Pouya Dianat, PhD, Chief Revenue Officer, combines over 18 years of experience in the photonics industry including more than a decade in commercialization of photonic technology and eight years as a graduate student in photonics. Previously Dr. Dianat served as the Director of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) and Foundry Services, where he led the commercial offerings of the Company’s thin-film lithium niobate technology since July 2024. Dr. Dianat was the Chief Technology Officer for Nanograss Solar LLC., a company commercializing high-speed photodetectors, from 2018 to 2021. From 2021 to 2022, he was Entrepreneur-in-residence at Drexel University, while also working as a scientist at Princeton Infrared Technologies, a company focused on high-end infrared cameras. From March 2022 to July 2023, he was a Senior Photonics Engineer at Optogration, a Luminar Company, where he led commercial offerings, business development and scale-up of photonic detector chips for automotive LIDAR products. Dr. Dianat served as the Market Expert and Director of PIC and Quantum Technologies at OPTICA, a world-leading optics and photonics association, from 2023 to 2024. Dr. Dianat received his PhD and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Dr. Dianat also served a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University.