Ashok Balakrishnan

Ashok Balakrishnan is the current Chief Technical Officer at Enablence Technologies Inc. Ashok has held this position since January 2004. Prior to this, they were the Vice President of Engineering at Enablence Technologies, where they led the development of industry-leading datacom DEMUX and MUX PLCs. Ashok has also worked as a Senior Optical Engineer at Mitel Semiconductors Americas and as a Product Manager at Optenia. Ashok has been working in the field of optical telecommunications since 1995.

Ashok Balakrishnan has a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Molecular Spectroscopy from the University of Toronto, a Master’s Degree in Molecular Spectroscopy from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Physics from McMaster University.

Some direct reports include Serge Bidnyk - Director, Research & Design, Mae Gao - Director, Processing, and Zheng Chen - Director, Sales & Business Development.