Dr. John Alfred Trezza
President and Chief Technology Officer, Xanoptix

Dr. Trezza has over 10 years of experience in the area of opto-electronic devices and modules for use in data communications. Prior to his most recent position as head of the Electro-Optics group at Sanders, a division of Lockheed Martin, he was a research faculty member at Stanford University where he directed a group of about 25 students and made pioneering contributions in high speed electronic, optical, and opto-electronic design and development as well as in high speed data communications chips. He has over 40 publications and journal presentations and has served on program committees for technical conferences for the OSA and SPIE. Dr. Trezza was graduated Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University with a B.S.E. and received an M.S.E.E. and Ph.D from Stanford University.