Paul Polishuk received a B.S. degree from Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in 1956, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio
State in 1962 and 1964. In 1971, he received and S.M. in Management
from MIT, after spending a year as a Sloan Fellow. He is a Co-chairman of the Polymer Optical Fiber Trade Organisation, the President and Chairman of the Board of the IGI Group of Companies, which includes IGI Consulting Inc., Information Gatekeepers Inc., and twelve overseas offices. Both companies are involved in providing information and analysis of fiber optics and telecommunications markets and technology trends worldwide. He is an internationally recognised expert on fiber optics and telecommunications technology and markets.
Dr Paul Polishuk
Professor John Harvey
John Harvey is professor of Physics at the University of Auckland and founder and CEO of Southern Photonics. He is an internationally-recognized scientist in the fields of physics and optical communications and over the space of 30 years has built the Optics Group at Auckland into a world-class team. He is the editor of five books and has received numerous professional honours during the course of his career. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of New Zealand and the Optical Society of America.
Scientific Advisory Board
Professor Ben Eggleton
Professor Ben Eggleton is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Director of theARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems. He is the Director of the Institute of Photonics and Optical Sciences (IPOS) at the University of Sydney. He has a BSc and PhD from the University of Sydney, and spent 7 years working in the US at Bell Labs (later Lucent Technologies and OFS), finishing his work there as the Director of Photonic Devices Research.
Professor Eggleton has won numerous awards including the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America, ICO Prize from the International Commission for Optics and the Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. He was an IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Lecturer in 2002–03 and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.