Management

Bob Goodman
President & CEO

Over 26 years experience in large, medium and start-up high technology related companies. Experience has included senior management and leadership expertise in complex, highly competitive and quickly changing environments on a worldwide scale.
Recently: CEO of a semiconductor device related company, Kentron Technologies, from 2000 until 2004 and President and CEO of a West Coast based semiconductor equipment company, Luxtron Corporation, from 1995 until 2000.
Held senior management positions at Texas Instruments and Wyse Technology. Also served 5 years as an officer in the U. S. Army prior to beginning his career in high technology.
Involved with industry organizations such as JEDEC (semiconductor device standards) and the Electronics Industry Alliance (EIA) where he served on the Board of Governors.
Has worked closely with leading Semiconductor Manufacturers, OEMs, and Distributors in worldwide markets including the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea.
M.B.A., Saint Edward’s University; B.S., Engineering, United States Military Academy.

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Founding employee of SERA Solar, a Silicon Valley start-up, consultant to other start-ups
Lifetime Achievement Award from CU Technology Transfer 2003
University of Colorado Inventor of the Year in the Physical Sciences for 2002
120 technical publications, 23 patents, Fellow of Optical Society of America
Ph.D., M.S., Applied Physics, Harvard; B.S.E.E., Stanford

Recently: Vice President of Engineering / Manufacturing / Product Development at Superconducting Core Technologies, Spectral Solutions, and then ISCO International
Successful in moving technology from the laboratory to manufacturing
Former Supervisory Physicist at NIST
Ph.D., Physics, University of Oregon; B.S., Physics, B.A., Psychology, Stanford

Co-founder of Phiar Corporation
First named inventor of the Metal-Double Insulator-Metal structure for ultra-high speed optoelectronics
Named inventor on 6 patents and 3 patent applications in the optoelectronic field
Core researcher in tunnel junction devices which form the base of Phiar’s Technology.
Ph.D., M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder; B.S.E.E., Montana State University, Bozeman.

Co-founder of Phiar Corporation
Recently Engineering Manager at Melles Griot Electro-Optics leading diode laser product development
Retired Air Force officer with 18 years R&D experience. Held numerous technical and managerial positions
15 technical publications, 5 patents, 5 pending patent applications
PhD., Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado; M.S.E.E., Air Force Institute of Technology; B.S.E.E, Ohio State University

Over 22 years of experience in RF, microwave and mm-wave systems and components for communication, radar and satellite systems.
Lead Systems Engineer for US Navy DDG 1000 phased array communications antenna.
GaAs MMIC and SiGe power device design and application experience.
Developed a parallel optics module which formed the basis for the SNAP12 MSA.
Won EDN Innovation Award, 2001.
M.S., B.S., Electrical Engineering, Georgia Tech

Adam brings twelve years of high technology experience to Phiar. He has held senior sales and marketing positions with a number of small companies, primarily in the Bay Area.
He founded, ran and sold (3.4X cash-on-cash) a political information company called betterVote.com.
Most recently, Adam worked as a venture capitalist, where he helped guide a $7M Series-D investment in a medical device company, which was acquired by Smith & Nephew.
A Kaufmann Fellowship semifinalist, Adam is also a Sord Scholar, a Venture Fellow, a Hick Muse Tate and Furst Center for Private Equity Finance scholarship winner, and a Walter P. Murphy Award recipient.
M.B.A., McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin; B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University.