Management Team Austin Farnham, President of Pharad, has over 15 years of management experience bringing products to market and managing new ventures. He joined Pharad from Corvis and the venture-backed Dorsal Networks telecommunications startup, where he initiated sales activities, managed the R&D activities, managed New Product Introduction, and developed and managed the business plan. He previously worked for Invensys, which funded his opening of a new business in Japan, through which he led the acquisition and integration of a large Japanese equipment company. His work in Asia included expanding product development and production activities from Japan to China, Europe, and North America. Mr. Farnham has a patent pending and has published several papers on digital signal processing and robotics. Mr. Farnham received his MBA from Duke University and his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. Dalma Novak, PhD, has over 17 years of experience working in the fields of optical and wireless telecommunications. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and internationally recognized for her technical expertise in the area of microwave and millimeter-wave photonics with more than 230 publications and four patents. She regularly gives invited talks and short courses at leading international microwave and optical technology conferences and is a former Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. Dr. Novak has extensive R&D leadership and project management experience in both the industrial and academic sectors. In her previous positions she has led cross-disciplinary R&D teams developing networking hardware for telecommunications applications. Dr. Novak has also held a variety of senior management roles in a large R&D consortium comprising more than 25 Industry and University participants and was a Director of the organization's technology marketing and licensing company. Dr. Novak received the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia. Rod Waterhouse, PhD, has carried out extensive research and development in the area of printed antennas and arrays and is internationally recognized for his advanced research in Antenna and Microwave technologies. His 2003 and 2007 books on printed antenna design are part of his extensive technical publication list: more than 250 publications and four patent applications. He was previously employed by the venture-backed Dorsal Networks, which merged with Corvis Corporation. His development work at these companies includes receiver, transmitter, and RF designs. Dr. Waterhouse has also given antenna design courses throughout the world for customers such as the Singapore Air Force, the Australian Army Agency and the Australian Defense and Sciences Technology Organization. He actively participates in the state-of-the-art in antenna and microwave theory and is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Dr. Waterhouse received the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering, Masters of Engineering, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia. Thomas Clark, PhD, has over 12 years of government and industry experience in the technology areas of microwave photonics and optical communications. Dr. Clark’s recognized expertise in these fields is evidenced by frequent invited speaker presentations, active service and leadership on technical conference committees and a respected publication record including more than 50 journal and conference papers and nine awarded patents in the areas of optics, photonics and communications. He brings a successful track record of R&D leadership and project management from his previous positions, including the Naval Research Laboratory and over six years at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where he was a key founding member of the Photonic Systems and Devices group. During this tenure at JHU/APL, he was principal investigator and project manager for numerous successful programs involving the development of novel high dynamic range photonic systems for military RF sensors and communications systems. Dr. Clark received the degree of Bachelor of Science from Loyola College of Maryland, a Master of Science degree from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA and the Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Maryland College Park, all in Physics.