Jean-Louis is an accomplished business management executive with extensive experience as a General Manager in France and the United States. He also served in Boards of Directors.

He is adept in formulating strategies to position or reposition numerous businesses, has led numerous acquisition projects and managed the creation of a successful Joint-Venture in Asia. Jean-Louis was Kotura President & CEO from 2004 to 2013 when Kotura was acquired by Mellanox. Kotura, Inc., a worldwide leader in silicon photonics, designs, manufactures and markets CMOS optical components which are deployed throughout the communications network.

Formerly, Jean-Louis served as Vice President – Optical Networking Products for Corning, Inc. Following the telecommunication downturn, he formulated a strategy to reposition the optical networking business and restructure the company’s assets. Jean-Louis’ prior experience with Corning, Inc., include: Vice President and General Manager of Optical Components, a division that had 3 sites in the US and a joint-venture of 1,000 people in South Korea. Jean-Louis also managed R&D, sales and marketing, manufacturing, human resources and finance. Jean-Louis was also the Technology Director of Science and Technology (R&D) where he managed the technology group for the photonics division. Jean-Louis’ credentials include an Executive M.B.A. from MIT Sloan School in Boston, Massachusetts. He also holds an engineering degree from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Rennes, France.

Link for the above: http://infieri2014summerschool.in2p3.fr/JLM_Exec_Bio_2014.pdf

Now, I wonder how much of what I bolded could connect to what Jean-Louis will do for POET?

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Now, my eyes nearly popped out of my sockets when I found Mr. Malinge's response in an interview while he was CEO of Kotura.

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Any particular area or application you plan to target first?

What we are working very actively on right now are solutions for data centers, supercomputers and then eventually consumer electronics. We are focusing a lot of our design and development power on what we call a 100G optical engine in silicon, where essentially from this very tiny chip we can push through the fiber 100G of information. Side by side, if we multiplied that by a large number of fibers, you can reach very quickly a large bandwidth of information transmittance. What we are developing today is mostly going into telecommunication networks, data centers and supercomputers."

So in that paragraph, you can connect what POET has been doing, what Dr. Taylor has been patenting, and what Mr. Maligne had a strong focus on at Kotura. You can see how complementary his skills are to POET's direction.

The entire interview written in layperson's language link is here:

 https://www.eeweb.com/spotlight/interview-with-jean-louis-malinge

Please indulge.

Monolithic