| Management |
| Dr. Achyut K. Dutta, Founder, CEO, President and CTO |
| Dr. Dutta is the President and CTO of Banpil and is responsible for technology direction including the company's R&D activities, electrical and optical interconnection, sensor, and subsystems for various commercial system applications. He specializes in the design and development of high-speed modules, microwave design and simulation for microwave level interconnects, and various optical components. Prior to Banpil, Dr. Dutta held senior management and research positions at Fujitsu and NEC in the U.S. and Japan respectively. He was the Sr. Design Manager, Fujitsu, USA where he started high-speed module design center from scratch and successfully transferred the developed work to manufacturing in Japan and helped to generate >$350M revenues in 2000. At NEC, he was responsible for many projects and contributed in many optical components and subsystems for general and communication applications. Dr. Dutta has authored over 100 technical papers on optical devices, high-speed packaging, and opto-electronics interconnects, and holds 35 patents. He has also edited three books on WDM Technologies (Publisher: Academic Press, Boston, MA). He has been serving as organizer, general and conference chair, program chair, and technical program committee member of numerous conferences including SPIE, OSA, and IEEE. He is Fellow in SPIE and Sr. member in IEEE. Dr. Dutta was selected as one of three recipients for 1996 IEEE LEOS Engineering Achievement Award and NEC's best R&D award for POF-Link. Dr. Dutta received his MS and Ph.D. degrees both in Electronics Engineering from Shizuoka University, Japan. |
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| Robert Olah, VP Engineering |
| Robert is VP of Engineering at Banpil. He brings more than 25 years of experience in technology development and management at various semiconductor companies. Most recently, Robert was the VP of Engineering at Lightspeed Semiconductor, responsible for next generation FPGA, state of the art IO with digitally controlled impedance, 1.6Gb/s differential interface for Hyper transport and 3.125 Gb/s SERDES development. Previously, he held key engineering management roles at I-Cube, Xilinx, Sierra, and VLSI. Robert's expertise is in circuit design of both analog and digital, CAD methodology and off chip high-speed interfaces. Robert holds 7 patents in circuit and process technology. He received his MSEE from the University of Minnesota. |
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| Patrick Oduor, Marketing & Business Development |
| Patrick has over 12 yrs international experience at global companies including Fujitsu and Toshiba. He is a strategist in finance, corporate development, marketing, and management consulting and is responsible for strategy, marketing & business development at Banpil Photonics. In Fujitsu, Patrick has worked as a business development manager supporting the CEO of its local subsidiary. He also worked as a venture capital liaison engaged in deal flow sourcing, market research, due diligence, strategic partnering and investment promotion between start-ups and Fujitsu corporate R&D and product groups. At Fujitsu, Patrick held various positions in product management, technical and business development. This included serving on product committees in Europe, launching new products and services in the US, and product deployment and technology transfer to Japan and Asia. Before Fujitsu, Patrick performed R&D work on MPEG encoder-decoders at Toshiba Corporation in Japan. Patrick holds an MBA from Santa Clara University. He also holds a Masters degree in Computer Engineering and a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering both from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. |
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