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 President
Martin Seifert
Martin Seifert has been a business leader for more than twenty years. Additionally due to his technical background, he is named on a number of Nufern fiber, chip, and laser patents.
Prior to Nufern, Martin was President and GM of Lucent Specialty Fibers, a position which came as a result of his turn around of the floundering SpecTran specialty optical fiber manufacturing company and its subsequent sale to Lucent.
In the early 90s he started and managed a successful combined hardware and software business at Rockwell where he was also involved with merger, acquisition, and divestiture activities.
Prior experience was as Chief Operating Officer of Schweitzer Engineering Labs, and manager of the specialized global high tech drives and control system service provider organization within Bucyrus-Erie. Martin holds a B.S. degree from the University of British Columbia.
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 Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Adrian Carter
Dr. Carter was founder and General Manager of Redfern Fibres Pty. Ltd. which later became Nufern.
Prior to that he was Assistant Professor and Research Associate for Lightwave Technology at Brown University. Dr. Carter also worked as a Quality Assurance Director and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Optical Fibre Technology Center in Sydney, Australia where he focused on the design and fabrication of novel specialty optical fibers. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry and his B.S. in Mathematics and Chemistry from the University of Sydney.
Dr. Carter holds several U.S. patents and his work, particularly with respect to photosensitive and high-power fibers, has been widely published.
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 VP Operations
Dr. Kanishka Tankala
Dr. Tankala was Technical Manager at Lucent Specialty Fiber where he was responsible for specialty fiber preform production and development of polarization maintaining fibers. Prior to that, he was a scientist with SpecTran Specialty Optics where he developed a wide range of rare earth doped fibers and focused on novel double clad fibers.
Dr. Tankala also worked as a Research Associate at the Norton Company. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in Metals Science and Engineering. He received his B.E. in Metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Science and B. Sc. in Physics from Delhi University.
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 VP Business Development
Dr. Bryce Samson
Dr. Samson joined Nufern from Corning where he served as Senior Research Scientist in the areas of doped fibers, fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers.
Prior to that, he worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton focusing on novel fibers and fiber device physics. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Essex University in the UK and his B.S. degree in Applied Physics from Heriott-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK.
He is an inventor on several patents in the amplifier and fiber laser field and has been published in scores of industry journals.
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