POET Technologies Names Semiconductor Veteran Dr. Sandeep Kumar as Chief Operating Officer

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POET Technologies, a leader in highly integrated optical engines and light sources for AI networks, has announced the appointment of Sandeep Kumar as Chief Operating Officer reporting to the Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Kumar was also named as an Officer of the Corporation.

Dr. Sandeep Kumar is an experienced executive in the semiconductor industry. In his last position at Silicon Labs based in Austin, TX where he worked for over 18 years, he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations. He has managed manufacturing teams, supply chain, planning, CAD, process engineering, package engineering, product and test engineering, quality assurance, failure analysis, as well as prototype production and reliability test labs. Sandeep has experience working closely with the design, marketing, sales teams, and customers addressing their geopolitical concerns. Prior to joining Silicon Labs, Sandeep was responsible for worldwide product and test engineering for the storage business at Agere Systems, Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Labs working closely with the internal factories in the United States and Asia. As a member of the Bell Labs technical staff, Sandeep was part of the group that designed ISDN U-interface chips, Speaker Phone Codec and Sigma-Delta A/D converters.

Sandeep has a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Evansville in Indiana and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Sandeep also attended and completed Wharton’s Leadership Development Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

POET’s Chairman & CEO, Dr. Suresh Venkatesan commented: "We are delighted to be adding to our C-Suite an experienced semiconductor executive. Sandeep is expected to play a major role in managing global operations in with an immediate focus on bringing proven talent into our manufacturing organization in Malaysia to prepare it for high-volume production.”

RSU Grant

In connection with his appointment to the Board of Directors, Dr. Kumar was awarded a total of 410,397 RSUs that will vest at the rate of 1/3 of the total on the first, second and third anniversaries of the grant. The RSUs were granted subject to provisions of the Corporation’s 2025 Omnibus Incentive Plan and related agreements between Dr. Kumar and the Corporation.

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