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Kamelian strengthens
fibre optics senior management team Oxford,
6 August 2001: UK fibre optic components start-up, Kamelian, has
strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Bob Press
as vice president marketing and John McEachran as vice president
manufacturing. Together, they bring extensive experience in fibre
optics and semiconductor production to the company. Kamelian's new
III-V facility will be one of the most advanced in Europe and has been
specifically desgined for developing Indium Phosphide-based Semiconductor
Optical Amplifier (SOA) components for the global communications industry. Bob
Press holds a BSc (Hons) degree in materials science from the University
of Bath and has extensive experience in the fibre-optics industry.
He was previously marketing director at Scottish fibre components vendor,
Kymata, and, prior to that, spent seven years at Nortel and eight years at
STC Components. He has also held positions at GEC and Racal. "SOAs
have many advantages over other optical amplifiers in fibre optic
networking systems, and we predict that the market for them will grow
rapidly, particularly as fibre technology permeates to the edge of the
network," commented Paul May, CEO and co-founder of Kamelian.
"Bob brings enormous experience of the fibre optic components
industry which will prove invaluable as we start to market these products
to the global communications community." John
McEachran has an MSc in manufacturing management and technology and has
more than twenty years of senior management experience in high-volume
semiconductor manufacturing. He worked as operations manager for
Filtronic Compound Semiconductor before joining Kamelian. Prior to
that he spent eight years in the wafer fabrication division at Fujitsu
Microelectronics and has also held senior management positions at Amkor
Anan (formally Indy Electronics) and National Semiconductor. "As
we gear up for volume production of our Indium Phosphide SOA-based
devices, John will become an essential and invaluable member of the
team," commented Tim Bestwick, COO and co-founder of Kamelian.
"He will be working in close co-operation with Craig Tombling, our
vice president of engineering and development, to ensure that our new
wafer fabrication and manufacturing facility can meet the stringent
quality and volume requirement levels." About
Kamelian SOAs represent a cost-effective alternative to EDFAs (Erbium doped fibre amplifiers), particularly for the single wavelength applications which are arising as fibre optic networking moves from the long-haul through to the access environment. They also have the significant advantage of controllable gain For
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