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Team

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Patrick Bowen

CEO, Co-Founder 

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

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Donovan Popps

VP Engineering

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

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Yanning Lu

Analog Lead

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

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Michelle Truong

Executive Assistant 

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

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Andrew Traverso

Chief Scientist, Co-Founder 

Accomplished optoelectronics and photonics physicist with a focus on metamaterials.

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Vasco Caldeira

Principal Analog Engineer

Visionary leader in AI and semiconductors, driving product strategy, business development, and innovation with 20+ years of experience.

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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.

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Alexander Hayes

Biz Dev, Marketing

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

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Tom Driscoll

Co-Founder 

Tech exec and inventor with > 100 patents. Tom co-founded Echodyne Corp, the market leader in solid-state radar.

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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.

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Cristian Ciraci

Metasurface Designer

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

Advisors

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Amir Khosrowshahi

Technical Advisor

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

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Matt Traverso

Technical Advisor

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LinkedIn

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

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Ty Garibay

Technical Advisor

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LinkedIn

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

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David Smith

Scientific Advisor

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LinkedIn

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

Board Of Directors

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Chris Alliegro

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Managing Partner at MetaVC Capital; former EVP at Intellectual Ventures; held senior roles in Microsoft, and Bell Labs.

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CEO of Rendered.ai; founded Kymeta, leading its metamaterials antenna tech

The OPU

Turning It Into Reality

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