Frank Levinson
Director
- Active venture investor, seasoned entrepreneur and inventor on 50+ patents, with experience in fiber optic components, communication networks, optical sensing, and “clean tech”
- General Partner and Active Investor of Phoenix Venture Partners (PVP), an investment firm with 4 funds, with more than $344M in AUM and focuses on material science and photonic innovation companies
- Co-founded and served as CTO & Chairman of Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ:FNSR), where he led the Company from self-funding to an IPO in 1999
- Prior roles include Optical Systems Manager of Ericsson Raynet and Technical Staff Member of Bell Labs
- Prior and current board experience includes Fabrinet (NYSE:FN), Sentinel Monitor Systems, Rapsodo and Vixar
- Ph.D and M.A in Astronomy from the University of Virginia and a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Butler University