DenseLight at a Glance

Julian has over 30 years working experience in investment banking and telecommunications media industry. From 2001 to 2005, he was the Vice President of Finance of Taiwan Telecom Group, Chief Financial Officer of Chia Tai (Indonesia ) Telecom. Prior to that from 1987 to 2000, Chemical Bank, Bankers Trust, New York and AIG Financial Products, Hong Kong.

He has a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems from Dartmouth College; and a Bachelor’s Degree in Geology from National Taiwan University.

Dr. Lam received his B.Eng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (First Class Honors) and his MSc in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Singapore., and his MSE and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, USA.

In 1985, he began his career with the Singapore unit of a UK-based multinational company in developing building automation products and subsequently establishing its manufacturing operations. From year 1990 to 2000, he was a professor in the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Notable appointments in the University included Head of Microelectronics Division, Principal Staff Officer to the University’s President, and member of the NTU Council (University’s Board of Governors).

In Year 2000, he led the founding of DenseLight Semiconductors and raised a US$31.2 million VC Round from 3i-PLC (to establish a InP Optoelectronics Wafer Fab), and subsequently in 2003-2004 (despite negative market sentiment post 2002 photonics-crash) he raised US$8.6M to realize self-sustaining business operations by 2005 with revenue from products and services for its photonics sensing and test customers. He continued to serve as DenseLight CTO after the company was acquired by POET Technologies in May 2016.

Dr. Lam’s area of technical expertise is in optoelectronics, fiber-optics sensors, and photonics systems applications, and has contributed to some 300 publications and 60 patents. For the past 25 years, he has been a significant participant in a number of key initiatives to promote the growth of photonics-related research and industrial development in Singapore; and he is still doing so today.

Norman has over 25 years of banking and manufacturing experience. He was auditor of Hsinchu International Commercial Bank , Coretronic photoelectric, PEWC lithium battery, Chief Financial Officer of iST semiconductor (Great China).

He graduated with a Bachelor of Accounting, Taiwan Fujen University.

Dr. Andy Piper has over 20 years of industrial and research experience in photonics. Until recently, he was the Senior Vice President of New Product development leading Denselight’s R&D team to develop new datacom, telecom and sensing products. He is currently the Senior Vice President of Global Business Development, spearheading Denselights’ drive to develop and grow their current and new strategic key business accounts. Previously, Andy held the position of CTO for iLuma Photonics (Shenzhen, China) and consulted for various companies in Europe and Asia for the development of their high power pulsed fiber laser products. He was also instrumental in the development of SPI Lasers’ (UK) Ltd (now part of the Trumpf Group) pulsed fiber laser products. He holds a PhD in Optoelectronics from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton, UK.

Soma has +20 years of field experience in Opto-electronics, Datacom & Telecom. He held numerous sales as well as product and field engineering roles at Avago, Agilent and Hewlett Packard. Most recently, Soma led the sales activity in the South Asia Pacific region for CREE® , a leading global innovator of LED lighting, where he successfully identified and penetrated multiple new countries and implemented sustainable long-term growth strategies.

Soma has a B.Tech (Hons) degree in Electronics & Electrical Communication from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and an MBA from the University of South Australia.

Subbu has had multi faceted experience in developing customised solutions, technology development to qualification and successful product ramps. He has over 30 years of Semiconductor experience with 25 years in Foundry Engineering including Global Foundries, where he was a senior Director responsible for Process Integration & Product Engineering. His career covered multiple tech nodes and platforms – Logic, HV, NVM, RF SOI & Silicon Photonics. He brings to us organisational and technical leadership with the ability to deliver value to the company and to customer alike. He is well versed with technology, Operations, Customer management, Business processes and Quality systems.

Subbu holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Physics from IIT Kharagpur, as well as a Masters Degree in Physics from University of Hyderabad. He holds 11 US patents and has published papers in technical journals.