Dwayne Holst

Dwayne Holst is currently engaged in Data Center Optical Communications Research at Sumitomo Electric Lightwave since March 2023. Prior to this role, Dwayne served as Director of Marketing at Phononic Inc from April 2021 to March 2023, and as Product Manager for Enterprise and Data Center Networking Products at Sumitomo Electric Lightwave from April 2013 to April 2021. Dwayne also worked as a Mentor CED VMS and Technical Marketing Consultant at Eye 2 Black, providing support for new product introduction and business development strategies from March 2012 to April 2013. Earlier in Dwayne's career, roles included Applications/Marketing Engineer at Synopsys from June 2002 to March 2012, where responsibilities encompassed technical marketing and support for engineering design automation software, and Mixed Signal Corporate Application/Marketing Engineer at Avant! from August 2000 until its acquisition by Synopsys.