Jacek Chrostowski

Jacek has over 30 years in various aspects of technology. He is co-founder and President of Scheelite Technologies, LLC, a Nevada company working on alternative power for wireless networks. Previously he was Vice-president, technology strategy at Emcore Co.. From 1998 to 2003 he was at Cisco Systems in a number of roles, including Technology Deputy, Optics in the Office of the CTO and a member of the University Research Board. He serves on the Advisory Board of Signal Lake VC, and was Technical Editor of IEEE Communication Magazine from 2005-2010. Previous to that he had a distinguished career at the National Research Council of Canada, working over the years on optoelectronics, all-optical networks and their applications. He published over 100 scientific papers, was awarded 7 US patents and co-edited 3 books. He has served on numerous international program committees and reviews of US NSF, US Congress, NSERC, European Community and a number of industrial Advisory Boards. He has MS in Electronic Engineering and PhD in Physics from Warsaw University of Technology in 1974.