Key People

Guido Vogel, Managing Director

Guido joined Innolume in 2004, as Business Development Engineer of optoelectronic components. Prior to this, he was Sr. Product Marketing Engineer at Mitsubishi Electric in Düsseldorf, responsible for discrete laser diodes sales and marketing throughout Europe. He graduated from the University of Gelsenkirchen with a degree in Engineering Physics in 2000.

Dr. Daniil Livshits, VP of Technology

With more than 15 years of experience in manufacturing process of laser diodes, Daniil manages Innolume’s fabrication facilities, being responsible for production of Innolume’s diode lasers. Before joining the company in 2004 he has been working in ITRI, Taiwan in the field of diode laser processing and packaging. Daniil graduated from the State Technical University in St.Petersburg, Russia in 1993, and received his PhD from Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St.Petersburg, Russia in 2000.

Dr. Greg Wojcik, CEO Innolume INC

In his 30 year engineering and mathematics career, Greg’s research has focused on wave propagation, ranging from very large scale systems to integrated devices. He began optical modeling in the late '80s, helping Tencor Instruments Inc. calibrate optical surface scattering behavior (Surfscan). A few years later, with his excellent team at Weidlinger Associates, he developed the first finite element/finite difference time-domain wave solver for optical phenomena in semiconductor processing. This code was applied extensively to phase-shift masks and lithography in the early '90s and used by SEMATECH, Intel, IBM. and Dupont, among others. In 2001 he joined a laser startup as Photonics Leader and subsequently worked for Applied Materials as Photonics Manager in its Silicon Photonics Group. He has Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Caltech, and B.S. Degrees in Engineering and Mathematics from California Polytechnical Institute in San Luis Obispo.

Dr. Feng Zhang, Director of Transceiver Development

Feng Zhang joined Innolume in 2009, bringing over 18 years of industrial experience designing and developing high-speed optoelectronic devices, optical transceivers, and WDM optical systems. Previously, Dr. Zhang was Sr. Principal Engineer and Sr. Design Engineer at Emcore and Oplink, respectively, where he designed and developed 10 Gb/s optical transceivers based on a multi-rate (multi-protocol) XFP form factor operating over the industrial temperature range, as well as SFP+ and X2 form factors. From 1998 to 2000 he was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs and did extensive research in optical interconnections and optical backplanes. Prior to Bell Labs, he worked in the Advanced Technology Department of Nortel for three years as a Member of the Scientific Staff, where he developed 10 Gb/s III-V Mach-Zehnder modulators. Dr. Zhang holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Waterloo in Canada and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an Jiantong University in China.