Bio: Richard C. A. Pitwon

Richard C. A. Pitwon received his first degree (BSc Hons) in Physics from the University of St Andrews in 2000 and MSc in Computer Science in 2001. He currently serves as Lead Photonics Engineer at Xyratex with over 13 years experience in the design and development of high speed photonic interconnect technologies including passive and active optical connectors, optical printed circuit boards, optical interconnect interfaces and transceivers. He holds 21 patents in the field of embedded optical interconnect and has authored numerous conference, journal and commercial publications in this area. He is a Chartered engineer (CEng) and expert member on the British Standards Institute (BSI) fibre-optics and electronic assembly subcommittees representing the UK on International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards committees for optical interconnect technologies.