Dr. Dallas Meyer
Founder, President, CTO

Dallas has held various leadership positions in engineering and operations at several technology companies. Most recently at Seagate, he led the enterprise disc drive team to a greater than 65% market share by developing and delivering multiple leading-edge products characterized by best-in-class reliability and performance. While at Finisar, he transitioned the operations from a prototype scale to a world-class operations team based in Malaysia, and today one of the world’s largest and most successful photonics factories. Dallas holds over 80 patents in the areas of magnetic recording, optical communications, MEMS and solar technology, many of them focused on integrating materials, electronics, mechanics and optics to deliver product performance and low-cost in highly scalable products. Dallas holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics and Materials Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MS in Structural Engineering from the University of Nebraska.