Team
Patrick Bowen
CEO, Co-Founder
Serial entrepreneur and metamaterial physicist with 20+ high-impact publications.
Donovan Popps
VP Engineering
30-year semiconductor veteran who led teams at Motorola, Denali, Ambiq, and Luminous.
Yanning Lu
Analog Lead
Expert in ultralow power IC design and power management with senior roles at Ambia, Alpha & Omega Semiconductor, and Cirrus Logic.
Michelle Truong
Business Operations
Experienced in administration and operations with a strong background in military intelligence. Skilled in executive support, process optimization, and ensuring seamless coordination across teams.
Andrew Traverso
Chief Scientist, Co-Founder
Accomplished optoelectronics and photonics physicist with a focus on metamaterials.
Vasco Caldeira
Principal Analog Engineer
High-speed analog/mixed-signal architect and lead. Brings 20+ years design and leadership experience in integrated circuits, from DC to daylight. Held architect and lead roles at Uhnder, Synopsys, and NXP.
Philip Sullivan
Senior Optical Engineer
Pioneer in integration of tunable metamaterials. Chemistry PhD, IC Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry Lead at Intellectual Ventures Labs. > 50 publications & patents.
Alexander Hayes
Business Development
Deep tech serial-entrepreneur with experience in metamaterials, optical solid-state satellite communications, AI, and controls engineering.
Tom Driscoll
Co-Founder
Tech exec and inventor with > 100 patents. Tom co-founded Echodyne Corp, the market leader in solid-state radar.
Brad Sissom
Principal Optical Engineer
Optical Architect / Tech Lead for Magic Leap, Micron, Apple/Akonia, Google/Raxium, and Omnivision building AR headsets, holographic data storage, imagers, and picoprojectors.
Cristian Ciraci
Metasurface Designer
Specialist in electromagnetic propagation and nonlinear optics, with research featured on the cover of Science Magazine.
Advisors
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Technical Advisor
Tech visionary, scientist, and inventor with 900+ patents. Intellectual Ventures co-founder, Former CTO of Microsoft, Ph.D. in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, and published author.
Matt Traverso
Technical Advisor
Optical interconnect systems, low power packaging solutions, optical alignment.
Technical Advisor
Co-founded Nervana, focused on deep learning hardware and software; served as VP at Intel leading AI and machine learning projects.
Ty Garibay
Technical Advisor
President of Condor Computing; former VP at Mythic and Altera; CTO at Arteris IP; senior IC design roles at Intel and TI.
Scientific Advisor
Distinguished Professor known for metamaterials and transformation optics; led breakthroughs in negative index materials and invisibility cloaks; 70+ patents.
Board Of Directors
Chris Alliegro
Managing Partner at MetaVC Capital; former EVP at Intellectual Ventures; held senior roles in Microsoft, and Bell Labs.
