Dr. Behzad Moslehi
Educated at Stanford University (PhD EE and two MS: EE and Appl. Physics) in the USA and Arya-Mehr University of Technology (BS EE) in Iran, Behzad did pioneering work on advanced fiber and integrated optic circuits including signal processors and sensors at Stanford and Litton, and has made continuing contributions to the field (numerous publications and patents, Senior Member of IEEE, OSA, SPIE) including contributions to the commercialization of the fiber optic gyroscope and sensor arrays at Litton and the first WDM products before the telecom boom (WDM multiplexers based on diffraction gratings) at POC. He has experience in large (Xerox, Litton) and small companies (Quantex, POC, Optivision, IFOS ). An entreprenuer, Dr. Moslehi is the founder/CEO/CTO of IFOS and his work contributed to the founding of ONI Systems which was spun off from Optivision. He has led the securing of about $20 million of R&D and product development funding for IFOS . He led the successful commercialization of IFOS first family of commercial products, the I*Sense®. He has provided successful business and technical management of the company through the ups and downs of the economy over the past years with net steady growth. He is highly experienced in setting business strategies, creating strategic alliances, and profit and loss management. Behzad knows a vast network of people in the field worldwide. He has a good mix of experience in commercial and government business. When he undertakes a project he factors all aspects, technical and business, and follows through diligently. Dr. Moslehi is the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Dan Price, Attorney, Intellectual property & Employment Law
Dan has been a practicing attorney for over 30 years, initially in Washington, D.C and currently as the head of his own law firm in Palo Alto, California.  His emphasis is on providing intellectual property and employment law counseling to and has sat on the board of directors of new and emerging high technology Silicon Valley companies although he also numbers among his clients leading national and international companies providing various technologies such as spread spectrum, broadband access, VOIP services and precision optical software.  He is the former lead counsel for Source Services Corporation, then a leading national provider of information technology consulting services, and a panel member of continuing legal education program entitled “Company Assets, Confidential Information and the Mobile Employee”, sponsored by Lorman Education Services, Eau Claire, WI.   Dan holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois where he was elected to membership in the Tau Beta Pi engineering honorary society, and a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. where he was invited to the staff of the Georgetown University International Law Journal.

The-Late Prof. H. John Shaw
John is a pioneering authority in the field of fiber optics particularly devices such as those based on the polished half coupler, sensors, and systems. He founded the field of fiber optic circuits and signal processing. His many inventions include the fiber optic gyroscope – a commercialization success story involving technology transfer from Stanford to Litton. The fiber optics device group that he started at Stanford in the late 70s was the first major university group to work on fiber optic sensing and signal processing applications. The many students, postdocs and researchers that came out of the group have gone on to found many successful companies as well as become key contributors and authorities in the field forming a vast network of fiber optic expertise throughout the world. John has been on the boards of several startups. He has been a consultant to government agencies and to a large number of electronic firms. He has served on the IFOS Board since its conception. He has performed research on microwave antennas, high power microwave tubes, microwave solid state devices, microwave acoustic devices, surface acoustic wave devices, real time acoustic imaging systems and piezoelectric polymer devices. He has more than 300 publications and over 90 patents, mostly in the field of photonics. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering (similar to a Fellow of the Royal Society in the UK). Dr. Shaw is a member of the Board of Directors.