Adam Carter

Dr. Adam Carter serves as the Chief Executive Officer at OpenLight. Dr. Carter has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, including a variety of roles in Sales, Marketing, and General Management in Networking, Optical Communication Systems, Optical Components, and Modules markets. 

Before joining OpenLight in January 2023, Dr. Carter served as Chief Commercial Officer at Foxconn Interconnect and Oclaro. At Oclaro, he served as a member of the senior executive team from July 2014 to December 2018, when Lumentum Holdings acquired it for $1.85B. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Director and General Manager of the Transceiver Module Group at Cisco from February 2007 to July 2014, where he was instrumental in the acquisition of Lightwire, a silicon photonics startup, and released the first internally designed CPAK 100G transceiver family utilizing a Silicon Photonics Optical engine.