Fred J. Leonberger served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU), a leading optical components supplier, from 1999 until his retirement in June 2003. At JDSU, he was responsible for strategic technology, and was closely involved in the M&A and IP activities of the corporation. He previously held a similar position at Uniphase Corporation prior to its merger with JDS Fitel in July, 1999. He joined Uniphase upon its acquisition of UTP in 1995. Dr. Leonberger was a co-founder of UTP and served as its General Manager from 1992-1995. From 1984 to 1991, he was Manager of Photonics & Applied Physics at the United Technologies Research Center. From 1975-1984, he was with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, first as a staff member and later as a group leader. He has over 15 patents, 40 archival publications and 125 meeting presentations in the areas of optoelectronic devices and their applications in communications, sensing and signal processing.
He is presently the Principal of EOvation Technologies LLC, a technology advisory firm he founded in July 2003. He serves on the Board of Directors of Agility Communications, Alphion and RF MicroDevices, is a Senior Advisor at the MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems, and works with a number of technology companies and venture firms in the fiber optics and photonics industry.
Dr. Leonberger has served as President of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, Co-Chair of CLEO 2002, member of the OFC Steering Committee, chairman of several LEOS/OSA topical meetings, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics and of Optics Letters. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE and OSA, and has been awarded the IEEE Quantum Electronics Award and Mellenium Medal, and the UTC George Meade Medal. He received the B.S.E. degree from the University of Michigan, and the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering.