Management Team | Advisory Board

Daylight Solutions - Board of Directors

Timothy Day, Ph.D – Chairman
Paul Larson – Director
Steven G. Campbell - Director
Frank Levinson, Ph.D. – Director
Willam L. Potts, Jr. – Director



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Timothy Day, Ph.D – Chairman

Dr. Timothy Day was one of the four founders of New Focus, Inc. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Senior Vice President, he developed numerous photonics products and was instrumental in growing the business to over $20M/year in revenue, as a private company, selling into photonics research markets. He developed an extensive patent and product portfolio and helped transition the company for a successful public offering in May 2000. Dr. Day contributed to the raising of over $500M through private equity offerings and 2 public offerings. As CTO of the public company, Dr. Day developed technologies and products that grew New Focus to over $40M/qtr in revenue with over 2000 employees in 8 sites worldwide. Dr. Day subsequently helped drive the divestiture of non-core businesses, raising $62M, and eventually sold the company in 2004 to Bookham Technology PLC for $338M.

Dr. Day has extensive technical knowledge and experience, and is considered an expert in the field of photonics. Dr. Day holds both a BS and an MS in Physics from San Diego State University and a PhD EE from Stanford University.



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Paul Larson – Director

Paul Larson is a seasoned executive, with over 20 years experience in managing business operations and developing leading-edge technologies. He has held senior management positions with successful start-ups, such as San Diego based Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC), and Qualcomm, Inc. As Director of ASIC Programs for Qualcomm, Mr. Larson contributed significantly to the company's early and successful efforts to establish a commercially viable ASIC division, which generated over $800M in revenue in its third year. He has also contributed to business operations of large, global companies such as Ericsson, where he was Director of Business Management.

Mr. Larson began his career as an Electrical Engineer with Motorola’s Integrated Circuits Research Applications Laboratory (MICARL). He holds a BSEE from the United States International University and an MBA from San Diego State University.



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Steven G. Campbell - Director

Steven Glenn Campbell is Chief Executive Officer of InnoTek Limited. He was appointed CEO and Director on July 26, 2002. Prior to joining InnoTek, he spent over 12 years with Western Digital Corporation. During his tenure with Western Digital, he held several executive positions including, General Manager of the Desktop Solutions Line of Business, Senior VP of Engineering, VP of New Product Introduction and Chief Quality Officer.

Mr Campbell has over 30 years of experience in the electronics and disk drive industries, including more than 24 years in the data storage industry. His experience also includes managerial and engineering positions with Quantum Corporation, Honeywell Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Corporation.

Mr Campbell also currently serves as the Managing Director of Multitech Systems Inc. and Director of Daylight Solutions Inc. and Exerion Precision Technology Holding B.V. He holds three U.S. patents in the area of magnetic storage and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona.



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Frank Levinson, Ph.D. – Director

Frank H. Levinson, Ph.D., is the founder and managing director of Small World Group, PTE LTD, with offices in Singapore and Syracuse, Indiana, USA. From 1988 through 2005, he was founder, CTO and chairman of Finisar Corporation, a technology leader in fiber optic subsystems and network performance test systems, headquartered in Sunnyvale California, 30 miles south of San Francisco International Airport in the heart of Silicon Valley. Frank lead a dynamic team of talented technology and business professionals who helped build Finisar from a startup to ~$350 million in annual sales by 2006. He also worked extensively with manufacturing teams in Asia to help make Finisar a leader in high volume manufacturing of fiber optics components.

Before Finisar, Frank developed fiber optic technologies at Raychem/Raynet in Menlo Park, California and at Bell Labs and Bellcore in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In 1984, he founded Netek Corporation in Lincoln Park, New Jersey in partnership with AMP.

Over the course of his career, Frank has been associated with a number of areas of technical development resulting in the creation of intellectual property such as optical fiber couplers, WDM couplers, optical switches, diffused waveguides, optical fiber connectors, optical transmitters and receivers, high speed network architectures and protocols, broadcast network architectures. He has worked on more than 35 successfully granted fiber optics and technology patents, with more pending.

Frank’s interests range from astronomy and fiber optics innovations to global ecology and tropical rainforests. He founded Small World Group to help advance world awareness of a number of scientific issues and new technologies that may help improve our quality of life.

Frank earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and both an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Frank Levinson is married and has a son and two daughters.



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William L. Potts, Jr. – Director

Mr. Potts has over 35 years of experience in corporate finance and has served as the senior financial executive on management teams at private start-up and mature public companies in Silicon Valley for over twenty years. Most recently he was the senior vice president, chief financial and administrative officer of New Focus, Inc., a publicly owned optical components manufacturer. New Focus was acquired by Bookham Technology PLC in 2004 for $338 million. Prior to New Focus he served as executive vice president, chief financial officer of Komag, Incorporated, a publicly owned storage components manufacturer. He began his career in the consulting division of Arthur Andersen & Co. in New York City.

His accomplishments include private and public equity transactions, syndicated bank facilities, acquisitions, divestitures, domestic and international joint ventures, formation of offshore manufacturing entities, international tax strategies, and corporate restructurings. The public and private equity transactions raised over $750 million and $100 million, respectively. The syndicated bank facilities raised $345 million.

During his tenure at New Focus and Komag both companies underwent significant expansions and established sizable offshore manufacturing facilities. He played a key role in these expansion activities and the subsequent restructuring activities that were required at both companies in response to unprecedented downturns in the fiber optics and storage component industries.

Mr. Potts holds a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Lehigh University and a MBA degree from Stanford University. He is a member of Financial Executives International.