Speaker: David Gritz, Director Sales, Heraeus Quartz America, LLC Optics Division
Host: Dae Wook Kim (Please, email me for more information.)
Title: Benefits of molding fused silica with a focus on cost savings of raw material and CNC machine time
David’s career has focused on new process, product and business development in glass (most notably in fused silica and fused quartz glasses) and glass-ceramics primarily focused in advanced optical products in the Photonics areas. Areas of expertise include advanced lasers, optical instrumentation, semiconductors optical metrology, microlithography, aerospace optics, astronomy, optics used in military and scientific R&D. Over the past 20 years, David has managed the development of over 30 new technology enabling products used by many tier-one manufacturers in these fields and has been responsible for development new business exceeding $100M’s business for Corning, Lucent & Heraeus.