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Management

 

OptiGrate has the excellent combination of skills and experiences of key management and technical personnel in bringing innovative technology to the market. The management team consists of:

 

President & CEO

Dr. Alexei Glebov

AGlebov@OptiGrate.com

Years of Experience: 20

Education: Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany, M.S. in Applied Physics from University of St. Petersburg, Russia

Experience: Dr. Alexei Glebov has a wealth of industrial experience in managing advanced product development and manufacturing in optoelectronic industry, with a strong emphasis on new product introduction (NPI). Dr. Glebov started his industrial career at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in 1998 and worked for over a decade in various technical and management positions on cutting-edge technology development at Finisar Corp, Fujitsu Ltd, and Lucent Technologies. He has 35 US patents issued and pending, more than 50 peer-reviewed journal publications and book chapters with 600+ citation index, is a frequent invited lecturer, editor of several proceedings bands, conference chair, session chair, executive organizing and program committee member at major SPIE, IEEE and EOS meetings and trade shows. Dr. Alexei Glebov joined OptiGrate in 2008 as CEO and President and leads the company in the successful growth to become the leader in the field of holographic optical elements for optoelectronic applications.

 

CTO & Vice President Product Development

Mr. Vadim Smirnov

VSmirnov@OptiGrate.com

Years of Experience: 15

Education: Master of Science in Physics, St-Petersburg Technical University of Fine Mechanics & Optics, Russia; Master of Science in Optics, School of Optics/CREOL, University of Central Florida

Experience: Mr. Smirnov pioneered the early development of volume Bragg grating technology in PTR glass and has 15 year experience in holography and VBGs. He is the principal investigator of three research projects on large aperture volume Bragg gratings for spectroscopy, high energy femtosecond lasers, and spectral beam combining. Over the last five years he has been the leading force behind the development of new VBG products that today comprise a majority of OptiGrate’s product lines. He has also been a key contributor in VBG technologies on four DOD funded programs: ADHELS, STAB, APPLE and SHEDS. He is the coauthor of six US patents and 75 papers and presentations on PTR hologram technology and its applications.

 

Vice President R&D

Prof. Dr. Leon Glebov

LBGlebov@OptiGrate.com

Years of Experience: 35

Education: M.S. in Physics and Engineering, Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, Leningrad, Russia (1971), Ph.D. in Physics (major in Optics), State Optical Institute, Leningrad, Russia (1976), Doctor of Science in Physics (major in Optics), State Optical Institute, Leningrad, Russia (1987).

Experience: Prof. Glebov founded OptiGrate in 1999. As President and CTO he was instrumental in establishing the company and he continues to direct OptiGrate’s research and development activities in his current role as Vice President of R&D. The early work of Dr. Glebov and his team in 1970’s has paved a way to modern VBG technology in PTR glass and his further research efforts in 1990’s enabled to bring the technology to a commercial level that lead to founding of OptiGrate. Dr. Glebov is also a Research Professor at CREOL, at the University of Central Florida, where he leads the Photoinduced Processing research group since 1995. Before coming to the US, Prof. Glebov has led the world-renown Vavilov State Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia where, over the course of many years he has held various high level positions from Head of the Optical Glass Division to Director of the Institute. Dr. Glebov has published one book, more than 304 technical articles in scientific journals and holds more than 20 patents.

 

Director of Glass Technology

Ms. Larissa Glebova

LGlebova@OptiGrate.com

Years of Experience: 35

Education: M.S. Chemical Technology, Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Tomsk, Russia.

Experience: Ms. Glebova is an expert in the field of PTR glasses. She co-authored more than 15 publications in scientific journals, was awarded 1 patent, and has given over 34 presentations at American and International scientific conferences. The main expertise of Ms. Glebova is in the technology of high purity homogeneous photosensitive glass, photo- and thermo-induced structural transformations in glass, and spectroscopy of silicate glasses. She led development of the current technology of PTR glass.

 

Program Manager

Dr. Igor Ciapurin

ICiapurin@OptiGrate.com

Years of Experience: 25

Education: Ph.D. in Physics of Semiconductors and Dielectrics from the State University of Moldova, M.S. in Optoelectronics from Kishinev State University, Moldova

Experience: Dr. Igor Ciapurin is with OptiGrate Corp since 2005. He received his PhD degree in Physics from the State University of Moldova, where he joined the R&D Department in 1991 and has held different research and management positions. Since 2001, Igor has been with CREOL/UCF in Orlando, Florida, where his research has mainly aimed to design and develop volume Bragg gratings in PTR glass for spectral beam combining of high-power lasers. He has 70+ publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and 15+ years of experience in business management.

 

Accounting Manager

Mr. Robert Giffin

RGiffin@OptiGrate.com

Years of Experience: 50

Education: BS in Business Management and Accounting from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, USA

Experience: Mr. Giffin started his career with Fisher Body a Division of General Motors Corporation and was with them for 6.5 years, advancing from the Payroll Department to the Cost Analysis Department. He left to build his own Management Consulting Firm which he operated successfully for almost 25 years. During that time, in addition to running his business, he taught bookkeeping and business management in the dealer training classes for major oil companies Texaco and Exxon. He sold his management firm and moved to Canada for 4 years where he assisted in the start up of a wholesale marketing company. He then moved to Florida where he worked as the accounting manager for 9 years at Florida MEP, a consulting firm partially funded by the state and federal government, dedicated to improving small business manufacturing in Florida. After 9 years he left to become the accounting manager at OptiGrate.