Dr Richard Pitwon is the founder and CEO of Resolute Photonics. He has more than 24 years transformational expertise in optical, photonic and quantum system interconnect, integration and architectures for data centre, IoT and data-communications applications as scientist and engineer…

He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the IET (FIET) and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP).

He holds 55 patents, authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications including 5 international standards and given over 100 international talks.

He is Chair of the IEC international standards subcommittee on fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components (IEC SC86B), chair of BSI GEL86, chair of BSI GEL86/2 and principal UK standards expert (BSI) for optical interconnect, optical circuit boards, photonic integrated circuits and electronic assembly and quantum technologies.

Also a IEEE Senior Member, SPIE Senior Member, Optica Senior Member.