers, and picoprojectors.

Alexander Hayes

Business Development

Deep tech serial-entrepreneur with experience in metamaterials, optical solid-state satellite communications, AI, and controls engineering.

Brad C. Smith

VP Sales

Strategic sales executive from AMD, Intel & Citrix, with a history of success at Amazon, Microsoft, Apple.

Andrew Traverso

Chief Scientist, Co-Founder

Accomplished optoelectronics and photonics physicist with a focus on metamaterials.

Vasco Caldeira

Principal Analog Engineer

High-speed analog/mixed-signal architect and lead. Brings 20+ years design and leadership experience in integrated circuits, from DC to daylight. Held architect and lead roles at Uhnder, Synopsys, and NXP.

Cristian Ciraci

Metasurface Designer

Specialist in electromagnetic propagation and nonlinear optics, with research featured on the cover of Science Magazine.

Tolga Acikalin

Senior Principal Engineer

15+ years of driving breakthroughs in silicon photonics, advanced packaging, and system integration at Intel, and transforming visionary concepts into commercial products.

Hod Finkelstein

CTO

Headed teams at Meta and Mellanox.

25+ years in semiconductor and photonics, delivering breakthrough compute and imaging systems.

Yanning Lu

Analog Lead

Expert in ultralow power IC design and power management with senior roles at Ambia, Alpha & Omega Semiconductor, and Cirrus Logic.

Michelle Truong

Business Operations

Experienced in administration and operations with a strong background in military intelligence. Skilled in executive support, process optimization, and ensuring seamless coordination across teams.

Donovan Popps

VP Engineering

30-year semiconductor veteran who led teams at Motorola, Denali, Ambiq, and Luminous.

Philip Sullivan

Senior Optical Engineer

Pioneer in integration of tunable metamaterials. Chemistry PhD, IC Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry Lead at Intellectual Ventures Labs. > 50 publications & patents.

Preston Woo

CFO

Tech and private equity veteran. Former CFO at Tafi and Sarcos Robotics. Held executive roles at Pendrell, Intellectual Ventures, and Vulcan Capital.

Advisors

Nathan Myhrvold

Technical Advisor

Tech visionary, scientist, and inventor with 900+ patents. Intellectual Ventures co-founder, Former CTO of Microsoft, Ph.D. in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, and published author.

Matt Traverso

Technical Advisor

Optical interconnect systems, low power packaging solutions, optical alignment.

Amir Khosrowshahi

Technical Advisor

Co-founded Nervana, focused on deep learning hardware and software; served as VP at Intel leading AI and machine learning projects.

Ty Garibay

Technical Advisor

President of Condor Computing; former VP at Mythic and Altera; CTO at Arteris IP; senior IC design roles at Intel and TI.

David Smith

Scientific Advisor

Distinguished Professor known for metamaterials and transformation optics; led breakthroughs in negative index materials and invisibility cloaks; 70+ patents.