Chief Executive Officer: Dr Don Arnone became CEO when TeraView was founded in 2001. He has over 16 years’ experience in the field of terahertz technology, first at the Cavendish Laboratory (Department of Physics) at the University of Cambridge and then for nine years at the Toshiba Research Europe Laboratory in Cambridge UK where he was head of the Terahertz Technology Programme. He was responsible for liaison with Toshiba, Japan on commercialization of the technology, as well as customer relations and marketing of the technology within Toshiba. He was also responsible for all aspects of business development of Terahertz technology outside Japan, which involved liaising with potential customers in the US and EU. He brought funding into the business from the European Commission, DTI and DARPA in the US as well as various companies. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds.

Chief Scientific Director: Professor Sir Michael Pepper has held positions in the University of Cambridge concurrently with positions at Plessey and then GEC. After appointment to the Professorship of Physics in 1987 which he currently holds, he was invited by the Toshiba Corporation to create and head their first corporate research laboratory outside Japan. The Toshiba Cambridge Research Centre, now known as the Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, opened in 1991 with Professor Pepper as Managing Director. Professor Pepper is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and the recipient of many prizes and honors for his work on semiconductors. He has extensive connections throughout the University of Cambridge, UK and EU universities, institutes and with corporations throughout the world. He received a knighthood in 2006 for his services to physics.

Chief Operating Officer: Padraig O’Kelly joined TeraView in February 2006 with well over 25 years’ experience within various high technology industries. Prior to joining TeraView he held various posts during a 14 year span at Applied Imaging, a medical device manufacturer, including Managing Director of its UK subsidiary as well as Corporate Vice President of Product Development. At various times he was also responsible for Manufacturing, worldwide sales and product support within the Company. He spent 10 years in GEC-Marconi in a wide variety of roles including Business Development and Project Management within its Simulation division. His career started at Ferranti Ltd where he was responsible for mathematical modeling of inertial navigation systems.

Chief Financial Officer: Bruce Anderson. After gaining a modern languages degree and a MSc in management and business studies, Bruce joined the Plessey Company as a financial analyst. He then qualified as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants while working with Coopers and Lybrand as a management consultant specialising in management information and control systems. Since then he has gained a wide range of experience over a twenty year period working in the automotive, defense and the mobile telecommunication sectors. Initially with Plessey which he re-joined in 1984 as finance director of Plessey Military Communications; with Varity Corp as Group Director Finance and Planning at Perkins Engines; as Group Financial Controller of Lucas Varity and most recently, as Finance Director of TTP Communications plc. He is currently on the board of Radioscape plc as head of the audit committee and is working a board adviser to ANT plc and Elstat Electronics Limited.

Commercial and Technical Team
The board of management is supported by the Commercial and Technical Team which is made up of talented physicists with experience in the generation and detection of terahertz light as well as its application to imaging and chemical analysis. This team also includes expertise in key areas such as semiconductor and laser physics. These skills are further complemented by an experienced engineering team with a track record in the commercialization of new laser-based technologies in the life science and semiconductor fields.