Milton Chang

Milton Chang is the author of Toward Entrepreneurship and managing partner of Incubic Management (www.miltonchang.com).
He was president of Newport and New Focus, which he took public.
And the companies he incubated resulted in six IPOs and seven acquisitions.
The companies he current works with include Aurrion (acquired by Juniper Networks), MBio Diagnostics, YesVideo, and Protein Fluidics.
He is a Trustee of the California Institute of Technology and has recently served on the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies.
He also served on the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology for NIST and the authoring committee of the National Academies’ Optics and Photonics: Essential Technologies for Our Nation.
He writes a business and management column for Laser Focus World.
Dr. Chang earned his BS engineering degree with highest honors from the University of Illinois and PhD from the California Institute of Technology, and received Distinguished Alumni awards from both U of I and Caltech.
He also attended the Harvard Owner/President Management Program (OPM) and was a member of the (YPO).
He is a fellow of the IEEE, the OSA, and the Laser Institute of America, and is past president of IEEE Photonics Society and the Laser Institute of America.