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John Ellis: Founder
Optics for Hire provides contract design and engineering services including prototyping of optical systems. It is based outside Boston, Massachusetts and includes engineering offices in Europe. The company employees highly trained engineers with advanced degrees in specialties including ray tracing, imaging lens design, illumination design,
opto-mechanical design, analogue and digital electronics, servo systems, power supplies and firmware.
OFH was founded in 2002 by John Ellis and a team of 20 engineers located in Lviv, Ukraine. It expanded in 2006 when it added a second development office in Minsk Belarus.
Since its founding, Optics for Hire has completed hundreds of projects in areas ranging from toys and video game, precise custom objective microscopes for national labs, self driving cars and medical devices.
In 2009 Gregg Favalora joined the firm. During the same year OFH acquired the assets of the firm he founded- Actuality Systems. Mr. Favalora was named a top innovator by MIT Technology Review and chairs the world’s largest conference on auto stereo 3D displays. As the Co-author of numerous optics related patents, Mr. Favalora has deep expertise in intellectual property. He consults for multiple law firms on areas related to patent litigation and has provided IP reviews for buyers and sellers of patent portfolios.
