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This meeting is a joint OSSC-OSA event, please join us!!

Starting and Running Companies

Milton Chang, Incubic Management LLC

Milton Chang is Managing Director of Incubic Management and is semi-retired.  He was CEO and President of Newport Corporation and New Focus, both of which he took public.  He was also actively involved in founding a number of startup companies, six of which went public.  He has been writing a monthly business/career column for the Laser Focus World for more than 15 years and is completing a book titled, “Towards Entrepreneurship—Lowering The Risk of Starting and Running a Technology Business.”

Milton will share his experience in starting and running companies and present his view on how to start a company in the photonics field in today’s environment. He is looking forward to meeting Southern CA friends and has promised to provide a straightforward answer to any question you may have. 

Milton is a Fellow of the IEEE, Laser Institute of America (LIA), and Optical Society of America.  He was past president of LIA and the Photonics Society of the IEEE. He has received a number of awards, including Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech and the University of Illinois. Also, Milton is a Caltech Trustee and member of the Committee of 100.  Currently, he currently sits on the board of Precision Photonics and mBio.

Milton earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the University of Illinois, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the California Institute of Technology and completed the Harvard OPM Program. He has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from both the University of Illinois and Caltech and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Caltech and an Overseer of the Huntington Library.