Dr Jonathan Lacey, PhD, BEng Jonathan Lacey has been active in the optical fiber communications industry since the late 1980s. He studied electrical engineering and optical fibers at the Universities of Melbourne and Cambridge, and returned to the University of Melbourne as a post-doctoral researcher. In 1998 he joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (now Agilent Laboratories) in California, and became part of the team that launched Agilent’s first telecoms networking product at the height of the technology boom. During this time, Jonathan sat on the board of several start-up companies in which Agilent Ventures invested. In 2002, he joined Agilent’s Semiconductor Products Group, now Avago Technologies, first as a technology strategist, then in product management for Agilent’s optical fiber transceiver business. In 2005 he joined Calient Networks, an optical equipment start-up, where he headed up product management. In March 2008 Jonathan joined Arthur Lowery to launch and lead Ofidium.
