Company: LASE
Filing Date: 2025-06-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-016194
Chunk: 416

Company: Laser Photonics Corp
Filing Date: 2025-06-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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    64
     
    Vice
    President, R&D and Product Development
  
    Arnold
    Bykov
     
    89
     
    Chief
    Design Engineer
  
    Tim
    Miller
     
    71
     
    Director

    Troy
    Parkos
     
    53
     
    Director

    Carlos
    M. Gonzalez
     
    78
     
    Director

Wayne
Tupuola is President, Chief Executive Officer and the Chairman of the Board. Mr. Tupuola joined an affiliate of ICT Investments as Vice
President of Operations in January 2007 and joined us in November 2019. From January 2014 to May 2015, he was acting as an Industrial
Consultant for Florida high tech companies. He brought experience based on 15 successful years of C-level management capacity in manufacturing
operations, and more than 24 years hands-on experience in the semiconductor, aerospace, food & beverage and commercial industries,
including: Sumitomo Corp, the world’s second-largest wafer manufacturer in the semiconductor sector; ON Semiconductor Corp, one
of the world’s largest semiconductor component companies; and Thermo-Electron, one of the world’s leading analytical instruments,
lab equipment, and industrial equipment manufacturers. From September 2015 to December 2015, he was a Director and Vice President of
Operations to an affiliate of Laser Photonics and one of ICT Investment’s portfolio companies, Fonon Corporation. He is currently
in charge of all manufacturing and day-to-day business operations of Laser Photonics. Mr. Tupuola is a graduate of the University of
Phoenix with a degree in Communications. We believe that his significant management experience with manufacturing operations makes him
qualified to be a member of our Board of Directors.

Troy
Parkos has been a member of the Board since August 15, 2023. Since June 1994, Mr. Parkos has been employed by Fastenal Company, a global
distributor of wide-ranging industrial and construction products having annual sales in 2022 of approximately $7 billion. Mr. Parkos
started his career at Fastenal Company as a sales representative from 1994 to 1997, becoming a Regional Sales Consultant Manager from
1997 to 2007, a District Manager from 2007 to 2018 and, since 2018, Vice President overseeing approximately 1,000 employees throughout
the United States