Dr. Vladimir Odnoblyudov has spent more than 15 years in optoelectronic and electronic devices, process integration and wide bandgap semiconductor technologies with executive leadership and technical management positions, from early stage start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Odnoblyudov served as Director of R&D and Emerging Technologies of Bridgelux, Inc., focusing on next generation solid state lighting (SSL) technologies, from LED chip level through smart sub-system level. Before that, he served as Director of LED Solutions at Micron Technology, Inc., (NASDAQ: MU), leading R&D efforts for evolutionary large diameter GaN wafer and device technology in 200mm CMOS pilot line fab, and with $50 Million annual budget. Development and pilot line activities spanned from substrate level through backend including chip-scale packaging and applications development. Within Micron’s R&D organization, Dr. Odnoblyudov served as a member of the IP Review and Development Committee. From 2006 to 2009, he was the Founder and CTO of Quanlight, Inc., an LED start-up focusing on development of novel yellow-red chip technology which drew several rounds of corporate and venture financing.While obtaining MS/BS degrees from SPbTU, Dr. Odnoblyudov worked as Research Assistant in the Laboratory of Semiconductor Heterostructures, lead by Prof. Zhores Alferov, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics in 2000 (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute).