AIM Photonics' New CEO Sets Course for US Leadership in the Integrated Photonics Industry

摘要

No one can accuse Michael Cumbo, the new CEO of AIM Photonics, of being risk-averse. In the middle of a pandemic that has had most of us working from home, he left the Bay Area and an executive position at ZYGO Corp. to drive across the country to upstate New York, where he assumed leadership for an organization he had never visited and whose management and staff he had met only through virtual interviews. The CEO role marks the third time the Rochester, N.Y., native has returned to upstate New York to take on a professional challenge. In 2004 he became CEO at Ithaca-based BinOptics (acquired by MACOM in 2014), and in 2009 he again returned to the upstate area to help manage the IDEX acquisition of Semrock.