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Mr. Burke brings over 17 years of proven expertise guiding innovative semiconductor and optical technologies into the commercial market.Prior to Innovalight, Conrad was senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for Bookham Inc. Before Bookham, Mr. Burke was a venture partner at Sevin Rosen Funds, a leading US-based venture capital firm. His career has spanned research and development, product management, marketing, sales, general management and operations in major global organizations, NEC, AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems. He was also the first executive hire at OMM Inc., a venture backed startup based in San Diego, California focused on developing MEMS based optical switching systems. He has deep international experience having lived in and run major divisions of these large companies in Germany, UK and Japan.Conrad represented Innovalight at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland in 2006 to receive The Technology Pioneer Award for Environmental and Energy Technologies. Conrad has a MS in Physics from Trinity College, Dublin, a BS in Physics from University College, Dublin, Ireland and he has also attended The London Business School. | 