6 April 2011

Advanced Photonix promotes CFO to chief operating officer

Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes silicon, InP- and GaAs-based photodetectors, subsystems, and terahertz instrumentation for telecom, homeland security, military, medical and industrial markets) has promoted chief financial officer Robin Risser to chief operating officer and a member of the board of directors.

“Our rapidly expanding sales pipeline in our fast growth areas of high-speed optical receivers and Terahertz is driving our need to implement organizational changes to best respond to these opportunities,” says president & CEO Richard (Rick) Kurtz. “With over 18 years in the optical field and industry knowledge, combined with his financial and strategic expertise, Rob brings valuable experience and background to the COO position,” he adds.

“We need to build on our strong internal management talent pool in conjunction with new external management expertise. Rob will also continue to serve as our CFO while we conduct a search for his replacement,” Kurtz continues. “Having worked with Rob for the past six years I know he will be instrumental in helping API grow to the next level in the shortest possible time frame.”

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