Engin Arik

Dr. Engin Arik, Executive Chairman/Founder, President & CEO of Luminit, has over three decades of experience in founding, leading, and profitably growing high tech companies working in holography, nanotechnology, lighting, displays, optical sensors, fiber optics, and laser-based fluid measurement instrumentation. He has a PhD and MS in Engineering from Harvard University, post-Master's degree from von Karman Institute in Belgium, ScB in Mechanical Engineering, and AB in Economics from Brown University. He is the author and co-author of many published papers, book chapters, and patents. Dr. Arik successfully led the 2005 founding of Luminit as a spin-off of Physical Optics Corporation, completed technology licensing agreements with Hitachi Chemical and Asahi Kasei Corporation of Japan, and recently led the spin-off of Luminit Automotive Technologies (LAT), Luminit Government Services, and Holoptic from Luminit.