OpenLight's CEO on its silicon photonics strategy
Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 1:59PM Adam Carter, recently appointed the CEO of OpenLight, discusses the company’s strategy and the market opportunities for silicon photonics.
Adam Carter, CEO of OpenLight
Adam Carter’s path to becoming OpenLight’s first CEO is a circuitous one.
OpenLight, a start-up, offers the marketplace an open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers and gain blocks.
Having worked at Cisco and Oclaro, which was acquired by Lumentum in 2018, Carter decided to take six months off. Covid then hit, prolonging his time out.
Carter returned as a consultant working with firms, including a venture capitalist (VC). The VC alerted him about OpenLight’s search for a CEO.
Carter’s interest in OpenLight was immediate. He already knew the technology and OpenLight’s engineering team and recognised the platform’s market potential.
“If it works in the way I think it can work, it [the platform] could be very interesting for many companies who don't have access to the [silicon photonics] technology,” says Carter.
