Recall Rich was unable to attend the AGM last year. I know that he was really helpful in backing up Suresh in terms of business planning in order for Suresh to focus on OI development. POET now has extensive experience in the management team in sales and marketing. 

For  example  Vivek: was Director of Sales & Marketing (Asia) for Lucent Technologies’ (now Nokia) optical components, where he started Lucent’s Asia business; Vice President of Product Marketing and Business Development for OpNext (formerly Hitachi’s Fiber Optics Division) where he was part of the team to spin-off the optical business from Hitachi; Director of Product Management & Marketing for JDS Uniphase (now Lumentum), and VP of Global Sales for GigOptix. 

Edward Cornejo, Vice President of Product Marketing & Business Development

Edward Cornejo was most recently Senior Director of Service Provider Solutions at MACOM Technologies where he worked with end customers to design, develop and manufacture optical solutions for data center applications utilizing internal device, component and integration capabilities.

 Rich is still listed as an insider in SEDI. Not sure when his bio disappeared from POET’s web site.