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 9
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’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 2020 until February 2023.  Prior to Gentherm, Mr. Fisch was employed by North American Bancard, a payments technology company, where he served as Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Hospitality Services from October 2019 until April 2020.  Prior to joining North American Bancard, Mr. Fisch worked at Verifone Systems, Inc., a global leader in payments and commerce solutions, where he served as the Executive Vice President of Global R&D from August 2018 to October 2019, and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering from May 2016 to August 2018.  At Verifone, Mr. Fisch led research and development for all product lines, including hardware application and cloud software services.  Prior to Verifone, he was the Vice President of R&D for Harman International Industries, Inc.’s lifestyle division from 2014 to 2016, where he led the global R&D organization that was responsible for developing Harman’s car audio business for North America, Europe, China, Japan, and Korea.