Mark Heimbuch
Principal Engineer
Cisco
(California, US)
Mark Heimbuch is currently at Cisco working remotely as a Principal Engineer in the Acacia Client Optics program. He was previously CTO and VP of Product Quality at Source Photonics for more than 20 years where Mark oversaw the company’s technical roadmap, technology development, research and product development processes, and IP programs.
Mark was part of the management team that took Luminent Inc. public in 2000 as a spin out from MRV Communications and continued as CTO of Source Photonics after the merger of Luminent and Fiberxon in 2007. He also led Product Quality which includes product reliability and qualification. Prior to that he led the Fiber-To-The Home product development which helped enable the first volume deployment of FTTH in the United States. Mark also served as Director of R&D for the optoelectronic device facility.
Mark holds 18 US Patents and received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in the area of InP based Optoelectronic devices.