Dr. Behzad Moslehi
Dr. Moslehi received an MS degree in applied physics and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering, all from Stanford University. His undergraduate work was done at the Arya-Mehr University of Technology (BS EE) in Iran. Dr. Behzad has been involved in pioneering work on advanced fiber and integrated optic circuits, including the development of signal processors and sensors at Stanford and Litton. He holds numerous patents and has written a number of publications in this area, and he is a Senior Member of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. Dr. Moslehi helped to commercialize fiber optic gyroscope and sensor arrays at Litton, and contributed to the design of 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 ). His work contributed to the founding of ONI Systems (which was spun off from Optivision).

An entrepreneur, Dr. Moslehi is the founder/CEO/CTO of IFOS, and has been instrumental in securing roughly 20 million dollars of R&D funding for the company. He led the successful commercialization of IFOS’s first family of commercial products, the I*Sense® Family, and has guided the company’s growth through the ups and downs of the economy. He is highly experienced in defining business strategies, creating strategic alliances, and providing capable profit and loss management. Dr. Moslehi has strong, worldwide connections in the fiber optic field, and a good mix of experience in commercial and government business. Dr. Moslehi is currently serving as the Chairman of IFOS’s Board of Directors.



Lee Charles (Ky) Good
Ky is particularly experienced in sales and business strategies, and has hired and managed sales teams that target new markets for new technologies. He has extensive experience in service provider, networking equipment, and optical component communities. His professional background spans a wide range of company sizes, from large public companies to VC funded startups; large companies include NYNEX and Nortel Networks, and private start-ups include Alidian Networks where he was an Officer and Member of Board of Directors as well as Vice President/General Manager of Sales and Vice President of Product Management. He served as Regional Vice President for Advanced Fibre Communications (Singapore); in this position he managed five sales, marketing, and support organizations. His technical expertise includes optical DWDM networking, wireline and wireless transmission systems, access service delivery platforms, narrowband/broadband network applications, Network Management Systems, and Optical Components development and fabrication.

Dr. Richard Black, Chief Scientist
Dr. Richard J. Black received his PhD, Appl. Phys., Fiber Optics (1984), Inst. Advanced Studies, from the Australian Nat. University and has over 23 years experience in photonics, both in academia and industry. He has over 70 journal and conference publications, 6 patents and 50 government reports mostly in the field. He is a leading expert in the design of photonic devices, modules and systems. Dr. Black is foundation employee at Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems (IFOS ). He has acted as Principal Investigator for 8 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects (5 NASA, 2 NSF and 1 Department of Commerce) in fiber optic sensor systems and telecom components. He has been Invited Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and lectured at the Università di Padova on optical waveguide technology including grating and coupler fabrication and usage in sensor and communications systems. Prior to that he was at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal where he had contracts and grants from Nortel and the Canadian government particularly on fused-tapered couplers and switches and co-directed a series of outstanding graduate students in photonics who went on to found or play leading roles in photonics companies. He has also held visiting positions at the world’s leading photonics labs including Stanford University, Centre National d’Etudes des Télécommunications (CNET), France, Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, and the Optical Sciences Centre, Australian National University as well as the Centre des Recherches en Mathématiques, Université de Montréal.

Dr. George Chen, Product Development - Distributed Sensing Systems

Education:  

• PhD, Electrical Engineering, (1984) Stanford University
• MSEE, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University 
• BSEE, Electrical Engineering University of Missouri

Experience:

George is the inventor of the athermal wavelength locker and has a track record of product achievements at AMD/MMI, Perkin Elmer, Tracor X-Ray, Microgen, IMS, Optotech, Lepton, Trident, Dicon Fiber Optics, ETEK Dynamics, Fibera, Primamex and AC Photonics, where he has made key contributions in a range of hardware and software product development, marketing and managerial positions. George manages IFOS’ Distributed Temperature Sensor product development as well as new sensor and component developments and packaging.

Sargis Babakhanian, Controller

Sargis as the Company controller is responsible for budgeting and financial related functions and all commercial government contracts and grants including the proposed project.

Education:

BA in Accounting and Finance.

Experience:

Sargis has over 20 years of experience in accounting and finance with more than 5 companies. At IFOS, in addition to the accounting and finance functions, he performs all the government contract negotiations, billing government contracts also preparing annual budget projection, payroll and auditing. Sargis has set up accounting system (GAAP) with all necessary documentation for the company and has successfully gone through 3 government audits (DCAA) during the past 3 years for IFOS. Sargis is managing the company accounts payable and receivable according to company policy.