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BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- Twenty aspiring entrepreneurs will pitch their biophotonics and optoelectronics ideas and products to a team of expert judges in a photonics-based start-up business pitch competition Monday and Wednesday (23 and 25 January) at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco. Hosted by SPIE and sponsored by Jenoptik, the contest will bring together early-stage entrepreneurs with experienced industry leaders, product specialists, and venture capitalists serving as contest judges.
Participants each will have just three minutes to pitch the product or procedure that they think has commercial potential.
Marcelo Guimaraes has joined Jenoptik Optical Systems, Inc. in a program management role where his primary responsibility is a new multi year, multi million dollar development and fabrication contract. Marcelo’s unique experience base includes optical metrology, entertainment imaging equipment, program management, and even teaching all of which will be drawn on in his new role.
Marcelo spent 11 years with Kodak in the Entertainment Imaging Division in various optical engineering and project management roles related to motion picture cameras, film scanners and image quality. He has authored two patents in these areas. After time with QED Technologies in its Optical Metrology Division, Marcelo was most recently the Optics Program Coordinator and also served as an Optics professor at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY.
The employees of JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. held celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the founding of Jenoptik at each of US locations this summer. These celebrations followed the formal event held in Jena, Germany July 2nd. The local anniversary celebrations provided a time to reflect on the dedication and accomplishments, technical and commercial, of Jenoptik employees worldwide since 1991.
JENOPTIK's Jay Kumler will participate as a speaker at the SPIE Symposium 2011 at the University of Central Florida. The symposium is sponsored by the universitie's SPIE student chapter and takes place May 20th, 2011.
Jay's talk is titled "Challenges for the North American Optics Industry". He will also particpate in the panel dicussion “life after grad school” which focuses on the three most common transitions after grad school - to a career in industry, to a career in academia and research labs, and to entrepreneurship and start-ups.
SPIE has announced 67 new SPIE Fellows and Jay Kumler, President of Jenoptik Optical Systems, Inc., has been honored in the 2011 class.
The Honor
Fellows are selected by the SPIE Board of Directors, and candidates must distinguish themselves in three areas including: technical accomplishment, service to the general optical community and service to SPIE. The electing body cited "achievements in optical design and fabrication" in electing Jay a SPIE Fellow (SPIE's full press release can be downloaded here).
Based in Jena, the birthplace of optical technology in Germany, JENOPTIK's Michael Mertin has a unique perspective on the industry's past and future. He provided this perspective to SPIE during an interview during Photonics West 2011 in San Francisco. Dr. Mertin has been President and Chairman of the Executive Board of JENOPTIK AG since 2007, and is responsible for the entire operational business as well as strategy and innovations, auditing, data protection, communication and marketing.
Mertin studied physics at the RWTH Aachen and received his Doctorate in Engineering at the Fraunhofer Institut für Lasertechnik (FHG-ILT) [Laser Technology] in the field of laser materials processing and surface technology.
JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. is pleased to Joel Murphy has joined the company and will lead the US Business Development activities for our single point diamond turning capabilities.
JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. is pleased to welcome Dave Stephenson to the organization as Vice President, Optics. Dave brings extensive optical design, metrology and systems experience with him to Jenoptik.
JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. is pleased to welcome Tolis Deslis and Zsolt Pomazi to the organization. Between the two, Jenoptik gains more than 40 years of design, engineering and operational experience in precision optics.
JENOPTIK has extended diamond turning capabilities to its US based operations by installing equipment in the Jupiter, FL manufacturing operations of JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. This capability expands the overall custom optics capabilities of JENOPTIK in the US and minimizes effects from ITAR and BAFA related licensing.
MEMS Optical Inc. (Huntsville, AL) and JENOPTIK Polymer Systems, Inc. (Rochester, NY) have merged with JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. (Jupiter, FL) effective January 4, 2010. The merged company will create a single corporation for the US based manufacturing operations of JENOPTIK | Optical Systems division.
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