RENNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--During CAILabs Board of Director’s meeting held on Friday, October 13th, the appointing of Jean-Louis Malinge as an independent member was approved by the board.
Holding a Master degree in Physics from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Rennes and an Executive MBA from MIT, Jean-Louis Malinge offers CAILabs’ Board of Directors unique skills in the development of innovative optics and photonics.
Serving as President and CEO, he directed Kotura, a California leading start-up in silicon photonics, for 10 years until its acquisition by Mellanox Technologies in 2013. Prior to Kotura Jean-Louis was Vice-President with Corning in charge of optical components.
Jean-Louis is currently a Partner with Arch Venture Partner and a Director in the Boards of Directors of Egide and POET Technologies.
Building upon these experiences, Jean-Louis will assist CAILabs, in its technical and commercial development.
“While photonics continues to progress very quickly across all communication networks and numerous industrial applications, CAILabs’ innovative technical platform allows dramatic increase in capacity and flexibility for new applications of photonics,” declares Jean-Louis Malinge.
“We are extremely happy to welcome Jean-Louis to CAILabs’ Board. Jean-Louis brings perspective and critical expertise to help us accomplish our goals after having fundraised €5M last July,” concludes Jean-François Morizur, CEO of CAILabs.
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About CAILabs
Created in June 2013, spin-off of the Kastler
Brossel Laboratory, the company CAILabs has developed an innovative
technology for the processing of light beams. The start-up has raised
8.6 million. Since 2014, they have been marketing innovative products
which increase fiber optic flow. In 2015 and in 2017, the Japanese
operator KDDI set the world record for fiber optic flow using CAILabs’
components. Since 2016, the AROONA solution for fiber optic LANs has
obtained numerous innovation awards including the Huawei
Digital-In-Pulse award.
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