The story of Light

Prior to Light, Dave was CEO of Vlingo, the first natural language speech recognition service for mobile phones. Vlingo provided speech recognition for the first Siri app and powered Samsung's S-Voice product. Nuance Communications acquired Vlingo in 2012. He previously held leadership roles at Nokia, Sprint PCS, and Geoworks. He began his career in the US Marine Corps and holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Rajiv previously founded and served as CTO of Flarion Technologies, which developed the base technology for LTE. Flarion was acquired by Qualcomm in 2006. Prior to Flarion, Rajiv held R&D leadership roles in Lucent Technologies Bell Labs. Rajiv holds a Ph.D. and Master's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, all in electrical engineering. He is recipient of the 2013 IEEE Industrial Innovation Award.

Prior to joining Light, Prashant was VP of Applications & Services at DTS, Inc. There he spearheaded the launch of Headphone:X, an end-to-end consumer audio solution used by prominent artists such as Soundgarden and Hans Zimmer as well as leading CE manufacturers. He has previously held R&D leadership roles at Motorola. Prashant holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a M.S. in Product Development both from Northwestern University.

Bradley is a veteran of ABC and Disney, and has spent time at Bonobos and Zuckerberg Media. He previously co-founded Rexly. At Disney, Lautenbach created digital media and mobile consumer products, including interactive work for Walt Disney Imagineering and content development for Media Networks (ABC). More recently he has been focused on brand development. He holds a BFA in Film and Television Production from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Tom is Chief Financial Officer of Light. In his role as CFO, Tom is responsible for Light's finance, accounting and administrative operations, legal, human resources and investor relations. He brings to the company over thirty years of extensive financial and operations experience from various high technology software and services companies.

Yen leads the manufacturing teams at Light as well as the Light Taiwan office. Yen has been in the mobile camera design and manufacturing since 2007 that he has worked for Flextronics, Lab126 and Tessera. His work can be found on many of consumer and mobile products such as MS Kinect, iPhone 4S, Amazon Fire Phone, MEMS camera, etc.. He is a seasoned engineering professional with strong focus in design, development, DFM and high volume manufacturing of camera modules.

Marcy previously served as the VP of Operations for Grabit, Inc. which is a venture funded start-up producing game changing material handling equipment. Marcy also has consulted with a number of startup companies in the areas of new product development, operations strategy development, supply chain and manufacturing process design. She has served as VP of Operations at HP, Sun and Adept Technology. Marcy holds a BS and MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue and Stanford respectively. She has an MBA from Santa Clara University.