Robert Blum is Sr. Director of New Business for Intel’s Silicon Photonics Product Division.
Prior to joining Intel, Robert was Director of Strategic Marketing at Oclaro Inc., and held
various Director of Product Management and Marketing roles for Oclaro’s
telecommunications products and consumer laser portfolio. Before joining Oclaro,
Robert was Product Line Manager for optical transmission components at JDS Uniphase
Corporation and held various engineering and marketing management roles at Gemfire
Corporation, all in California. Robert worked at Deutsche Telekom’s research labs in
Darmstadt, Germany, while completing his master’s thesis and holds a doctorate degree
in Physics from the University of Technology in Hamburg. He has also studied and done
research at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, and at Stanford
University, California.