Chairman of the Board:
Robert L. Byer was the 2009 winner of the Frederic Ives Medal, the highest award given by the Optical Society of America (OSA). He is president elect of the American Physical Society (APS) for 2011 and is a past president of OSA and of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE LEOS). Byer is a professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA), where he has served as vice provost and dean of research and been chair of the Applied Physics Department. He has been director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory and director of the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory. He is a founding member of the California Council on Science and Technology. Byer is a co-founder of Mobius Photonics.
Chief Executive Officer:
Kiyomi Monro has over 20 years of experience in international sales, marketing, and finance. He has spent more than 14 of those years in the photonics industry, holding senior sales, marketing and executive positions at leading laser and micro processing companies. Monro also founded and was president of an export management company and of a snowboard manufacturing company. He has co-authored a number of papers on silicon dicing using pulsed fiber lasers. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Boston University.
Vice President of Operations:
Red Byer has over a decade of hands-on experience in the design, tooling and manufacture of OEM laser systems. Byer has been lead designer on several successful OEM laser product developments as well as the primary tooling and manufacturing engineer for several multi-million dollar production lines. He is known for innovative and elegant solutions to difficult design and operational challenges. Byer has received 5 design patents relating to high-power lasers and is one of the chief architects behind the Mobius Photonics G1+ Laser System. Byer is a co-founder of Mobius Photonics.
Vice President of Technology:
Manuel Leonardo is an experienced architect of OEM laser products and a talented optical engineer with experience developing and building high-power fiber lasers. He holds several patents and is known for his specialty in high-reliability terminations for air-clad optical fibers, enabling the use of cutting-edge optical fiber in real world products. Leonardo has repeatedly demonstrated record-breaking laser performance of green, blue and UV fiber lasers and is one of the chief architects behind the Mobius Photonics G1+ Laser System. Leonardo is a co-founder of Mobius Photonics.
Chief Scientist:
Gregory Keaton is one of the chief architects behind Mobius Photonics’ G1+ Laser Systems and has been responsible for many key upgrades to the original design. He has designed fiber lasers that generate blue and green light for projection applications, and is the inventor of a "W" fiber that enabled high-power blue fiber lasers. Keaton did postdoctoral research in theoretical physics at Virginia Tech and he earned his M.A. and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has extensive education and teaching experience in theoretical particle physics and spent several years as a patent writer for San Francisco Bay Area inventors. He holds 9 patents and has authored 19 journal articles and conference papers. Keaton is a co-founder of Mobius Photonics.
The Mobius Photonics Culture
Mobius Photonics believes in an atmosphere of teamwork that enables everybody to meet their full potential. Interested in joining our team? Contact Mobius Photonics at jobopenings@mobiusphotonics.com.