Leadership

Brian’s early career included time as a Process Engineer, Manufacturing Manager, and Management Consultant. After several years in the optics industry and the telecom industry, Brian co-founded Universal Lightspeed, a company that created optical read-write heads for the optical disk drive industry. In 1998, Brian founded Blaze Network Products and was the CEO until it was acquired in 2006 by Omron, a Japanese industrial conglomerate. After the acquisition, Brian became President & COO of Omron Network Products, which he managed for eight years. In 2014, Brian initiated a successful management buyout of the business and re-launched the company as Inneos. Two years later, he merged Zephyr Photonics into Inneos to create the vertically integrated, optical company it is today. Brian received his M.B.A. from the Haas School of Management at UC Berkeley, and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering, from UC Davis.

Dr. Grann started his career as a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where he researched diffractive optics, integrated optics, fiber optics, electro-optics, and laser radar. Eric co-founded Blaze Network Products with Brian and was the CTO and VP of Engineering until it was acquired by Omron in 2006. After the acquisition, Eric became the VP of Product Development for Omron Network Products.

Eric later joined JDSU (now Lumentum) as Sr. Director of Product Engineering where he led a global product engineering team for all pluggable optical transceiver products, tunable transmission products, and active optical components. In 2016, Eric rejoined Inneos as SVP of Product Engineering where he manages the R&D teams developing new products. Eric has published more than 30 technical papers and has received 10 US patents. Eric has an M.S. and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida (CREOL) and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Tyler brings over 20 years of experience in compound semiconductors, including materials growth and characterization and device design, processing, characterization, failure analysis, and reliability testing. Previously, he managed several multi-million dollar device and transceiver development efforts. More recently, Tyler has managed engineering and production operations at Inneos’ Nevada facility. Tyler has an M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University, and a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University.