Zebra appoints Joe White as chief product and solutions officer
Joe White has been named chief product & solutions officer. White takes over the role from Bill Burns, who became CEO of Zebra earlier this month.
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New president and board member for EPIC
Basil Garabet becomes new president of the European Photonics Industry Consortium, Shahida Imani takes the place of past six years’ president Benno Oderkerk.
Changes in the Trumpf boards
In the year of its 100th anniversary, the high-tech company Trumpf is reorganizing its management bodies.
RS Group appoints Simon Pryce as Chief Executive Officer
David Egan, currently Acting CEO, will work with Pryce in his role as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Systemtechnik Leber expands management
Jörg Klenke and Stefan Betzold are now strengthening the company management alongside STL Managing Director Stefan Angele
Zygo makes strategic appointment
Ametek subsidiary puts emphasis on continuous improvement and customer-focused innovation.
Nuburu appoints Matthew Philpott as chief marketing and sales officer
Experienced laser industry veteran takes the helm to lead Nuburu’s growth plans.
IC-Haus reorganizes management
Manfred Herz relinquishes posts, effective immediately, Alexander Flocke will take over as an additional managing director alongside Dr. Heiner Flocke
Smart Vision Lights promotes Steve VanderZwaag to vice president of engineering
Smart Vision Lights appointed Steve VanderZwaag as vice president of engineering. He is thus responsible for the technical area of the manufacturer of LED lighting solutions.
Robert Franz becomes CEO of Allied Vision and TKH's German 2D Vision Group
Robert Franz has been managing director of Allied Vision since January 1, 2023, and also heads the German 2D camera manufacturers within TKH Vision.
Quix Quantum appoints new CTO
Devin Smith takes over from co-founder and former CTO Jelmer Renema who steps into the new role of chief scientist.
IPHT expands its range of optical methods in medicine
The Leibniz Institute in Jena establishes a new working group for field-resolved spectroscopic measurement methods, headed by ERC Consolidator Grant winner Ioachim Pupeza.
Lex Kerssemakers joins PhotonDelta’s supervisory board
The former chief commercial officer for Volvo provides expertise on the automotive industry regarding integrated photonics and more.
Gerhard Edi leaves Congatec
Gerhard Edi, Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer, is leaving the Management Board of the Congatec Group with immediate effect
Quantel USA has a new CEO
Lumibird has appointed Cordell Maines as chief executive officer of its photonics division’s US manufacturing site.
OptecNet Deutschland’s board expanded
At the general meeting in December, Ralf Niggemann, manager of Wetzlar Network, was also elected as a new member of the board, in addition to the re-elected members Andreas Ehrhardt and Horst Sickinger.
Escha introduces new Director Sales EMEA
Effective immediately, Michael Tölle is the new general sales manager at Escha
Neil Gerrard becomes III-V Epi’s director of epitaxy
Compound semiconductor industry expert to provide MBE and MOCVD know-how.
Klaus Nassenstein is the new president of the AiF
At their meeting on January 18, 2023, the members of the executive board of the AiF Federation of Industrial Research Associations “Otto von Guericke” elected Dr-Ing Klaus Nassenstein (58) as the 14th president.
Andrew Girardi appointed vice president of sales and business development at Efinix
Efinix has hired Andrew Girardi as vice president of sales and business development. He is responsible for the respective teams in the Americas as well as EMEA with immediate effect.
Coherent appoints new EVP Telecom
Dr Beck Mason has joined Coherent Corp. as executive vice president, telecommunications, leading the telecommunications business unit within the networking segment.
Management change at Volume Graphics
Since 1 January 2023, Volume Graphics has a new management team: Bernhard Fink, Christian Graf and Daniela Handl.
Laser manufacturer appoints new CEO
Aldas Juronis, previously Ekspla’s manager of manufacturing operations, succeeded Kęstutis Jasiūnas as CEO, effective January 1, 2023.
Lumentum announces new senior vice president
Caroline Pan is the new senior vice president and chief marketing officer at the manufacturer of optical and photonic products.
Change of leadership at Zebra Technologies
Bill Burns becomes the new CEO. His predecessor Anders Gustafsson is appointed Executive Chair of the Zebra Board of Directors.
Management of Toptica Projects expanded
Armin Zach has joined the management board on October 1, 2022.
Ximea strengthens top management
Ximea CEO Mike Bode has been joined at the top of the company by Kevin Toerne. The latter is Co-CEO of the camera manufacturer with immediate effect.
Kappa Optronics: Procuration for personnel manager, new commercial manager
Human Resources Manager Patricia Glanz has been granted the special statutory authority (Prokuristin) at Kappa Optronics. Franziska Holst takes over as commercial director.
Kae Nemoto directs new center for quantum technology in Okinawa
The OIST Center for Quantum Technologies will contribute to the world by driving quantum research and creating innovative technology.
Chroma appoints Chris Karp as sales director
Chris Karp rejoined Chroma after a break of just over ten years and has been appointed Sales Manager, effective immediately.
Automation Technology strengthens sales team
Since November 1, 2022, the team around Automation Technology Sales Manager Athinodoros Klipfel has been joined by Sales Manager Daniel Frank.
Ziehl-Abbegg appoints Marc Wucherer as new CEO
The supervisory board of Ziehl-Abegg SE has appointed Marc Wucherer as the company's new CEO. The 52-year-old will assume the new role in December 2022.
Ronny Stolz appointed honorary professor at TU Ilmenau
The physicist has been working at Leibniz IPHT since 1994 and heads the quantum systems department since 2019.
Leadership duo for Lumics
Beate Sauter and Dennis George have been appointed as the company’s chief executive officers effective immediately. Lumics is a provider of high-power diode laser components and part of the Berlin Industrial Group (BIG).
JENOPTIK Optical Systems, LLC
Yaskawa Europa GmbH
Lynred
Photoneo s.r.o.
Laserlab-Europe AISBL
Vision Markets GmbH
SVS-Vistek GmbH
Optica
VDMA Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbauer e.V.
Siemens AG
SCINTIL Photonics
Bte Bedampfungstechnik GmbH
acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften e.V.
Zygo Corporation
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Fraunhofer Institut für Photonische Mikrosysteme IPMS
Captron Electronic GmbH
Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V.
SPIE
Mahr GmbH
Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology ISIT
Scantinel Photonics GmbH
Bicker Elektronik GmbH
LASEA S.A.
Active Silicon Ltd.
Igus GmbH
Zebra Technologies (Headquarters)
NUBURU Inc.
HIMA Hildebrandt GmbH & Co. KG
hema electronic GmbH
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
Edmund Optics Inc.
EKSPLA uab
Eckelmann AG
Schneider Electric GmbH
EO Technics Co., Ltd.
TKH Group NV
Smart Vision Lights
ESCHA GmbH & Co. KG
TOPTICA Photonics SE
iiM GmbH
Harmonic Drive AG
InnoLas Solutions GmbH
Sigmatek GmbH & Co. KG
Leica Microsystems GmbH
NKT Photonics A/S
FEMTOprint SA
Buehler / ITW Test & Measurement GmbH
Quantum Science Ltd
Plasmo Industrietechnik GmbH