Management

Dean Faklis – President

Dean Faklis, along with Dr. Mike Morris and Dr. Milton Chang, co-founded Rochester Photonics Corporation (RPC) in 1989. As VP, he ran operations and led the design and construction of custom precision machines and facilities for the manufacture of micro-optics and large aperture diffractive optics. RPC was acquired by Corning, Inc. in 1999. He went on to serve as VP Engineering & Product Development at PSC, Inc. (former NASDAQ:PSCX) helping it grow profitably from $70M to $220M with 1,000 employees worldwide. He founded aScribe, Inc. in 1997, a manufacturing firm that specializes in precision machined metal components for the optics, photonics, and medical industries. In 1997, he founded the engineering services company that would later be transformed into Perluma. He co-founded LightGage, Inc. in 2001 with Dr. Joe Marron. LightGage develops high-speed, non-contact, submicron 3D surface mappers for use in 100% in-line inspection on the factory floor.

He earned a BS in physics from Loyola University of Chicago and a MS & PhD in Optics from The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. He served as Research Faculty at The Institute of Optics from 1990-1995. He is a past President of the 400 member Optical Society of America, Rochester Section, and has held leadership positions in the OSA at the national level.

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