Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board
Mr. Krasulick most recently served as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Emcore Corporation’s Fiber Optics division and as a board member of Langfang Emcore Optoelectronics Ltd. Prior to joining Emcore, Mr. Krasulick was a member of the Executive Management team of Optium Corporation, which successfully achieved an IPO in 2006. Mr. Krasulick has also held senior management positions in JDS Uniphase Corporation, and began his career as an engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Co-Founder, Vice President Operations
Ms. Albrecht brings to Skorpios over 15 years of business operations experience. Before founding Skorpios, she served as Manager of Human Resources at Emcore Corporation. In addition to managing the corporate HR activities, Ms. Albrecht was a key member of the team leading the integration of the acquired assets of Intel’s Optical Platform Division into Emcore’s Fiber Optics Division. Ms. Albrecht has worked for three different venture-funded start-up companies in various operational roles. In addition to her start-up experience, Ms. Albrecht has held operational roles at both Honeywell and Nextel Communications. Ms. Albrecht has a B.S. from Kansas State University.
Chief Technical Officer
Dr. Lambert brings to Skorpios over 25 years of experience in III-V crystal growth, III-V wafer fabrication, Silicon wafer fabrication, MEMS and die fabrication. His experience includes fabrication of photonic components such as lasers, gratings, multiplexers, EAM modulators, MZ modulators, and photodiode detectors. Over the last 11 years, Dr. Lambert has been leading various organizations at Skorpios, including process integration, process engineering, process development, manufacturing, and operation teams. Before joining Skorpios, Dr. Lambert worked at Infinera, Inc. where he was responsible for management and technical leadership in the manufacturing of compound semiconductor Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC). Dr. Lambert was a key member of the technical team leading the development and integration of new generation of PICs including design, fabrication, and performance analysis. He helped transfer the technology from development to high volume manufacturing. Dr. Lambert has contributed more than 70 journal articles, book chapters and conference talks. Dr. Lambert has contributed more than 70 journal articles, book chapters and conference talks. He holds more than 30 granted US patents and has a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin.
Chief Revenue Officer
Gunter Reiss is Chief Revenue Officer at Skorpios Technologies, leading global sales and marketing for its fab services and silicon photonics business. He was previously Chief Customer Officer and CMO at DZS, where he drove global sales growth and a brand transformation. At A10 Networks, he led 5G, cloud, and cybersecurity initiatives as VP of Worldwide Marketing and Strategic Alliances. Earlier in his career, Gunter held senior leadership roles at Ericsson, Damovo, and IPC across the U.S. and Europe. He currently advises Techne Infiniti Ventures and Edge Nectar, and has held board roles with Skorpios Technologies, MobileComm, and the Sun Microsystems Customer Advisory Board.
SVP, Operations
Faisal has 30 years of operations experience in optoelectronics and laser semiconductor fabrication design and manufacture across multiple different areas. He recently came from Coherent Corp where he worked as the Director of strategic sourcing to streamline their challenging suppliers base. Faisal is no stranger to Skorpios Technologies when he joined as SVP of Engineering/Operations before he joined Coherent. Faisal served as SVP of Operations/Engineering at Rubicon Technology where he was instrumental in helping achieve an IPO in 2007. Faisal started his career as a product Engineer and later as (NPI) New Product Introduction Technical Manager at Optoelectronics Business Unit of AT&T Bell Laboratories.