Company: LIDRW
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-004906
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Company: AEye, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 9C
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.  Mr. Dussan co-founded AEye Technologies in 2013 and was a member of the AEye Technologies Board of Directors since its inception.  From 2020 to the closing of the Business Combination, he served as the President and Chief Technology Officer of AEye Technologies.  From December 2013 through 2014 he served as the President, and from 2014 through 2020 as the Chief Executive Officer of AEye Technologies.  Mr. Dussan has more than 20 years of experience in the aerospace and defense industry.  He started his career at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“NASA”) in 1997 working for the Jet Propulsion Lab in the Deep Space Network that communicated with NASA planetary and deep space probes.  From 2002 through 2009 he worked at Lockheed Martin Corporation in their Missiles and Fire Control Division.  From 2009 through 2013, Mr. Dussan worked for Northrop Grumman Corporation – Laser Systems, as Chief Technologist, where he was responsible for managing the division’s research and development of electro-optical sensors.  Mr. Dussan holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, an M.S. in Quantum Optics, and an M.S. in Optics & Photonics.  Mr. Dussan is responsible for many of our foundational patents in lidar and perception as well as being responsible for several trade secrets for his previous employers in the aerospace and defense industry.  Mr. Dussan has been given several awards since founding AEye Technologies, with one of the most recent being the 2020 Vision Award by AutoSens.  He is considered a top expert in lidar technology as well as remote sensing and vehicle perception.

Mr. Dussan is qualified to serve as a director based on his technical and operational expertise gained from serving as a Board member of the Company since inception and as a co-founder of the Company.

Matthew Fisch has served as a Class II director and as our Chief Executive Officer since February 2023, and as our Chairman of the Board since May 2023. Mr. Fisch has over 30 years of experience in technology development and leadership.  Prior to joining us, Mr. Fisch was the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Gentherm Incorporated, a developer of thermal management technologies for the automotive and other industries, from April