Geoffrey Maroun Akiki has spent almost 40 years in high technology, including executive positions with IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and is currently President of HOYA LSI. He has extensive international experience in both the technical and business side of semiconductors and their associated ecosystems. He holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University and an MBA from the University of Vermont.

Steve Lamont focuses mostly on strategy and marketing for technology businesses. He was previously a managing partner in Accenture's strategy practice, head of marketing for McCaw Cellular Communications, and a senior engagement manager at McKinsey and Company. He currently is an angel investor at Sand Hill Angels and Silicon Catalyst Angels. He has a B.Sc. in computer science from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Michael E. White was the Principal Director for Hypersonics (PD,H) in the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Modernization) within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)). In that capacity, Mr. White was responsible for leading the Nation's vision and strategy for developing offensive and defensive warfighting capability enabled by hypersonic systems. This included establishing the roadmap for the DoD-wide developments being pursued to field transformational warfighting capability enabled by hypersonic systems. The roadmap includes air, land and sea based hypersonic strike capabilities as well as the systems required to enable comprehensive layered defeat of adversary hypersonic capability. The efforts also include future developments based on reusable hypersonic systems. The portfolio of activity he is responsible for is in excess of $3B annually across the Services, OSD, MDA, DARPA, and SCO. SDA also has a key role in developing space as an enabler. Before his current position, Mr. White was Head of the Air and Missile Defense Sector at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where he led over 1,100 staff members developing advanced concepts to enhance the Nation's air and missile defense capability. Prior to this 2016 appointment as Sector Head, and starting in 2005, Mr. White served as the APL Mission Area Executive for Air and Missile Defense where he was responsible for a program portfolio that included AEGIS, STANDARD Missile, Ship Self Defense System, Cooperative Engagement Capability, the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program, and Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense, along with numerous other Navy and Missile Defense Agency programs. Mr. White earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland.

CEO of Barcoding, Inc. Jay graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Inventory Management and Management Information Systems, and began his career designing and developing tracking systems. He later founded Barcoding, Inc. in 1997 and has since led the company to become an Inc. 500 company and be recognized by Forbes as one of the top privately held technology companies. Steinmetz has been honored as a Top 40 business leader Under 40 and Entrepreneur of the Year for Technology, and has multiple patents under his name. He has been a guest speaker, guest columnist, and board member for various organizations, and under his leadership, Barcoding, Inc. now employs over 200 people in 17 states and three countries and generates revenue of over $200 million.

Sam Smith has over 25 years experience in a variety of disciplines including computational intelligence, machine learning, network automation, autonomic systems, cloud based computing, intelligent control, embedded systems design, autonomous vehicles and blockchain technology. He has over 120 publications in the fields of intelligent control, survivable network automation, autonomous systems, simulation, computational search, and expert systems, including seven book chapters, 20 journal papers, and 100 refereed conference papers.

Don Golini is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience in the development management and commercialization of new technologies. Through SANICA Ventures,Don provides consulting and advisory services and is an angel investor. He currently serves as the Advisory Board Chair of the Luminate Accelerator, the world’s largest business accelerator for optics, photonics, and imaging (OPI) startups. Don was the founder and president of QED Technologies, a company that commercialized novel patented technologies aimed at the deterministic manufacturing of precision optics. The company was acquired in 2006 by Cabot Microelectronics and Don stayed on as president until 2010. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Simon School of Business, was chairman of the Rochester Angel Network, and continues to advise several early-stage technology companies. Don is an Optica Fellow and is named on 7 U.S. patents. He received his B.S. in Optics from the University of Rochester and M.S. in Electro-Optics from Tufts University. He currently resides on the New Hampshire seacoast and is passionate about startups and entrepreneurship.

Drue Freeman is the former CEO of the Association for Corporate Growth, Silicon Valley, he is also a 30-year semiconductor veteran, with 15 years focused on automotive. He advises companies in the connected car and ADAS/Autonomous ecosystems and is on the Advisory Boards of several public and private.

Dr. Tewksbury is an experienced CEO and board director with a proven track record of commercializing disruptive technologies and growing new businesses. Most recently, as CEO of Velodyne Lidar, he led the industry’s game-changing merger with Ouster, where he now serves as Executive Chairman of the Board. Prior to that, as CEO of Eta Compute, Energy Focus, Entropic Communications and IDT, he led transformational change and created significant value for stakeholders. Over the course of his 40 year career, Ted has held management and engineering positions at leading semiconductor companies including AMI Semiconductor, Maxim Integrated Products, IBM Microelectronics and Analog Devices. He currently serves on the boards of Ouster, MaxLinear and Jariet Technologies. Ted earned his MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from MIT. Ted brings a wealth of relevant expertise and wisdom to help guide Oculi through its next stage of commercialization and growth.