Palo Alto, CA

Based in Silicon Valley, California, Conrad is a well-renowned photonics expert, entrepreneur, and investor, building successful new businesses in optics and advanced materials for datacenters, energy and industrial markets. He was founder and CEO of optical materials startup, Innovalight (acquired by DuPont Corporation) and was venture partner at Sevin Rosen Funds and Invention Science Fund (ISF). Some of his past and current board responsibilities include optical switching startup, Capella Photonics (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), programmable optics, startup Lumotive, LEADOPTIK and Cephia, as well as being on the advisory boards of Aelurus (acquired by Broadcom), InnerAnalytics and Cendana Capital. He was a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum in Davos and he is a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year™ award. Conrad has extensive international experience in the photonics components and systems industry having worked and lived in Japan, Germany, the U.K. at AT&T, NEC and Lucent Technologies. He has a MS in Physics from Trinity College and a BS in Physics from University College Dublin in Ireland.