Dr. Thomas Laurent

• connectivity and solutions in Defense, Security, Functional Safety, Critical Infrastructures

• connectivity and solutions in Mining, Maritime, Autonomous Driving, GNSS

• connectivity and solutions in Mining, Maritime, Autonomous Driving, GNSS

• DACH sales in Quantum Research and Systems • DACH sales in Semiconductor, Displays, Metrology

• DACH sales in Quantum Research and Systems • setting-up and operation of the German subsidiary

• connectivity and solutions in Mining, Maritime, Autonomous Driving, GNSS

• Product Management of the existing portfolio (> 400 P/N) • Key Accounting of Tier1 customer base • Sales to Focus, Small, and Target Accounts • Training and supporting the global distributor network

• Team Building and Co-leading from start-up phase into a mature organization • Successful venture capital acquisition (2005) and subsequent trade sale to Tier1 customer (2013) • Establishing a global network of specialized distributors, multiplying the company's sales force

• founding and setting-up eagleyard Photonics • packaging, test and measurement of GaAs semiconductor Laser Diodes

• test and measurement of InP semiconductor Laser Diodes and Arrayed Waveguides

• NMR contrast medium investigations

• learned to cope with valuable but limited resources • and some tough lessons for life as well

• µs Flashlight pump/probe investigations

• fs dynamics in liquids: time-resolved optical Kerr effect / Raman-induced Kerr effect investigations • first contact (literally) with Laser Diodes when opening-up a COHERENT 5W Verdi Laser and attracted to this technology ever since.

• Where everything less than 500 kg was considered to be: Fine Mechanics