Vivek Rajgarhia brings over 35 years of leadership in the photonics and optoelectronics industry, spanning global enterprise intrapreneurship and successful entrepreneurship. He has built and scaled photonics businesses at industry leading companies including MACOM, POET Technologies, OpNext (Hitachi’s Optoelectronics division, now part of Lumentum), JDS Uniphase (now Lumentum), and Lucent Technologies Microelectronics (now Broadcom). Prior to founding CloudPhotonix, Vivek was the President & General Manager of POET Technologies (NASDAQ: POET) where he drove the commercialization of the Optical Interposer, an innovative hybrid photonic–electronic integration platform. Vivek co-founded Optomai Inc., a Silicon Valley semiconductor company specializing in ICs for optical connectivity. He led the company through rapid product and market development, culminating in its acquisition by MACOM Technology Solutions (NASDAQ: MTSI). As the Senior Vice President & General Manager at MACOM, Vivek drove multiple strategic acquisitions across integrated circuits, lasers, photodetectors, silicon photonics, PICs, optical sub-assemblies, and module design, to transform MACOM into a global photonics and optoelectronics leader. Prior to that he helped spin-off Hitachi’s Fiber Optics division to form OpNext (now Lumentum) in the U.S., Japan and Europe and led their global Product Management and Marketing, launching multiple industry firsts Optical Transceivers including 10G, 40G, and 100G optical transceivers. At Lucent Technologies Microelectronics (now Broadcom) Vivek expanded Lucent’s photonics and optoelectronics market presence across China, Korea, and Japan and served a two-year assignment in Hong Kong as Director of Optoelectronics for Asia. Vivek is an Advisory Board Member for the Stevens Institute of Technology’s School of Engineering and Science and was an Advisory Board Member at Celestial AI (acquired by Marvell), that developed a Photonic Fabric for Scale-up AI connectivity. He received the Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey.