Daniel Renner

Daniel Renner received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree in optoelectronics from Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., in 1981. He is the Vice-President of business development at Freedom Photonics, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, responsible for the identification of new business areas, while also supporting product manufacturing and engineering with his vast expertise in the photonic component area. He has 30 years of experience in the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of complex photonic devices and systems. His experience spans both the technical and the commercialization aspects of photonic products, having led activities in many areas, including technology and product development, identification of new business areas, introduction of new products, marketing, and sales. Prior to joining Freedom Photonics, he held positions of increasing technical and business responsibility at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Rockwell International, Ortel Corporation, Agility Communications, and Aerius Photonics/FLIR EOC. At these companies, he led teams that developed a wide range of commercially successful photonic products such as semiconductor lasers for high-speed transmission, the first commercial CATV fiber-optic transmitters, analog fiber-optic links for antenna remoting, tunable semiconductor laser transmitters, and high-power VCSEL arrays.