Dr. Ashok Krishnamoorthy Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Aralight. Dr. Krishnamoorthy spent 12 years in the area of opto-electronic VLSI circuit design. While at Bell Laboratories, Dr. Krishnamoorthy created a method for designing OE-VLSI circuits based on optical devices that are flip-chip bonded to Silicon VLSI chips. This permits individual VLSI chips to have optical input/output communication bandwidths in excess of a Terabit-per-second, making them well-suited to building high-performance switching and routing systems. He recently demonstrated the first direct integration of an array of 256 vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers to gigabit-per-second CMOS circuits. His own work resulted in over 130 technical papers, 2 book chapters, over 20 conference invited talks, and 18 issued patents with 15 pending. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu. For his contributions to optoelectronics, he was named an Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer for 1999 by the Eta Kappa Nu engineering society. Dr. Krishnamoorthy received B.S. in Electrical Engineering (with Honors) from the California Institute of Technology, the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Keith Goossen Chief Scientist and co-founder of Aralight. Dr.Goossen has over 15 years of experience in the area of opto-electronic devices used within optical networks. In his previous assignment, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. While there his work has been primarily on the integration of dense arrays of photonic elements onto VLSI electronic chips for optical interconnects. This includes the first demonstration of high-speed, high-density optical transceivers utilizing CMOS and GaAs-based lasers via flip-chip bonding. This work has resulted in 70 journal papers, as well as 38 issued patents and 10 pending. Dr. Goossen is also the inventor of the active element in MEMS based modulators, attenuators, and WDM network power equalizers. This work resulted in 12 journal papers and 16 issued patents with 7 pending. Dr. Goossen received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. Gary M. Ger Vice President, Business Development and Marketing and co-founder of Aralight. Mr. Ger has 12 years of experience in the fiber optic industry. Recently he was a Senior Manager in the Lucent New Ventures Group responsible for opto-electronic and optical networking startups. In his previous assignment, Mr. Ger held senior marketing and sales positions in AMP/Tyco, both in the US and in Russia/Eastern Europe, where, as a first employee, he was responsible for developing sales and marketing presence. His technical background includes engineering position within Lucentıs Opto-Electronic Group, as well as a system architect position for a Service Provider start-up in Russia that designed one of the first SDH-based networks. Mr. Ger received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University; MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Masters in Engineering Management from McCormick School of Engineering, both from Northwestern University. James G. Helm Vice President of Operations. Mr. Helm has over 30 years of experience within opto/electronic industry, the last 20 with AMP/Tyco. He has served in a broad variety of operational and product management capacities, having global responsibility for a diverse set of manufacturing and technical operational activities in electronic and opto-electronic business units. Having successfully started up four manufacturing facilities in Asia for offshore sourcing of manufactured components and systems, he subsequently became the Vice President of Operations for a networking subsidiary of AMP. In his previous assignment, Mr. Helm was the Director of Operations for the AMP Opto-electronic organization, where he led the introduction of the laser diode/silicon waferboard platform. Mr. Helm received the B.S.B.A. with concentration in management from Elizabethtown College and an MBA with concentration in operations management from Penn State University.