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RIS’s Board of Advisors is comprised of proven veterans in several professional fields with more than 80
years of collective business experience.
Peter Brooks has 20 years of investment management, management consulting, private consulting,
business development and corporate management experience in the Asian and U.S. markets. He is a
founding partner of CornerStone Partners, an investment management firm focused on hedge funds and the
international markets. Prior to establishing CornerStone in 1997, he founded and managed his own private
equity investment firm (1981-1997), Naushon Capital LLC, Boston. Through Naushon Capital Peter
participated in the acquisition, financing or restructuring of more than 20 companies in a variety of
businesses, such as sophisticated medical research, high technology, innovative sports equipment
manufacturing, and home services. Before establishing Naushon Capital, he was a management consultant
with McKinsey & Company in Washington, D.C. and New York. Peter graduated from Harvard College
and earned his M.B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University.
Dr. Peter Kaiser has been the Chairman and Co-CEO of Santec Photonics Laboratories since 2000.
Previously, he had been an independent consultant for major telecommunications carriers and equipment
suppliers and also developed optical Component and Systems Technology Roadmaps for the U.S.
Optoelectronic Industry Development Association (OIDA). Dr. Kaiser began his career at Bell Laboratories
in 1966, where he made original contributions to low-loss optical fiber research and to the development of
optical components for the first terrestrial and submarine single-mode lightwave systems. Joining Bellcore
(the Research and Development Unit of the Bell Operating Companies) in 1984, he was responsible for
directing research in multi-Gigabits-per-second, dense wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM),
coherent and CATV lightwave systems. His Division was a leading contributor to the DARPA-supported
Optical Network Technology Consortium (ONTC) and multi-wavelength optical networking (MONET)
programs and first proposed wavelength add-drop multiplexing, which is now widely used in optical
networks for the cost-effective routing of wavelength channels and associated information signals. As a
result of his pioneering contributions to optical fiber research, Dr. Kaiser was elected Fellow of the IEEE
and Fellow the Optical Society of America. He has been active in the management of the Optical Fiber
Conference (OFC) series in the U.S., and the European Conference in Optical Communication (ECOC). He
was also U.S. Delegate in ITU Study Group XV on Optical Transmission in Geneva where he materially
contributed to the standardization of single-mode fibers now widely used in optical communication
systems. Dr. Kaiser has published over 70 papers and conference talks, has co-authored chapters in two
books, and has been granted 8 patents. Dr. Kaiser graduated from the Technical University Munich in
1963, and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1965 and 1966,
respectively.
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