About Us

Our Company


We innovate across photonics, electronics, packaging and manufacturing to create optics significantly more dense, scalable and lower power than existing solutions, breaking the I/O wall in data centers and enabling more advanced compute, AI and machine learning.

Leadership

Peter Winzer

Peter Winzer

Founder & CTO

Previously, Peter led Bell Labs’ fiber-optic transmission research, setting multiple high-speed optical transmission records and contributing to optical communications product developments and live field trials. He has published over 500 scientific papers, holds over 80 granted patents and has been widely recognized with awards including Bell Labs Fellow, Fellow of the IEEE and Optica, Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the John Tyndall Award and an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Eindhoven. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Lightwave Technology, Program Chair of ECOC and Program/General Chair of OFC. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria.

Guilhem de Valicourt

Guilhem de Valicourt

VP of Engineering

Before joining the founding team at Nubis, Guilhem was Principal Scientist at IPG Photonics launching their silicon photonics activities. Prior to IPG, he was with Alcatel Lucent in France and at Bell Labs USA working on optical communication systems. He has authored over 120 scientific papers in journals and international conferences, 4 book chapters and holds more than 35 patents. He has received the Alcatel-Lucent Best Project Award, the Marconi Young Scholar award, the Harm Dorren Commemoration Award and the 2019 IEEE Outstanding Young Professional award. Guilhem received his BSc/MSc degree in applied physics from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Toulouse, France and MSc in Photonics Devices from Essex University.

Dan Harding

Dan Harding

CEO

Prior to joining, Dan was Vice President of Marketing at Broadcom, where he defined and brought to market multiple generations of Broadcom’s industry-leading Ethernet NICs, SmartNICs and offload compute engines for video and encryption. He grew the business by over 10x by partnering closely with the leading hyperscale cloud operators and system OEMs across the world. During his career at Broadcom, he led numerous market leading products, and was responsible for nearly $1B in annual revenue. Before Broadcom, Dan was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Sandburst Corp., a pioneer in developing scalable switch fabrics and network processors as merchant silicon components for high-end Ethernet switches. Sandburst was acquired by Broadcom in 2006. Dan holds a BA from Duke University.

Scott Schube

Scott Schube

VP of Marketing

Scott is an optical communications component industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in both technical and marketing roles. Before Nubis, Scott was Sr. Director of Product Line Marketing and Business Development at Intel, where he brought multiple generations of Intel’s silicon photonics technology to market and helped grow the business from zero to one of the leading global optical transceiver suppliers. Over the years, Scott has worked in a variety of product management and strategic marketing leadership roles at NeoPhotonics and Intel OPD and as an optics development engineer for Tyco Subcom and AMP Lytel, as well as a senior analyst at optics industry research firm LightCounting.

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