Simon Cao

Dr. Cao currently leads Arasor International which publicly listed and joined the S&P500 Index stock on Australian Stock Exchange.
He has extensive experience in optics, communications and signal processing and is considered as a leading authority world-wide in Optics Technology and served as co-founder/ key executive in companies which have in total generated more than $100Billion market capitalization for investors.
Prior to co-founding Arasor, Dr. Cao was also the founder of Avanex Corporation (listed on Nasdaq reaching peak valuation of $17 Billion for investors) and served as Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President of Business Development and a member of the Board of Directors.
Prior to Avanex, he was a founder of Oplink Communications (listed on Nasdaq generating peak valuation of over $3Billion for investors) and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing and established the company's wavelength division multiplexing product line.
Over the span of his career, Dr. Cao was directly responsible for the invention and commercialization of revolutionary fiber-optic products such as the fiber amplifier, WDM transmission and >10Gb/s high-speed optical transmission.
In 1999, Forbes named Dr. Cao the "Godfather" of WDM technology.
He is also the author of "Cao's Law", the optical corollary of Moore's Law in electronics, which states that WDM will spread more and more finer and finer channels of light, each using less and less power, across an optical fiber.
Earlier in his career, he was also one of the first employees of E-Tek Dynamics which was acquired by JDS Uniphase for over $24 Billion Dr. Cao holds Ph.D.
and M.S.
degrees in both electrical engineering and physics from the University of Southern California.