Dr. William Krupke

 Dr. Gordon Mitchard

Mr. Ed North

Dr Jianjun Wang

Dr. Emeritus Dr. Zhijiang Wang

Ms. Yimin Zimmerer

 

Dr. William Krupke

William (Bill) Krupke received the B. S. degree in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1958), and M. A. and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1961 and 1966. He has held technical and management positions at the Hughes Aircraft, Minneapolis Honeywell, and Aerospace Corporation. In 1972, he co-founded the Laser Directorate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and served variously as Program Leader, Chief Scientist, and Deputy Associate Directorate during his 27-year LLNL tenure. Through the early 1980s, he participated in the design, development, and construction of evermore powerful Nd:glass lasers, and led R&D efforts on solid state, excimer, copper-vapor, and dye lasers. Since 1985, he has been engaged in development of diode-pumped high-average-power solid state lasers. He is the co-inventor of several novel enabling crystalline laser materials. In 1999, Bill left LLNL to form WFK Lasers, LLC, to consult for high tech companies such as Uniphase, Ultratech, and General Atomics, and to develop new laser-based intellectual properties. He co-founded several high tech startups (Crystal Photonics and Novalux) and serves as a technical advisor to Crystal Photonics. He also serves as a board director of IPG Photonics. Dr. Krupke is an OSA Fellow and a member of IEEE LEOS. He has served on the Board of Directors of the OSA, and as chairperson of the Quantum Electronics Division of the OSA Technical Council. He has authored or co-authored over sixty scientific publications in the field of quantum electronics, has published several book chapters, and holds 23 patents

Dr. Gordon Mitchard

Dr. Gordon Mitchard has a diverse background that spans general management, technology, marketing and sales. He has worked for a range of companies, from start-ups to large corporations, developing expertise in managing high growth opportunities and transitioning products from development to international commercial deployment. Dr. Mitchard is currently CEO and Co-Founder of Pionetics Corporation, a venture-backed start-up company offering water treatment products based on a differentiated ion exchange technology. Previously, Dr. Mitchard has served in sales, marketing, and general management roles for JDS Uniphase Corp. and SDL Inc., where he was responsible for businesses that provide opto-electronic components to equipment manufacturers in telecom and industrial markets. Prior to that, he held a variety of engineering and engineering management positions in the graphics industry. Dr. Mitchard holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.

 

Mr. Ed North

Ed North has 16 years experience in the laser industry most recently with New Wave Research. At New Wave Research he served in several senior management positions including President and CEO for 8 years.New Wave Research designs and manufactures small solid-state lasers for LCD repair, sapphire wafer scribing (blue and white LED’s) and laser ablation systems used in ICP mass spectrometry.Prior to New Wave Research Ed held senior marketing positions at Automation Partners, Metrotech and Hewlett Packard in the telecommunications and computer markets.Ed earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington and an MBA from Harvard University. He holds four patents.

Dr Jianjun Wang

Dr. Jianjun Wang is Chair and Professor in the Department of Advanced Educational Studies at California State University Bakersfield and a recognized expert in the field of Applied Statistical Methods. Dr. Wang received his MS and PhD from Kansas State University in Statistics and Science Education, respectively, after receiving his MS and BS in Physics from Beijing Normal University and Anhui Teacher's College. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods and is a Fellow of the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). Dr. Wang is a member of the American Statistical Association, the National Association for Research and Science Teaching and the American Educational Research Association.

Professor. Emeritus Dr. Zhijiang Wang

Dr. Zhijiang Wang's career spans more than 50 years groundbreaking work as a researcher, professor and entrepreuner in the optics industry.  Dr. Zhijiang Wang graduated from Dalian Institute of Technology in 1952.  In 1964, Dr. Wang was appointed a professorship at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics where he taught and later served as Institute Director up until 1992.  Professor Wang was the Editor-in-Chief of Optica Acta Sinica from 1985-1990, Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Laser Journal and the Overseas Editorial Panel of Optics Letter from 1980-1990.  In addition, Dr. Wang served as the Chinese Program Subcommittee Chair of IQEC during 1983-1984, CLEO from 1984-1986.  He is a Fellow of SPIE and the Optical Society of America and a Lifetime Academic Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 

Ms. Yimin Zimmerer

Ms. Zimmerer is a Vice President at Walden International, a leading venture capital firm with headquarter in the silicon valley.Ms. Zimmerer focuses on venture investments in IT, clean technology and consumer sectors in the USA and China.Prior to joining Walden International, she served as Director of Marketing at Ericsson Communications, Sr. Manager of Business Development at Concert Management, and Senior Engineer at MCI.Ms. Zimmerer earned an MBA from University of California at Berkeley, and an M.S. in Telecommunications and a B.A. in Psychology from University of Colorado in Boulder.