Meet our Senior Management and Board of Directors

Dr. Subodh Kulkarni has been a director of CyberOptics since 2009, has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since February 2014, was our Executive Chairman from September 2013 to February 2014 and was our lead director from December 2012 until his election as Executive Chairman. From January 2013 to February 2014, Dr. Kulkarni served as Chief Executive Officer of Prism Computational Sciences, a developer of software tools for scientific and commercial applications in simulation of hot gases and plasma used in the semiconductor industry (“Prism”). Prior to being employed by Prism, he held various positions with Imation Corporation (“Imation”), including Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, OEM/Emerging Business and Vice President, Global Commercial Business, R&D and Manufacturing. Prior to his employment with Imation, Dr. Kulkarni held various research management positions with 3M Corporation and IBM. Dr. Kulkarni serves on the Board of Directors of Key Tronic. Dr. Kulkarni received his B.S. in chemical engineering from IIT—Bombay, India (where he was first in his class), and went on to obtain a Masters Degree and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he did his thesis work on disilane surface decomposition, which is used in the manufacture of semiconductors. He has won a number of awards for commercializing technologies he and others have developed in the electronics industry. Dr. Kulkarni brings to our Board significant expertise in management of technology-focused entities, in commercialization of technologies in the electronics, computer and semiconductor industries, and in the markets for our products.

Director of Product Development, CyberOptics Corporation, 2003 to May 2010; Vice President, Systems Development, Avanti Optics Corporation, 1999 to 2003; Research Manager, CyberOptics Corporation, 1997 to 1999. M.EE., Optics and Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota. 22 U.S. patents for optical measurement systems, optical manufacturing, and fiber optic devices.

Dr. Charlie Zhu has been our VP of R&D since December 2021 and is based in our Singapore office. He was previously the Engineering Director and Singapore site manager since 2018. He joined CyberOptics in 2011 and held various positions including Senior Engineering Manager, Software Engineering Manager, and Software Project Manager. Prior to CyberOptics, he held various engineering roles at Rockwell Automation and Yokogawa Electric. He earned his Ph.D., from the School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, with research interests in Machine Learning and B. Eng., Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Over the past 10 years at CyberOptics, he has led the development of many successful system products and software projects. He has been instrumental in supporting the sales and operations teams to grow the company’s system and OEM business with a dedication to achieving customer satisfaction.

Dr. Subodh Kulkarni has been a director of CyberOptics since 2009, has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since February 2014, was our Executive Chairman from September 2013 to February 2014 and was our lead director from December 2012 until his election as Executive Chairman. From January 2013 to February 2014, Dr. Kulkarni served as Chief Executive Officer of Prism Computational Sciences, a developer of software tools for scientific and commercial applications in simulation of hot gases and plasma used in the semiconductor industry (“Prism”). Prior to being employed by Prism, he held various positions with Imation Corporation (“Imation”), including Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, OEM/Emerging Business and Vice President, Global Commercial Business, R&D and Manufacturing. Prior to his employment with Imation, Dr. Kulkarni held various research management positions with 3M Corporation and IBM. Dr. Kulkarni serves on the Board of Directors of Key Tronic. Dr. Kulkarni received his B.S. in chemical engineering from IIT—Bombay, India (where he was first in his class), and went on to obtain a Masters Degree and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he did his thesis work on disilane surface decomposition, which is used in the manufacture of semiconductors. He has won a number of awards for commercializing technologies he and others have developed in the electronics industry. Dr. Kulkarni brings to our Board significant expertise in management of technology-focused entities, in commercialization of technologies in the electronics, computer and semiconductor industries, and in the markets for our products.

Dr. Vivek Mohindra has been a director of CyberOptics since May 2018. Since May 2020, Dr. Mohindra has held the position of Senior Vice President, Client Solutions Group, at Dell Technologies. From April 2013 to May 2020, Dr. Mohindra served as a General Partner of New Science Ventures, LLC, a venture capital firm investing in technology companies (“NSV”). He joined NSV from TPG Capital where he was an Operating Group Partner working with portfolio companies on strategy, growth and operational issues, and with deal teams on due diligence. Prior to becoming a partner at TPG Capital, Dr. Mohindra served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Transformation for Freescale Semiconductor and held several senior executive roles in Dell Inc.’s Product Group and Marketing Division and as Vice President and General Manager of Dell’s North America Small and Medium Business Group. Dr. Mohindra joined Dell from McKinsey & Company where he was a Partner and co–leader of McKinsey’s global Semiconductor practice, as well as its Asian High Tech and Telecoms practices. Dr. Mohindra serves on the advisory council for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Mohindra received an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Dr. Mohindra brings to the Board significant expertise and broad experience working with a wide variety of technology companies, with a main focus on growth, portfolio strategy and operational improvements.