Wyant College Strategic Advisory Board

Strategic Advisory Board, Wyant College of Optical Sciences

The Mission of the Strategic Advisory Board, Wyant College of Optical Sciences is to help identify the effective strategies and opportunities to foster and develop leading academic, research, and philanthropic partnerships and programs that advance the mission of the Wyant College of Optical Sciences’ goal. This goal is to be the internationally preeminent program and education, research, and outreach in all aspects of the science and application of light.


 

Members

John Hayes, chair (OSC PhD 1984)

President
Citation Jet Pilots Inc.
Tucson, AZ
jhayes_tucson@yahoo.com

Eugene Arthurs

Retired, Executive Director SPIE (1999 - 2018)
SPIE
Bellingham, WA
eugene@spie.org

Marisa Edmund

Chairman and Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
Edmund Optics
Tucson, AZ
Medmund@edmundoptics.com

Tom Hausken

Senior Advisor
Optica
Washington, DC
thausken@osa.org

Thomas L. Koch

Dean & Professor
Wyant College of Optical Sciences
Tucson, AZ
tlkoch@optics.arizona.edu

Kyle Myers, (OSC PhD 1985)

Principal
Puente Solutions, LLC.
Retired, FDA; Director, Division of Imaging, Diagnostics, and Software Reliability (2008 – 2021)

Phoenix, AZ
drkylejmyers@gmail.com

Jacobus M. (Jim) Oschmann, (OSC MS 1983)

Owner
Marinus Consulting LLC
Retired, Vice President & General Manager Ball Aerospace (2008 – 2018)
Anacortes, WA

Jim@marinus-llc.com

Rick Plympton

Chief Executive Officer
Optimax Systems Inc.
Ontario, NY
rick@optimaxi.com

John R. Rogers, (OSC PhD 1983)

Senior Scientist for Imaging Optical Design
Synopsys, Inc.
Pasadena, CA
John.Rogers@synopsys.com

Kaye Rowan

Executive Director of Development
Wyant College of Optical Sciences
Tucson, AZ
rowan@optics.arizona.edu

Steve Sokach

Director of Sales
The Americas, Advanced Optics Division of SCHOTT
steve.sokach@us.schott.com

Russell Spaulding

President
Optical Systems Engineering Group
Jacksonville, FL
spaulding@optsysengr.com

James C. Wyant

OSC Founding Dean and Professor Emeritus
College of Optical Sciences
Tucson, AZ
jcwyant@optics.arizona.edu

Emeritus Members

Robert Edmund, emeritus chair

Chief Executive Officer
Edmund Optics
Tucson, AZ
redmund@edmundoptics.com

Joseph W. Goodman

Professor Emeritus
Stanford University
Los Altos, CA

Leonard P. Mott, (OSC MS 1971)

Managing Partner
MLD Technologies, LLC
Mountain View, CA
lenmott@mldtech.com