Dr. Alex Ignatiev Ph.D. serves as Independent Director of the Company. He has served as a director on our Board since February 2013, and previously served as a director on our Board of directors from June 2008 to October 2009 and from May 2001 to August 2002. From 2005 until 2017 he served as a director of the Center for Advanced Materials at the University of Houston and has served since 2010 as the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen professor of physics, chemistry and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston. Dr. Ignatiev is now Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Houston. From March 2013 to September 2015, Dr. Ignatiev served as the Chief Science Officer of Smart Grid Intelligent Management, Inc., which develops operating systems and alternative energy source integration. Since February 2009, he has served as the Chief Technology Officer of Quarius Technologies, LP, a renewable energy company. Since February 2006, he has served as a vice president and Chief Technology Officer at Nano EnerTex, Inc., a nanomaterials company. Since December 2017, he has served as Chief Technology Officer of Lunar Resources, Inc., which develops functional thin materials in the vacuum of space. Since May 2002, he has served as the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Science Officer of Metal Oxide Technologies, LLC, which develops, manufactures and sells superconducting wire. Dr. Ignatiev also has been elected to the International Academy of Astronautics and to the Kazakhstan National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded Russian American of the Year in 2015. Dr. Ignatiev received a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Cornell University. The Board believes that Dr. Ignatiev is qualified to serve as a director based on his business management experience, broad technology knowledge and industry experience and his past service on our Board.
As the Independent Director of Applied Optoelectronics Inc, the total compensation of Alex Ignatiev at Applied Optoelectronics Inc is $169,998. There are 13 executives at Applied Optoelectronics Inc getting paid more, with Chih-Hsiang Lin having the highest compensation of $2,152,600.
Alex Ignatiev is 75, he's been the Independent Director of Applied Optoelectronics Inc since 2013. There are 1 older and 14 younger executives at Applied Optoelectronics Inc. The oldest executive at Applied Optoelectronics Inc is Richard Black, 86, who is the Independent Director.
Alex's mailing address filed with the SEC is C/O APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC., 13139 JESS PIRTLE BLVD., SUGAR LAND, TX, 77478.
Over the last 11 years, insiders at Applied Optoelectronics Inc have traded over $25,256,373 worth of Applied Optoelectronics Inc stock and bought 465,960 units worth $5,376,224 . The most active insiders traders include Chih Hsiang (Thompson) Lin, Stefan J. Murry, and Shu Hua (Joshua) Yeh. On average, Applied Optoelectronics Inc executives and independent directors trade stock every 19 days with the average trade being worth of $155,813. The most recent stock trade was executed by William H Yeh on 14 May 2024, trading 9,800 units of AAOI stock currently worth $103,292.
applied optoelectronics, inc. | nasdaq: aaoi aoi is a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber optic networking products. we primarily serve three growing end-markets: cable television broadband, fiber-to-the-home, and internet data centers. we are vertically integrated with a product portfolio from laser chips, components, sub-assemblies and modules, to complete turn-key equipment. all three of our end-markets are driven by bandwidth demand fueled by the growth of network connected devices, such as video traffic, cloud computing and online social networking. to address this increased demand, catv and telecommunications service providers are investing to improve their networks in competition to deliver voice, video, and data services to their subscribers. rising bandwidth consumption is also driving demand for higher speed server connections in the internet data center market. as a result of these trends, fiber optic networking technology has become fundamental in all three of our ta
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