Ms. Linda S. Plano, Ph.D.
Linda Plano has over fifteen years of experience
in new product and business development in semiconductor materials
and electronics. Her focus has been primarily on components
for high performance telecommunications applications, including
wireless and optical networks. She has been responsible for
the development of novel materials and their incorporation
into high performance products and for establishing and maintaining
the corporate relationships necessary to develop those products.
Plano is an expert in thin film semiconductor
materials, with a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering
from Stanford University and a BS in Physics from MIT. She
has combined this expertise with experience in Marketing,
Product Development, New Business Development and Business
Unit Management.
Plano has been a research scientist for
Crystallume, a startup company in Northern California, and
has held various executive and management positions at Kobe
Steel’s Electronic Materials Center, Sarnoff Corporation and
Micro Networks Corporation. She is currently writing a book
on component technology for fiber optic networks.
