Kopin Corporation (KOPN)

Michael Murray has been president and chief executive since September 6, 2022, and also chairs the board. An engineer by training, he came from Ultra, a British defense and security company he joined in 2020 and where he ran the Cyber business; before that he was a senior vice president and general manager at Blackridge Technology from 2017 to 2020, an executive vice president at Aceinna, and head of the Industrial Sensing business unit at Analog Devices. The filing names Dr. John C.C. Fan as its former chief executive; under his employment agreement Fan receives 40,000 dollars a year through 2033. 123456

Erich Manz has been treasurer and chief financial officer since September 2025, after serving as chief financial officer of a business unit at Allegro MicroSystems from March 2023 to July 2025. He followed Richard Sneider, who retired from the post in 2025 and whose insider filings as chief financial officer on this site's record go back to 2006, the first year the SEC's insider data sets reach. Paul Baker has been chief operating officer for Kopin Government and Industrial and strategic business officer since January 2020; he has been at Kopin since March 2014, first as vice president of business development, after serving from 2007 to 2014 as executive vice president of business development and sales at ZINK Imaging. In December 2025 the company appointed Iwan Dodd senior vice president of business development. 789101112

The board has five members, four of them independent, and Jill Avery, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a director since 2021, is the lead independent director. David Nieuwsma, a former US Air Force officer and a director since November 2023, worked at Collins Aerospace, one of the two customers the annual report names as significant, from 1991 to 2022, in roles that included president of Avionics Solutions. Margaret Seif, a director since May 2024, held senior posts at Analog Devices from 2006 to 2022, including chief people officer and chief legal officer. Paul V. Walsh, Jr., a director since September 2024 who also sits on the boards of Semtech and Wolfspeed, was chief financial officer of Allegro MicroSystems until he retired in February 2022. 13141516171819

At the end of 2025 the company employed 145 full-time people in the United States, three of them with doctorates in materials science, electrical engineering or physics, and none covered by a collective bargaining agreement. Over the past twelve months it nearly doubled the resources its sales and business development group puts into winning new customers and programs. 2021